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866-348-7884. There's a lot that's been going on in the last week and I want to weigh into it, but I want to set the table for something. I want to ask your opinion. What do you think about it? Did you know that nowhere in the United States Constitution does it say there is a separation of church and state? Those words, that's not there. Not in the preamble. Not in the amendments. It's not even in the invisible ink that Nicolas Cage found on the back of the Declaration of Independence and National Treasure.

It's not there. Here's actually what the First Amendment says. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

That's it. It was never about scrubbing religion from public life. It was about protecting the church from government overreach, not insulating the government from biblical accountability.

And I want you to hold onto that thought. Not insulating the government from biblical accountability. So where did that phrase come from?

It came from a private letter. Thomas Jefferson used the phrase, a wall of separation between church and state in 1802 and he was writing to the Danbury Baptist Association. He wasn't warning them about religion invading government. He was assuring them that the government wouldn't invade their religion. That's religious freedom.

But somewhere along the way our culture twisted that wall sideways and now it's used like a battering ram against the church. But what does scripture say about government's real role? Well, Romans 13, 1.

Let every person be subject to the governing authorities for there is, watch this, you ready? For there is no authority except from God for this to have been instituted by God. That's Romans 13, 1.

There it is in the text. Romans 13, 4. For he is God's servant for your good, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer. That's again talking about government officials. That's what government is instituted by God to do. That God says right there, He's the one that ordains this. But what happens when the state flips that and thinks that the state is the one that ordains it? When they protect abortion, for example.

Human trafficking. Slavery covers for corrupt power structures all while silencing the church. We have the mandate from scripture to step up with the prophetic voice of the church rooted in scripture to say to government, you are advocating your role. You are doing something that is against what God ordained. And that will come at a price for the church. They wield nonprofit status with the IRS over the church. You be quiet.

You stay on your reservation. Don't you say anything. But God doesn't operate that way, does He? And it's not a partisan issue. It's a gospel mandate that we have the mandate to speak out.

R.C. Sproul said, when the state begins to legislate immorality, the church has not only the right but the duty to speak out. We're not here to gain favor with kings. We're here to call them to repentance.

Because the state answers to God and the church must answer to its calling. Now, I have two things that I want to talk about with this, and I'd like to hear what your thoughts are on this. Very quickly, I'll go to one. We've just seen a massive cover-up of the decline of a sitting president of the United States. There it is. It's not a Republican or Democrat issue. The Democrats are railing against it. Van Jones is out there, who's no Republican, no conservative, and he is just furious about it.

Jake Tapper's out there trying to expose it with his new book. But he was part of it. And we got the film footage of him doing it. And they covered up for him. Now, I'm not going to speculate why they did it.

That's not the issue. They did it. And we know they did it. They know they did it. They're admitting they did it. The man was not competent. Now, what do we do about it as the church?

What is our responsibility as believers on this topic? I wrote about this a year ago because I saw as a caregiver. Remember, I've been a caregiver for four decades. I write books for caregivers. I do the nation's largest radio program for caregivers. I understand the challenges that family caregivers have with a chronically impaired loved one, and I understand the traps you could fall into with enabling. And I wrote about this with Jill Biden because she's the one that knew her husband was mentally not fit for this.

She knew it. But didn't do anything about it. What is the church's responsibility here?

That's issue number one. Do we have a responsibility to say something? And what do we say? And I think it's clear we have a responsibility to speak truth to power. You know, I truly detest that phrase that's been out there, like, this is your truth. Well, that's his truth. You speak your truth.

No, no, no. We speak the truth. What is the truth?

Jesus says, I am the truth. And in our culture, because of this so-called separation of church and state, the church has been relegated to a reservation. As long as we stay on our reservation and don't, we can do what we want to do, but as long as we don't mix it up over here, that's when we get in trouble. But that's not what scripture says, is it? We have a responsibility to say these things and speak it.

And we have a responsibility to say it and speak it with authority, with clarity, even to our own discomfort and even peril. This is our history of the church, has done this when they have operated biblically and stood up and said these things to the powers that be. I've been going through the book of Acts, and I see this, I'm in this place now where Paul was speaking this, and they started stoning him. They thought he was dead. They drug him out, and they didn't realize he was still alive, and then he was able to recover, and the disciples kind of helped care for him, but they stoned him for speaking truth to corrupt state officials.

