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There have been points in my life where I have been suicidal. Suicide is a serious, serious issue. Suicide is what happens when the shame gets too much to bear. But with God, there is a way out. With Christ Jesus, there is a way out of despair and shame and hopelessness. Thankfully, the Lord has come to me. I have come to the Lord. I am not suicidal. I am strongly opposed to globalism. What I mean by globalism is various unelected institutions cooperating in order to ensure that the liberty of ordinary people is never allowed to flourish. We may have a variety of opinions here. Look at the Rumble chat. Look at it. Some people are, well, actually everyone is pretty anti-Hillary Clinton. But you'll find people that express some pretty strong views on a subject like Israel. You'll find people that talk about Hollywood in pretty incredible terms. In fact, I'd love to unpack that post, mate, that you did. My man Wayne posted about like sort of paedophilic symbols in pop videos. I'll check that before I talk about it because it might pertain to people I know personally and I wouldn't want to make a terrible blunder. What I would say is this, that without a personal spiritual ascent, one way or another, we will worship the culture. If you're worshiping the culture on the right or the left, it doesn't really matter, I don't think, ultimately in the end, because you will ultimately end up ensnared by systems of control, material control, rational control. What we need somehow to do is hold the imminent and transcendent ideas simultaneously, the idea that God is within us and yet God is above us, that we can be guided, that we can overcome, that we can improve, that we don't need to be bound by low desire, by fear, that we don't need to be corralled like cattle by a culture that don't respect you, that sings patronizing songs to you, that you don't need people like the Clintons that continually claim that they're there to help you. But when you investigate their endeavors, you discover that the Haitians weren't particularly helped or many of the supposed recipients of their philanthropy did not feel helped. I'll say it again. Let's get it as a post this time. Philanthropy is the lipstick on the whore of corruption. And Hillary Clinton is wearing a lot of lipstick. My
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have a look at how free speech has been going in europe germany started criminal investigations into social media user for mocking politician for being fat. So you've got old Jasmine Crockett calling your Republican Greg Abbott hot wheels. But over in Germany, some free speech is being deemed, go back if you don't mind, some free speech is being deemed undesirable or impossible. Indeed, there are some people you can offend and others you can't. European countries where insulting the head of state can land you in prison. UK man arrested for social media meme. I will meme you so hard. Here, Zuckerberg admits that Biden administration pressured me to censor COVID-19 content. The reason that we pull up those old headlines is to remind you that there is no regard or care for the principle of free speech. There's only a desire to permit certain speech and control other speech. As we have discussed before on this show, you shouldn't need to know who the protagonist or antagonist is in a particular story. If you've got principles, you won't care. If you were to, for example, talk about a foreign war, a superior aggressor has invaded the territory of another nation that doesn't have the same ability to arm themselves. Is it good or is it bad? You should be able to answer that question without knowing whether we're talking about Russia, Ukraine or Israel, Palestine. It shouldn't matter to you. It shouldn't matter. I'm not suggesting that there aren't nuances and differences when it comes to all conflicts. Indeed, that's why you need principles. That's why you need an idea of the universal. That's in fact why you need a God who dictates to us what the rules or preferences are of that God's way. Then you can ignore those rules if you want to, and you will likely pay a high price for it, whether you're an individual or a nation. The one thing that has to be avoided at all costs is behaving like you yourself are God. And that's what globalism has at its heart. The rejection of God, the rejection of Christ, so that globalism can lay claim to the authority and power that it denies to the sublime entity. They want to tell you to get into your house. They want to tell you to take a particular medication. They want to tell you which wars are good and which wars are bad, which free speech is good and which free speech is bad, which victims matter and which victims don't matter, because they, believe, are ultimately controlled by dark and perhaps even Luciferian forces. In fact, this little bit of scripture, forgive me picking up a Bible, but I am a Christian. What do you expect? Like this little bit of scripture from Luke 4. In fact, Jake, would you locate that for me? Because it's a hard thing to do on camera. Can you find in the gospel of Luke, the temptations of Christ? It's around Luke 4. But what I like about it is when Satan tempts Christ in the desert, the first temptation is if you're hungry, because Christ's been fasting for 40 days, why don't you turn this stone into bread? And Christ goes, I'm not doing that. That's not what I'm all about. I'm paraphrasing. The second temptation is, and I love this, it says that Satan takes Christ up to a high place in an instant and shows him all of the power and dominion of the world, which Satan says to Christ, I can grant you because I've been given authority over it. This fascinates me for two reasons. Thanks, Jake. One, because it happens in an instant. That to me is an indication that it's happening outside of time in an instant because you can't physically show someone all of the dominions of the world in an instant, can you? You can't do that. You would have to be operating outside of time. And also I know that he takes him up to a higher place. Now, what interests me most of all in this discourse between good and evil, good personified by our Lord and Savior Christ Jesus, evil in the form of the fallen angel Lucifer, which means the potential for good exists in Lucifer. The fallenness of Lucifer comes about when Lucifer says, I want my own kingdom. Are you and I not participating in that very same dynamic right now? Are you and I not constantly faced with the choice of whether or not to serve ourselves or to serve a higher, indeed the highest principle, which is God, even people that don't believe in God would take the definition that the highest principle is tantamount