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I trust that you enjoyed Memorial Day, that it was a meaningful day for you. I have a couple of articles that I wrote. About this, and I talked about my father who was a chaplain for the Navy. during Vietnam.
Now why is that Particularly significant because think about most of the men that were being killed in Vietnam. What branch of the service were they? They were Marines.
So many of them were, I mean, every branch suffered casually, certainly. And but Navy chaplains had to deliver the casualty notice, and my father did that in inner-city Atlanta. He would wear his. Navy service dress blues in the wintertime, and it looked like it was a black suit. And go into some of the poorest areas of Atlanta.
And they thought he was the police. Uh he had uh another A naval officer with him, or a staff sergeant, actually, and not sergeant, a petty officer, or Um somebody that was driving the the official car. And they would show up and make these notifications. That was his job. As a Navy chaplain.
It was a tough job, but he did that as a young man and it cut his teeth on learning how to pastor in a doorstep. And I wrote about that. If you want to see that, it's in multiple different publications. Over the weekend, and still there, you can go out to my substack, caregiver.substack.com. Caregiver.substack.com.
But let's get to a topic today here that I thought. might be interesting to you. Have you ever been driving down the road? Mindin' your own business stayin' in your lane. Go in the speed limit or or mostly the speed limit.
I live in Montana, so speed limits out here sometimes are more of a suggestion. But then somebody some suddenly somebody swerves into your lane. What do you do? when they swerve into your lane. What do you do?
What's the first thing you do? You make sure that you get your car out of the way or you honk your hoard or some combination thereof. Is that a fair statement? Is that a A fair description of what happens when somebody swerves in your lane. You don't Tell them.
Well, I'm just going to stay in my lane. You respond because now it's in your lane. And I do a caregiver radio program on this network and others. every week. And I got a message recently from a listener who wanted to call me, and we talked for a long time.
And he said, I listened to your show for Caregiver, it was very meaningful, but then you got into politics. Why don't why don't you stay in your lane as a caregiver? And he said he wanted to call me because he knew I'd listen to him, and I did. And I listened to him while doing the dishes and folding laundry. all the things that I do because that's the caregiver life.
And most of us aren't sitting around crafting political strategy. We're trying to keep another human being alive and safe. medicated, encouraged, and cared for. I mean that's what we do. But after listening to him, I had a question of my own.
He asked me my thoughts, and I said, Well, what exactly is my lane? Remember, I spend my life around catastrophic injury, dementia, trauma, prosthetics, chronic illness, exhaustion, insurance companies, pharmacies, hospitals. And you lose the luxury of pretending that reality is negotiable in those places. What is my lane? My lane is in reality.
I have to deal with that. I know what groceries cost. I know what medications cost. I know what wound care supplies cost. I know what a wheelchair repair can do to a monthly budget.
That's reality for me. And for the people that listen to my program. Family caregivers, I don't know if you knew this or not. But in the United States alone, we provide family caregivers. And maybe you're one right now taking care of an aging parent or a special needs child.
There's so many different scenarios. But do you know that we provide more than a trillion dollars? That's trillion with a T. dollars in unpaid care, a trillion dollars. And we sit at kitchen tables and we stare at bills and insurance statements and pharmacy receipts and an impossible.
things that we deal with while we're trying to hold a a Family together. And so, yeah, you notice things after a while. And so, recently, politics swerved into my lane. And this is what I told this caller. I was at the cancer center.
I've got cancer. I've got prostate cancer.
Now I'm feeling out of form. And before I ever get to my medical history, the form asked me what sex I identify as. And what sex I was assigned at birth. I'm being treated for prostate cancer. Prostate cancer doesn't care how I identify.
Do you see it came into my lane? Who do you think put that on the form? Which political party do you think supports putting that on the form? And that's what I asked this guy. What do you do with that?
I mean, that's I'm being treated for prostate cancer. I do not need to tell you what I identify if you don't know by now. You know, maybe you shouldn't be the one treating me. You know, this whole Trans thing. works great for virtue signaling.
until she her has to go get her prostate checked. You ever thought about that? And I thought this came into my lane. I'm just getting treated for something that is uniquely. Afflicting men.
