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We all saw this, what happened on Saturday night with the. assassination attempt and more stuff is coming out about this young man and and everything that went down, but I wanted to ask you something.

Something that I noticed right after this and all of these politicians and pundits, so many of them, They rushed to the microphone. You know, the most dangerous place to be is between a politician and a microphone. And they rushed to the microphone and they said, We need to tone it down. We need it to be better. We need to lower the temperature.

We need to stop the rhetoric. Rhetoric. And uh The the statements kinda came out almost reflexively. Just like it was a script. They were all saying the same thing.

We need to tone it down. We need to tone it down. And I remember this scene. I don't see this movie, okay, but. I just remember this scene in Blazing Saddles.

When Mel Brooks played Governor William J. Lepetamaine, he was just this You worthless governor. And they were all dealing with some pseudo-crisis or whatever. And he blurts out, Gentlemen, we've got to protect our phony baloney jobs. And they all all his cabinet started going hurrum, hurrump, hurrum, hurrump.

And the scene was meant to be absurd, and it was. But It's hard to laugh when you look at what's going on with these guys, and they're acting the same way. Because what I'm hearing now isn't all that different. The language is more polished and the setting is more formal and that kind of thing. But the instinct is still the same.

We need to do better. We need to tone it down. We need to do this. And so I just ask a question. Question.

Who's we? I mean When you hear that, when you hear people like that say those kinds of things, do you think they're talking about you? Or do you think they're talking about themselves or they're blaming somebody else? Because You know, we as a pretty convenient place to hide. I mean We're not on CNN and Fox News and MS LSD or whatever it is now.

I mean, we're not there. Wh what is this wee business? It sounds responsible, doesn't it?

Sounds serious. We need to tone it down. Hurup, hurrican You know, it doesn't cost him anything to say we, does it? What are your thoughts on this? 866-34-TRUTH, 866-348-7884.

Do you think they mean it? Do you think they care? Do you think they're going to change? Do you think anything's going to be different from that? You know, we need to tone it down.

The rush to say we need to tone it down and both sides need to do something, it reveals. To me something else There's a credibility problem, and we know this. But there's also there's an ownership problem. Because the same voice is saying we have spent years writing and rehearsing the very script that they're now claiming to be concerned about. They didn't just argue policy.

They've been using language that casts their opponent as an existential threat, words like Hitler and fascists. By the way, that's not unique to Trump. They called that to George Bush. In fact, they went after John McCain when he ran for president. It's the same group of people, same insults.

and anybody that doesn't agree with him is Hitler and Fascist. and an existential threat to democracy. And that's exactly what this would-be assassin had written down in his manifesto. Basically, the script. Every night it MS Now.

or the view. But we need to turn it down. And they didn't say these things. like Hitler and fascists and all that kind of stuff, as rare warnings. I mean, they they they weren't saying, you know, this or it it could be going down this road, but they said it is just a kind of a routine descriptor.

And when you say that kind of language, it doesn't just sit there. It shapes how people hear things and tells them that this isn't a disagreement, this is an emergency. It's a moral emergency. And when everything is framed as a moral emergency, Eventually somebody hears that not as a metaphor, but as instruction. They're not thinking, well, that's just being.

hyperbolic. Hmm? They're they're saying I need to do something.

Now this doesn't excuse the person who acts. I mean, the responsibility of this young man, his life is g over as he knows it. It's it's over. He's going to be locked up in jail for the rest of his life. he traded his freedom and his life for this.

This guy was a smart kid. He was a Caltech and He's a smart kid. How did he get there? How did he get to that point? where he was willing to do such a thing.

We need to turn turn it down. That's what they kept saying. After Saturday, but they haven't toned it down, have they? It exposes a gap when you hear things like that between the people who set the tone and those who later step forward to warn about it. And this is where that we language breaks down because the problem is not the call for restraint.

The problem is the distance that's built into the language. What would it sound like if that distance were removed? Can you imagine for one moment? Woman pundit on the news. One politician Who'd been spending the last 10 years saying Trump is Hitler and an existential threat to society?

Or if Trump himself came out and said, you know what? I need to dial it back. That week, Ah I need a dollar back. No more saying we need to be more careful. But instead say I've not been careful.

I have to be more careful. That lands differently, doesn't it? Because it costs something. You know, I didn't learn that in Washington. The only thing you learn really in Washington is what not to do.

