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The number is 866. thirty four TRUTH, eight six six three four eight seventy eight 84 if you want to be a part of the program. Last night In New York, several candidates endorsed by New York Mayor Zoron Mamdani. Mamdani.
Sorry for that. They won their primaries in New York. And afterwards Mamdami, Mamdami thanked Allah for the victories. Mayor of New York. Thank Allah.
for the victories.
Now Gratitude reveals theology. I think that's a a reasonable statement that we can make. Whatever you believe in You reflect that with your gratitude. People give thanks to the source they believe deserves the credit. If somebody doesn't believe in anything, they're going to thank themselves.
And theology matters because what we believe about God shapes what we believe about man, about government, about justice. About freedom. Right. Responsibilities and ultimately the future of a society.
Now we're approaching. the twenty fifth anniversary of september eleventh.
Now, for 25 years, Americans have repeated the phrase: never forget. I remember where I was that morning. I suspect many of you do as well. But you know, memory's kind of a funny thing, isn't it? It's possible to remember an event.
and forget the lesson. And America seems to be suffering from a great deal of forgetting. We've forgotten history. We've forgotten economics. We've forgotten the limits of political power and most importantly, It seems that we have forgotten what Scripture teaches about human nature.
And that's why all the arguments today about socialism and capitalism. seem to miss the central issue. This isn't about economics. Actually, if you want to be precise about it, it's about anthropology. What is man?
Who is man? What is wrong with man?
Well, the Bible teaches that man is created in the image of God. The Bible also teaches that man has fallen. Jeremiah wrote that the heart Is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked.
Now, the question is: do we believe that? Scripture says this, but do we believe that? Do we take God at His word on this? Paul wrote. All have sinned and fall what?
Short of the glory of God. Do we believe that? If we believe this. How would people know? What would that look like?
And what is our response to this? If what this is saying in Scripture is true, then how should we respond to this? what is required of us in this moment. Because that reality shapes everything. Every political system eventually reveals what it believes about human nature.
Again, this is not about economics. This is about something far, far more serious.
Socialism assumes that concentrated power can be trust in the hands of fallen people. Do you believe that? Does Scripture affirm that? that concentrated power can be trusted in the hands of fallen people. Does Scripture affirm that?
No, it does not. Communism goes even further. It abolishes private property, centralizes authority. and promises a classless society If only enough power can be gathered into the Right. Hands.
Which begs the question. Who are the right hands? The 20th century produced mountains of evidence. showing what happens when governments attempt to play God.
Now capitalism is different. It recognizes that private property Voluntary exchange. investment, risk, reward, and the freedom to build N create. That's what capitalism does, but it's not a gospel. Capitalism is not a savior.
But is far more compatible. With a biblical understanding of human nature because it disperses power than rather concentrating. This is why our country was founded. They wanted power to to be dispersed among the citizens. not centralized in one location.
Scripture never presents, by the way, an economic blueprint. I mean, there's, you know, Moses didn't come down from Mount Sinai with, you know, economics for dummies. But what Scripture does provide are principles The Eighth Commandment. Anybody know what the eighth commandment is? What's the Eighth Amendment?
You shall not what? Steel.
Well now, if you're saying you shall not steal What is the Implication That somebody has private property.
Somebody has property. There's ownership involved. That's not mine, that's yours. I can't steal that. I'm not supposed to steal that.
This is mine, not yours. You're not supposed to steal this. Private property is assumed again. The Tenth Commandment says what? You shall not Covet Private property.
is assumed again. You've got you're wanting something that belongs to someone else. And then Jesus tells the parable of the talents.
Now the t a talent wasn't the ability to Sing or paint or play the piano. That's not what he's talking about. Talent was a weight, it was a weight of value, it was money. And it was a substantial amount of wealth that was intrusted to servants by a master, and of what did the master expect?
Well, he expected stewardship. initiative, responsibility, he expected productivity. The servants who multiplied what had been entrusted were praised. And more was given. The servant who buried it was condemned.
I mean, all he did was just put it in a hole and walk away. He didn't do anything with it. Christ taught he taught stewardship. Because stewardship reflects the character of God. The earth is the Lord.
It belongs to the Lord. and everything in it, Nothing ultimately belongs to us. or stewards. of our money of our families, of our communities. of our opportunities, of our cities Of our municipalities, municipalities.
I got to learn how to say that better. We're even suffering. I mean, we're even the stewards of our suffering. Forty years of being a caregiver. Has taught me something about stewardship.
