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You swines. What the Bible is saying is, look, even you, even lost people know how to do good things. Doing good things is not the standard of righteousness. The standard of righteousness is how much more our God does for us, how much greater he is.
That's the standard we're supposed to be living towards. It's spoken from a parental standpoint. I mean, even ungodly parents love their kids and provide for their kids. If ungodly parents do that, how much more is a perfect heavenly Father going to love us and provide for us, his children?
That's like Naomi Raine said, man. How much more will he love you? How much more will he love you? How much more?
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We talk for 10 minutes and then play some music. Okay, so I got a gripe. I got a big, big gripe. Again? Again. Wow. Well, so Tuesday's was not an official gripe.
That was a kind of after-the-fact gripe. But this is an official, certified, authorized, welcome to the grapevine. You're scaring me a lot with your energy today. It's kind of startling. I'm hopped up on pure T rage. Anger.
Frustration. This is something that I've noticed, and this one is, I hate to say it, it's spousally related. I hate that. I hate that for Ellie.
Well, it's not just Ellie. It's all wives. Every single wife I've ever seen in my life, I've seen do this. My wife? Yes, I've seen her do this. Really?
Once or twice. Not as bad. I'm intrigued as to what the gripe is now. My wife is kind of bad. Dr. Shaw's wife is the worst I've ever seen by far.
Wow. Dr. Shaw's daughters both do it to their husbands to some degree. I'm just saying, I can list all the wives I know. They all do it.
They're not quite as bad. If your husband tells a story and you hear a detail that's not 100% biblically gospel accurate, don't stop the story in its tracks to correct it. Let him just tell the story. If you know that the point of the story is not what time you left the house or what you were wearing, if you know that there's a point, there's a punch line coming, don't derail the story.
For instance, I'll be saying, listen, we saw the craziest thing when we were visiting Times Square, right? It was two guys and they were fighting. They were fighting in the middle of the street.
No, no, no. There were not two guys. There were three guys and one was there watching. There were two guys, but there were three guys altogether. Don't say there were two.
There were three guys. Okay. Sorry. Sorry. Yes.
She's right. There was two guys and one was watching, but the other one, the one who was watching, he ended up taking out these boxing gloves and then he's turned on the crowd. No, no, no, no. They were not boxing gloves. They were hand wraps. They were not boxing gloves. Don't say they're boxing gloves. People are going to be confused.
They're hand wraps like for mixed martial arts, not boxing gloves. Right. Okay. Yes. Yes. She's right.
But anyway, the cops came and when he started trying to attack the crowd, the cops tackled him to the ground and one of the cops actually had like the little laser face. No, no, no, no, no, no. This, you said this is when we were in New York. This is not the New York trip.
You're thinking of a different trip. Do you want to tell the story? No, tell the story, but tell it right. This is what wives do. And sometimes it's stuff they'll just play dumb. Sometimes they'll be like, I've seen, I've seen Dr. Shaw specifically be like, Hey Nicole, do you remember that time when Egypt, we were blah, blah, blah. She's like, no, that didn't happen. And he's like, it was, it was right after we came out of the pyramids. Remember that couple was talking to us and then they want us to take their picture.
She's like, I know you must've, you must've been over there with David. Cause it wasn't me. Okay. So as we're telling this, we recognize there are two people groups listening to this that want to weigh in wives who allegedly don't do this. And the husbands who have this done to them. So write in and let us know, give us your side of the story.
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Amen. Let's hop back into the show. Welcome back to Clear View today with Dr. Abbadon Shah, the daily show that engages mind and heart for the gospel of Jesus Christ. You can visit us online at Clearview todayshow.com or if you have any questions or suggestions for new topics, send us a text to 252-582-5028.
That's right. And we're here once again in the Clear View today's studio with Dr. Abbadon Shah, who is a PhD in new Testament textual criticism professor at Carolina university, author, full-time pastor and the host of today's show. Dr. Shah, we had an entire week with Nicole on the show and I, uh, first and foremost, welcome to the show. It's good to see you.
Good to be here. And so we had Nicole on, I thought about bringing this up, but then I was like, I don't know what it would actually be like. I want to do it behind her back. Cause we had, we had a gripe vine that we talked about. I'm not gonna lie during the break. I had to calm down a little bit. Sure.