And I've got a second one I want to ask you about, and if we run out of time in this segment, we'll bring it up in the next one. But about a year ago, maybe a little less, no, no, it was less than a year ago because it was after the assassination attempt on Trump at Butler, and Laura Ingraham over at Fox News asked him a question about how this has affected his faith and so forth, and he said something to the effect of, you know, if you do good, good, you get to go to heaven. Bad, not so much. I think in Trump's words, it's like, if I'm good, I go to heaven, and if bad, go to a different place.

It's not so good. And I groaned because of all the pastors that are around this man. How does he still have that view of the gospel, the redemptive work of God, that you somehow merit it and inherit it?

I saw a quote the other day that if Jesus did 99.9% of salvation's work and we were responsible for.01, we'd still go to hell. He has to do it all. We cannot in of ourselves do it. And I'm not saying that Trump needs to be a theologian. I'm not saying that he is required to do anything. But if all these pastors around him cannot communicate to him the tenets of the Christian faith, which is by Christ's work alone, then what does that say about the pastors that are around him?

Take Trump out of the equation. We have a responsibility to say it, not a responsibility for results. That's up to the Holy Spirit, but we have a responsibility to say it.

So I want to unpack that a little bit more, and I'd like to hear your thoughts on this. 866-34-TRUTH. 866-348-7884.

What do you think? How should the church respond to this blatant cover-up? How should the church respond to pastors who are not clearly communicating the redemptive plan of God to the president that they share a spotlight with? 866-34-TRUTH. This is Peter Rosenberger. We'll be right back. Welcome back to Truth Talk Live. This is Peter Rosenberger. Glad to be with you today. If you want to be a part of the program, 866-34-TRUTH.

866-348-7884. I'm talking about the separation of church and state, and what prompted this was just the drama that's going on in our culture right now because of this very troubling cover-up that's going on about Joe Biden. But it's not limited to that, okay?

So this is not really a slap against one part or the other because I think it's on both sides of it. And also, I wanted to juxtapose that against Trump in an interview with a major media figure, and he's talking about salvation as being something that if he's good enough, he'll go to heaven. And I'm not expecting Trump to be the theologian-in-chief, but I am expecting those pastors around him that are basking in a lot of that spotlight to be able to clearly communicate this because they're going to be held accountable because the church is to speak with a prophetic voice of scripture, the authority of scripture, into the culture when the state is failing on their job, when the state is not stepping up and doing what they are supposed to do. And the state will have to answer to God for this because he ordains it. We just read this in the last block there where we talked about God is the one established. Let every person be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except from God. And those that exist have been instituted by God. That's everyone. That's communists.

That's all of them. Scripture does not omit bad governments. As you said, they're all there, instituted by him, and he is ultimately going to wield justice on this.

In fact, in Isaiah, remember when he talks about the prophetic announcement of Jesus? And the government shall be upon his shoulder, and he will deal with this. But as, even when they're corrupt, we as believers, the church, do we have the responsibility to speak even when they're corrupt? Go back and look at Wilber Wilberforce and what he did railing against slavery in Great Britain.

And he kept getting defeated, kept getting defeated, and finally, finally, he prevailed with it. I look at all the things, and are we doing this with abortion? Are we doing this with all the things in government where they are acting deceitfully? Are we rising up and saying with a prophetic voice, this is what the scriptures teach?

This is what God's Word says. And if we're not doing that, why aren't we doing it? What are we supposed to do?

What are we supposed to say? And I'll give you a couple of examples of this. And I want to weigh in on this, and then I want to hear what your thoughts are. 2 Samuel 12, 7, we all know this. David had used the power of his rule, of his monarchy, to kill. He murdered Uriah and took his wife.

He slept with his wife, got her pregnant, and then murdered her husband. And Nathan was sent to David and said, in mortal words, thou art the man. And man, just laid into David with this. Remember when Ahab, he didn't like Elijah. He was no friend of Elijah, and Elijah was no friend of Ahab's. And when Ahab saw Elijah, this is in 1 Kings 18, 17-18. Ahab said to him, is that you, troubler of Israel? And Elijah said, I've not troubled Israel, but you have. And your father's house, because you have abandoned the commandments of the Lord and followed the bails. You don't think that took guts for Elijah to do this? When Ahab had seized the property of Naboth, took his vineyard, and killed him? Took his vineyard and killed him. And Jezebel, his wife, said, if you want to do it, go ahead and do it.

You're king, you can do anything you want. And Elijah came, and it was pretty contentious. But this is what the prophetic voice says to the state when they act this way. Here's another encounter with Ahab and Elijah. Have you found me, O my enemy? Ahab's saying this to Elijah. He's calling Elijah his enemy. And Elijah answered, I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do what is evil in the sight of the Lord. Behold, I will bring disaster upon you. I will utterly burn you up.