And, you know, I look at this thing, and now all of a sudden, we're having a different conversation because I deal in reality. And it doesn't matter how you identify if you have a prostate and you have prostate cancer. You tracking with me? If my wife needs wound care, I can't identify the wound away. If I look at the, I got a bill the other day for, you know, I got a pretty high deductible on my thing, and I got a bill and said, this is the part you owe.
And I say, I identify this as paid. I can't do that. I have to live in reality. And somewhere along the line You know, We we got this wrong here. And then I say, okay, well, which political ideology links itself to this kind of thinking.
You know, my wife lost both legs. And my sons watched her, and she gave up one after the first was born, and the other after the second was born.
So they've known their mother as an amputee their entire life. At no point did either of my children ever come to me and say, Dad. Can can I amputate one of my legs so I can ad Look like mom? If they had done that I would have gotten them help immediately. If one of their teachers had tried to go behind my back.
and have them Pursue that. What do you think I I would do? That's coming into my lane. If one of If a doctor had recommended doing this. Do you think I'd see that doctor?
And yet we have Hey. Yeah. very, very vocal group in this country. who have been advocating for children to have this. To to amputate, to remove, to surgically alter healthy body parts.
Now, I'm going to ask you straight up. Is there a political party that comes to your mind that identifies with that ideology, that supports it? And is there one that pushes back on it?
Now where do you stand on that? eight six six thirty four truth eight six six three four eight eighty seventy eight eighty four Where do you stand on that? What should we do? I'm just driving along in my late, mindin' my own business. And all of a sudden I see these things.
I'm filling out a form at a cancer center. And before I even get to my medical history. Politics. Hijack the form. And you wonder why we say something.
And you wonder why We swerve out of our own lane is because somebody swerved into us. I have to say something. I deal in reality. I'm a caregiver. I deal with medical reality.
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Welcome back to Truth Talk Live. This is Peter Rosenberger, 866-34 TRUTH. If you want to be a part of program, 866-348-788. I'm talking about staying in your late. You know, you've been there.
You've driven down the road.
Some of you may be driving right now, and you're just minding your own business, doing your own thing, focus on getting where you're going to be, trying to. Trying to maintain the speed limit, and then somebody swerves into your lane. You honk at 'em. You panic a little bit, you cut the wheel real quick to avoid having a wreck. But you don't just passively say, you know, it's all good.
I'm just staying in my lane. And this is what's happening is at some point we gotta take a stand.
So, this guy reached out to me, and we had a very good call. And he was because he wanted to go to someplace where there wasn't any politics. We're not going to talk politics. And I don't, I mean, this is a show for caregivers. I don't wake up every day thinking, how can I get into the political blood sport, a cage match of politics?
It's exhausting. But at some point as believers, don't we have a responsibility to say something? And again, I'm sitting there being treated for a uniquely male. Disease Prostate cancer. And they want to know what sex identify is.
And they want to know what sex I was assigned at birth. If I'm getting treated for prostate cancer, We can go ahead and just have that second question removed. We know what sex I was assigned it birth. I was assigned it before the foundation of the world.
Now the question is for you Do you believe that? Do we really believe this? It is this, you know, because I, when this guy called and I said, okay, how do you. How do you respond to that? What do you do with that?
What do you do with the fact that there is a group of people, a very loud group of people, who are very much for? I saw this today. I saw it today. A woman pastor. Take that for what you will.
And Can you see the air quotes? And This woman pastor air quotes was saying that we need to uh that trans kids have rights too, and we need to protect trans kids. And that was in a church service. Allegedly. I mean that the the picture show this woman there.
And I'm thinking Wow. This is where we've gotten to.
So, this is now out there in clergy and everything else, and they're doing this thing. And yet, is it reality? And if you've got a segment of the population who is advocating something that is not In reality, And then they're wanting to put this onto children. Do we have any responsibility whatsoever to say anything? We live in the absolute freest country that's ever existed.
in the history of the world. We have freedom of speech. Nothing was like that. We're 250 years now. We said we're going to have freedom of speech.
