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A father and his son embark on a Pokémon quest, navigating the challenges of childhood obsession and the importance of keeping promises. Meanwhile, a discussion on morality, values, and politics unfolds, highlighting the need for individuals to stand up for their beliefs and values, while also acknowledging the importance of dealing with personal sin and domestic issues.

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We're going to leave a link in the description so you can do just that. Ryan, I'm tired, dude. I'm tired.

You seem kind of just drained of energy today. I have been on what can only be described as a Pokemon quest. Oh. My son. You're a little old for a Pokemon quest. Well, number one, I disagree with that.

I resent that. Nobody's ever too old for a Pokemon quest. I love Pokemon. Oh, I love Pokemon, too. I love Pokemon.

I love Pokemon, too. I just mean 30-year-olds typically are already embarking on... They really don't like it when I'm stalking up and down the toy aisle. I've been escorted out of several K-marts and targets. You've got to take your kids with you. Yes. Then you can go look at the toys you want to, and nobody bats an eye because your kids are with you.

So that's what I did. My son is getting into Pokemon. Your son, your five-year-old son, I think all your kids are already into Pokemon. Yeah, they like Pokemon. My son is discovering it for the first time.

I got to tell you, it's beautiful. I love seeing my kid get excited about what excited me as a kid. Yep. So I was a little older than him when I got into it, but Gavin is about to be four. Asher, Ryan's youngest son, is five or six. He's almost six.

My son's almost four. So my son looks up to Asher like, Asher is the coolest kid who ever lived. So sweet. Which is great. I love that.

So sweet. Asher had a stuffed Pokemon that was not his. It was his sister's. And Gavin saw him with them, and they all had stuffed Pokemon. So Asher, heart of gold, maybe mine wasn't quite there in this decision, said, hey, Gavin, you can have this. Yeah. No, no, no. Let's not give him that credit, heart of gold, because he had two Pokemon to offer, and he picked the one that didn't belong to him. Okay, fine. So heart of conniving, underhanded, charlatan appearances.

Snake oil, maybe, maybe. My son lit up to get this gift so that he wouldn't be the only one without a Pokemon. Among all his friends, he was over the moon. So he came up to me and said, daddy, daddy, look, Asher gave me this Pokemon. And Elizabeth, Ryan's wife said, she looked at me, and I saw the fear in her eyes. And she was like, oh, buddy, I'm so sorry. I don't think that was Asher's to give. And I saw the dread come on my son's face.

And so I was like, hey, bud, yeah, I think she's right. That's not his. But he started to break down. And I could tell Gavin's not really the tantrum type. He's just going to try to hold it together and get somewhere private so he can have a good, hard cry. So I was like, I tell you what, he was holding it together.

He gave it back to Asher. And I was like, buddy, I tell you what we're going to do. We're going to go tomorrow on a Pokemon quest.

We're going to go out and we're going to find you your own Pokemon toy to have. Sweet moment, right? Big mistake. I goofed all the way up. We were going out doing some very, very premature Christmas shopping.

And so we thought, okay, this will be a good time. That's Ellie. That's not me.

That's Ellie. I did not want to go. I wanted to make bad on my promise and stay home. But I remembered we were going on a Pokemon quest.

So we went to not one, not two, not three, not even four. We went to five different stores looking for Pokemons. And he kept changing his criteria. I was like, do you want a hard toy or soft toy? He was like, I want a soft toy.

And we'd be like, what about this one? I don't like that one. He wanted a Charizard. There were no soft plushie Charizards. So I found its Charmander in the third store. And I was like, hey bud, why don't we get you a Charmander? He turns into Charizard. He was like, but I really wanted the Charizard. And I was like, all right, all right, all right.

We're going to find a Charizard. We were going, because we were treating it like a hunt, like a quest. It was a game.

So you have to go to all the different cities, all the different gyms. We were trying to make it fun. But by the time we got to Target, that was the fourth store, I was starting to get pretty ill. And I was like, Ellie, I'm going home. We've spent the whole day on this. She was like, we promised we have to find him a Charizard, blah, blah, blah.

