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So, let's go and get to the first question of the day. Like I said, a lot of times like I would write the name down, sometimes I'd forget to write the name down. So, if I have the name, I'll say it, but I think for this entire batch, I forgot to write down the person's name. I'm so, so sorry, but I think you understand, and you will remember that you asked this question, and other people have thought it, so it's going to work out just fine. First question. Can you be both pro-life and also pro death penalty? Is it morally okay to be both? So, this is actually a question that some people think is is fairly sticky or whatever, but I this is a very easy question to answer. It is a very clear yes. Of course, you can be pro-life and pro death penalty. Now, when people have their categories mixed up in their brains, they're like, "Well, wait a minute. If you're advocating for or okay with or calling it moral for someone to be executed, then they're losing their life. Ergo, you can't be pro-life." That's where you have to do some definitional work. Basically, if you are pro-life, you're for the protection of all innocent life on this planet. That that's what you are mainly for. That is what you will elevate other other concerns, typically. And this also goes to what we see with people in the womb. Okay? There's no more unprotected or unprotectable person than someone that's residing in in the womb because they can't protect themselves, they can't advocate with their speech, they can't do any of those things. They are geographically located inside of the wombs of their mothers, and so they are incredibly vulnerable. So, when I'm talking about innocent life and people try to talk about the death penalty, I want them to understand the category error that they're making. And I usually do that by asking a question. I will say, "Are you saying that someone that did first-degree murder is the same morally as an unborn human being in the womb?" At at some point, they're like, "Wait, what what what are you talking about?" Their head starts spinning, but that's technically what they're implying whenever they even ask the question. Because in this country, the only people that we execute are people that do premeditated murder. Okay? That that that's typically it. We execute people that do premeditated murder, and we've gotten to the point where as a culture, we're not really executing people hardly at all anymore. So, the person is usually been convicted, but there's some sort of extenuating circumstance, an additional charge, maybe it was multiple murders, maybe they were serial killer, maybe there was a kidnapping and then a rape and then the murder, maybe there was [clears throat] torture involved or something like that. And then again, even in this country, it's pathetic, we let these people sit on death row, you know, eating three squares a day on the taxpayers dime for multiple decades while they work their way through the process before they're actually eventually executed. And a lot of times, you'll have the governor swoop in and commute the sentence to life imprisonment even after all this nonsense. Okay? So, even as a culture, as an American culture, we don't really take this very seriously. But when you're talking about premeditated murder and you're talking about a person that has made a moral choice to take a life, and you're comparing it to the life of a child in the womb, hopefully, you understand how there's not any any association between those two groups. And a couple of verses I I would like to bring up here that give me my biblical substantiation for why I can be pro-life and also pro death penalty. So, Genesis 9:6, "Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image." Then we have Exodus 21:12, "Whoever strikes a man so that he dies shall be put to death." And then we have Exodus 21:14, "But if a man willfully attacks another to kill him by cunning, you shall take him from the altar that he may die." So, that's premeditated murder. And so, ultimately, you have to help people understand the category differences, the category error. A child residing in the womb of their mother has nothing to do with an adult that's made a moral decision to take someone else's life. And also, you have to understand, we do have a biblical precedent for where we even get the idea for the death penalty. And again, if it were up to me, the death penalty would not be reserved for these very, very tight situations. It would be basically, if you take a life, your life is taken. So, you have your day in court, if you're found guilty by an audience of your peers, by a jury of your peers, then you get one time, you know, if you need a retrial or if there's a mistrial, you basically get one time to get your do-over, to get your mulligan. And then if your conviction is upheld, you're done. You you're killed at dawn, right? And and with some of the the crimes we've seen even here recently, um you know, I'll probably talk about it maybe a little bit later, but there was recently a FedEx driver that was delivering a Barbie doll to a house, so he knew a little girl lived there, and he ended up abducting this 7-year-old girl that lived there, and there's a lot of circumstances, but he ended up murdering this child, this 7-year-old baby right? And we have him on camera driving his FedEx truck with the girl over his shoulder. We have him