I mean, he just lays into him. That's speaking with the prophetic voice from the scriptures. Daniel 4.27, Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you.

Break off your sins. Break off your sins by practicing righteousness and your iniquities by showing mercy to the oppressed, that there may be a lengthening of your prosperity. Jeremiah 22.3, Thus saith the Lord, Do justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the resident alien, the fatherless and the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place. Jeremiah is emphasizing that caring for the vulnerable, including the resident alien, is a reflection of genuine righteousness and justice. It's part of a consistent biblical ethic where the community of God is called to extend grace, compassion, and protection to those who are at most risk and marginalized.

That's what the word of God says. Now, do you think that has a place in our national discourse right now? Do you think that that passage of scripture has some place in the conversation? And if so, who's called upon to say it?

Here's another one. Amos 5.15, Hate evil, and love good, and establish justice in the gate. It may be that the Lord, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph. And I'm going to go through scripture after scripture after scripture after scripture. Remember John the Baptist going up to Herod?

It is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife. It costs John his head. And remember this? When he said, Go and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out demons and performed cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I'll finish my course. Jesus is talking about Herod. Matthew 23, 27-28, Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people's bones and all uncleanness. So you also outwardly appear righteous to others, but within you are all full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

Does that sound a little bit like Congress? Are we prepared to do this with the prophetic voice of the church? Sometimes people say with the prophetic voice meaning that we're going to tell the future. Just say God's word.

Just speak His word. Are we prepared to do that even to our own peril on this earth? Acts 4, 19-20, But Peter and John answered them, Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, you must judge, for we cannot but speak of what we have seen and heard. And I'm telling you, there is an urgency for us to know our scripture so that we can speak it with clarity in the public square. We are not called to be separated.

We are called to be engaged. We are called to be bold in our proclamation of the truth. Whether that applies to a cover-up of a sitting U.S. president who was mentally impaired, cognitively had some problems going on, or whether that's making sure that this current president clearly understands the gospel. If he's going to enjoy the votes of the people of God, then the people of God have a responsibility to make sure that they have properly communicated the things of God. We are not responsible for results, but we are responsible to preach the things of God with clarity, with precision, and with the authority of scripture. That is the role of the church in our culture, in our society, in the way we engage with the state.

We are not absolved from this just because of tax-exempt status or whatever else. We proclaim it boldly. Are we prepared to do this?

What are your thoughts? I'd love to hear from you. 866-34-TRUTH, 866-348-7884. I'm Peter Rosenberger. We'll be right back. Truth Talk Live! You're listening to the Truth Network and truthnetwork.com. Welcome back to Truth Talk Live!

This is Peter Rosenberger, glad to be with you today. I want to just circle back, if you don't mind, just a moment, to something I said just before we went to the break about the urgency. 2 Timothy 4, 2 through 3. Preach the Word. Be ready in season and out of season.

First of all, let me stop there. I didn't know there was an out of season to preach the Word. Are we in the off-season of Word preaching here?

I had to go back and do a deep dive there, and I'm still not sure I understand it, but I love that Paul is basically just like, be ready at any moment here, but I just love the thought of this. Be in season and out of season. We're in out-season if you're an NFL preacher. But if you're in baseball season, in-season is here. That just struck me as funny. Preach the Word.

Be ready in season and out of season. Reprove, rebuke, and exhort with complete patience and teaching, for the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching. You think we're there? That people are not enduring sound teaching? And I see this regularly, and we're compromising the Word of God. We're bending our understanding of doctrine and Scripture to accommodate the culture. I mean, look at all the churches right now flying transgender flags. Now, does that line up? And what is the church's responsibility to speak into this with the prophetic voice of Scripture?

What does it say? Either we believe the Word of God or we don't. And if we don't, then we start a different organization. But if you're going to bear the name of Christian and believe that the Scriptures we have, the decreed Word of God, is the Word of God, then are we going to act on it or not?

And the Gospel is meant to change us, not for us to change the Gospel. And this is what is happening as these things unfold. And I see political outrage. I do.

I mean, we all see different things. Everybody's got outrage. I wrote an article about that. It was in USA Today a while back.

This was several years ago, but I wrote it for a Gannett paper, and it got picked up and went to USA Today. And it was outrage, our new political pastime. Because we're outraged about this. We're outraged about that.