Cause my wife is really terrible about this. The gripe vine is anytime you're telling a story, right? You're in like a group of people. Everybody's listening.
No, no, no. Anytime you you're telling a story or you're relating something. Yeah. You're relating something. You're trying to get a point across. No, no, not just a point, but you're trying to explain some principles is what you really want to say. Especially if you're a husband.
This, I don't know if this happens to single guys or if it just happens to husbands. I was just trying to do what you are. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's weird. I was trying to, I was trying to wrap, trying to catch up to what you were saying.
It's like they have to, your wife has to not only interrupt, but it has to correct you. No, no, not just correct. Right. It's also help you understand. Help me understand.
Right. That I'm a liar. It's like, no, like you'll be telling, I've been in places where we're sitting around, we're telling a story and like people are rolling. We've never done that.
We've never done that. That's not, that's not true. I'm telling a lot.
You're telling a lot. That's what I'm saying is she's like, like you'd be like, and we were, we went and we went, we were in Israel, we went to Jerusalem and there was a guy selling, he was like, I don't know. It was Egypt. It was not that it was Egypt. And it's like, no, it wasn't. It was Israel because the guy was speaking Hebrew.
It was Egypt. I'm like, why are you, thank you for deflating the entire story. Thank you for like, like, why are you taking the wind out of my sails? Do you have any, I know, I already know I'm asking a rhetorical question, but do you have any experience with that? Exactly. Very well. I used to tell her, I was like, you know, if I ever was like, you know, on, on, on the stand, this decision could, could hang you or it could set you free. Yeah. I would be hung.
I would be hung. I feel like that's not true. What Abaddon really said was, I can see the bailiff coming like, all right, let's go buddy. It's time to go. She's mistaken, sign that up. Come on.
Let's go. I remember there was one time after one of the Valentine's day banquets where it actually kind of annoyed me where you were telling some story. I don't remember what, but there was like a group of people around and everyone was laughing.
Everyone was having a great time. And she was like, Abaddon, that's not true. We didn't do that. And you were like, yes you do. Do you remember it was on our 20th anniversary? And she was like, that's not true.
That didn't happen. And it's like, and everybody else is like kind of looking like, okay. I mean, I was enjoying the story.
Everybody. She was like, no, it wasn't like that. What you're thinking of was not our 20th anniversary.
That was our, that was my birthday party. I was like, so the story did happen. She's like, yes, but I had to stop it. It's important that we set the record straight about the context of the story.
Lest you be a liar. Or when you ask, do you remember when we were in the answers like, what are you talking about? It's annoying, man. It gets you to where like you don't even want to tell stories. No, at that point it's like, okay, whatever. I'm done. I'm done. We've talked about that many times.
Nicole, don't do that. What? Okay, fine. Whatever you want to say.
Now she's angry. Yeah. I'm like, how does that justify you? Yeah. Like everybody's having a great time. The story's vibe been don't throw a roadblocks to where the story just crumbles. So, cause then it's like, all right, well guys, anyway, the point of the story was this guy spilled his coffee all over my pants and we got free coffee. And at that point everyone's like, okay, cool. Yeah. Well that's a good story. That was our gripe for today. The moral of the story is don't do that to each other.
Build each other's stories up. There are some times where Dr. Schuss telling a story and I'm not going to lie, I have no clue what he's talking about, but I'm like, yes. Yeah. So I saw a monkey. No, no.
It was a whole herd of monkeys. Okay. Because that, that detail is so critical to the story. Correct the details behind closed doors, but like, you know, just go along with it. There'll be some times where he's like, hey, do you remember on our mission trip to Mexico? That was like years before I was even there, but I'm like, that was great. You know, I had a great time and not, you know, remember you had the sombrero on your head. Absolutely.
I didn't remember that. Vividly. Nobody knew how the monkey got on the roof. Well talk about, you know, roadblocks to stories and roadblocks to storytelling. We want to talk today about a very exciting, not story, but it's the story of us. It is the story of us. It's the story of, that's a, that's a cute way to put it. Yeah. Story of us.
I think that's a Taylor Swift song, but I'll take credit for that. There you go. There you go.
Copyright John Galantis. We're talking of course about Dr. Shah, your new devotional that is out now. It's out. Very exciting. 30 Days of Praying for America.
Nicole and I. Oh, you need a, you need a dum da dum dum dum dum. Put the eagle. Yeah.