dead to rights. There there's absolutely a 0% chance that anybody else did this crime. He killed this little girl, and there's going to be people that say, "Well, well, but we we shouldn't take him out." Again, make the affirmative case to me. I've said this a lot. Make the affirmative case why we should keep him alive as a society. Why taxpayers should keep him alive? To give him medical care and food and a bed to sleep in. Why? Why would it be better for society that he still lives in society? Now, he's been taken out of society technically because he is in prison, but why should he even be taking up oxygen at this point? I would I would defy you to make the affirmative case. All right, next question here. This is another abortion-related question. If you are pregnant and your doctor delivers news that your baby will immediately need surgery, may die, and if not, will live a life full of complications and never to be able to live without aid, what are your thoughts and is abortion an option? So, let's begin with the end in mind. No. Abortion is never an option because abortion takes the life of an innocent human being. It is always wrong to kill innocent human beings, thus abortion is morally wrong. Okay? The it If we're looking at all things equally, abortion is always wrong. So, even in this scenario that I've been given, there's a lot of different things going on and a lot of assumptions. Okay? First assumption, that your doctor knows what he's talking about. He or she knows what they're talking about. Okay? Considering the fact that every single year, uh medical error, which is propagated by doctors, is always in the top five list of ways that people were killed in this country, I don't think we can always just say, "Yeah, just go blindly on what your doctor says." Okay? So, a lot of times, what a doctor thinks is going to happen is not what ends up happening. Also, you said, "What if your baby will immediately need surgery?" Okay? I would ask you, is that a good reason for killing the child? That they might need surgery? Also, you you put there that they may die. The doctor delivers this news that your baby may die after they're born. Now, that would be a tragedy, but again, I have to ask you the question. So, is the fact that they may die may die, is that a good reason to kill them before natural death? Is it? And then the last scenario, they would live a life full of complications. Again, we're assuming that the doctor knows what they're talking about, but let's say the doctor is actually right. And this child's life is going to be full of medical complications and will potentially end earlier than most of their other counterparts that are in their age cohort. Again, I have to ask you, is that worth killing them? Should we kill that child? Because if you talk to people that have medical maladies, ailments of some kind, the overwhelming majority of them don't want to be murdered. Right? So, you have some sort of debilitating disease, whether you're a child or an adult, most of those people really kind of like the idea of being alive. Would they rather not have this ailment? Would they rather have full function of certain parts of their body? Would they rather have overall good mental and physical health? Yes. But then when you give them the binary of life or death, almost all of them will say life. And so why in the world would we think that in any of those scenarios that abortion would be a tangible moral option? Again, I try to put this in black and white terms because when people will try to bring in specific anecdotes, you don't make rules based on specific anecdotes. The same thing with laws, okay? What you need to do, you need to look at a situation and look at it in the binary. Is it morally acceptable to do this action that you're advocating or is it not? And again, we do not get to decide like whether or not that baby has worth. That baby has worth because it's made in the image of God. He or she is made in the image of God. It is above all other parts of creation, the God that created the cosmos, the apple of God's eye in terms of creation is humanity. So that little baby that you're talking about like is abortion an option? Again, you have to reckon with the fact that that baby was made in the image of God. All right, here. Let's go to the next one here. I've heard you mention several times that you lift weights. How do you rate the big three lifts which are bench, squat, and deadlift in terms of your favorite exercise and does weightlifting get in the way or inhibit your Jiu Jitsu training or vice versa? So I'll start with the end here. I don't think lifting weights inhibits my Jiu Jitsu training at all. If anything, I would not be able to train Jiu Jitsu if I did not lift weights. So I was actually having this discussion with my wife because we were snowboarding and you know, unfortunately one of the kids I was in our group, you know, he was going toe side down the mountain and he fell backwards which is kind of the worst case scenario I guess for a snowboarder. And so he puts his hand behind him and snapped his wrist, right? Because he's falling, your brain tells you break your fall and you put your arm out, snaps it. So terrible situation, awful. The very next day, again, I'm I hadn't snowboarded in 20 years, right? I'm in the same situation and I do the same fall, right? But I'm a lot bigger than this kid so I got a lot longer way to go