But I learned that as a as a caregiver. And there are days in my life as a caregiver, I've been doing this for a long, long, long time. Where it all kind of collapses on me at one time and and the routine breaks and the phone rings at the worst moment and And in that moment, I don't get to say, well, we need to do better. It's me. I've got to do better.

Right now, what do I do? What do I need to do? And do you see the difference is that th that there's there's no r taking responsibility. And I mean, I've said things in a way that put the weight off of me. On to somebody else.

Not necessarily because I meant to do harm just because I was tired and patient.

Sometimes I was just trying to be a jerk about it.

Sometimes I was trying to justify myself. But that is an excuse, and I'm guilty of it. There's an old saying if you Spot it, you got it. Yeah.

Okay. And I can spot this stuff. Because I got this stuff. And I think it's hardwired in to us. as human beings, because of the fall.

that we don't want to accept ownership for our stuff. Let me go back to the garden. Adam, where are you? You know? Did you eat of this tree?

It was the woman you gave me. It wasn't me. It wasn't me. But it is us, isn't it? And so when you start to see the language Being co-opted like it is in Washington and on the news and so forth.

You can start to spot these things. And you see how it goes. Have you ever used the word we when you were trying to avoid saying I? Have you ever done that? And that's not a political question, it's a personal one.

Do you feel comfortable sharing it? 866. 34 TRUTH 866-348-7884 First Person Plural spreads the blame until it disappears. We, us, our. First person singular.

removes the cover. And once that cover's gone, something else becomes possible. Not performance, not statements. not carefully managed outreach. Root tenants.

Not we will do better. But I will do better. And that's Truth Talk Live. This is Peter Rosenberger, 866-34 TRUTH, 866-348. 78-84.

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seventy eight eighty four. We're talking about the word we. And sometimes our our language benefits from us doing a little bit of self-examination and being precise. And I've struggled with this a lot as a caregiver, and I'll tell you why. Because And I've seen this with my fellow caregivers a lot.

And those of you who don't know, I do a radio program on this network for family caregivers. Been one myself for 40 years.

So Everything I do is kind of framed by that world that I live in, but, but. Many caregivers struggle with how to speak in first person singular. And and I'll Give you an example. People come up and say, Well, you know, how are you doing? And then we'll say, Well, you know, okay, we just got home from the hospital, or she had a bad night, or our situation is this.

I've done this. I I remember talking to a friend of mine who was His wife had esophageal cancer. And I said, how are you doing? He said We're doing okay. She just got home and you know and and he went down that same path and I said I asked how you were doing.

And that's when the stuttering started, and the stammering, and the tears. because he wasn't used to expressing what's in his heart. owning what he was feeling. And I'm not trying to just go Into some kind of immersion about how we feel, but I think it's important that we be honest with what's going on inside our head space and our heart space. and I learned this in front of six hundred people one Sunday morning When I was playing the piano, the my my pastor asked me to play, Before the service started, just to kind of calm people down.

People come in and use the sanctuary as kind of a greeting room. And it wasn't very much of a sanctuary at all. There wasn't a reverent atmosphere. And he wanted something to kind of tone it down a little bit. And so he asked me, he said, would you mind playing?

And I be happy too. And um and so I started Playing that, and I got up and I hear. Let me go over to the caregiver keyboard. I'm over here at I don't know if you can hear that or not. But I started playing Yeah.

Okay, those are nice cords. But I didn't I wasn't playing the melody. And I realized that I was so used to hearing my wife sing, and my wife's a no-kidding singer. I mean, you can go, don't take my word for it, go out and just Google her. I mean, she's just.

The woman's got it going on. And I've been playing for her for a lifetime.

So I'm used to playing the changes around her. and listening to her sing the melody, and I realized in front of six hundred something people I wasn't playing the melody. And and I had to go And right there in front of everybody live. start figuring out what the melody was. And I started going with one finger, went back to those cords.

Now I'm playing something. And now I'm saying something. Yes, Jesus loves me. Jesus loves me, for the Bible tells me so. This I know.

And it became very personal. because I realized, oh, I lost the melody Somewhere along the line, people, I can't count how many people have asked about my wife over the years. I can't count them. There's just too many t too many taps. But I can count the ones who ask about me.

So anytime I hear people speaking in first person, I mean, in first person plural, We, our us I always want to bring it back to well, what about you?

So, when I hear a caregiver, for example, when I ask, how are you doing? We are doing okay. We're not, you know, our situation is this. I bring them back to, how are you doing? Talk about you for a moment.