Oh yeah. Where's the eagle? It's a hawk. Where is it?
I can't find it. Oh, well. Did they take the eagle out? Oh, we took the eagle out. Come on. That's okay.
We'll put it back in. David, go ahead and do the hawk. Do the hawk. Do something. Do the hawk.
Do something. Do the eagle. Eagle, hawk.
Oh say can you see. There you go. There you go. Perfect.
I forgot we took the eagle out. Just picture a flag unfurled in your, in your mind. 30 Days Praying for America.
Nicole and I really wanted to write this devotional. You know, we wrote 30 days through a crisis that sort of came out of nowhere. Yeah, that's true. In the first month of our pandemic and all the craziness that was happening throughout the world and especially in America, we really felt, we were on our way to the mall. Of course, hardly anybody on the roads go to the mall. Half the stores are shut down. It was really heartbreaking to see that, to see where America had come. And of course, we're not saying for a moment, you know, the pandemic or the sickness was not real. What we were more concerned about was that this is, what is this is doing to America and the future and our young people and just Christianity in general. Churches were being shut down and all that. And so we, we both felt, you know, what if we wrote a 30 days through a crisis devotional that would not only apply to people at this time in our history, but also for any crisis they may face, big or small, they can read this devotional and spend time in prayer because it's, it's rooted in the word of God and it will encourage them and give them sort of a lighthouse to, to, to steer towards and find hope in Christ and find purpose and find the hand of God behind the scenes and, and use whatever is happening to not only allow the Holy Spirit to bring out the best in their lives, but also to change the world, to bring people to Christ. And so that was the reason behind 30 days through a crisis.
The response is still very strong. People still are reading that book because it applies to other crises in their lives. And then two years ago, 2022, fall of 2022, we wrote 30 days to a new beginning. Again, we felt like this is another something that people are struggling with as they're coming out of the pandemic. How can they see a new beginning?
New beginning, not just with the pandemic, but also in their own lives, whether it's a broken relationship or health problems or financial crisis or habits and weaknesses that pull them down, how can they find a new beginning? And again, that really touched a lot of lives. In fact, just recently, a young man who worked in a local fire department, he made a move and he's in a bigger position and he quoted that book that your wife sent me. I was looking for it. I couldn't find it right here. But he, he quoted section of the book where it talks about don't just circle the mountain, go forward. He was quoting from our book and he shared it on Facebook. And so she saw it and she tagged me in there. And then she sent me a picture of that and said, hey, this guy is talking about the book 30 days to a new beginning. So I went and looked for it.
I cannot find it here right now. But, but anyways that was, that was pretty awesome to see. Yeah, that's incredible. So this is, if we do find that post, we'll drop it in the thread. It was pretty, pretty awesome.
Beautiful post that he put up there. And then where we are in this election year, a lot's happening in our country, lots going on. There is a sense of hopelessness. There's a sense of despair.
There's a sense of fear and trepidation of what's coming. We felt like a book like this 30 days to praying, of praying for America would help people step forward and know that God is still in control of our nation, that he still has a plan for us. There was, I think it was when the second book started the first draft we started draft.
It was really early in the drafting of the first book. You guys, Ryan and David and almost everyone else went to their mission trip, the same mission trip y'all just got back from. And we went to Cracker Barrel.
It was just us. And we put down, man, 30 or 40 ideas of, cause it was like, this could be a series and it should be a series. But I remember one thing that stuck out to me was there was never a question that the third book would be praying for America. That was always going to be the next one. And it was, it was insane because it was like we were, we were dreaming of all these future books and just kind of having fun with like, this one could be this and this one could be one through worship and one through children's ministry and one through counseling and one through your marriage. But the third one was always going to be praying for America because we knew that it was now is the time.
Right. David just found me that post and he says something about Dr. Shah references the Israelites. Oh, and he begins with, I've been reading a devotional from Dr. Shah on new beginnings and in it he poses a question. Are we afraid of facing the challenges ahead of us? This question is in the context of being stuck in our comfort and being complacent on moving forward. And then he says, I knew where I wanted to go in my career and what would be best for my family, but I was comfortable where I was.