You know, we put this in the Bill of Rights. Do we not have a responsibility of that freedom to be good stewards of it and to say something? And this culture we have, they don't stop. They will not stop. This culture that wants to continue pushing the envelope of victim status.
I'll never forget this. I heard when gay marriages were legalized. And people started accepting. The homosexual community in this country, by and large. I'm not saying that the church does, but there's a lot of churches that do.
I'm just simply saying that's just the way the culture went. And I remember one commentator said, just watch. It's not going to be enough. They're going to have to come up with new and increasing levels of deviance in order to maintain that victim status. To drive the engine of what they want to go, just more deeper levels of deviance.
Watch what happens. And that was fifteen years ago, roughly. What do you think? Was he right? Was he right?
Do we have that in our culture? Does that trouble you? Does that bother thee? Do you have a responsibility to say anything? These are all questions I ask myself.
And so I asked this guy that called in, I said, what do you... What do you Think about all this. And he said, Well, I agree with much of what you're saying. And I said, Well, how would anybody know that? And he said, Well, I guess I have to say something.
And I said, Well, and that's what I do on my show. I'm saying something because it swerved into my lane. I just want to help fe family caregivers. That's that's the focus of what I do. is to help people who are caring for people with Trauma, disease, mental illness, addiction, all these kinds of things.
And in order to do that, you got to live. In reality. And you got to live in Objective biological theological reality. And if you don't live there Then, how can you have a conversation? And in the exam room, For example.
Where I was Don't you want reality? To have The the final word? If you're going into an exam room with a doctor, do you want the doctor? to share re uh a view of reality with you about Biologic. Biological functions and differences.
And in the human body? I mean Does that does that concern you? At all. It sure concerned me that day. You know, I mean, I do.
I want somebody. That's treating me for prostate cancer. That is you know, identifying as something other than what they are. I think real hard about that. It gets real at that moment.
And so that's That's what drove this. And I asked him, I said, Well, what do you think about that? How do you shake hands with this? He said, Well, I guess you're right. And I said, It's not that I have this burning desire to be right, and it's not that I'm by any chance.
I said, asked him, I said, Which political party, which ideology, in this country aligns itself with those things. And he said, I said, I have no. desire to carry the water For the Republican Party, as far as I'm concerned, they are in dire need of a cranioproctologist. But I have to recognize that there's one political group in this this country. that is hostile to these things.
Hostile, not just you know proport purporting a different idea, but they're hostile to it. And if I said to you right now, Can you pick a political party in this country. that you feel is hostile. To Biological Reality. Does one come to mind?
If I said to you, do you have a political party in mind. That is hostile. to the things of God. That aligns itself with people that are. to a biblical worldview.
Is there one that comes to mind? And if so, what are we going to do about it? What are we going to say? I'm not here to engage in a political fight. What I'd rather do is go back and say, here's what Scripture says.
Here's what we are called to do. And we may not get applause for this. In fact, I'm certain we won't. Jesus was certain we wouldn't. They hated him, he said.
They hate me, they're gonna hate you. But but don't we have a responsibility to say something? And I'll tell you exactly where it changed for me. As a broadcaster. Because I don't, you know, this is not something I wake up every day thinking, okay, what could I look at the Wall Street Journal today and what can we talk about?
And what's going on in Iran? What's going on here? What's going on there? Those are important things and they're smarter people than me that are dealing with those issues. I was just at the cancer center.
And I saw what had crept into that world where I really depend on them to have objectivity and clarity. And I'll tell you, I'll tell you what, I'll tell you when we come back from break where it all changed for me. And one said, okay, you're going to have to say something. Do you say something? Do you think we should say so?
Or do you think we should go back to stand in our lane no matter if somebody swerves into us and crashes into us or not? And just take our lives. 866-34-TRUTH, 866-348-7884. We'll be right back. Okay.