to God, equals God. And I do believe in God. We have to make the decision whether or not to serve ourselves or whether or not to serve the highest principle. Let's have a little quick look at that bit of scripture. Then Jesus, being filled with the Holy Spirit, returned from Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, being tempted for 40 days by the devil. And in those days, he ain't nothing. And afterwards, when they ended, he was hungry. Understandable, because he was fully human, like you and me. And the devil said to him, if you are the son of God, command this stone to become bread. But Jesus answered him, saying, it is written, man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God. Every word of God, the vibration form, the waveform before it collapses into the particular under observation and participation. That's a quote from Deuteronomy, it says here in this Bible. Then the devil, taking him up on a high mountain, showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. I liked the translation I got the other day, but even in this translation, it makes clear that this is happening instantaneously. Wittgenstein, an atheist philosopher, says, if you consider eternity not to be a really large temporal duration, but the quality of timelessness, then eternity belongs to he who lives in the present. You and I can make the choice to live in the present, or we can live in our memories of the past, our trauma, or we can live in our projections of the future. What's happening in this discourse between fallen good collapse into evil and the limitless potential of good personified by our Lord and Saviour Christ Jesus is a discourse between which way do you want to go? Now, this is the bit that I really like. Tell me what you think about this in the comments and chat, even if you're not Christian, particularly if you're not Christian, particularly if you think, oh, this stuff's made up. It's a fairy story to make people conform. If Christianity is so good, what about bloody crusades and the non-sin in the Catholic Church? All institutions have fallen. Anything can be used to create human power. Of course it does. That's the temptation that you face and I face. Are you going to use your gifts to serve God or are you going to use your gifts to serve yourself? Let me know in the comments and chat. And the devil said to him, all this authority I will give you and their glory for this has been delivered to me and I give it to whomever I wish. The devil says there, I'm in control of the world. So next time you're thinking, why is it that the world is so corrupt? Why is Fashion Week so demented and crazy? Why is Hillary Clinton, while claiming to be helpful, so clearly redolent and alive with what you might recognize as a type of evil? Because those that worship the world are by default fallen into evil. This is the challenge that you and I face in this moment right now. There is no other moment, only this reality. Access Christ. Access Christ through the vertical. Convey Christ through the horizontal. Don't go into that diagonal, though. That's some crazy territory you don't want to get into. We've all seen the trouble that you get into there, whether you're a Nazi or Elon Musk. Some of you saying, hey, what's the difference? It amounts to the same thing. In the moment is where we have the opportunity to live by the highest principle. If you live in worldliness, you live in the fallen kingdom. And the fallen kingdom is based on things like desire and fear, the primary tools by which we are controlled by systems of evil. Note the other places in the New Testament where it points out that the world is controlled by evil. John talks about it in Revelations. Paul talks about it in Ephesians. And you know it in your own heart. That's why you cannot trust these bureaucracies. That's why you have to grant freedom, free speech, freedom of action, freedom to follow your own conscience. But if you're going to grant people that level of power, you have to have some universal principles that you're following. If you abandon them, you're in serious trouble. But that's just what I think. Why don't you let me know what you think in the comments and chat. If you're watching us on X, we're going to do the last 15 minutes on Rumble. Then we'll be exclusively on Rumble Premium for another 20 minutes. Remember, we want you to participate in Rumble's new lineup. Crowder, Paul, me, Iverson, Ruben, the Quarren, so many content creators to participate in. You've got this wrong, says my friend Vered on Locals. The culture is being destroyed by the globalists. They want us without culture, without traditions, without heritage. Culture, my friend, is not an absolute term. Think of culture in terms of biology. It's what grows in a petri dish. There is a culture. They are cultivating a culture. What do you think that all of the kind of new age, pagan, political correctness stuff or wokeism is about? It's about the reverence and worship of the individual voided of the principle of the divine. You can be whatever you want. You can say you're a man, you can say you're a woman. Of course, there are cases, rare cases, where people are truly non-binary or hermaphrodite. And indeed, me, if you want me to call you doctor or madam or sir or buffalo bill or SpongeBob, I don't bloody well care because I have a principle in Christianity called kindness. And that helps me to solve that complex little dilemma. But the culture is being a culture is being created by the globalists. They don't want you to have a tradition, a folk or a folk tradition. That's true. I will agree with you on that, Vered. But they are creating their own culture. K.B. Meltzer. I like this. Yeah, I'm glad you like it. Nice. Thanks. I appreciate your comments. Love the new raid feature. Goes all day, Cisflux. Yeah, that's right. Viva Fry is going to be coming up later. I love Viva Fry. Viva Fry is a good guy. He's interested in Buffalo Bill. Yeah, that's right. That's right. Hillary Clinton has eaten. Oh, Sabre 1PC. Check that comment. Check out that. That's some good stuff. Nope. No username. Yep, you are fired. Trump will do it. Some of the comments are difficult to understand. Come on, let's all try and participate in good conversations. What if I want you to call you my wife's boyfriend? Well, Chris Hodge, you better get ready for some serious conflict and be ready to back it up, baby, because that's a sacred pact that I've made with my wife. So, you know, what you got in your locker, mate? What you got in your locker? Bring it on. What you want me to dress? OK, what's next? We've done the holy word. Let's talk about globalization. You've heard my definition. Let's have a look at J.D. Vance's. Let's do it, baby.