I knew everyone, I knew my job and I knew enough to continue on without much pressure from the brass. Then he says, Dr. Shah references the Israelite exiles comfort at Mount Sire during this, their exodus from Egypt to the promised land that the Israelites were comfortable, but their momentary comfort was keeping them from moving forward into the blessings God had prepared for them and commanded them to reach Deuteronomy one, six to seven says, the Lord, our God spoke to us in Horeb saying, you have dwelt long enough at this mountain, turn and take your journey. So he says, I had skirted this career move at least four times at different agencies because of the comfort I felt here, but I have dwelt here long enough. And so he says, I'm grateful for where I'm at, but it's time for me to stop circling the mountain.
I thought that was pretty amazing. Thank you for finding that. Yeah. That's the goal of writing these devotionals is not just to have a book out, but for people's lives to be impacted. It's very encouraging to hear that.
And there's tons of more people. And, you know, if you've read any of these devotionals, if you haven't read them, number one, what are you doing? Yeah. What are you doing with your life? Go read them. Go read them, but also let us know how they've changed your life. They've impacted my life. You know, they've impacted my, my cause I I'm that way.
I'll get stuck in comfort and be afraid to move forward when they're set up in such a great way, because you have the devotion that you and Nicole right. And then you have some scripture or some scriptures to meditate on like versus that to think about. And then you have a journaling section where you can jot down, like hear my thoughts about what God's teaching me based on this devotion based on these scriptures. And each one is set up in that way, although they have three different subject matters. But that same format is, is there throughout.
So it actively causes you to engage with the content rather than just sort of consuming something. Right. Right.
Nicole was big help in this because I would bounce things off of her. Like I'm thinking about a chapter like this. What do you think? Well, okay. And then she's like, okay, you write it, let me know when you're ready. Cause the way we do it, I write it. She then brings her understanding, her reflections, and then we merge them together.
Then it becomes ours. And John knew as an editor was a big part of this. Of course, David was as well, Adam Painter was, and of course, Ryan was the final editor on the project, putting it into the book form. So it's, it's probably my favorite work so far. It's really up there.
This one is tremendous. I want to, I want to talk about it a little more in depth. I mean, I guess we can start at the beginning, but it kind of goes without saying, but why is a book like this important in 2024? Well, unlike typical devotionals, this one is different. It has an element of history there. So each chapter is some epoch or, or situation from history or a person or personality or a principle of history, American history, where we give information about that person or that battle or that situation. And then we bring out the biblical element in it.
And then the third step is bringing out some place of some kind of application that would help us to pray for our nation. So I feel like where we are in our nation's climate, our history is being revised. I mean, there's no doubt people can see that every day in the past, I would say four years, five years, six years, there is a concerted effort to revise American history.
They're trying to remove people or situations or whatever it is they feel like they don't like, and we got to get them out of here. Only problem is you're creating a false narrative. You're creating history that never existed. The danger in doing that is not only is it false, but also you are setting up the next generation for failure because you're teaching them that these, whoever you consider as the bad guys didn't exist.
Yeah. So there's nothing to learn from. Nothing to learn from. It's all the ones you approve are the good guys. And they're the ones now in history. Look at the Bible. The Bible is a great example of how to really do history. Of course, it's the word of God, right? David, man after God's own heart, committed adultery with Bathsheba, had her husband murdered, did horrible things. Now imagine if Bible was left in the hands of these revisers in America, they would have taken that out. Because of course, look at how he treated the women. Look at how he murdered a foreigner, a Hittite. Let's get him out of there.
He does not deserve to be in the Bible. That's what it is. That's exactly what it is. So what happens when people make mistakes? What happens when people commit sin? What happens when a Hittite is being taken advantage of? Will anybody ever say, hey, see this king right here? He did this to a Hittite, and God called him out.
To a point that God, in a sense, disciplined David's entire family for what he did to this person and his wife. But what if that story never existed? We would learn from it.
We would have no lesson from it. And that's exactly what we're doing in American history. We're removing elements that people don't like and creating a false narrative which is devoid of any true principles and learning moments. It's very common to hear conservatives make that point where, hey, listen, you can't remove history. And people get it twisted in their brains.
I think particularly people on the left, they get it twisted in their brains that that means you're defending it. If you want to keep it in there, you must agree with it. Yeah.