It's one of the most important words in the Christian life. Every day I'm confronted. with the same question. What am I going to do with what God has entrusted to me to day? Not What am I going to do with my stuff?
Or what am I going to do with your stuff? Which is what so many people are saying. We want to tax this person. We want to take from them and give to these guys. I noticed this.
Roe Conna, congressman from I think California, was talking about Elon Musk making a trillion dollars. Babylon B had a great quote. Elon Musk said, the first trillion is always the hardest. And he said he wanted to take from that and give it out to other people.
So did Elizabeth Warren.
Well, they have a lot of money. Both of them are very, very, very wealthy people. I don't know how they got wealthy in Congress, Elizabeth Warren, for example, but they're very wealthy people. Why don't they give? Did you notice at the Obama Presidential Library the other day?
They got up and said they recognized that the land that they were on was stolen. But they didn't give it back. Did you notice that? Oh, we're so sorry this land was stolen.
Well, we'll give it back. Obama owns the land, give it back. If you're upset about it, give it back. What am I going to do with what God has entrusted me today? says something far different.
And that question applies to individuals. It applies to families, it applies to churches, and it applies to nations. And we're going to talk about that some more. And if you want to weigh in on that, it's 866. 34 Truth 866-348 7884.
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Before the break, we were discussing the New York primary socialism, capitalism, stewardship. And what scripture teaches about human nature. And I keep coming back to what I believe is a central issue, what I believe scripture teaches. You just heard R.C. Sproll talk about this during the break: anthropology.
What is man? Because every political philosophy eventually reveals what it believes about human nature. If man is basically good, And merely trapped in bad systems. then changing the system becomes the highest priority. Change the structure, change the ownership, change the distribution, change the leadership, change everything.
Everything gets better if you change the system. But is that what Scripture teaches, that man is basically good, trapped in bad systems? The Bible teaches that the human problem is primarily not Structural. It's spiritual. Jesus said that out of the heart proceeds evil thoughts, murders, thefts, adulteries, false witness, and all kinds of.
Wickedness.
Now notice where Christ put the problem. The heart not Rome, not Jerusalem, not Washington DC, not New York. Not the tax code. Not as Bernie Sanders says, the billionaires. I like to say the billionaires.
He can't say millionaires anymore because he is one. But it's not that, it's the heart. That's why Christians have always understood something that political movements forget. A sinner can operate a free market. A sinner can operate a socialist government.
A sinner can operate a church. center can operate a charity. Changing the system does not change The sinner. And so you go back and look at What Jesus taught about, he taught about stewardship a lot. I mean, go back to the parable of the talents.
The master intrusted his servants with talents, with weight, with money with some type of value, Then he left. When he returned he wanted an accounting. What did you do with what I intrusted to you?
Now that's a question we're all going to answer. And not just financially. We're going to answer it spiritually. We're going to answer it with our relationships. vocationally.
What did you do with your opportunities? What did you do with your influence? What did you do with your family? What did you do with your suffering?
Now that's a care that's a that's a question I've asked a lot as a caregiver. You know, God has not seen fit to take this from me.
Well, when when Paul had something that God didn't take from him, What did he do? He asked him three times. And what did he do? What did he say? Said This is what the Lord told me.
I went to him three times asking to remove this thorn in the flesh, and the Lord said, What? My grace is sufficient for you.
So, Paul, then, his response to that was: once he heard that from Jesus. My grace is sufficient. For my powers made perfect in weakness. What did Paul, what was his response with that? How did he steward his thorn in the flesh?
He said, I will boast all the more gladly in my weakness. For my weakness crushed power rest upon me. That stewardship of suffering, and we don't want to talk about that very much. But but there it is in black and white, writing the text. You know, God's entrusted something difficult to me.
What am I going to do with it? Resent it, waste it, bury it. Stewarded? Again, one of the defining Marks of Christianity or Christian maturity. that I'm seeing as I as I get older is This whole concept of stewardship because stewardship acknowledges ownership by definition, we don't own it.
And the ownership belongs to whom?
So when Mom Donnie, Mom Donnie, I can't even say his name right. When the mayor of New York Thanks Allah for the victory. Who is he saying that owns it? What do you think? What what's his theology at that point?
I mean, he's saying it right there in front of everybody. And he's saying that these socialists now that are going to be going to Congress. Who many of them despise this country? One of them that won last night wanted to basically, she didn't, she said, There's a quote, I forgot my napkin. There was a flag behind me, so I wiped my hands on that.
