WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:07.200 Is there some kind of an underlying reason why we don't want to listen to people above us? 2 00:00:08.080 --> 00:00:15.440 We have all seen evidence throughout our lifetime, whether it is in government, 3 00:00:15.440 --> 00:00:23.360 whether it is in schools, whether it is in churches, we have all seen abuses of power. 4 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:44.080 Hi guys, and welcome to another episode of Truth Talk. I've really been struggling with 5 00:00:44.080 --> 00:00:52.960 whether or not to even put another episode out today and just really, really felt burdened by 6 00:00:52.960 --> 00:00:59.440 the Lord that I wasn't sure what He was telling me, if He was telling me, or what He was going 7 00:00:59.440 --> 00:01:07.840 to do when I got to this place. So we decided to just see what the Lord had to say through 8 00:01:08.880 --> 00:01:14.560 me in regards to what I see going on in the world that has been highlighted here 9 00:01:14.560 --> 00:01:22.960 in the last several days. What is sticking out to me like a sore thumb is it seems to me 10 00:01:23.920 --> 00:01:31.040 evident why I have trust issues. I don't think anybody on here who has seen any of my previous 11 00:01:31.040 --> 00:01:37.520 episodes would ever wonder why I have trust issues, blame me for having trust issues. 12 00:01:39.680 --> 00:01:50.240 I think that's just common sense. What I see unfolding before my eyes is I'm clearly not alone, 13 00:01:50.240 --> 00:01:58.640 but it's not just one in three people or one in six people like seem to be the statistics 14 00:01:58.640 --> 00:02:05.760 for those of us who have experienced childhood sexual abuse, but it literally seems to me that 15 00:02:05.760 --> 00:02:12.400 nobody on this planet trusts anybody else on this planet. Let me tell you what I'm talking about. 16 00:02:13.280 --> 00:02:21.600 There is so much going on. Even here in Texas, we have a governor who will issue an executive order 17 00:02:22.240 --> 00:02:28.080 and then we have judges who just decide they don't like that order and they will just decide 18 00:02:28.080 --> 00:02:34.800 to do whatever they want to regardless of what their authority tells them they can or cannot do. 19 00:02:35.600 --> 00:02:42.880 And so what it does is it puts people like the school boards and other people directly affected 20 00:02:42.880 --> 00:02:49.440 by those orders in the crosshairs of, okay, well, which one of these people am I supposed to 21 00:02:49.440 --> 00:02:57.760 follow their instructions? And it just seems like every time there is any issue for anything 22 00:02:58.400 --> 00:03:05.600 that is then put into an order or goes to court, you have this judge that rules this way, 23 00:03:05.600 --> 00:03:10.080 and then they take it to the court above them, and then that judge overrules this judge. 24 00:03:10.880 --> 00:03:20.000 It is just a struggle for power and a struggle for control. So I totally understand that because 25 00:03:20.880 --> 00:03:30.400 for me, I do not like giving up control. I just don't. I had things taken from me at a young age 26 00:03:30.400 --> 00:03:37.280 and I blindly followed a person who I should have been able to trust, 27 00:03:38.160 --> 00:03:46.240 and it did not end well for me. And that person was my authority. Therefore, I do not just trust 28 00:03:46.240 --> 00:03:52.320 easily. In fact, I usually don't trust at all. I think some people start with, okay, if I meet 29 00:03:52.320 --> 00:03:56.240 somebody, I'm going to trust them until they give me a reason not to trust. It's the opposite with 30 00:03:56.240 --> 00:04:01.600 me. I don't trust you until you prove yourself trustworthy. So it's just from different 31 00:04:01.600 --> 00:04:09.040 perspectives. But what I'm seeing in the world we are living in today is that the authority 32 00:04:09.600 --> 00:04:20.320 that we are under is being questioned on every level. And part of me as an authority to my 33 00:04:20.320 --> 00:04:29.200 children or whatever God gives me authority over, that's bothersome. But as someone who was 34 00:04:29.200 --> 00:04:37.600 abused by authority, I completely understand that. And so I'm just wondering how closely connected 35 00:04:37.600 --> 00:04:49.840 these things are. So I'm just wondering how many people who are butting