We just get outraged a lot. It's exhausting to stay that outraged over stuff of this world, but it's not to be indignant when it comes to the things of God. You don't think that Nathan was indignant when he went to David and confronted him? You don't think Elijah was indignant? You know, and John the Baptist certainly was indignant.

That cost him. And you look at the prophets of old in our church. The whole reason, you know, there's a new pope. Do you know why there's not a bunch of countries around the world that are all Catholic? I mean, there are a bunch still, but do you know why there's none?

Because there were people that got indignant at the Catholic Church back in the 1500s. There was one of them. He tacked 95 theses on the Wittenberg door to say, look, I'm going to have a discussion about this. And he spoke truth to power. Just as an aside of that, the reason why this thing went viral with him when he did that is because of the Gutenberg printing press. Because some young people saw that and they put that out on the Gutenberg printing press were able to mass produce it. That was the Twitter or the X of their time, the social media of their time.

And it went viral because they were bold to proclaim it. But it cost a lot of people, a lot to be able to stand up to the corruption that was going on in the Catholic Church, selling indulgences and so forth. And Luther just was absolutely indignant about it. That kind of indignancy is a righteous indignation. But the political indignancy, are we doing this from a biblical point?

Are we doing this from a political point? What does scripture say? Preach the word, be ready in season and out of season, reprove, rebuke, and exhort with complete patience and teaching, for the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching. Proverbs 31, 8 through 9, open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all who are destitute. Open your mouth, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy. Do you see this theme that God has about doing right by society? And if we're not speaking into this, if we're not the salt and the light, how will they know and how will they be held to account? If you notice that the prophets of old were called in and virtually every time, it was a call to repentance.

I mean virtually every time. Repent. You know, we rush to consequences on political stuff and so forth, and watch how this thing shakes out and everybody's running for cover to say this, I didn't know this, you know, Jake Tapper is saying this and this about Joe Biden and all that kind of stuff.

Just watch it, just watch it. But then watch for the voices who are calling to repent. Is anybody calling to repent? Not to say, I'm sorry, I hate it when they say, you need to apologize.

Well, what is that going to do? We need to repent. This is what scripture calls us to do is to repent.

Turn. And we have a responsibility as believers to be that voice saying that to ourselves first and to others. We always want to, I mean Luther said, we don't even know how to repent properly. We have to repent of our repenting because we want to gloss over things and God does it. He wants to deal with it.

And he's serious about it. And I look at these different prophets of old who went and spoke to authority, to the state, if you will, and said, no, you can't do this. This is wrong.

And I look at our church history, starting with the first century. You can't do this. This is wrong. And they paid for it. But they were right to say it. They were compelled to say it.

So look at that in our culture. Where are the voices? Who is going to step into the situation where, let's say with Joe Biden, and say you need to repent? This was wrong. And we can't do, we can't just sweep it under the rug like, you know, when Hillary Clinton came out after Benghazi. You say, well, what difference does it matter now? Well, it matters a lot. It matters a lot. And I'll tell you why it matters a lot because this is, we're coming up on Memorial Day weekend and I'll tell you why this matters.

And you have to go no further. And by the way, if you want to share the gospel on Memorial Day, here is a beautiful way to do this. Matthew 1.6. Matthew 1.6. In Matthew 1, you have the genealogy of Jesus. How many of you all have memorized that? Just a show of hands. Have you all memorized the genealogy of Jesus? And it's not something that a lot of people want to spend a lot of time reading.

You've got this guy, we've got this guy, we've got this guy, and this guy, we've got this guy. And then you get to Matthew 1.6. And it says, And Jesse, the father of David, remember David from the root of Jesse, and David was the father of Solomon by the wife of Uriah. By the wife of Uriah.

He didn't say Bathsheba. So I just said in the last block about Nathan going and confronting David about this atrocious adultery and murder that he did. And you think, and David, you know, the child died. David and Bathsheba had another child who was Solomon. He became king and so forth. And you go on and you see the rest of David's life in history was marred by a lot of conflict with his family.

But then a thousand years later, I don't know how many exact years, don't hold me to it, Matthew, under the tutelage of the Holy Spirit, he was writing the genealogy of Jesus, the most important genealogy of all time. And God remembered Uriah. God remembered Uriah.

Put his name in his eternal word for all eternity because Uriah was treated unjustly. That's a Memorial Day message right there. His ear is not deaf that he cannot hear. His eye is not blind that he cannot see.