They just stay in the country.
Now, socialism believes That Power belongs in the hands of certain people. And they are going to be benevolent and distribute that out. What it really means is, yes, we're going to have affordable housing, but it'll all be garbage housing. Everything will be Section Eight housing. We'll all be equal, but it'll you know It won't be nice, but you know it At least it'll be equal.
Communism believes, again, if it's in the right hands. then we'll make everything better. Because People are genuinely good. Generally good, not genuily good. They're generally good.
And we just need to make sure. We distribute everything properly.
Now, again, capitalism is not. a redeeming economic value. But it believes in the individual's right to do this by merit.
However hard you work, And it rejects the notion of concentrated power in the hands of a few. Why is that?
Well, the reformers knew. They knew this. And who do you think shaped most of the people that founded this country? It was out of the Reformation. And they said, you know what?
Man is not basically good. We got to have somebody watch over us. We got to have accountability. That's why we have checks and balances. because they knew the heart is not basically good.
And I think the question that I put out to you: do you think the heart is basically good? That we're just good people. We're going to just do our, you know, a good thing on our own, and we just need a better system. We're just trapped in a bad system, so we need to change the system. But do we need to change our hearts?
Do our hearts need to be changed? And I go back to, again, what does scripture teach? What does scripture teach? We're stewards. We don't own any of these things.
Naked, we come into this world. Naked, we're going to leave. There's a great story. I think I got time for the break. There's a great story.
Frank Sinatra. I'm a big Sinatra fan. And he was coming out of a show, and he was in his tuxedo, and he was going towards the limo, and there's a crowd of people waiting behind the theater or something like that. And one lady yelled out, Mr. Sinatra, please could I get an autograph for my husband?
He's very sick at home. Can I get an autograph?
So Frank walked over there and he was sighting her autograph book. And this is back in the 60s, I think, early 60s. And He, um And she noticed that he had on these really nice cuff links. And she said, Oh, mister Sumatra, those are beautiful cufflinks And she had told him that her husband was very, very, very sick at home, had something very serious. And Frank took off The Cuff links.
And gave him to the woman. He said, Give these to your husband. She said, No, I couldn't take it. Really, I couldn't. It's too much.
He said, No, no, no, take it. Give it to your husband. Tell him with my regards, and I hope he gets better. And so we've gotten a limo. And he had a guy that traveled with him.
He was a very famous comedian that traveled with him everywhere. And he looked over. at Frank and he said, you know, Frank. Those things were worth thousands of dollars. Those cuff links.
I mean thousands of dollars. They weren't something you just he just bought at JC Pitty here. And Frank said We're all just renting this stuff anyway. We're not taking it with us.
Now Sinatra understood that. Seems like a lot of people don't. And so the question is: if we're just stewards, if we don't own this, We have to give an account for what we do with it. And when we forget that, then we start expecting governments and markets and movements and. institutions to do things they weren't designed to do.
governments can maintain order. They can punish wrongdoing. They can protect liberty. but they cannot redeem. Only Christ does that.
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This is Peter Rosenberger. Glad to be with you, 866-34-TRUTH, 866-348-7884. We've been talking about what happened in New York. And the mayor came out. I'm not going to try to say his name anymore.
I keep messing it up. But the mayor came out and just basically thanked Allah for the victory. and you think what you believe in. And we're talking about the difference between socialism, the difference between communism and capitalism. These are economic systems.
And we live in an age Obsessed with changing systems Scripture Discusses changing hearts. See the difference? And when we forget that. then society starts looking for salvation in all the wrong places. And also I think of We we start These conversations become a bit heated because we often think in terms of groups.
And Uh and these different Classes instead of individuals. We think of parties, we think of movements, we think of tribes, we think of demographics, voting blocks. But scripture continually brings it back to what? The individual. Romans 14.12 says, So then each of us will give an account of himself to God.
What part of each of us is confusing? Not all of us together, not our political party. God's not going to call the Democrat Party in front of him, and then he's going to call the Republican Party in front of him. No, or the Democrat Socialist of America. He's not going to do that.
He's going to call individuals in front of them. And we were standing before him. One day, The mayor of New York will stand before God. One day President Trump will stand before God. Governors, city councilmen, the CEO, the pastor, Radio host?
You? Me? One by one. And when that day comes, The question will not be: How much power did you accumulate? What are those questions going to be?