Where's your voice in this? And so, and the negative of it is what I saw after the assassination attempt. We need to turn down the rhetoric, but nobody's taking ownership. And that's what happens when you do it in a negative way. They're not meaning what they're saying.

They're not talking about themselves. There's no self-examination. There's no self-reflection. There's no understanding of what their responsibility is. There's just them belovvating.

No information is being passed on about that individual. And can you imagine Can you imagine? From Donald Trump to anybody else. Coming out and say, you know what, I need to tone it down. I probably shouldn't do that.

I'd like to back up a little bit. Can you imagine that? Do you remember being in classroom sometimes when the teacher would call down the whole class and you knew who was doing it? But everybody got Lumped in. But there was just one person.

But they didn't want to confront that one person. Why not? We we all had to pay the penalty.

Now in full disclosure, in all fairness, it was usually me that was the one person that was causing all the problems. But hey, hey, let's don't go down that particular we don't need to open up that ket of worms. But but they're you know, that's that that's that passive aggressive. I'm not going to confront this. in my own life.

I need to confront me. And that is the nature of our Christian walk, is self-confrontation. We need to look in the mirror of what's going on. What is my responsibility here? What is my opportunity for growth?

What's going on with me? Jesus loves me. This I know, for the Bible tells me so. Do you feel the difference on that? And how We have we've allowed the language to be co-opted.

or we don't want to take ownership of it. Watch the news. Watch it tonight when you get home. Just and and see if you don't see more of that. There there's always those kind of catchphrases.

I've watched reporters do this for years. They'll say, well, we both agree. We all know. and then they'll go off and bloviate about whatever they're going to say. That's a trap.

We don't all know that. We don't all agree on it. And we use words like that in our society. And then people say, well. Or then they'll even start preaching.

Well, we should, or we need, and you need to do such and such. I'm not in a position Where I can tell anybody what they need to do. The only person I'm in a position to tell what they need to do is me. And I've I've got plenty to keep me busy. and dealing with my own stuff.

And I think that's the The place that I see where scripture leads us. It's very personal and individual. If you go spend any time on the Psalms, You see a very individual type of prayer. Throughout All of the Psalms. And yes, sometimes there is a prayer on the behalf of the people.

a priestly prayer, if you will. and a collective calling to repentance and those things. They're all there. But it I I think I think When Jesus was asking his disciples, I've been going through the Gospel of Matthew. You remember this place when Jesus asked his disciples, he said, Who do people say I am?

And they all said, Well, you know, some people think you're Elijah, some people you think this, this, John the Baptist, whatever. And Jesus said, Who do you say I am? And I've been meaning to do a word study. Maybe some of you have. And if you have, let me know.

Because Jesus isn't asking, who do you think I am? He said, Who do you say I am? And that's when Peter stepped forward with that. tremendous confession. And he said You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.

It's very direct, very personal, very ownership-driven. Who do you say I am? And Peter stepped forth and did this. And you feel the power on that. And I think that's where I see so much in scripture where God is dealing with us as individuals.

And when we stand before Him, by the way, there ain't going to be no we. It's going to be him. It's gonna be me. It's gonna be him. It's gonna be you.

And that is the reality of what awaits us. That's Truth Talk Live, 866-666. 34 TRUTH 866-348-7884. We'll be right back. I'll be right back.

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Mike and Dayton. Good afternoon, Mike. How are you feeling today? What is on your mind? What do you know?

I don't know nothing, but you know what I mean? But knowing knowing things, I don't know. Um Feeling I'm not feeling, I don't know. Um I'm trying to trying to look for a word. Like I said, I don't know nothing.

But um It's about a lot of people are all about them and not. They're selfish. You know what I'm talking about? Um I'm smelling what you're selling. Yeah, thank you.

And God's about him. And we need to surrender to him. Mm. Yeah, well no no no we were just talking about wait a bit we were just talking about we We, I know, that's the hard part. You know, we want to put ourselves.

We're going to speak in first person singular, Mike.

Okay, I am not I barely graduated from high school, so I'm doing my best.

So, you know me.

So give me a chance. First first person singular. That's Aye.

Okay. I and Okay. are am not being trying not to be selfish. And they are, a lot of people are selfish.

Well, no, we just now we just went into they. We got all we can. You are making my point. Mike, I'm so glad you called because you're making my point. Diane Langberg, there's a great book I'd like for you to consider reading.