and so what do I do? Stick my hand out. And I kind of roll over my wrist and I felt shooting pain through and I'm like, oh no, I just broke my wrist and almost immediately I realized, oh my gosh, I'm actually fine. I think that has a lot to do with the fact that I've been lifting weights since I was a teenager. Because my body has become grizzled and calloused in a way to where there are situations that I put my body into that someone else in that situation that is not as strong, doesn't have as much bone density, tendons and ligaments are not as strong, they might receive an injury where I was able to avoid injury. And I've been in a lot of rounds in Jiu Jitsu, a lot of Jiu Jitsu rounds where a [clears throat] foot gets stuck in a particular place, my leg gets kind of contorted at a weird angle, my arm or shoulder is kind of bungled up in an area and I'm telling you if I didn't have the resilience that has been developed through powerlifting, through weightlifting, I 100% would have been injured. And these were situations where tapping wouldn't have been an option. Like this wasn't a submission, it's just my body ended up in a particular spot where it kind of got, you know, Wally gaggered for lack of a of a better phrase. But going back to what you said in terms of bench, squat, deadlift, those are essential lifts. Like when you said rate them, I mean I guess they're all 10 out of 10. Now, if you bench, squat, or deadlift with improper form, the odds of you getting injured are fairly significant and fairly high, okay? So I've seen plenty of videos of people getting hurt with all those lifts. I've I've seen guys that were on gear bench pressing and I've seen their pec tear right right off of the bone, shoulder tear, those types of things, triceps pop, all kinds of things cuz when you're on gear, when you're on steroids, your muscles are going faster than your tendons and your ligaments are. And so you're going to see a lot of guys that are abusing anabolics that end up having like tendon issues, they'll pop an Achilles, pop a bicep tendon, things like that. But also with squat and deadlift, it it really takes quite a bit of practice and study to make sure you are having proper form. And if you talk to five different form coaches, you're going to get five different little tweaks. Some people are anal about having your feet, especially on on back squat, having your feet parallel, whereas I've seen other people and me personally, I point my toes out just a little bit. With deadlift, there's going to be people that really advocate for the hex bar deadlift over the straight bar deadlift. Some will tell you that it's not deadlift unless you're doing it in a standard way, even sumo deadlift isn't deadlift. You can get you know, all over the place. But if you're benching, squatting, and deadlifting and that is the core of your programming, you're going to be strong, right? Now, are you going to look like a bodybuilder? Maybe not cuz a lot of bodybuilders, they're going to avoid back squat, but they'll do a bunch of hack squat machine stuff. They'll do, you know, hamstring curls. They'll do, you know, what is it? The the quad extensions, things like that. So you might have a better looking body, might be a little bit more cut up, have some more definition, but you won't be nearly as strong. Same thing with deadlift. I defy you to find me an exercise that works more parts of your body than deadlift. Because when you deadlift and do it correctly and do it with a straight bar, you're literally working from the from the back of your neck down to your heels. And even your feet are working because you're you're trying to keep the weight over the midfoot, all all kinds of different things. You're working your entire posterior chain, the entire backside of your body. You've also got your biceps, you've got your grips. I mean I see these guys doing these like grip machine things where they're, you know, kind of rolling up the little weights and and some of that has some benefit, but part of it is hanging from a bar and pulling yourself up like pull-ups which I would add to this list as an essential exercise that you have to do, but same thing with deadlift, your grip strength is going to be preposterous. I spent a lot of years doing kind of the deadlift grip grip switch grip and then talked to some guys and they're like, yeah, that kind of opens you up even if you switch grips with every rep, kind of opens you up to injury, potential bicep rupture, things like that. So I've started doing, you know, double overhand grips, right? And so even that, you have to adjust the weight that you're doing and you have to be more mindful because you don't have that added cross tension of the deadlift grip. So you make your adjustments over time, but yeah, if you are going to be doing Jiu Jitsu, I think you certainly have to be strong and one thing you didn't ask in your question, but is also you know, goes into this not getting injured thing, you got to be flexible. You need to make sure you're stretching after you're done with your lifting sessions, stretching after Jiu Jitsu, stretching just generally throughout the day. It'll certainly help you out. Hey guys, real quick. So I remember back in high school, I was training with these guys and they all got super jacked, but they were training and using these supplements that they were buying online and a lot of them had crazy side effects. These were not good things. There's no telling what all was in these supplements. 