That come from on high. to us. What did you do with what I entrusted you with? When I was sick, naked, thirsty, hungry. in prison, or a stranger.
That's stewardship. That's the parable of the talents. That's the Christian life. And we live in an age. That Is obsessed with the systems.
But again, what does scripture teach? It's the heart. We had a heart of what? Stone became a heart of flesh, Paul said.
Now systems do matter, laws matter. Policies matter. Good government. matters. Scripture says, you know, when the wicked rule, people groan.
Bad government has real consequences. But no political system has ever solved the deepest problem facing mankind. Because the deepest problem facing us is not economics. It's not political. It has nothing to do Politics.
It's not educational. It's not an academic problem. It's not a tech problem. You can't write enough code to solve what's going on with us. It's a spiritual problem.
Jesus didn't come preaching a new tax structure. He preached, repent, for the kingdom of God is at hand. John the Baptist said it, and then Jesus said it, repent. We talk about Salvation a lot. But how many people do you hear talking about repentance?
Turned. We want God to bless this mess. God's in the resurrection business. He resurrects from the dead. He didn't come to redistribute wealth.
He came to reconcile sinners. To a holy God. See the difference? And That's what causes me to grow a little concerned whenever I hear political movements making. Promises that sound suspiciously like redemption.
It's like it's faux redemption. There's a Pseudo-redemption. Justice for everyone, prosperity for everyone, security for everyone, equality for everyone, heaven on earth. Human history is littered. with people who promise those things.
The Bible teaches us to be cautious about this. Because every promise. of heaven on earth that you hear From anybody, from any party. will eventually collide With the reality. of fallen humanity.
And that's why the gospel remains so unique. Christianity begins where the politics usually ends. With the heart. We're not. Becoming better people.
Billy Graham said this years ago. We have not invented any new sense. You know, it's the same sin.
Now we've we've invented better ways to sin. I mean, we we're getting Pretty darn efficient at it. But there's nothing Yeah. There's nothing new. Ecclesiastes says there's nothing new under the sun.
It's still the same things. The Ten Commandments still apply across the board every single day to every single person. And what Jesus said, he went even deeper with it. He said, Love the Lord your God with all your heart, your soul, and your mind, and love your neighbor as yourself. Under this, all the laws could be, everything from the prophets and the law taught could be hung on that.
Now is that what we're hearing? From our elected officials? Are they promising? What benefits them? What advances their power?
and their world view. And who are they thanking for it? And what is our response to this? 86634 Truth. 866 three four eight seventy eight eighty four.
One of the recurring things throughout scripture, I'm going to go a little deeper on this, is the distinction between ownership and stewardship. And we tend to use those words interchangeably. But the Bible does not. Go back to your Psalms. Psalm 24.
It says A simple declaration. The earth Is the Lord's? and the fulness thereof. Everything Belongs to him. For thou hast created, hast all things created.
Remember that psalm that I think. Oh, who wrote that? Um he died just a couple of years ago. Um Oh well, it'll come to me in a minute. Everything, not most things, not spiritual things, everything, the cattle on a thousand hills, the hills, the money in your checking account.
Everything. Equity in your home. You got equity in your home? Belongs to him. You are not taking this with you when you stand before God.
But you will give an account for what you did with it. The business that you built? Farm, ranch, church Nation, children. time, health. opportunities the next breath you take.
Everything belongs to God. Do you believe that? Is that accurate? Is that consistent with scripture? What belongs to us But does it belong to God?
What is uniquely ours? That isn't his. Think about it. Other than our sin. Nothing.
The only thing we bring to the equation is our fallen, sinful nature. And God redeemed. That Do the work of the cross. See, once we grasp this, it changes the conversation because owners have rights, stewards have responsibilities. We hear a lot about rights.
We hear an awful lot about rights and entitlements in this country. We we hear a lot of that, don't we? How much Time do we spend in the evening news or on your social media account talking about? Responsibility. A steward manages something that belongs to someone else.
And that's exactly how Scripture describes our lives. And and I I've This is the laboratory that I've learned this is through caregiving. Because I tried everything to to to manage what I've dealt with with my wife. And I and I I struggled with this. And it's through that journey that I came.
To understand that my job was not to control the outcome. I couldn't keep everybody safe. I couldn't fix every problem. I couldn't prevent every crisis. I couldn't manage every complication.
I discovered something very painful. I wasn't the owner of this. I didn't do this to my wife, and I couldn't undo it. My wife has a Savior. I'm not that Saviour.