It's a book called Suffering in the Heart of God, Diane Langberg, Dr. Diane Langberg, wonderful trauma psychologist. And she said one of the most abused words in the English language is they. Yeah.

If they need to do this, or they need to do this, she said there is no they. There is us. The only one who could say they is Him and He became like us so that we could be with Him. And that really puts it in perspective, doesn't it? Because it's very much so.

It's very easy, like these guys did. They got out there and they said, well, we need to turn down the rhetoric. But we do that in the church. You just made my point, Mike. Thank you for being a wonderful example of this.

Bless your heart. I knew I would. Because when we say we need to surrender, well, actually. I need to surrender. I need to confess.

I need to repent. I need to deal with me. I've got all I can deal with in in me. And so, you know, if the scripture calls you to repent. It calls us all to repent.

But the scripture does that. But I'm not in a position to tell people what they need to do. But the scripture is. And that's what I love about hanging everything on the scripture because that's where it belongs, because that's the only authority.

So, all right, take another run at it, Mike. Let's see if we can do it. I probably fail again, but like I said, that's all right. I'm doing my best. You're doing great.

You're doing great, Mike. Thank you, sir. Anyways. Nick, put Mike down for another minute on this call. He's doing just great.

Just cut me off. No, no, no. You just give him another minute. Ding, ding, ding. He's got another minute.

All right, keep going. Put more tokens in that meter there. I'm losing. You're doing just fine. You're doing just fine.

I'm just giving you a hard time. I love it when you do that, but it's not. I realize that I'm humble. You know what I mean? I am humble.

You see that? I have a lot to be humble about. It's one of my favorite churchyard luns. I have a lot to be humble about. Me too.

I mean, sometimes you it's it's It seems like I try not to be selfish. I try not to be Uh uh all about me. Um And I tried to be about them. Mm. Why?

Let me ask you a question. Let's go deep into that. It's just you and me talking, Mike, and thousands and thousands across the Truth Network. But why do you try not to be selfish? Because God loved me so much.

So much. that he gave his Glory up. For me. He gave up his Mm-hmm. His kingdom, his his self itself For me.

And uh by doing that, he loved me so much I can I can have eternal life. Um So why why is there a struggle to be selfish? Why are you struggling with selfishness, for example? Let's ask it that way. What what what keeps you going back into uh struggling against selfishness?

It's the world. It's the world we live in. It's the influence I have against It's the nature that I have. There you go. Ding, ding.

Give him another minute, Nick. Because we're warring. We still have a flesh. We still have a sin nature. Yeah.

And we have been redeemed, bought, regenerated. saved by God, justified. But we are being sanctified, and because we have a sin nature, and we're going to fight against that. That's the human condition. And I see that very up, close, and personal every day.

Calvin said that our hearts are idol factories. We make idols out of. Every day. I mean, I got a pastor friend of mine who said, I wake up every morning and there's an idol worshiper in my bed. Oh, wait, it's me.

You know, kind of thing. And that's who we are as human beings. And I see that up and close up close and personal in my own life. And that's I have struggled in this area just like you, Mike. I mean, I just struggle with this.

And I think. You know, I I give And you know One of the things about I think it You know, in the sanctification process, I call them sanctification opportunities. And there are lots of them in our life, particularly when you're dealing as a caregiver. Because you have so many opportunities to apologize. You have so many opportunities to make amends.

Because you see it in your life, you see the impatience come out, you see the selfishness come out. And we don't want to deal with it, do we? No, we don't. I it kind of r reminds me of my dad. You know, he would say to me things like, Do things because you love me.

Not because you're afraid of me. Yeah.

I kind of really love that because You want to do things for God because you love Him, not so much being afraid of Him. Um And because he loves us so much, if you're afra you can be afraid of him. He's an awesome, awesome, awesome God. I mean, gee, Louise. He made everything and everything and made his freeze.

He's making us breathe every moment. He can take our breath away in a second. Uh you know the wind blows The stars shine, the sun shines. It's just amazing, you know? But Uh But he loves us and And by doing, by understanding that love for that, how much he loves us, and in the scriptures, and the more you read the scriptures, the more you understand how much God loves us.

Um That's why you won't want to have I involved, you want to do what he wants. And in your life.

Okay. So Well, you know, I is okay to be involved. We're speaking candidly about our own issues and our ownership of what we're doing. There is a point where, you know. We sing collectively on hymns.