They didn't have one in Target. So I was like, all right, we're going to, we're going to go home and we're going to recollect ourselves. We're going to, cause I have tons of Pokemon toys at home. I don't have any Charizards, but I got tons of Pokemon toys. And I was like, hey buddy, we can go to Nana's attic. Cause all my old Pokemon toys are in Nana's attic. I got cards.

I got Pokeballs. I got everything you can imagine up there. He was holding it together. He, again, Gavin's not a tantrum type.

He's just a pout, hang my head, be real sad, hope someone feels sorry for me. And of course Ellie did. So she was like, buddy, we're going to go to Walmart. This is the fifth store. Now we fry. I said, I tell you what, bless his heart. I'm staying in the car and I'm going to fume because if I go in the store, I'm going to end up making this a very terrible day for everybody.

Cause I'm, I'm really livid. We, we set out at like 11 in the morning to go eat and shop and it's now 7 PM and I'm ready to be in my bed. Uh, we come out or they, they come out, I sit in the car, they come out and he's got this big massive Charizard toy that shoots like fire. And I'm like, Oh, this is actually kind of cool.

My whole mood improves now. I'll kind of want to play with it. So we go home and play with it and it's just a great day.

But I mean, that was like seriously a real live Pokemon quest that could have easily ended in a, in a full grown adult tantrum, but luckily ended in, in Pokemon. So he's been taking that Charizard. He'll probably have it at Awana tonight. He's been taking it everywhere. I saw him yesterday.

He was like carrying around by the tail. Yeah. I love Pokemon, man. I love it. And I'm glad my son is getting into it cause it's a, he, we play the Pokemon theme song.

We were riding the car. He's, he's entering into obsession and there's nothing like childhood obsession. I remember that. It's cute.

Especially when your kids are into the things that you worry in. I mean, kind of like nostalgic for you relive those things. I wonder if Dr. Shaw, any of his kids like picked up on childhood things that he loved, things that he maybe gravitated toward. But his stuff was, his stuff was like the Phantom and like Cowboys and bananas. Nicholas, did you like bananas and Cowboys growing up, man?

You did? Yeah. Okay, cool. Yeah. I mean, I feel like I remember little Nick and Thomas, you know, being like Cowboys and stuff. Yeah, true.

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Amen. Let's hop back into the show. Welcome back to Clearview 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 in the Clearview today studio with Dr. Abbadon Shah, who's a PhD in new Testament, textual criticism professor at Carolina university, author, full time pastor, the host of today's show and believe it or not, Pokemon master. Did you know that? I did.

I heard that. Dr. Shah, if four, if he has, I'm not kidding. He has 24 gym badges. He has caught them all.

Gary Oak style. Dr. Shah, if I asked you, if I asked you to name five Pokemon, could you do it? I can't even name one. Pikachu? Oh, Pikachu.

Yeah, that's about it. So we were talking, we were talking in the intro where my son is, is getting into Pokemon now. And so I foolishly said, Hey Gavin, we're going to go on a Pokemon quest today to find you a Charizard.

We went to five different stores and I really, yes. And I realized I have goofed up. I have made a huge tactical error. Cause, cause he, we just couldn't find one. And I was like, either I cut this, this day short and say, sorry buddy, we couldn't find it.

Or I just hold to my word and just keep going and keep looking around. I think we, I was thinking about this in between, as we, as we took a break, you were looking for a specific Pokemon. Yeah. You probably found like Pokemon stuff.

Oh, tons. But not the right one. Not the right one from like when we were kids. Yeah. Once we got, once we got it into his head that he was, cause we, we were like, all right, go ahead and pick. Cause the, the night before him and Asher had a little thing where Asher tried to give him Asher, sabotage Gavin's world.

Yeah. Asher was like, here, Gavin, you can have this Pokemon toy, but it wasn't his. It was Joe to give.

It was Joanna's. So we were like, Hey buddy, no, that's not Asher's. And he just got his world crumbled. Cause he thinks the world of Asher, he looks up to Asher. So getting a gift from Asher then had like, he didn't end up getting it, but it was funny cause he was just trying to hold it together.