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We're talking about reality. Let's just boil it down. It's just reality. And This came into my lane. just simply sitting there going for cancer treatment.
But it's prostate cancer. And the forum said, what Sex do you identify as? Prostate kids are doesn't care. What sex were you assigned at birth? Prostate cancer already knows.
That's the whole point. We're dealing with reality. This is not pretend. Is it compassion? When we tell people what comforts them or will we when we tell them what sets them free?
Are we being compassionate by affirming people? that are doing things that are destructive? That are harmful? Is that what Jesus came to do to save us or to affirm us? Did he come to encourage us or to set us free?
We'll be encouraged. one percent free. But I don't want to encourage people. In their afflictions, in the sense of saying this is a good thing. go ahead and identifize this.
That doesn't even make any sense. Are we dealing in reality or not? What are we saying to people? Why are we saying it? And that's what this guy reached out to me, very nice guy.
We had a very good conversation, ended at prayer, and he said, you know, I agree with what you're saying. And I wasn't trying to. wear him down or or do an apologetics thing. But but How do you shake hands with that? How do you shake hands with people who want to mutilate children?
and then call that compassionate care. Irreversible medical procedures. How do you shake hands with this? And what it all changed for me, I got to tell you. This probably makes some of you mad.
Sorry. Don't mean to. But I was watching the news And this was many years ago. and it the sitting United States President. Not his personal opinion.
Aside from his office, but where the President goes, there he is. A year years ago, my wife sang for the President, and we showed up this big hotel event, a big ballroom, and we go in there, and I mean, everything's there, all the flags, the Secret Service. It's crazy. Because the President is there. We did the thing and Beth's present was great.
A couple weeks later I went by that same ballroom. I was there for another meeting and I just happen to see in there no chairs, no flags, no tables, nothing. The president's was was not there. It was just an empty ballroom. There's nothing there.
Wherever the President is, there is the seat of power of the United States.
Now, if that same president, who's no longer president, this was George W. Bush, if he came into a room today, it wouldn't have the same feel. Because he doesn't bring the trappings of power with him. The office is not coming in the room, the man is. But at the time it was the office and the men.
So, a couple years after that, I'm watching, and there's the sitting president, the office. Of the president had come to speak at a Planned Parenthood conference. Big Convention for Planned Parenthood. It's Barack Obama.
Okay, well There it is. But he said something at the end of this. of his speech. That really hit me. He looked out at the audience.
They're all clapping for him. And he said, God bless Planned Parenthood. And the first thing I said to myself when I saw that was. Which God? Who is he praying to?
Whose blessing is he invoking? The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob? The God who appeared to Moses and said, I am that I am? The God that Jesus taught us to pray, Our Father who art in heaven? Is that who He is invoking?
The blessing of on planned parenthood? And so I asked this guy the recent How do you reconcile this? What do you think? And he said, Well, I agree with you. And I said, again, how would anybody know?
He said I have to say something. I said, yeah, you do. There it is. We've got to call it out. We probably won't be light for it.
People will be upset.
Well, we don't want to have conflict. We don't want to have this. We don't want this. You don't know what Trump's doing. I don't care what Trump's doing.
That's not the issue on the table here. I mean, he's got his own issues, and I called it out on this program. When he gets out there and he's talking about this will get him into heaven, and I called out all the pastors around him. And by the way, I was very thrilled to see that Franklin Graham wrote a letter to the President and said, Mr. President, this is how salvation occurs, not through good deeds.
I don't care how many wars you've settled. And he called him out, and then the president released that at Easter Sunday, which I was very. Happy to see that. That's a good start. Got a long ways to go.
He's not the theologian in chief by any stretch of the imagination. But the Church is meant to be salt and light in the world.
Now, how do we do that if we stay in the cupboard? If we stay under a bushel, Jesus said. How do you do that? We got to say something. Not to You know, get into a turn this into a political agenda, but to turn it into a biblical one.
Is the God? of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Is that who? Will bless Planned Parenthood? What do you think?