But you go back and look at other hymns when you say, Bless the Lord, O my soul. And all that is within Us or me? He says, all that is within me. Bless his holy name because it is that very personal relationship. And the more we stand on that, like I said in the other last block, Jesus loves me.

This I know. And Lord, I have sinned. I don't get to say, Lord, we have sinned. I get to say, Lord, I have sinned. I am not a spokesperson for the human race where I can say, Lord, we have sinned.

We have, as a collective species, we have. And as believers in this country, we have. We've done these things. But. But I'm in a position to say, Lord, I have sinned.

Lord, I'm a sinner. Lord, I thank thee, Father, for what you've done for me. And when it gets very personal like that, and I don't need to tell we need to do better, or like those politicians that come out and say, well, we just need to do better. We need to tone it down. No, no, no, no, no.

I need to tone it down. I need to I need to self examine. And that's what I see in Scripture over and over and over. You know, where Paul says, you know, for example, I had all this going on. He said, I'm the chief of sinners.

You know, he owned it himself. And so that's. It's something once you start thinking like that, and then you start hearing it everywhere, and you realize, oh my goodness, this is epidemic quality here. It's it's everywhere. And so we'll catch each other, and it's difficult to do it.

And for me, though, it started when people kept saying, you know, how's Gracie? But they never asked how I was. Because and I didn't learn how to speak in my own voice. until I was forced to musically and then That morped into other things, learning to say, Okay, I need to own my own things. I love the hymn, for example, just as we are, or just as I am.

Yeah.

Okay. You know. Um, my dad always loved how great that art, um, you know. I just kind of, yeah. You know how, you know, that himself.

Well, then, what's the chorus? What's the chorus? I can't I'm you know it I know it but what's the chorus then scenes Our solar. Then sings Our Soul? Yeah.

Or these things My soul. My soul. My Savior God to thee. Two of these, yeah. My my Savior God then sings my soul.

And that's the whole point. It's very personal with it. Mike, thank you. He was a great sport. What do we get for a Consolation Prize?

You get the take-home version of Truth Talk Live, Mike. I already got the scratchbacker, so I don't need no, no. I appreciate you calling. This is Peter Rosenberger. I'll be right back.

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Do you know who Brandon Gill is? He is the. Freshman member of Congress, a Republican from Texas. He's in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. I love this guy.

Young man. I think he's the youngest. Um One of the certainly one of the youngest. members of Congress. And this guy is just Tougher than a waffle house steak.

I mean, he but he's very calm and very measured. He's raised in Texas. He went to Dartmouth and worked in finance a bit and then moved. He was in conservative media somewhere, then he ran for Congress.

So he's known, he has a lot of clips he puts out there where he will just grill. People who come before him, but he's very measured. He doesn't raise his voice. He doesn't get into shouting matches. He's not looking for some type of.

You know. Um Pay-for-view fight, you know, a cage match or anything like that. He just asked very hard questions. and pins them down and doesn't let them get away with it. And boy, he did it yesterday.

And it's everywhere. And if you haven't seen this, it is worthy. of your time. Because he there was a um Uh a lady appeared before The The house there, one of the subcommittees or whatever that he's on. And she's an abortion.

Advocate. And he asked her just very simply, What's your favorite type of abortion? And some people said that was a very offensive question.

Some people said it crossed the line. Um But you watch it for yourself. Go ahead and just do a search on it. Just watch it for yourself because it cuts through all the language. and gets right to the real answer.

And you know, what do you think made that question uncomfortable? I mean, she's out there advocating for abortion, advocating for abortion. And he said, well, what's your favorite type? Do you think he was out of line? To ask that, 866-34-TRUTH.

Eight, six, six 3487884. Do you think he was out of line to ask that? And was it an unfair one? Or was this a a question that just stripped away the words we usually use pro-choice. Because we've gotten very good at using that kind of language.

Again, we've been doing this this whole show today of language that creates distance. We say procedure, we say choice, we say rights. And those words carry meaning. but they also soften the edges of what's really happening. People co-opt the language to avoid taking ownership.

and that's what she was doing there. And every so often somebody's going to come along like Representative Gill and and say Hey, I'm going to ask you a direct question here. And actually, he didn't even preference it with, I'm going to ask you. He was just so. Just Relaxed, what's your favorite type of abortion?