heads and defying authority, 36 00:04:51.520 --> 00:04:59.920 where is the basis for that? Where is the pushback coming from? Really, where is it? 37 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:08.880 coming from? Not just because you're a Democrat or you're a Republican or whatever. Where is the 38 00:05:08.880 --> 00:05:16.720 pushback coming from? Is there some kind of an underlying reason why we don't want to listen 39 00:05:16.720 --> 00:05:25.680 to people above us? We have all seen evidence throughout our lifetime, whether it is in 40 00:05:25.680 --> 00:05:34.720 government, whether it is in schools, whether it is in churches. We have all seen abuses of power. 41 00:05:34.720 --> 00:05:40.880 I mean, things make headlines all the time. You know, Governor Cuomo just resigned because 42 00:05:40.880 --> 00:05:47.520 he clearly abused his power. Wasn't fair. Don't know what happened. I'm assuming that, you know, 43 00:05:47.520 --> 00:05:53.680 there was a really, really long investigation and a lot of pages and lots of witnesses that, 44 00:05:53.680 --> 00:05:58.880 you know, that it's legit. You know, I'm not placing blame one way or the other, but it's 45 00:05:58.880 --> 00:06:06.800 not surprising because the Bible warns us that power is in money. All of that can go to our heads 46 00:06:06.800 --> 00:06:15.520 and that's why God warns us about those things. But the bottom line is, who can we trust nowadays? 47 00:06:15.600 --> 00:06:26.560 Who can we truly trust in authority to not mislead us, to not guide us in the wrong direction, 48 00:06:26.560 --> 00:06:32.320 manipulate us for their own gain, you know, whatever it is, all the ways that people 49 00:06:32.320 --> 00:06:39.760 in power abuse their authority. And the bottom line is this, you can't. You cannot trust people, 50 00:06:39.760 --> 00:06:48.560 period. You, you, you are foolish to trust people. The only thing you can do and the only 51 00:06:48.560 --> 00:06:57.280 one you can trust is God. You put your trust in God and then he is the one who allows you 52 00:06:57.280 --> 00:07:05.200 to have the discernment, the wisdom, and the wherewithal to know whether or not that authority 53 00:07:05.920 --> 00:07:13.360 is trustworthy. You cannot know that by someone just by looking at them. First of all, we only 54 00:07:13.360 --> 00:07:19.200 see what they allow us to see. Okay. God knows their heart. God looks on the heart. That's very 55 00:07:19.200 --> 00:07:22.480 clear in the Bible. Man looks on the outward appearance. God looks on the heart. Let me just 56 00:07:22.480 --> 00:07:26.880 tell you, I'm not trying to throw Cuomo under the bus here, but you know, he gets on his little, 57 00:07:28.320 --> 00:07:34.960 you know, rebuttal from the investigation that said, yes, he was guilty of the sexual 58 00:07:35.040 --> 00:07:43.120 harassment. And he wants to use the excuse that he's been in, in public office his entire adult 59 00:07:43.120 --> 00:07:49.120 life and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And this is just not who he is. And he says it so convincingly, 60 00:07:49.120 --> 00:07:57.200 like I felt myself wanting to believe this man, but as I'm listening to him, those are the same 61 00:07:57.280 --> 00:08:06.080 exact words that my dad would use. My dad was a Baptist preacher for years and years and years. 62 00:08:06.080 --> 00:08:13.840 And that just would not have been in character for him. And so you want to believe the best 63 00:08:13.840 --> 00:08:18.640 about someone. I think that's human nature. I think we want people to believe the best about us. 64 00:08:18.640 --> 00:08:25.200 And so we want to believe the best about them. But the more you experience life and the more 65 00:08:25.760 --> 00:08:33.440 you walk with the Lord and he reveals things to you, you realize there is no man that is 66 00:08:34.240 --> 00:08:41.840 trustworthy. In fact, no one is even worthy of that without having the Holy Spirit in them. 67 00:08:41.840 --> 00:08:48.880 And then even those of us who do, we still fail. So you can't even say, I'm going to trust 68 00:08:49.600 --> 00:08:56.480 a person who walks with the Lord because we are still in the flesh some of the time. 69 00:08:57.440 --> 00:09:04.080 It's not our goal, but it's just, we live in a fallen world and we are born with a sin nature. 