But that realization changed everything for me. Because stewardship asks a different question. Not how do I control this? How do I faithfully manage what God has entrusted me today? And that's a much healthier question.
That's a much more biblical question. And I'm wondering. If part of the political turmoil that we are having right now comes from confusing ownership with stewardship. The first thing I noticed when they announced that Elon Musk became a trillionaire.
Now first off, if Elon Musk is a trillionaire, how does that affect any of us? I mean really. Life. Nothing. And and I I watched a lot of these peop these um Senator, these politicians, they wanted to confiscate that immediately.
They just thought it was horrendous that he had that much money.
Well, how much money is he allowed to have? And who makes that rule? It's not like he's got it buried in the backyard. He is not taking it that money out of the flow of money and goods and services in the economy, in the world economy. He's got it all invested.
In fact, there I think there's something like I don't know how many hundreds of thousands of people work and if he cashed in all of his money, his wealth, Those people be out of a job. He's got it invested and it's working and it's providing capital. But I noticed how many wanted to look at what we could do with that money. Look at what we could do with that money. Do you remember the lady that that washed Jesus' feet with that perfume?
And one of the disciples, they all kind of grumbled, or at least a lot of them did, it said Scripture said. But one of them went so far as to say, Well, we can look at all we can do with the poor with that money. You know who that was? That was Judas Iscariot. Look at what we could do with that money.
That's our human nature. Without the redemptive work of Christ, we're all like that. He wasn't concerned about the poor. He wanted the money for himself. This is what scripture told him.
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Welcome back to Truth Talk Live. This is Peter Rosenberger. Glad to be with you, 866-34 Truth, 866-348-7884. We've been talking about stewardship and human nature and the temptation to look. for salvation into politics.
It's a bad mistake. And you know, I see all these things. Going on, and all I do is ask the simple question of what you know, go back to scripture. This has nothing to do with my opinion. My opinion is worthless.
What does Scripture say? And before the break, we talk about all this money that Elon Musk has. And everybody, that's too much money for one person to have.
Well, Says who? And what scripture do you base that on? Um You know, look at all that he's got. Look at all the money the billionaires have, the billionaires, as Bernie says, the billionaires. We we left the millionaires and went to the billionaires.
And think of all the things we could do with that money, but I've heard that before. I've read that phrase. We've all heard it. John chapter 12, Mary took expensive perfume and poured it on Jesus. It was worth a year's wages, a year's wages.
And Judas immediately objective do you remember what he said? Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor? That sounds real noble, doesn't it? Practical, oh, it's compassionate. Look at him, he's responsible.
Think of all the good we could do with that money. But then John pulls back the curtain. This, he said, not because he cared about the poor, But because he was a thief. He was a thief, he used to help himself to what was put in the money bag. In other words, Judas wasn't motivated by stewardship.
He's motivated by self-interest.
Now, do you think these people out there who are wanting to confiscate wealth from this group and give it over to this group are motivated by stewardship? That's a very good question. and it deserves an answer. They do basically what Judas did. They wrap themselves.
In the language of compassion. But in reality they're just putting wrapping paper over self-interest. And that's a temptation that every one of us face, not Judas. not just politicians, not just billionaires, all of us, every one of us, that is our condition. I was listening to a sermon series the other day on Matthew, and we get to the crucifixion and they were cried out for Barabbas.
Do you realize and this really stuck with me We're all Barabbas. We're all crying out for Barabbas. In our fallen state, we don't want Christ. We're not some some of us have a little bit better hearts than others All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. And the wages of sin is what?
Death. We're all cried out for Barabbas. We don't want Jesus in our natural state as sinners. What part of sin wants Jesus? Do you see that now?
We're not you got this terrible Oh, this is terrible permeation through our society. This is trust your heart. No! Don't trust your heart? Scripture just, we read that two blocks ago.
Scripture said the heart is exceedingly wicked. Who could know it? Jesus wouldn't trust himself to his own disciples because he knew their heart. You don't trust your heart? It dressed his heart.
Not ours. You trust the redemptive work of God through Christ in our lives, not ours. Paul wrestled with this in Romans 7: I do what I don't want to do, I don't do what I should do. Who will save me from this body of death? It is the man, Christ Jesus.
That's it.
So anybody that doesn't adhere to that. They're going to fall into that same trap over and over and over. They're going to try to create a system. That offers redemption. And they're not going to point to a Savior.