866-34-TRUTH, 866-348-7884. There are pastors out there right now who are saying. That, you know. Abortion is not only health care. But they're saying that it's biblical.
There is compassion. Are they right? Is that consistent? Was scripture? And if not, Then what is our responsibility?
If so, then what is our responsibility? What does this moment require of us? Do you see how we can't be neutral in this? We cannot just sit on the sidelines and s pretend like it's not happening.
Well, I I don't I'm not comfortable with that. I want to stay out of it. Let's go back and talk about grace. How can you talk about grace if you don't first tell the need for grace? How do you have a good news if you haven't shared the bad news?
How do you do that? We've got plenty of guys out there on television and Christian media and everything. They just want to talk about grace and just love everybody and just we'll just all get along and we'll just hug everybody. And it's like people when you say, You know, don't talk about theology and doctrine. I just want to give me Jesus.
The simple question then becomes, well, who is Jesus?
Now we're talking about doctrine. Who is Jesus? And people say, well, he was a good teacher.
Well, they don't crucify good teachers. You know? And I've heard of other people.
Well, I love Jesus, I respect Jesus. Why? Why? What do you like about Jesus' teachings? What do you like about this?
And so I asked this fellow, I said, give me an idea. that right now is being purported that's being put out there by the party that you align yourself with. Just give me a good idea. And he said, I don't have one. I can't think of one.
And I said, Well, you've got my number and you call me. If you can think of something that they're putting out, they say, you know, this is good for America. And I'll talk about it on the program. He he came up with nothing. He had nothing.
I just asked the question. That's all I did, was asked the question. How do you align with? Where are you biblically? How do you shake hands with this?
What are your thoughts about this? What is your responsibility to this? Give me something that they're purporting that you think is a good idea. And he had nothing. And yet he he reached out to me to confront me.
Which is fine if you want to confirm me, that's fine. But I'm just going to ask you a question. What do you want to do with this? You're driving in your lane. You're obeying the speed limit.
You're doing your thing. and all of a sudden somebody swerves into your lane. There's a phrase they use in that, not in my back yard. Nimby, not in my backyard. And that's basically that you know people want to build For example, windmills.
Oh, they love those big windmills, but not in my backyard. you know Don't let it infringe on me. Let it infringe on somebody else. It's not affecting me, so I'm going to stay over here. But do we have a responsibility?
You know, Keith Green. Do you all remember Keith Green? How many of you remember Keith? Just show of hands. Um.
Keith Green. Had a song out back in, I guess it was 1980. The world is dying in the dark and the church can't help 'cause it's asleep in the light. That's fairly convicting, wouldn't you say? That are we asleep in the light?
People are dying. People truly are dying. And there is such agony. in people's lives.
Well, what do we do about it? What's our responsibility? And the first thing we have to do is we have to start talking about reality. We can't have this. You can't have a decent conversation with somebody if you're not in reality.
If you're not dealing with real stuff. I promise you. If I walk into my doctor's office And into the exam room, and the doctor looks at me: who's going to treat me for prostate cancer? And he says, Well, how do you identify? I'm getting up and walking out.
My doctor didn't do that, but the intake forms at the cancer center did. I promise you, I would get up and walk out. Because she, her. doesn't work in that environment. You have to deal with biological reality here.
And that's That's what we are being confronted with. every single day. D don't Don't take my word. Don't even believe me. Don't even like me.
Just turn on just turn on five minutes of anywhere. and you'll see it. And it's not just on the news. It's in our churches. at our schools.
And you certainly see it in the movies and the television shows and the media that we consume. It's everywhere. And people aren't dealing in truth and in reality. And you go back to Pilate. By the way, you've heard that phrase, you know, speak your truth.
Speak your truth. You don't have a truth. There is truth. And there's everything else. And when when in front of pilot, you know.
Jesus said here's the truth. And Paul says, what is truth? We're still there, aren't we, as a society? What's the truth?
Well, you got your truth, I got my truth. Is there truth? Is there objective truth? That's why this network is called TRUTH. Network.