70 00:09:04.080 --> 00:09:10.560 So we're not perfect and we're not going to be until we get to heaven. So I have to always, 71 00:09:10.560 --> 00:09:16.960 always just continue to go back to scripture myself. And I want to point you guys to a couple 72 00:09:16.960 --> 00:09:25.360 of scriptures that I think is just, they're very comforting in knowing that no matter what is going 73 00:09:25.360 --> 00:09:34.160 on, you have to just remember that we can't let it, like this first verse is John 14 one, where 74 00:09:34.160 --> 00:09:39.920 it says, don't let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God and trust also in me. This is Jesus talking 75 00:09:39.920 --> 00:09:45.760 to his disciples. There will be something for us to be troubled about all the time. 76 00:09:45.760 --> 00:09:55.120 It is very unnerving for me to send my son back to Dallas County where I believe this, 77 00:09:55.120 --> 00:09:59.680 you know, tyrannical judge or whatever he is, 78 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:08.400 Jenkins, county judge, is completely defying his authorities, which is 79 00:10:08.400 --> 00:10:15.240 Governor Abbott's executive order about masks and vaccines. I don't like sending 80 00:10:15.240 --> 00:10:21.480 my son back into what I call the lion's den. I don't like it. My son is a 81 00:10:21.480 --> 00:10:26.400 grown adult and so keeping him aware of the information, you know, he's at a 82 00:10:26.400 --> 00:10:30.960 private school so hopefully they'll have more sense than to do, you know, than to 83 00:10:30.960 --> 00:10:34.760 follow this guy's lead since he's not saying it is for private institutions, 84 00:10:34.760 --> 00:10:40.800 it's only for public schools and things like that. But there is many, many people 85 00:10:40.800 --> 00:10:48.520 that are affected by this and when a governor says you can't do this and a 86 00:10:48.520 --> 00:10:53.800 judge says well I'm gonna do it anyway, it really can trouble us. But what we 87 00:10:53.800 --> 00:10:59.400 have to do is we have to continue to say that God knew these things, all 88 00:10:59.400 --> 00:11:03.520 things that trouble us, not just this one, but in this case that God knew that we 89 00:11:03.520 --> 00:11:07.800 were going to be troubled and Jesus is telling his own disciples and these are 90 00:11:07.800 --> 00:11:12.320 the same disciples that saw him walk on the water, that saw him raise people from 91 00:11:12.320 --> 00:11:16.440 the dead. So I'm thinking if I've been hanging out with Jesus that whole time, I 92 00:11:16.440 --> 00:11:20.360 probably wouldn't be troubled about anything, you know, I'm thinking okay this 93 00:11:20.400 --> 00:11:25.920 guy just fed 5,000 plus people with a couple of fish and some bread, so what in 94 00:11:25.920 --> 00:11:32.280 the world do I have to be troubled about? No, our walk today in 2021 is totally by 95 00:11:32.280 --> 00:11:37.080 faith. Like I don't know any living human being that can say I was there and I 96 00:11:37.080 --> 00:11:40.760 witnessed this. No, none of us do, okay, because people don't live that long 97 00:11:40.760 --> 00:11:47.880 anymore. So we have to trust and have faith that the Bible that was written, 98 00:11:47.880 --> 00:11:52.920 you know, 2,000 years ago is and has been translated and translated and 99 00:11:52.920 --> 00:11:57.080 translated and translated and finally put into the message version so that I 100 00:11:57.080 --> 00:12:00.960 can understand it, and I love that version, I call it the blonde version of 101 00:12:00.960 --> 00:12:08.080 the Bible, and that that is still God's Word and the thing is, and this is 102 00:12:08.080 --> 00:12:11.680 another thing I just want to point out, there's a lot of controversy about that 103 00:12:11.680 --> 00:12:18.000 too, so I just want to say there is nothing that God cannot reveal to us 104 00:12:18.000 --> 00:12:22.480 when we're seeking Him. Bible says if you seek Him, you will find Him, right? Okay, 105 00:12:22.480 --> 00:12:26.160 so let's just say someone got it wrong, you know, like in the translation 106 00:12:26.160 --> 00:12:32.000 somebody messed something up. If I'm seeking the Lord, He is not going to 107 00:12:32.000 --> 00:12:37.440 allow me to to have the wrong meaning for something. He's going to reveal 108 00:12:37.440 --> 00:12:41.920 Himself to me, even if some man went in and used the wrong