He was like, like not throwing a tantrum. So I was like, Hey buddy, we'll find you a Pokemon tomorrow. I should've just right there been like, Hey man, that's politics, man. That's life. But I didn't do it. I made a promise. Sometimes you learn that your friend is a duplicitous charlatan that promises you things that don't belong to him. Sometimes you find out your friend is in Team Rocket to protect the world from devastation. That's funny.

Not all peoples within our nation, obviously. I mean, do you see yourself in him? I'm sorry. Do you see yourself in him? A hundred percent. Does Ellie see herself in him?

I don't know. I think Ellie sees herself more in Holden, but I see, I see, I see myself in Gavin. I don't think like now, but as a kid, a hundred percent, I would get my feelings hurt. If someone was like, Hey, I'm not your friend today. That would just be devastated. Devastated. Devastated. Real, real tenderhearted.

Real. Just like, and also very much like, I'm going to find out who the leader is in this friend group. Cause I've heard Gavin be watching a movie. They were watching Hercules, I think. And it was the, we are worms and nobody else laughed but Gavin, but Gavin was like, wasn't that funny, Asher? Bless his heart. And I was like, that's me.

That was me as a kid. Asher loves Gavin too. Asher, I mean, they're, they're best buddies. Well, Dr. Shah, today's verse of the day is indeed coming to us from Hebrews chapter nine and verse 12. It's talking about Jesus. And it says not with the blood of goats and calves, but with his own blood, he entered the most holy place once and for all having obtained eternal redemption. Wow. Amen.

With his own blood. It means all this time they were simply enacting a drama of what will actually become a reality when Jesus came. And what I've found is I'm sort of deviating here for a moment. All these cultures, ancient cultures, they did some kind of sacrifice and it's very misguided. It's like, why are you doing this?

We don't know. I mean, you think blood is very important. Why is blood so important? I mean, it is important because gods need the blood, but they don't understand by the, without the shedding of the blood, there is no remission of sins. This is a scriptural truth that goes right from the beginning of time where God accepted Abel's offering and not Cain's. I mean, this was like blood has to be shed for sin to be forgiven because when sin is committed, someone has to die.

And for all of us, you know, that sacrifice has to come. And so it's not just the Jewish people were doing this. Other cultures did it because the gospel, that seed was there in the heart, albeit it became so distorted. And so when Jesus came 2000 years ago, he completed what was promised in the beginning of time. And now thank goodness we don't have to go to those sacrifices. We don't have to shed the blood of animals. And I know there are other cultures and religions who are still doing that.

And it's like, what a waste. You missed it. You missed it.

The update came and you didn't update it. That's so fascinating to think about other cultures in the world and just that echo of the gospel that's there, but so twisted, so distorted. It's like you're almost at the truth, but you're not, you haven't quite gotten it. That's right. And today's verse of the day is brought to you by the Date the Word app. We're going to leave a link in the description.

Shout out to them for partially sponsoring today's episode. Well ladies and gentlemen, it is time for the Clear View Current, where we cut through the chaos of today's headlines with a clear Christian perspective. We're here to keep you up to date on what's going on in the world, big or small. But for sure, there's an article out by Life We Research that points out this weird discrepancy that as Americans are growing increasingly progressive in areas of morality, they also for some reason think the country's morals are getting worse. Yeah. They're individually saying, you know, I'm okay with, and this is from a latest Gallup survey on moral issues. They're saying, you know, abortion, suicide, polygamy, all that stuff I personally am okay with, but I'm very concerned that the nation's moral virtue is declining. This feels kind of like a duh. Like we hear this and we're like, yeah, like it's raining outside, but I'm concerned that I might get wet. Yeah.

Nothing new under the sun. This is exactly what the people of Israel were doing when they got into the land. You know, in our church, we're in the series on the book of Judges.

That's right. And God was angry with his people because they went through this cycle of following the false gods and then God would give them over to their enemies and then they would repent. They would cry out to the Lord. They would cry out to God. God would tell them to repent, send a prophet to them, and then they repent.

A judge comes, helps them, and then they're back on track. And then in time, they go right back into the same sin. What was their sin? The sin was compromise. The problem here is compromise.