Or whatever savior they're going to point to. Like Mamdani list did last night when he thanked Allah for the victories. Do you think Allah is going to redeem you? Will Allah Save you? Did Allah stretch out His arms and give His life for you?
On the cross? Did he purchase your salvation? Did he live a righteous life so that you could have righteousness imputed to you?
So, when you stand before God, not only has your debt to sin been paid, but then your righteousness is extended from Christ.
so that you can faultlessly stand before the throne. Because of Christ's righteousness. Does the law do that for you? Do the Republicans do that for you? Do the Democrats do that for you?
Does Trump do that for you? There's only one. This is the approach. The Scripture teaches for us.
Now what are we going to do with this information? Test out what I'm saying. If you say, Peter, you're just crazy. You're wrong.
Well, Crazy. Yes, I could go with that. There are a lot of doctors who probably agree with you on that. But am I wrong? Because all I'm telling you is this is what it says in the text.
Now, what are we going to do with this information? How do we respond as citizens of this nation? Because if stewardship is everything that it says it is in Scripture that we've been going through systematically through this entire hour, then we have a responsibility to give an account for what we've done with the great freedoms in this country. Do you vote? Every time?
or as much as you possibly can. You have the freedom to do so. There are places that don't. Are you being a good steward of that? Are you involved in your church?
Are you tithing? to your local church. We have to give an account. We don't like to talk about consequences, do we? People get nervous about that.
But scripture's filled. with consequences. And guess who talked about hell more than anybody else in scripture? Jesus himself. The ultimate consequence of our sin is eternal damnation.
Do we take this seriously? Do we believe this? Do we s we say we do? Do we? And or do we somehow think that the human heart has that spark of goodness in it?
We're all just good people. Get sometimes in bad systems, or we we make a mistake. Yeah. Scripture doesn't teach that. It teaches we need crucifixion.
We don't need Medicine We don't need a pill we don't need rehab. We need a crucifixion. We need death so that we can be resurrected. By the power of God. Crucify yourself.
Jesus said, take up your cross daily and follow me. That doesn't sound like self-glorification, does it? And yet look at what we've become as a people. And we always gravitate towards that. And then we look at somebody else's stuff and think, oh, we could do that better than them.
See, that's that sense of self. We're not dealing with us, we're dealing with other people.
Well, I could do something better with Elon's money than he could. We look at somebody else's business, somebody else's money, somebody else's life, somebody else's success, somebody else's wife. Jesus knew all these things. And we think, well If I'm in charge, I'd do it differently. The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
Who can know it? Jeremiah said. The heart is deceitful. It's not merely mistaken. It doesn't need rehab.
It's deceitful. including our own, particularly our own. And one of the most dangerous assumptions. that any person can make is I can trust myself completely. What does the hymn say?
My hope here. Uh Mm. You know that hill? My hope is built on nothing less Then Jesus' blood and his Righteousness I dare not trust the sweetest frame. But wholly lean on Jesus' name.
One of the most dangerous things that we can do is trust in ourselves. trust our own hearts. No. Trustees. Trustees.
Trust that He who began a good work in you is faithful to complete it to the day of Christ Jesus. The biblical worldview teaches humility, it teaches accountability, it teaches that every one of us is capable of self-deception. which is why stewardship matters so much. It isn't about how much money Elon Musk has. It isn't about whether the government Quote unquote.
is going to dispense it properly. It's not whether your neighbor has money. The issue is, are we being faithful to what God has entrusted us? Steward S stewardship is the key to everything. And maybe that's one of the reasons why our public conversations have gotten so heated.
We spend an awful lot of time discussing what everybody else should do with their resources, and very little time asking. what God expects us to do with ours. I promise you, when you stand before God. And when I stand before God, He is not going to ask me what Elon Musk did with his money. He's not going to ask me.
you know What did Mom Donnie? do after he won an election. These things are cause for alarm. And we have a responsibility to protect this great nation of ours, this bastion of freedom. that we have.
all but squandered, it seems like. But God's going to ask us about What did we do? with what he entrusted us. It's a good question, isn't it? And we got to give it an account for it.
That's truth talk love. 866. Oh, wait, we're out of time here. We got to go. We got to go to a break.
I'm sorry about that. We've got to go for the day, actually. Boy, we got kind of deep in the water here on this one.
Sorry about that, Nick. You can go to caregiver.substack.com for more information. This is Peter Rosenberger. We'll see you next time. Yeah.