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Again guys, if you want to ask a question in our AMA, you want that to be put in our question bank, you got to be a monthly donor. Should Christian parents allow their children to attend Catholic schools? So I I think the question probably should have been should Protestant Christian parents allow their children to attend Catholic schools. And my initial reaction is like, sure, depending on the circumstances. Because for some people in some environments that they live, there's not a private Protestant Christian school, but there might be a Catholic school, you know, the you know, in that area. [clears throat] And so now we're in a discussion is like is the Catholic school better than a public school? To for the most part I would say yes. So here's the thing, there are plenty of different Christian schools like that have really bad theology, right? Cuz Catholics have really really bad theology, right? Because, you know, if you put it in a nutshell, you have Catholic doctrine essentially says you have grace plus works equals salvation. Grace plus works equals salvation. Protestants say salvation or sorry, yeah, salvation equals sorry, getting it all messed up. Uh faith equals salvation plus works, okay? Faith equals salvation plus works. That's how the Protestants believe. So Christian Catholics believe that that you have to have the works or else you can't be saved, whereas Protestants, you know, who I say would rely more on what the Bible actually says, we obviously hold to grace through faith, right? Those types of things and that's where salvation comes from. But as I've talked about before and we've talked a lot about on the show, there are are a lot of people that are self-described Catholics that are going to hell cuz they've not put their faith in Christ. And there are a lot of people that are self-described Catholics that will be going to heaven because they have put their faith in Christ, right? The same applies for any other subgroup. Baptists Lutherans Methodists Episcopalians. Now, for certain denominations, right? I just mentioned one there at the end, it's a lot more narrow because I mean, to sit in a in in a in Episcopalian church or to sit in you know, some you know, Presbyterian churches and things like that. It's like, man, we're having to do more than just suspend disbelief and ignore some of the warts that's going on because a lot of these these places just put out basically downright heresy. But at the same time, I would say, if you're a concerned parent and you know, your option is Catholic school or public school, I would certainly go the Catholic route. You just might have have to have some discussions about like, hey, you know, Mary was not a perennial virgin. Like that that's nonsense. We see even from the Bible that Jesus had siblings, right? You know, he had she had several siblings. So, how did Mary get those kids? Because Mary had sex. Uh Mary wasn't sinless for her entire life. That's nonsense. Mary didn't consent with the angel to to make sure that, you know, the angel didn't like make sure she was okay with, you know, carrying the son of God. Like that that's not what any of that means. We don't worship Mary. We don't pray to Mary. We don't pray to saints. We have no gap between us and the Father. Certainly not some dude wearing a funny hat sitting in a box. So, let's go to the next one here. I personally been hearing the once saved always saved debate going on amongst current young adults in Gen Z. I'm encouraged by this because this is very much a post-Christian generation showing signs of interest in a long-debated theological argument. How could that topic be used to help get these young people returning to church? So, I'll stick with what what your question is right now. I don't know how you would use that theological argument to attract someone to come to church, especially when we're talking about kids cuz now we're talking about kind of youth groups and things like that. And again, that's not really my area, right? So, I didn't grow up going to church, started going to youth group in middle school, but I have to go back to what was my motivation for going to middle school. It was mainly social. That's where my friends were on Wednesday nights. That's where the cutest girls in my school were on Wednesday nights. And so, that's why I started going. And then they would do these, you know, days where they had this big mud pit and we did this mud bowl. And then they would do like, you know, bring the most weight. And so, the grade level that brought the most people. And we're sitting there like getting weighed on like this, you know, cattle scale or something like that. And you know, it was just fun stuff. And it was pizza and it was video games and it was lock-ins and it was stuff like that. I wasn't going to be drawn in by theological debate. I'm not saying that couldn't draw somebody in, but if that is your tactic, like let's say you're helping the youth at your church, it's like, come down here on Wednesday nights. We're going to be debating the perseverance of the saints. I just don't know that that's really going to have have any like staying power. You might get some kids, but I'm assuming you're probably going to get closer to zero kids. But even going back to this, you know, when you talk about