word because that 109 00:12:41.920 --> 00:12:46.120 Greek word or that Hebrew word or whatever it was was wrong. You know, He, 110 00:12:46.120 --> 00:12:51.080 God knows our hearts. He knows our heart's desire, and if our heart's desire is to seek Him, 111 00:12:51.080 --> 00:12:55.920 He's going to let us find Him, and He's not going to distort who He is just 112 00:12:55.920 --> 00:12:59.320 because He's trying to match up with some verse that some guy might have 113 00:12:59.320 --> 00:13:03.920 misinterpreted. So let's just get that clear, but I just want to make sure that 114 00:13:03.920 --> 00:13:13.840 we all know that in these times of craziness, I'm talking insanity, craziness 115 00:13:13.840 --> 00:13:20.200 that we are dealing with in our country today, we have to remind ourselves to go 116 00:13:20.200 --> 00:13:24.920 back to something that has never ever changed, and that's the Word of God, okay? 117 00:13:24.920 --> 00:13:30.520 That is the Word of God. So what we have to do is we have to stop in the midst of 118 00:13:30.880 --> 00:13:36.560 all this nuts stuff, and we have to pull out our Bibles, and we have to remind 119 00:13:36.560 --> 00:13:41.920 ourselves, what does the Lord tell us? Do we need to get upset about this? Do we 120 00:13:41.920 --> 00:13:48.880 need to be putting all of our time and effort into researching, okay, who should 121 00:13:48.880 --> 00:13:54.440 I believe here? Or, you know, okay, what's on His agenda? It doesn't even matter. We 122 00:13:54.440 --> 00:14:01.040 have to do what we believe the Lord's telling us to do, and if that requires us 123 00:14:01.040 --> 00:14:06.600 to remove ourselves out from underneath someone's authority, then we need to make 124 00:14:06.600 --> 00:14:10.680 that decision, okay? There are certain things that you can't remove yourself 125 00:14:10.680 --> 00:14:15.440 from. That's why the Bible doesn't say, children, obey your parents in the Lord 126 00:14:15.440 --> 00:14:20.920 for this is right. Oh, unless they tell you to do something, whatever, you know, it 127 00:14:21.000 --> 00:14:26.440 doesn't say, there's no caveat there, and you know why? Because the parent is held 128 00:14:26.440 --> 00:14:31.840 responsible, because the child is not in a position to remove themselves from 129 00:14:31.840 --> 00:14:38.120 their authority underneath the parents, okay? But if Governor Abbott decided to 130 00:14:38.120 --> 00:14:43.400 make this state a state that we're all gonna now, you know, worship the, I don't 131 00:14:43.400 --> 00:14:48.240 know, the Buddha, the people, the Buddhists, or whatever, I have a choice, you know? 132 00:14:48.240 --> 00:14:51.880 I mean, I've lived here a long time. I would not want to pack it up and move, 133 00:14:51.880 --> 00:14:58.120 but I'm certainly not going to remain under a leader that is telling me to do 134 00:14:58.120 --> 00:15:01.920 something that is against God's will. 135 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:05.520 word. Period. End of story. Now, let me also say, and I will tell you, I am not a 136 00:15:05.520 --> 00:15:10.040 mask person. There's lots of reasons I don't want to wear a mask. One of the 137 00:15:10.040 --> 00:15:14.040 main reasons is because I don't like my mouth covered. That is a trigger for me. 138 00:15:14.040 --> 00:15:19.240 It creates all kinds of issues from what I've experienced in my past. I mean, you 139 00:15:19.240 --> 00:15:22.680 guys have heard about the sexual abuse. You don't know about the rape. You don't 140 00:15:22.680 --> 00:15:27.440 know about other things that are really... Those things are triggers for me. 141 00:15:27.440 --> 00:15:32.600 So, I have to be careful what I do because it creates a lot of issues for 142 00:15:32.600 --> 00:15:37.220 me. So, I'm not gonna wear a mask unless like someone had a gun to one of my 143 00:15:37.220 --> 00:15:41.360 children's head. I would probably deal with it then. Okay. So, I choose not to get 144 00:15:41.360 --> 00:15:44.680 on an airplane. I choose not to go on a cruise. There's things that I 145 00:15:44.680 --> 00:15:50.400 choose not to do. So, and I can do that as a grown adult because I don't have to 146 00:15:50.400 --> 00:15:54.840 abide by those things. I just may miss out on, you know, going into a business 147 00:15:54.960 --> 00:15:58.520 that requires that. And that's my