His arm is not short that he cannot save. And there are atrocious things that happen, but God remembers these things. And the statute of limitations with God, well, they don't expire. The only thing he doesn't remember are our sins when they are covered in the blood of Christ. You heard Stu just in the break with what can wash away our sins, nothing but the blood of Jesus. The only thing God does not remember are our sins if they are covered in the blood of Christ.

But all these other things, there is no statute of limitations with God. And here we are a thousand years later, and God remembers Uriah and puts his name in there. Uriah died in uniform. Memorial Day is for soldiers who never took the uniform off. Veterans Day is for soldiers who hung up the uniform. Armed Services Day is for people who put on the uniform.

They hung it up, but Memorial Day, they never took it off. And it's a powerful reminder that God cares about this. Memorial Day was around long before we started celebrating it as a country. In fact, most of the things we celebrate as a country, you'll find, are rooted in deep biblical principles. But God has a Memorial Day, and he remembered Uriah in the first chapter of Matthew, the first chapter of the New Testament.

There's this guy's name who died being a faithful soldier from a corrupt act from David who did a wicked thing. And we're going to have corrupt leaders, and I can't help but look at this Afghanistan withdrawal and look at those 13 Marines that gave their life because of the way that withdrawal was handled. I don't know how that's going to shake out. Watch the news and we'll find out, won't we?

I don't know, but there are grieving families this weekend thinking about those 13, and then you've got the ones in Benghazi. And no matter what Hillary Clinton said about what difference does it matter now, it matters, and it matters a lot. And I prove that right now with Matthew 1.6 because it matters to God.

And he sees these things, and the Church has a responsibility to speak with clarity into this, with strong voice of the Word of God. And if we don't, that's on us. To watch all of our leaders. I don't care if you like them, love them, it doesn't matter.

The ones you like, the ones you don't like. We have the responsibility. Whoever is in power within the state, we have the responsibility to speak to it, to speak truth, talk live.

That's our job. We'd love to hear from you on this if you want to give us a call. 1-866-34-TRUTH. This is Truth Talk Live.

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That's 1-866-348-7884. I want to just bring you up to speed. I've been in Denver, Colorado here now for four months. It's been 120 days as of today. That's a long time to be in the hospital.

That is a long time to be in the hospital. We've got one more significant operation to go for my wife on Friday. This will be her 11th since January, since we came here, and it will be her 98th in her lifetime that I can count. Thirty-nine years ago this week, I went through my first surgery with her.

We were engaged, weren't married yet, but went through my first surgery. What a difference 39 years have made. Even though I'm still back here doing surgery again, of this journey, I've got certainly whiter hair than I did 39 years ago. Medicine has changed. These kids that are doctors now, a lot of them weren't even born when I started doing this. It's kind of weird because I have children that are older than some of these doctors. Her main surgeons are a little bit older.

For that, I'm grateful that I'm not dealing with Dr. Doogie Howser all the time. But it has been quite a journey to endure this with her, to watch this, and to see the provisions of God in this. It goes to what I've been sharing with you today. What is our role to speak prophetically to the culture, to the world at large? And then what is my commandment? Well, Scripture says, Husbands, love your wives as Christ loved the church who gave his life for the church.

So what does that look like? Well, with me, my job is to be able to speak the Word of God to my wife. I can't do that if I don't know it. How am I going to offer her something out of emptiness? I have to drink as I pour. And I have to inundate myself with the things of God. If I don't do that, what will I offer her?

Her 98th surgery. And I think this is why I feel the urgency about these things, because we're not doing this, we're seeing a marked shift in the way we do this. We have this very self-reflected doctrine of, you know, Jesus made me feel better. Jesus made me feel better. And we just all want to get along. We just want to talk about grace. It is horrendous, I believe it was Spurgeon who said, to talk about grace without first talking about the need for grace.

Why do we need grace? We can't give the gospel the good news until we tell the bad news. And if we're not doing this, if we're not speaking with this with clarity, we're going to be held accountable for it.

You know, again, I go back to what Paul said, be run out of season. And, you know, I can go through scripture after scripture, Isaiah 58, 1. Cry aloud, do not hold back, lift up your voice like a trumpet, declare to my people their transgression, to the house of Jacob their sins. Come, let us reason, the Lord says, you know, though your sins be as scarlet, God is interested in us turning from this. This is what he's crying out for, turn away from this. And we do it as head of households, and we do it in our community, our churches and our communities. This is our responsibility. I don't know what God has in mind.