And compromise is where you yourself are no longer obedient to God. But yeah, I'm old fashioned. I'm old fashioned. Like you have people coming to church talking about being old fashioned.

I love them old hymns. But value wise, you're unwilling to stand up for the truth, the life of the unborn. You cannot speak out on that.

You cannot stand up against assisted suicide. And I know pain is a horrible thing. I've just been through a root canal followed by an extraction back to back. I've been through probably the worst pain in my life. So I know pain is not fun, especially if you're up in age. And that's when people go, just let me die.

Let me just go and get this. It's my life. I'm not hurting anybody. In fact, this is best for everyone. But no, life is in God's hands.

Pain is also part of God's plan. And as painful as that can be for us to say, well, you know, I mean, it's not a quality anymore. It's not the quality of life.

So what's the next step? Take the life? Right. You know, it's crazy that you said that because to me, I would think, well, that's a very, that's a very like fringe opinion.

But according to this Gallup survey, like one in five, like 22 to 23 percent believe suicide. Yeah, it's yours. You can do with it what you want to. End your life.

If there's too much pain, end it. Or polygamy. I mean, that shows the deviance of some human hearts who are sitting in church and singing them old hymns. They got dirt in their hearts.

I don't want to be the Pharisee and beat them over the head with a club of the gospel. But what I'm saying is when we have adulterous thoughts and we don't deal with them, that's when we think, huh, every night I can go to a different bed with a different woman. Yeah. I mean, I mean, come on, you know, even, even going beyond polygamy, just when it comes to like having an affair by 2023, 12 percent of people, 12 percent of people said not only is polygamy okay, but even if you are married to someone and you just yourself want to cheat on them, 12 percent of that, Hey man, it's your life. Before 2016, it had never reached 10 percent.

And all of a sudden, like eight years later, we're up by a whopping 2 percent. There's a problem in the human heart. I mean, Jesus said it, you know, even if you lust for a woman in your heart, you've already done it, right? Again, I'm not, I don't want to like, like our previous guests talked about using the club of the Bible to beat people over the head.

I don't want to do that. But at the same time, should we not ask ourselves, is my heart really clear and clean when I'm looking at that woman who's not my wife? When I see this person drive by or when I see that person at the restaurant or in a shopping mall or, or you know, on Facebook, that profile comes by, is my heart really clean? And I move past and say, no, that's the sister in Christ, or that's just somebody's wife, daughter, mom, and, and, and walk on, especially if you have a wife is what I'm talking about. It just seems like repeated opportunities and excuses to justify sin.

I mean, you know, we were having increasingly more and more okay with sin and sinful behavior. And when you start to blur that line in one area, I mean, it's a matter of time before things start to break down. And then we're seeing like, but then, but then we have problem with our nation is not where it needs to be.

And it's like, well, no wonder, buddy, you're the cause. You're part of the problem. That was sort of what I wanted to get your opinion on because this, this article says that half of Americans, if 49, literally almost exactly half, 49% said that they would rate the overall state of moral values in America as poor, meaning like, I'm not happy with, with where we are. It says a third, 34% said that they're fair.

14% rate them as good. And 1% of America says that the moral value of America is excellent. The basic two places I think people struggle with in America right now is the sexual garbage that is thrown in our face.

And secondly is there's a woke, woke culture, the equity culture. And I get it. Both are bad. We don't need that stuff. But at the same time, let's also take care of some other garbage that is sitting at our doorstep, whether it is my adulterous heart, my own greed, my own selfishness.

I mean, and then I think we can talk about other things too. So that was, that was sort of what I want to get your opinion on is this false dichotomy that people want to separate myself, my individual values versus the values of the collective like the nation and why people, why, and truly, why do people think it's okay for me to believe that this stuff is acceptable, but I don't think that it's good for our nation. I don't think it's good for our collective group of people. They don't think it's connected. They don't think the average church person who's sitting there, they're sick and tired of all that, that sexual garbage and they're sick and tired of woke culture, but they don't, they don't know, they don't understand that it's all connected with my view of morality and ethics.