TULIP, P is perseverance of the saints. Of all the things in TULIP, I think this is the one that is the least debatable, right? But it's it's been bandied about and talked about a lot, you know, once saved always saved. But I feel like Jesus addresses this very clearly as recorded in John's gospel. So, John 10:27 through 29, "My sheep hear my voice and I know them and they follow me. I give them eternal life and they will never perish and no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father who has given them to me is greater than all and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand." So, typically what people will say in response to this is, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, but I have this buddy or my former pastor or whatever, they've gone apostate. They used to be a Christian. They used to profess Christ as Lord and now they say they don't even believe in God. Now they're in a same-sex relationship. Now they've got purple hair and a nose ring and they're hanging out down at AOC rallies." Whatever the thing is about this person. The thing that you have to reckon with are the words of Jesus here where he basically says no one can snatch them out of my hand. So, you have to ask question, is it possible then that someone could be a child of God and also a disciple of Jesus? That they have put their faith in Jesus for the propitiation, the payment that satisfies their sin that they owe to God and then change their mind later based on cultural, societal, or personal circumstances? Is that possible? I don't I don't think so because that would imply that, you know, basically John 10:27 through 29 doesn't exist. And it also implies that Jesus's fingers can be pried away and lose one of his sheep. So, I think the debate, like I said, of all the things in TULIP, like I vacillate back and forth on on on the other four quite a quite a bit. I mean, not really total depravity, but unconditional election, limited atonement, and irresistible grace. Gosh, I just keep vacillating back and forth and I keep hearing all these arguments. Total depravity though, that one's pretty easy. Perseverance of the saints, definitely the easiest. All right, next one here. Why are so many Christian conservative families seemingly uncomfortable with the idea of homeschooling or sending their kids to a vetted private Christian school? Should we see our children as missionaries at the public school they attend? So, this could have been asked with the question earlier, but I've kind of seen a lot of this, too. You know, even post-2020, this new era that we're living in, whatever you would call that, I'll see a lot of Christians or Christian conservatives lamenting what's going on in culture. Gosh, they just can't believe the stuff that's being talked about in public schools. They can't believe the books that are in the library. They can't believe the drag queen story hour stuff and the pride month stuff and they can't believe all of it. And yet their kids are in public school. I just I just don't really get it. Now, I understand every family has a different set of circumstances, right? Some people are uncomfortable with the idea of homeschooling because both parents work. We're living in an era where a lot of, you know, households, it's kind of hard for one man on one salary to support the entire family and still be able to eat food and live indoors. It's becoming increasingly difficult. And so, they're like, "How would we homeschool? We both have to work." I understand those concerns. Some people are like, "How could we homeschool? Neither one of us were good at school to begin with." Okay? Maybe you live in a community where there's not like a whole bunch of cohorts. Like, you know, I live in Edmond, Oklahoma. There are cohorts and homeschool groups that get together all over the place. I feel like a new one pops up every few months. Okay? And then the other side, a vetted private Christian school, those can typically be expensive. There's only a handful of states that have a school choice mechanism like we have here in Oklahoma where you can use a portion of your tax dollars, right? Where you actually get a voucher to where you can send your kid to one of those schools at a discount, right? Depending upon your level of income and things like that. Well, most states don't have that and a lot of these private Christian schools can be very expensive, right? Five, sometimes even six figures to send uh these kids to school every single year. And if you have multiple kids, obviously now we're getting into, okay, independently wealthy people being the ones that can that can afford this. But I think part of the issue is is people forget how important this is and how much time their kids are spending in these schools. I think I saw uh an estimate once where if your kid goes to school from kindergarten through 12th grade in the same that's just assume the same uh school district or or grouping of schools or whatever, they're going to spend roughly 10,000 hours in that school district. 10,000 hours with the teachers, coaches, counselors, and, you know, staff of this school system. 