I don't know what he's going to do about a lot of things. But I do have a very clear record of what he expects me to do as an individual to my wife and to be able to share into the lives of others as best as I possibly can. And on these issues that I've talked about on this show today, I've written about these, I've been interviewed about them, talked about them extensively. But I also do it one-on-one to talk about the things of God. And you will never, if you are consumed with the Word of God, this is what Scripture promises. We don't have to worry about what we're going to say because we're constantly thinking about this. Well, what does Scripture say?

What do the Scriptures say? One of the best things you can do for yourself, I don't know if it's the best thing you can do for yourself, but if you want to see something very enjoyable and meaningful, go out and find this interview. Years ago, Woody Allen interviewed Billy Graham. It's a fascinating interview. Years ago, I think it was in the 70s, and Woody Allen was very clever and funny and all those kinds of things. Billy Graham comes out very calm and relaxed, nonplussed, and Woody Allen was trying to play a little gotcha stuff. What about this? What about this? And you know how Billy Graham responded?

Every time. Well, the Scriptures say, what the Scriptures say, I don't think I can imitate Billy Graham that well, the Scriptures say, won't you come? But he would say it over and over and over. He wasn't giving his opinion.

He's telling what the Word of God says. When I am with Gracie in the hospital, and she gets ready for this 98th surgery on Friday, do you think she wants to hear my opinion? I mean, really, play that out. Do you really think she wants to hear my opinion? No. I don't even want to hear my opinion. What is my opinion worth? Everybody's got an opinion.

What's it worth? My experience, on the other hand, is worth something. And she wants to hear my experience with the Word of God, the passion that comes from embracing what God has said. This is our hope.

Paul says, I am convinced he who began a good work is faithful to complete it to the day of Christ Jesus. That's what she wants to hear. That my glory in the lifter of my head.

That her sins are covered. I did a radio program for my caregiver radio program a while back, and I was talking about famous last words. Do you know what Spurgeon's last words were?

Charles Spurgeon, Prince of Preachers. Do you know what his last words were? He died for me. Those were the last words Charles Spurgeon spoke. Can you imagine?

I mean, that's staggering. He died for me. When we point others to Christ, there is no place for fear.

There's no place for resentment. There's none of this Christ alone. And we look to Him, the author of our faith. This is what I tell Gracie before she goes into her 98th surgery.

Christ alone. I go over there with her. When I show up in the morning, I always bring her coffee in the morning. I stay across the street, and I get up and bring her good coffee. She doesn't like the coffee that they order up from the cafeteria.

It's not as good. So I get her good coffee, and she'll sing, This is the day the Lord has made, I will rejoice and be glad in it. He has made me glad, He has made me glad, I will rejoice for He has made me glad. This is what she is anchoring as she goes into this. And as our country goes through this turmoil, trying to sort out what's going on with the whole Biden presidency, the auto pen and everything else, there's a lot that needs to be sorted. Watch for the ones who anchor themselves in the Word of God. And if you hear political leaders like Trump did, saying, if I'm good, I get to go to heaven, call out the ones from the people of God to speak from the Scriptures.

If you don't have access to the President, then find somebody who has access to somebody who has access and say, Hey, hey, hey, you need to deal with this issue. The Scriptures say this. We need to be bold. And this weekend, Memorial Day, if you're with a family, and they're grieving over their lost loved one for many years, and part of his assignment was to go to homes of Marines that had been killed in Vietnam. And he had to do that pretty regularly.

It was a rough time back in the late 60s, early 70s. Point him to that Scripture in Matthew 1, where God fell in uniform, and he put him in the most important genealogy of all time, that of his son. God remembers these things, and there's no statute of limitations with God. And he will hold to account those who acted unjustly, and he will vindicate and honor those who served him faithfully. This is his promise.

He said this. We can't do it ourselves. And it's tempting to want to.

We want that a lot. But what does Jesus pray in Gethsemane? Not my will, but thine. Not mine, but thine. And that's our prayer, trusting in him.

And I'll leave you with this. Abraham, when he was debating back and forth and negotiating with God over Sodom and Gethsemane, there's a point, and you can almost see it, when Abraham kind of shrugs his shoulder, and he says, Shall not the judge of the whole earth do what is right? Shall not the judge of the whole earth do what is right? Can we lean on that ourselves? Can we recognize that the judge of the whole earth will do what is right? Not in our time frame. I've offered many times, God, don't you want to show up now? He's never late, but he certainly overlooks a lot of opportunities to be early.

But he will do it. And that is why we can be at peace no matter what's going on, but we have a responsibility to say it, to declare it, to say it with our mouth, in season and out of season, as Paul says. You know why? Because that's truth, talk, and that's life. This is Speed Road.