And it removed all the buffer. There was no distance, there was no abstraction. just a direct question, and she didn't know how to respond. She did not know how to deal with this. I mean, it came out of.

Um it came at her like a freight train. And and he never raised his voice. He was just as as nonplussed and like I said, measured. And then she said, Well, I feel like we should have all kinds of reproductive care. They call it reproductive care.

It's kind of a strange word to call something that's prohibiting reproduction. And he graphically described the different types of abortion, right there to her face. And man, I tell you what, the tension It was, you got to see it. You got to see it. And that's the kind of thing that I thought: man, where did this guy come from?

To be such a young man to be to have that type of of composure. And that kind of of authority that he's speaking with, but he is doesn't raise his voice. He doesn't get into all kinds of hyperbole. He doesn't try to get some kind of cute thing. He just asks her a question: What's your favorite type?

And she had to listen to him describe different types of abortion. And he looked at me and he says, Sounds barbaric, doesn't it? And it does. I mean, it's something to see. And this is not his first time doing this where he has challenged these people who come up and they say these things.

And and there was a doctor that was up there and and he asked her if men could get pregnant. And she didn't want to answer the question. She said, Well, that's these that's more of a political question. He said, You're a scientist, aren't you? I mean, you know, he just he just pushes and pushes and pushes.

Because he doesn't let them get away with just these blanket phrases that we use like like we said Uh we need to tone down the rhetoric. He wasn't being Hateful or spiteful, anything, just ask a question. And they don't want to be. There's this aversion to answering it directly, and he doesn't let them off the hook.

So, if you have to appear before this guy, you know what you're going to get. He's going to ask you hard questions.

So when somebody says, you know, well, we need to do such and such. And then I my simple question was just, well, who's we? Who's we? What are you doing about this? What's going on with you?

And I was stunned to watch this. I mean, it's everywhere on social media.

So I don't know if you're on social media or not. But if you are Or you can just do a simple search on it. You'll see it and watch the video. Just watch the whole thing. And then this is Maybe one of the most important pro-life moment questions that we could ever ask in the public arena.

It it is it is an astonishing moment to watch. And I thought, God bless this young man for having that kind of courage and mental clarity. And I've been watching a lot of, as of late, I get a lot of feeds of Charlie Kirk videos and how he's handling people saying these things. And you watch how they came up to him and with such vitriol. I mean Horrific language and all these kinds of things, and you can see it, but at the same time, you see the composure.

Being able to answer it. people. It's important for us to do this, isn't it? I mean scripture scripture lays that out. Not me.

Scripture lays that way. Study and show yourself approved.

Well, what do you think that means? Why means what it says. We need to study. We need a study. We need to dig into these things.

and understand it. And be able to communicate it at a moment's notice. And I love what Jesus said to the disciples: don't worry about it when you're called in front of it. You know, the Holy Spirit's going to prepare you. But that was not absolving them of.

of studying and spending time with God. Because we get nervous when we're called in front of people, but if you are so locked in the zone. of understanding who you are before God. Understanding who Scripture says he is and who Scripture says. I am You're not going to have any problem when called to account for that.

I promise you you're not because scripture says that. I'm not promising you, scripture says you're not. Don't worry about it. The Holy Spirit will be there. but we have our responsibility to study.

To be Immersed in his word. You know that that old hymn. Um Um What is that? It is so sweet to trust in Jesus. Just to take him out.

Take him at his word. Just to take him at his word. Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus. Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus just to take him at his word. Genesis 15.

Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness. He took him at his word. Took him at his word. And so We got You know, sixty seconds here left, but I want to ask you very quickly, Christian. do ye take him at his word?

Do you take him at his word? And in order to do that, You have to know his word You have to spend time in His Word. You have to think about His Word. Thy word have I hid in my heart that I may not sin against thee. I will meditate on the law of the Lord.

Do you think about those things?

So that it's second nature. And I'm not trying to shame you into that. You got to squint your eyes real hard and pray real hard and sound real spiritual. I just want you to think about it. Spend time with it.

Ponder it. That's one of my favorite hymns. There's a line and it's the only hymn that uses the word ponder in it. It's praise to the Lord the Almighty. It says, ponder anew what the Almighty will do.

Ponder it. And as you go into this world, look at what's going on in the news. Look what's going on around you. Look at what's going on in Washington and ponder the Word of God. Because that is Truth Talk Live.

This is Peter Rosenberg. We'll see you next time.