10,000. And then they're like, "Well, how much direct access do you as their parent have?" Cuz for a lot of households, it's getting up early, rushing to get out the door, get the kid to school before 8:00 a.m. They're in school until 2:00 or 3:00. Then they go right to practice. And if they've got a game, then they're gone for this game, blah blah blah. You're picking them up in some cases 5:00, 6:00, 7:00, 8:00, 9:00, 10:00 p.m. Just in time to grab some fast food on the way home. They get home, take a shower, and then we rinse and repeat tomorrow. And you think, "Well, you know, but I I get them on the weekends." Well, they got tournaments on the weekends. You're traveling for work. Uh you've got your own stuff that you've got going on. Someone's got to mow the lawn. Oh, now they're hanging out with their friends. How much access do you have to your kid? So, a lot of people don't really realize the inequity with the access they get versus the access that the school gets. Then you have to evaluate, what are the things that are foundational to this school district? And also, the teachers unions, what do they want propagated in the school that I'm allowing my kid to attend because, hey, I pay taxes. There, I'm paying for my kid's school, sending them to public school. Well, I can tell you, when you look at all the different teachers unions, they're all leftists. Almost 100%. You're not going to find anything conservative about them. You're going to find a lot of LGBTQ revolution type stuff. You're going to see a lot of soft, if not full, communism, socialism, those types of ideologies. Of course, feminism. All these ideologies has basically rotted the West from the inside. It's all being propagated in the public schools. Okay? And so, you say it's important to protect your kids from these types of things, and yet you're not going to figure out a way to either homeschool them or send them to private Christian school. Again, vetted private Christian school. So, it makes me believe that it's not that important to you if you consider it to be not figure-out-able. Cuz just about everything that's super important to you, you're going to figure it out. You'll figure out a way to make it work, right? You've seen you do that before. But let's address the latter question, which was should we see our children as missionaries at public schools that they attend? No. No. Now, do you have some, you know, zealous 14, 15, 16-year-old kids that go to middle schools and high schools that understand what the gospel is and they go and like share the gospel with their friends? I mean, Matt Chandler was saved by a kid on his high school football program coming up to him and saying like, "Hey, I need to talk to you about Jesus. When can we do that?" The assumptive close, I love it. We're definitely going to talk about it. When would you like to do that? When would that be convenient for you? Yes, it certainly does happen where those things happen. But I defy you. Go to your New Testament and find me the child that was trained and equipped and sent out as a missionary. Find me the middle schooler, well, you know, the equivalent 2,000 years ago in ancient Galilee, the middle schooler or high schooler that was equipped and sent out to be a missionary. You won't find it because it's not in there. Okay? And so most adults are not really equipped to be missionaries. That doesn't mean they they don't get have to be a fisher of men like we're all called to share the gospel. We're all called to do that. But very few adults are equipped to go into the mission field and operate effectively. And you expect your 12-year-old to? Your six-year-old? Your 18-year-old? Some of you are thinking of your children right now. Some of them are not equipped to make even basic moral decisions. Right? Some of them still struggle with some of those moral qualms. Should I lie about this? Should I cheat on this test? And your thought is, we're going to send them to Christian or to public schools. We're going to send them into these secular schools, the government schools, and we're going to expect all that leftism, all that LGBTQ stuff, all the the pluralism, the the the atheism, the we're going to expect all that just to not get on them. All the mental illness that's propagated with the LGBTQ stuff, we're going to expect none of that to get in there and we're going to expect them to have the wherewithal to go into those situations and proclaim the names of Christ. Possible? Yes. Likely? No. No. And that's the number one thing, the pushback when I've talked to some parents cuz some parents they're even frustrated that my wife and I would consider sending our kids to Christian public our Christian private school cuz they're like, "Oh my gosh. Gosh, are you just going to turn everything into a big deal, Kyle? Like, oh my gosh, like my kids aren't sitting there shooting up black tar heroin while they're, you know, watching videos of Mussolini and writing down their favorite parts of Leninist theology and things like that." I'm like, but it's like they just assume that their kids can withstand the constant peppering of this atheistic dreck and wickedness that's coming from their public schools. It's not just history. It's not just arithmetic. It's not just writing five-paragraph essays. It's not what it is. They're inculcating worldviews. And again, even if you strip all of the worldview stuff out of it, we're on the Prussian model. The Prussian education model in this country, which the Prussians needed to make factory workers. They they needed more and more people to go into the factories to keep the Industrial Revolution going for them. And we just adopted that here in shifts with bells. Right? It's