It's all connected. That's how God judged Israel back in, back in the day, in the time of the judges or the time of the kingdoms. He judged them because that's what they were doing. They had the temple or the tabernacle.

If you want to go in the town, they had the tabernacle and they would go there. I mean, think about Samuel's father. What was his name? I forgot his name. Alkana.

Alkana. Yeah. Yeah.

Hannah and Penina. I mean, for one, for me to have two women who have names like the rhyming names, why would you do that? Yeah. You set yourself up for failure. Yeah. You goofed up. So here's my problem. Right from the get go, God had said, you know, one man and one woman for life.

Okay. I mean, that, that was the thing. And repeatedly, God talked about, you have abandoned the wife of your youth, all that.

What is he doing with two wives? Right. Some people would even say like, like, Hey, you know, back then that was kind of normal.

No, that's not true. If it was normal, it would, he would not have, it would not have made a point to put it in the Bible. Um, Sarah would not have pitched a fit. Right.

Exactly. People point to Abraham like, Abraham had two women. No, she was like, get that one. Abraham was in shambles because of it. It was terrible. He had two women and that was bad.

Yeah. What do you got to say David? The whole point of it was that was bad. David wanted to chime in. What are you going to chime in David? I'm just laughing at the whole, like Sarah, like getting mad because it's like, well, I know I said, but you, you know, this is not right.

I know I said that this was okay, but I didn't realize it was going to upset me. So now you're in trouble, buddy. And God even said, listen to your wife. Yeah, that's true. Big boy. She's right.

Listen to your wife. This was never normal behavior. But I think about like what's going on today. Like, like even church people, they, there are so many people who complain about this wall culture and they're like, I'm so sick of all these like different Netflix and Disney and all these different corporations just shoving this agenda in my face. And I agree. We agree with that.

But then the, then the same question would be, well, let's say you were invited to a friend or a family member who went to one of their gay weddings or the transgender ceremonies. Would you go and support it? And it's like, well, I mean, yeah, of course I would.

It's like, cool. If everybody thinks like you, isn't it natural that this decline will happen? That's why we are where we are. And they may not even go.

They may even say, heck no, I'm not going to go to that. Right. Okay, great.

You get points for that. How about do you stand up for the life of the unborn or do you talk about women's right to choose? True, true. Do you stand for the life of the aged or do you say, oh, a sister, euthanization? Oh, that's no problem.

Do you stand against this whole polygamy stuff? So, so we need to believe that yes, do stand against the garbage the culture is shoving in our face, but also deal with our own domestic sin. That's right.

That's a hundred percent right. Domestic sin is also an abhorrence to God. Now deal with that. I need to deal with that. I'm not even telling people like you need to, I need to deal with sin in my heart. If I have bitterness in my life, I need to deal with it. If I have resentment in my heart, I need to deal with it. I need to forgive.

I need to allow God's grace to cleanse me. So all of that, I think is part of the package that God says, it's all connected. Yes. Stand against the outside junk, deal with the inside junk.

That's right. Well, millennials, they tend to think they know everything and they tend to think, and I'm speaking as a millennial myself, they tend to think they know how the world works and they, but I remember having, I didn't have the, the vitriol against it because it was like something old people did. I think I was more pessimistic about it. Like I'm going to go out there, register, play the political game, be a cog in the machine. They won't count my vote.

And whoever they, whoever the people behind the scenes, whoever they want, they'll win. So I just won't participate. That's how I used to think. I'm going to go do this, but it's not really going to matter in the long run.

I don't want to stand in line all day to have the illusion of choice. And that was how I used to think before I came here. And I started to see that your voice and your platform as a leader in the community, I'm not saying it's more important than your vote, but that's truly what people see. You know, it's not my ink on a piece of paper. It's your influence as a leader.

And maybe it's the process, the process of going to the, the old, some warehouse or some fire station, you know, standing in line over there, elementary school where you can smell, still smell the musty smell and somebody puts a sticker on your nice shirt. Maybe, maybe that's the idea people have that, oh, this, but I hope you realize that yes, maybe the process could be better and maybe I don't know what can be the process, but that is a system that used to be, and I hope still is, is how we are still, you know, a republic. True. And not participating in that system. I think this survey that we're talking about today kind of shows you like, okay, you don't want to participate. This is the outcome. More than half the people in the country are dissatisfied, but we're not going to vote.