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Something happened this week, and I want to close. We're talking about just. Stay in our lane, all of a sudden, somebody swerves in our lane, and then we get uncomfortable. We don't particularly like it. Oh, I don't want to offend anybody.
I don't want to, well, I don't believe that.
Well, it doesn't matter what I believe, it only matters what scripture teaches. That's it. We either adhere to that or we don't. I am not the arbiter of this. I just ask the question.
What do you do with this? How do you shake hands with this? Do we have a responsibility to say anything? But I also learned some life lessons in different ways out here living out in Montana. Um I get to learn a lot from ranchers.
And my Wash family is allowed summer grazing.
Well, their their place is up pretty high.
So in the summertime, local ranchers that have a lot of cows down the valley will put them up in the high country and let their land rest. And um It allows also us to keep the grass down because fire season comes up here usually at the end of July, first of August. We get a lot of fires up there, and um. You know, we get if you keep the grass down, it doesn't spread very easily, or at least it curves it a little bit. And I love seeing the cows out there.
Sometimes I'll just ride out there on horseback. I'm not going to be doing that as I go through this treatment process for a while. That's not something you want to do to get out on a horse. But I love to go out there and just to look at them. And there's something real peaceful about it.
Just, you know, the open country and this big sky, everything you think it would be, it is. And um And I just love being around them. But as I spend more time around, I see the enormous responsibility a lot of these. ranchers have. I mean families eat.
Because Somebody staying vigilant. And out here, you learn to watch for dangers. We've had. Uh, a lot of predators on this property. I saw a wolf.
About a year and a half ago, loping across the field one morning. It was during the wintertime, and I went out there the next day on the snowmobile to go check and look at the paw prints. And man, they were enormous. And I made sure that the wolf wouldn't anywhere now. But of course, the snowmobile would scare him away.
But we've had a grizzly on this property, we've had wolves, mountain lions, you know, all kinds of things. And that kind of stuff gets your attention. But recently something happened on the property that really It really stunned me. And um I found a cow and a calf both dead. And there were no signs of predators.
No evidence of attack. There was no trauma. I looked around. I mean, they hadn't been molested, they just keeled over. And so I'm looking at this thing.
What's going on here? So I called the rancher and we started piecing some things together of what happened. We came out there and we looked around. We immediately moved the cattle to another section and Um And We've best guessed It's a plant called larkspur. Um If you've never seen it, it doesn't look very threatening.
In fact, it's kind of pretty. It's got little flowers on it, it kind of looks like a geranium. And under normal conditions cattle just usually just leave it alone. But the conditions have changed. We'd had a really dry winter And the grass had not grown in just as thick as it normally does this time of year.
They didn't come out early, it was the driest winter I've ever known out here. And that's been over many, many years. And maybe there were some mineral deficiencies in the cow. This is what happens. And sometimes weeds, like the larkspur, will flourish.
a little bit faster than the grass. And evidently, the cattle sampled it, or at least this cow did, and this calf did. And then they went back to it. And what we discovered is that once they start getting a taste for it.
Well they like it, well they just want to engorge themselves on it. And it kills them. And it and if you eat a couple They're not going to do it. And if they got really good, thick grass, they don't care anything about it. But it's just one of those collision of events that happen And you know, why would they return to something poisonous though?
And that and And When when animals feel that Deficiency for whatever reason, they get strange grazing. Behavior, the rancher told me that's because I was asking, you know, why is this? And I couldn't Stop thinking about this because this wasn't a ranch store anymore. It sounded a lot like us. It sounded like our culture.
It sounded like the church sometimes. Most destruction does not arrive dramatically. Most ruin doesn't start with people announcing, hey, I would like to now destroy my life. Usually conditions accumulate quietly. you know, hunger.
That kind of thing for the cows, and then all of a sudden it's for us, it's hunger, loneliness, fear, confusion, exhaustion. bitterness, spiritual malnourishment, That's a big one, isn't it? And before long harmful things begin to resemble nourishment. See, that's how addiction works. That's how false teaching works.