choice just like it is their choice to decide 148 00:15:58.520 --> 00:16:07.560 to do that for themselves. But I am NOT going to allow that to completely 149 00:16:07.560 --> 00:16:13.080 overwhelm my mind, overtake my spirit, and take away the peace that God 150 00:16:13.080 --> 00:16:17.600 promises me. That's not how he wants us to live. He just does not want us to live 151 00:16:17.600 --> 00:16:25.240 that way. And there's many, many reassurances in his Word that help us to 152 00:16:25.240 --> 00:16:30.560 remember that. You know, here's one right here that when I was just telling you 153 00:16:30.560 --> 00:16:36.720 like 2nd Corinthians 5-7 says for we live by believing and not by seeing. 154 00:16:36.720 --> 00:16:46.520 Okay. We have to believe that God left this letter for us for a reason. And 155 00:16:46.520 --> 00:16:52.400 although it was written and inspired by the Holy Spirit 2,000 years ago, it is 156 00:16:52.400 --> 00:16:58.760 the same yesterday, today, and forever because it is God's Word and God does 157 00:16:58.760 --> 00:17:07.200 not change. So we have to trust that God knew when he wrote it that we were all 158 00:17:07.200 --> 00:17:12.160 going to be here in 2021 and that we would need to have this to know how to 159 00:17:12.160 --> 00:17:17.319 live in the peace that he says in his Word that he left us. And it's his peace, 160 00:17:17.319 --> 00:17:22.040 not the world's peace, but he says I'll leave you my peace. Okay. So those are 161 00:17:22.040 --> 00:17:29.200 those are things that we just we have to trust in and we have to absolutely put 162 00:17:29.200 --> 00:17:33.840 our instead of our emphasis being on what's happening around us, we have to 163 00:17:33.840 --> 00:17:40.600 have our emphasis and our focus on God's Word. Psalm 62 8, Oh my people, trust in 164 00:17:40.600 --> 00:17:47.920 him at all times. Pour out your heart to him for God is our refuge. Okay. I feel 165 00:17:47.920 --> 00:17:52.840 most days like I need a refuge. There are some days that I have said to my 166 00:17:52.840 --> 00:17:57.800 husband, I think it's gonna go back to bed and just like pull the covers over 167 00:17:57.800 --> 00:18:04.000 my head. It's not gonna let anybody know where I am. There's so much coming at us. I 168 00:18:04.000 --> 00:18:07.560 feel sometimes like we are just bombarded. I mean we are in the 169 00:18:07.560 --> 00:18:12.240 information age, but for the love, like how much information can a person ingest 170 00:18:12.240 --> 00:18:17.640 in one day? It's like my brain hurts, you know, by three in the afternoon. My brain 171 00:18:17.640 --> 00:18:25.560 is like on fire. And God is our refuge. There is no craziness in the Lord. God is 172 00:18:25.560 --> 00:18:30.560 a God of peace. He's not a God of confusion. He's God of peace and he says 173 00:18:30.560 --> 00:18:36.200 he is our refuge. But you know what? If there's a refuge over there and we see 174 00:18:36.200 --> 00:18:41.920 it, we know it's there, but we refuse to enter in to that refuge, then that refuge 175 00:18:41.920 --> 00:18:45.800 does us no good, right? So it's just like what I was talking about with the Holy Spirit, you 176 00:18:45.800 --> 00:18:49.880 know? He is our power source, but if we don't plug in like we would a vacuum 177 00:18:49.880 --> 00:18:54.320 cleaner to the power source, we do not have access to the power, okay? So you 178 00:18:54.320 --> 00:19:02.040 have to make an adult decision, a grown-up conscious choice to put your 179 00:19:02.040 --> 00:19:08.080 hope, your faith in the Lord and allow him to be your refuge. And that is a, 180 00:19:08.080 --> 00:19:12.840 sometimes that is just changing some habits that we have, you know? And there's 181 00:19:12.840 --> 00:19:16.160 a, there's a speaker I used to listen to and she would say, you know, when 182 00:19:16.160 --> 00:19:20.640 something goes wrong, do you go to the throne or you go to the phone, you know? 183 00:19:20.640 --> 00:19:23.800 Do you call your friends and you talk to them about it or do you go to the throne? 