the same exact thing. But you think I'm crazy for thinking that it would be imprudent at a minimum to send a kid to the Roman schools because I expect to get back Romans? I mean, come on. And so, no, if your idea is I'm going to send in my kid to public schools because they'll be fine. They're just going to be missionaries, I think you're being foolish. All right, next question here. As a Christian, how do you handle nasty, negative people that want to destroy you? So, that last one's kind of cool. I mean, if you're out there and you want to destroy me, I guess you haven't done a good enough job yet. Maybe try harder. I don't I don't really know. Rooting for you. But the ultimate thing is is the more public you are about your faith, the more hate and negativity and nastiness you should expect. Okay? If you are not experiencing any hate, any vitriol, any negativity, any consternation, like any of that, might I suggest you're not being bold enough in your faith. Here's another thing. If no one around you knows you're a Christian, no one in your friend group, no one at work, no one at the the happy hour you go to, if no one knows that you believe that Jesus died on a cross and accounted for you and you put your faith in that, we got a problem here. It has nothing to do with your your personality, whether or not you're an introvert or an extrovert. It has nothing to do with your enneagram [clears throat] number, right? It has nothing to do with any of that. It has to do with your unwillingness to open your mouth and also your unwillingness to be salt and light, to bring scripture into your everyday vernacular, to offer to pray for people when they're in times of need. You're not doing the things that someone that purports to believe in Jesus would do. Okay? But we should also expect people to give us nastiness. I mean, we were warned about it. So, in John 15:18-20, this is Jesus, "If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own." Ain't that the truth? "But because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the words that I said to you, the ser- a servant is not greater than his master. If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you." So, we we should expect this kind of behavior. And then in Matthew 5:44, "But I say to you, love your enemies." This is Jesus again. "Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you." Now, I know a lot of people that have maybe like pulled this verse out, maybe written it down, maybe put it up on their mirror, and somehow turn that into an excuse to continue to have vengefulness and bitterness in their hearts towards people. "Oh, I have enemies and oh, I prayed for them." Have you? Have you? I mean, some of the DMs I get, some of the angry emails, some of the people that are clearly taking what I've said out of context or just flat-out lying about what I've said, or they hear me say one thing and then they extrapolate out the rest of my worldview, most of which is wrong, and then they attack, you know, this avatar that they made that isn't actually me or something like that. If I took all of that personally, all my one- and two-star reviews, if I took all of that personally, I would not be able to write or record for you. I wouldn't be able to prepare a daily blade. I wouldn't be able to give you you know, my full-throated opinion on these very, very important topics, you know, that I talk about on solo episodes. I wouldn't be able to perform well in interviews and get you, you know, these nuggets out of out of these authors or these different people that I have on the show for your benefit. That wouldn't be possible. But also, when I have these people give me all this vitriol, I know that's coming from somewhere. These people probably have some self-loathing, some self-hatred. They were probably harmed by someone in their life. They've probably continued harming theirself to continue the cycle going from something that maybe happened in childhood. They've probably been betrayed. They're hurting. And you know what hurt animals do? They typically lash out, especially if you get them in a corner. And now we live in an era where you can just pull out your phone and in a comment destroy someone's entire life's work. "Oh, I didn't really like that." You who have built nothing in your entire life, you think you can tear down with a tweet or some comment on Instagram. And unfortunately, some people that actually care about the comment section will allow themselves to be destroyed by other people's ideology. Because part of the reason why I don't go into the comment section cuz I know it's great for the algorithm. I should be responding to people and arguing and doing all those things. Guess what? I could hire someone to pretend to be me to do the same thing. But it's not worth it. One, because they're not going to change their mind based on a well-worded argument or something like that. They're not going to change their mind because of something that they read on the internet. And also, I have to remember that these people are hurting. Something in there is hurting. And I'm not going to attract them to Jesus by arguing a point that doesn't even comport or align with reality. It's not going to happen. And so, if you have someone out there, whether it's some dork on the internet or someone in the cubicle next to you or all that, someone that could be considered your enemy, pray for them. And specifically, this