Yeah, yeah. I mean, exactly. That's what they'll do. They'll say, why are you defending this person? This person owns slaves, or this person did this, or this person extorted this group of people. Why would you want to defend that? And saying, leave it in our history, don't erase it, is not the same as defending it. Because you need those examples of what actually happened. That's a great point. Yeah. The problem is, American history, one thing I mentioned in our introduction, and hopefully people will read all of that, is that it's, the way M'Nikhal and I have written it, it's the conflict of the soul that is a distinctive part of the American psyche, not some fake spotless past.
Yeah, true. So what you find is that there's always been a conflict, whether it's over immigration or over racism or over socioeconomic differences, there's always been this conflict. Or, okay, we're here, we love this country. Oh, what did we do to the native indigenous people? Well, we took their land, or we pushed them away, or we killed them, or we made treaties with them and then broke them. Oh, wait.
Okay. What do we do with that? Should we create a narrative where that doesn't exist?
Or should we create a narrative where the Native Americans were all cool with it? I mean, what are we creating? It's foolish.
Yeah, it's foolish. I appreciate that about the approach that you and M'Nikhal will take in this book, is that it's a very balanced approach. It doesn't shy away from those maybe not as glamorous parts of American past, but it also doesn't just say everything was bad, everything was terrible. You bring out the good, you bring out the positives as well. It's a very balanced look at American history. Well, I think that's just the reality of it, is a lot of terrible things happened in our nation's history.
But to sit here and pretend like all of us on the right and on the left don't benefit from the system that we have in place, it's disingenuous. So you do have to, and I love the way that, like Ryan said, I love the way you guys have approached it because never once do you defend those actions. All you're saying is, hey, they happened. And we have to acknowledge that they happened. And we have to keep them. Learn from them. Yeah. Learn from them.
If you take them away, you cannot learn from them. So there are individuals that we mentioned, we've mentioned the positive side of them without saying that they are all good. Would any of these revisers today say that they're all good?
No. Like for instance, if you get, I'll spoil it a little bit, but the very first chapter is on Christopher Columbus. He's one of the main ones where it's like, okay, his name is tarnished as far as people in America go today. He was a murderer. He was a conqueror.
He was just an abuser and he did some pretty bad things. But I mean, what's the alternative? We don't have what we have. We can't change. I can't go back and impose our 21st century morals on what is it? 1492 conquest.
Yeah. You cannot do that. What you can do is really research Columbus's life and people will be shocked. If they truly researched his life, they will be shocked to find out his true background. I'm not going to say anything right now because I don't cover that as a devotional, but hopefully one day I can do that.
The real Christopher Columbus, it'll be shocking to people. But I was hoping to have this done in like six weeks. I was like, I can do this because the previous ones, that's what I do.
I just buckle down and I'm in the zone getting it done. This was like, no way. It's not happening.
Six weeks. I'm not going to be enough. And of course they were not enough. Well, see, that's the thing is like, we came to realize that, or you really came to realize it pretty early on is if you put someone's name PhD behind it and it's a book on American history, it's like, this better be right. Can I just say in my experience or I feel, or I think I got to make sure all the facts and figures are accurate. So I had to go and research. I had to go to the library. I had to go online to the library sources and research and clarify. In fact, some of the things I read in a book that I found or books that I found, they were not true.
So I had to go and fix that problem when I quoted the same sources. I mean, it was crazy. There were some that I brought, cause I would bring some ideas and say, what if you did this? Cause this is, and it would be like, yeah, that would make this devotional chapter really good, but it didn't happen. Or it didn't happen like that. And I was like, oh man, it would be great. I think it was something about Lincoln or Roosevelt, but there was one where it was like, if we say it or if we word it like this, the whole theme fits together.
And it's like, that would be great. It just didn't happen. It's not true. There were a couple of people that I was going to talk about in the devotional and more I researched, I was like, oh really? That didn't happen. Oh, well, I guess it's just a myth or a folklore and I had to give that up. So there were chapters I began writing and I had to scrap them. It was like a kill your darlings moment. Yeah. It was kind of tough. I have chapters, I have like five or six chapters that are that halfway through is like abandoned ship.
It's got a lot of holes in it. I think the charge is this because you've got from now it's July. Today is what? July the 11th. You've got from now until November. And this is the year to do it. There's a reason it came out in 2024.
We wanted it to come out around July 4th because you know, it's patriotic. But then you also have from now until then, and this is your duty as an American to obviously get this devotional, read it, understand what it's saying, and then do your American duty. That's right.
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