184 00:19:23.800 --> 00:19:28.000 Do you hit your knees and you say, okay God, I'm sorry, what was that? And you 185 00:19:28.000 --> 00:19:31.680 tell him, you know? So many people are afraid to talk to the Lord about some 186 00:19:31.680 --> 00:19:36.200 things simply because they don't want to, you know, like talk to God about that. 187 00:19:36.200 --> 00:19:41.200 Well, God already knows what we're thinking and God gave us our emotions, so 188 00:19:41.200 --> 00:19:46.960 there's nothing we're gonna hide from him. So anything that stresses us out, he 189 00:19:46.960 --> 00:19:51.600 wants us to take it to him, you know? Cast your cares, cast your burdens at on, on 190 00:19:51.600 --> 00:19:56.400 the Lord, you know? And so I just feel like sometimes we just need to stop and 191 00:19:56.400 --> 00:20:02.000 we need to remember that we can suck in all this information... 192 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:01.980 from all these different news sources, 193 00:20:01.980 --> 00:20:04.620 back channels, mainstream, everywhere, 194 00:20:04.620 --> 00:20:06.820 but sometimes you need to turn it off 195 00:20:06.820 --> 00:20:09.060 and we need to pull out our Bible 196 00:20:09.060 --> 00:20:10.380 and we need to say, okay God, 197 00:20:10.380 --> 00:20:11.980 I've heard literally what everyone else 198 00:20:11.980 --> 00:20:14.120 on the planet says today. 199 00:20:14.120 --> 00:20:15.300 What are you telling me? 200 00:20:15.300 --> 00:20:17.620 What do you say to me today? 201 00:20:17.620 --> 00:20:19.300 And that is the takeaway. 202 00:20:19.300 --> 00:20:22.620 It is, is your trust gonna be in the news media? 203 00:20:22.620 --> 00:20:25.800 Is your trust gonna be in the county judge? 204 00:20:25.800 --> 00:20:28.060 Is your trust gonna be in the governor, 205 00:20:28.060 --> 00:20:31.300 the president, the military? 206 00:20:31.300 --> 00:20:34.660 You know, where are you putting your trust? 207 00:20:34.660 --> 00:20:39.580 And I, for one, know that I cannot 208 00:20:39.580 --> 00:20:42.940 and will not trust anyone but the Lord. 209 00:20:42.940 --> 00:20:44.900 And that is hard sometimes 210 00:20:44.900 --> 00:20:47.000 because you feel like you're on an island, 211 00:20:48.060 --> 00:20:51.820 but even if there was no one with you, 212 00:20:51.820 --> 00:20:54.020 then Jesus is enough. 213 00:20:54.060 --> 00:20:58.620 And that is, for me, it's just very reassuring. 214 00:20:58.620 --> 00:21:00.100 And I want to encourage you 215 00:21:00.100 --> 00:21:03.480 that if you do not have that relationship with him, 216 00:21:03.480 --> 00:21:05.620 you can't even relate to what I'm talking about. 217 00:21:05.620 --> 00:21:08.380 You have to have a relationship, 218 00:21:08.380 --> 00:21:10.620 which requires reaching out 219 00:21:10.620 --> 00:21:13.540 and inviting him into your life. 220 00:21:13.540 --> 00:21:15.740 And so if you do not have that, 221 00:21:15.740 --> 00:21:18.760 I'm gonna encourage you either to send an email, 222 00:21:18.760 --> 00:21:20.600 which we will put the link in this, 223 00:21:21.600 --> 00:21:23.600 in under the show notes, 224 00:21:23.600 --> 00:21:26.120 or if you know somebody that is a Christian, 225 00:21:26.120 --> 00:21:28.140 you know, we are all very excited 226 00:21:28.140 --> 00:21:30.920 to share our Savior with other people 227 00:21:30.920 --> 00:21:34.160 because right now that's the one thing 228 00:21:34.160 --> 00:21:37.160 that is missing in this world is Jesus. 229 00:21:37.160 --> 00:21:38.680 We tried to take him out of schools. 230 00:21:38.680 --> 00:21:40.440 We tried, we have taken, 231 00:21:40.440 --> 00:21:41.980 we've taken him out of churches, 232 00:21:41.980 --> 00:21:44.540 which is just unbelievable for me to think about that. 233 00:21:44.540 --> 00:21:47.840 But we have, and removing him has done nothing 234 00:21:47.840 --> 00:21:49.480 but make it worse for all of us. 235 00:21:49.480 --> 00:21:52.460 So I just want to encourage you to reach out to us 236 00:21:52.460 --> 00:21:55.320 or somebody that you know that can help you 237 00:21:55.320 --> 00:21:58.200 to find the Lord and to start your walk with him 238 00:21:58.200 --> 00:22:01.440 because nothing else is going to satisfy 239 00:22:01.440 --> 00:22:02.680 or is going to bring peace 240 00:22:02.680 --> 00:22:05.680 that I know we all so desperately long for 241 00:22:05.680 --> 00:22:08.360 in the craziness of this world. 242 00:22:08.360 --> 00:22:11.880 So I just want to thank everyone for joining us today 243 00:22:11.880 --> 00:22:14.100 and invite you to come back next week 244 00:22:14.100 --> 00:22:16.680 on the next episode of Truth Talk.