is the prayer I would tell you to pray. Lord, help me see them as you see them. Help me see them as you see them. I think that'll be very helpful. All right, we're going to do one more here. I'm about to have my first kid. Any advice? So, love this question. Congratulations. Praise God for you. Hopefully, we have healthy mama and healthy baby and all those types of things. I mean, my gosh, when you get into like the kid advice, I mean, everyone's got their own opinions and worldviews, but I'll just try to stay as generic as possible. Um initially, there's not a whole lot for you to do. Okay? So, your job is to protect and provide for mama and baby. Like, you're going to be this traveling force field around them and you're going to look for potential issues and potential pitfalls and potential like problems that could go on and you're going to try to extinguish all those out, right? You know, you're going to look for opportunities to hop in there, right? To go, you know, rub her feet, to to rock the baby this time even though the baby really wants to smell and feel and feed off of mom. You know, hey, let let me run all those errands for you. Oh, hey, I'll respond to that email. Oh, hey, you don't worry about that. You just do what you can in and around because especially in those first couple of months, you're kind of an accessory. You're necessary, but you're an accessory. But [snorts] what you need to be doing is you need to think about the mindset. And this is different if you're having a a son or a daughter, but you are to raise your child up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. What does that require of you? Well, if you're not being fed by the Holy Spirit, if you're not spending time in prayer, if you're not spending time in the word, how do you expect to fill up the spiritual cup of your child? It's going to be really hard to do if not impossible. Again, it's not how many years you've been a Christian, it's how many hours. You got to put in the hours, right? You have to be the head of the household. Your wife needs to be a a helpmate made fit for you. She needs to to fall to your leadership, and she needs to protect your side, all those different things. But you have to think to yourself, I've got 18 years of their attention, roughly, and I need to put as much kindling around this child as possible, so that when the Holy Spirit sparks up in that child's life, that we just have an inferno. Because they will have been washed in the word, they will have heard it often, they will know what the gospel is, cuz look, there's plenty of people that are not Christians that know what the gospel is. They just don't believe it. They can, you know, repeat it back to you, they can regurgitate it, they just don't actually believe it for themselves for some reason. But your job is to get them around as many Christians as possible. If you can get them into a Christian school, do that. Make sure the Bible is read constantly. Make those things just normal. Yeah, we open up the Bible and read it in our house. Wait, y'all didn't grow up doing that? Oh, y'all just sing worship songs? Oh, y'all don't play sports on Sunday mornings because that's your church time? Oh, we don't sacrifice, you know, going to church on on these particular days just because it would be inconvenient because we want to go to the lake? You're setting a precedent for your children. Because look, they are going to catch a lot, and you're going to teach them a lot. But you want to put them into gospel rhythms that they will carry into their families. Because for the most part, there's no such thing as as family legacy in terms of name, right? Most of you out there cannot name first, middle, and last name your great, great, great grandfather right? Or your great, great uncle. Like you can't name these people, but you were living downstream of their legacy somehow. Some people have a legacy of violence. Some families have a legacy of, you know, adultery, of theft, of, you know, just debauchery, wickedness. What if the legacy of your family centered on the gospel of Jesus Christ? Okay? Yeah, we can talk about whether or not you should spank and, you know, what type of sleepy training you should do, and if we should cry it out, or if that's like actually demonic. We can we can have debates about all those different things. You're going to figure most of that out. You're going to be more tired than you ever thought possible. Your wife and you are going to get at each other's throats in ways that you never thought possible. But again, Dad, you are the head, and you set the tone for the household. So guys, really appreciate it. Again, if you want to get your questions answered on a future AMA, you do have to go ahead and be one of our monthly donors, so just go and do that on our website. And we were going to do a quick resilience boost out on Undaunted Life. Our mission is equipping men to push back darkness with content that forges spiritual, mental, and physical resilience. And there's two ways for you to give. You can donate directly to Undaunted Life at undaunted.life/donate. That is in the show notes. And if you need a tax-deductible donation, you can support the work that Joey and I are doing with the Daily Blade through the New Horizons Foundation. That is in the show notes as well. Thank you everyone for listening to this episode. 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