That's how destructive ideologies work. That's how you get. Questions On the form that asks what you identify with before you give your medical history when you're there to be treated for prostate cancer. That's how it happens. And people become so depleted spiritually, emotionally.
that the poison starts looking like nourishment, like medicine. And You know, the ranchers didn't say.
Well, you know, who are we to judge the cattle? They didn't take that very nonchalantly. We immediately started retracing everything, figured it out weather, minerals, feed, terrain. Water excess, do we need to eradicate this? Was there a little patch of lark spur or whatever?
And again, we still don't know exactly what happened. Maybe the cow got sick with something. We don't know, but that's best guess. Because the stewardship demands a vigilance. See, that's what love does.
It pays attention, it warns, it protects. And somewhere along the way we've started confusing love with passive affirmation. Those ranchers don't affirm those cows eating that stuff. They get them out of there really quick, they protect them. Scripture never defines compassion as applauding confusion.
Real compassion tells the truth. The gospel's built on this. Jesus didn't come to affirm our condition. He came to save us from it. And that means that Christianity can never become a faith that is built around emotional validation.
Well, you know, I know that you're a good person. Just trust your heart, even though you're living in fornication, even though you're in adultery. But you're a good person. Is that what you is that loving somebody? Jesus looked at brokenness Honestly.
And he said to the woman caught adultery, he said, Neither do I commend you, condemn you. But he said, Go and sin no more. Don't keep doing this. Stay away from this. That's truth.
And if you remove truth from compassion, eventually compassion is going to collapse on itself. Because nobody's going to warn anything about anything. Parents can't correct, pastors can't preach, doctors can't diagnose, teachers can't instruct. Caregivers What do we do? For going to you know, we can't get we we're hamstrung You can't tell the truth.
Everybody just sits quietly while people consume what destroys them. This is what I saw with these cows. Ezekiel warned about this. If a watchman sees danger coming and says nothing, then the blood is on the watchman's hand. That's There, right there in the text.
Do we should we say something? It's not hatred, it's responsibility. If I see somebody taking the wrong medication, I say something. If I see infection spreading. I say something.
Not because I want control. Not because I enjoy confrontation, but because vulnerable people matter. Maybe, I don't know. Maybe that's why so many Christians feel tension right now. We're being told that silence is kindness.
But sometimes silence is abandonment.
Sometimes love requires us to speak uncomfortable truth before damage spreads further. You're gonna hurt yourself. This is going to kill you. We don't have to do it angrily. We don't have to certainly do it self-righteously.
We don't do it cruelly. But we do it faithfully. in obedience to what God's word says. Eventually Reality does get the last word. You know, time and truth are on the same side.
And we're going to find that out. We already know it. We are anchored in ourselves in Scripture. The whole world is going to recognize it one day. When they have to stand before him, and you're not going to be able to identify as anything other than a sinner.
Now the question is, are we standing Under the grace of Christ? As a center? or are we going to defend ourselves? to a holy and righteous God. That's the question.
I know I know it's We don't want to offend people. We don't like confrontation. We see so much acrimony and feel like we got to. Join a tribe. We got to be with this guy, you're either for us or against us, kind of thing.
But I think as Christians, we're called to something greater than just. The squabbles of the day of whatever politics stuff is going on. We just have to ask better questions, we have to step into these things. with the clarity of the gospel.
Well, what does Scripture say about it? Do we have a stewardship responsibility to speak into this? even to our own peril. Even if we get calls from people who say, Well, I don't agree, you don't know what Trump is doing with it. Um I I I I can call it out of both sides.
That's not but I'm not here to call balls and stripes. I'm simply asking questions about an encroachment on reality itself. And this happened to me while at the cancer center. That's all I can speak to. And what does the scripture say about this?
And when is enough enough? And when are we going to be boldly proclaiming the gospel? That there is sin in this world. And that He came to save us from that sin. and not to rehabilitate us.
but to resurrect us. and reconcile us to him. And that's Truth Talk Live. This is Peter Rosenberger, caregiver.substack.