We're just going to tell you we're unhappy. Yeah. And, and take the, and it's, it's big.

It's not just values. Right. Your, your pocketbooks, I mean, they're running empty. Have you seen that when you go to the grocery store? Yeah.

We talked about that on Tuesday. We, nobody can afford groceries no more. Yeah. I mean, people are struggling. People are struggling in their finances. They're struggling to build a house.

People I know personally who have abandoned their building projects because it's financially impossible. And you tell me that politics don't matter. Yeah. Yeah. They start to matter when they affect you. Right. Yeah.

When you start to feel it in your pocketbook, it matters a little bit. And I wish it was for a great cause that we're all suffering together. No, it's because of horrible, terrible policies. Yes.

That's why people who are in power, who want, what's worst for our nation. I mean, like Hunter Biden pleads guilty on tax charges. Yeah. There you go, folks. Bingo.

There you go. I mean, we're dealing with this and you don't think politics matters, but I still ain't going to vote. It's, it's, it's crazy. And I think our apathy is kind of what put us here. This, this weird messed up mindset that we have, and maybe this is kind of going back to what we talked about, this individualism versus the collective.

I think for a lot of us in that, in that millennial to Jinzi, we focus so much on the individualism that we kind of forgot that we are a collective. Yeah. Great point by the way. Yeah.

We have to, yeah, we have to, you know, we have to make it a priority. Right. Well, I appreciate you guys because y'all are from that generation.

You know, you, you guys came to, oh, came to work here and you came to work here and you know, you could have still bucked me like, like the other youth pastor, but y'all didn't maybe initially you may not have like caught on, but in it, but eventually you were like, okay, okay. I see what he's trying to do. I see why he thinks politics matters and issues matter and voting matters.

Yeah. Well, we appreciate you helping us see beyond our generation. I mean, sometimes, you know, we have those blinders on of how we were raised or how we were the things we were exposed to, but you know, in, in working with you and working alongside you and you pouring into us, you've helped us see, no, this is why this is important.

This is why this matters. It's hard to, it's hard to buck someone who genuinely cares. You know what I'm saying? Like if, if there were some like, well, he wants me to go out and vote because he's going to benefit from it somehow then.

Yeah. But I mean, if, if you see a man and a leader, especially in the community who you can tell genuinely cares about the state of affairs, like I gained nothing by, by saying, no, this isn't important. I'm only introducing dissension where dissension shouldn't be. Whereas together we come together and we start seeing, you know, like me, I have to be taught to care about things and I'm okay with that.

In fact, I need it. Well, I'm proud of each of you, even the guys who are sitting behind the desk over there. Hi guys. And of course our staff and they all are in it, our church family, they're excited about the elections, they're voting, they're talking to people, they're part of this prayer revival in a sense that's going on, praying for our nation. We care. And I hope every church that's listening will care and do something. Yeah.

I've heard from people, what if the election process is rigged? What if you know, the evil forces have already sabotaged? I hear you.

I hear you. Just know that our God is more powerful than any of this. He's more powerful. He's in control. And if we pray and do our duty, God will take care of the rest.

That's right. Amen. And if you're looking for a great resource, maybe for you or for your church to help you continue in that spirit of prayer, as we head toward elections, Dr. Sean Nicole's new devotional, 30 Days of Praying for America is available now. It's available on Amazon in paperback or as an ebook. And it'll be available as an audio book very soon. So make sure you pick up a copy for you or for a loved one.

It helps walk you through where we've come from as a nation and how we can return to being one nation under God. That's right. Don't forget also that our album, our first ever debut album is coming out in October 13th, Heaven Here and Now. Make sure you mark your calendars. We want you to pick up that album and introduce some of those songs in your worship. That would be a huge blessing for us.

That's right. Very special guests coming on tomorrow's episode. Make sure you guys tune in. We love you guys. We'll see you tomorrow on Clearview Today.
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