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Greetings. This is Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church

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with a moment of truth where we challenge you to think through an important issue of life and

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faith. And today, I want to challenge you to think, how are we to respond not only to the death of

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Charlie Kirk, but more importantly, to the entire ethos and worldview that made it possible and

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motivated that assassination? And I want to do this in a two-part series. So this is part number one.

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Now, we are understandably shocked and grieved over the assassination of a peaceful, persuasive

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advocate for the Constitution and an advocate for Christian principle in life as well. As has been

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observed again and again since he was gunned down on the campus of Utah Valley University, as he was

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beginning one of his classic prove-me-wrong interactions. I love that. Kirk was a sharp,

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savvy conservative who had crafted one of the most effective persuasion and influence juggernauts in

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the world at Turning Point USA. Well, at this specific event, and he's held many of them, including a

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great annual conference, the Turning Point USA Conference. Well, at this specific event, Kirk was

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fielding questions from young students about issues ranging from abortion to transsexual rights to the

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United States role with Israel in the Middle East. Nothing was off the table. In fact, Charlie Kirk's

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modus operandi proved especially effective with young college-age kids precisely because he encouraged

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open dialogue and opinions fueled by facts and reason rather than empty slogans and pre-programmed

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cliches fed by Marxist professors. And his modus operandi ran directly counter to campus practice,

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which labeled anything other than the progressive narrative as hate speech that needed to be canceled.

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When Charlie Kirk's speech couldn't be canceled, however, by the progressive left,

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the only alternative remaining for them was to cancel his life, which they did with a bullet from an evil

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transsexual shooter. Evidence is pouring in that it was more than a lone wolf shooter, too. A network of

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supporters encouraged and enabled him. This is no surprise when you consider the nature of the evil that

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we face. Our enemy is more than the occasional deranged shooter who inscribes their bullets or their

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gunstocks with cryptic sayings. And we must look past the single shooter to the entirety of that culture

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in which he was nourished. And what I want to stress now, that so many are, now that so many are paying

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attention, at least for the moment they are, to the evil that is at work in our world, I want to draw

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attention to that, is that evil and evil ones vie for power and sway over us, both in the physical realm

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and in the spiritual realm. And we readily see the evil that took Charlie Kirk. But so many miss the

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larger context in which it was framed. Now, military planners have rightly observed since the days of

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Sun Tzu, the great Chinese military strategist from the 5th century BC, whose book, The Art of War,

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set the standard for military strategy. And he always said that knowing one's enemy is the first and

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necessary requirement for victory. Therefore, O Christian, since we are in a spiritual war, know your

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enemy. First of all, what evil is? What is evil? Well, what counts is what God thinks evil is, not what

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we think evil is. And in the Bible, evil is always set in direct opposition to good. There's an adversarial

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relationship. Satan means adversary. Depart from me, you evildoers, the psalmist says, that I may keep the

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commandments of my God. And St. Augustine defined evil as an absence of the good. Oh, I like that

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understanding of evil, the absence of the good. Disobedience to God's commands, thus is evil.

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It has connotations of injustice and deception and falsehood and emptiness. Well, there are three

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components, all of them personified in Satan, three components of evil, and all of them personified in

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Satan, the devil. First of all, evil is adamant opposition to God. Evil is adamant opposition to

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God. Now, as I mentioned earlier, the Hebrew word for adversary is Satan, from which we get our word

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Satan. It means one who opposes God and all for which he stands with great vitriol and hatred and

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animosity. From 1 Chronicles chapter 21, for example, then Satan stood against Israel and incited David to

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number Israel, which issued in great sin and death by an avenging angel. And then from Job, Job chapter

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1, now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also

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came among them. Right? And of course, he tries Job. He asks for Job from God in order to try him,

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and thus kicks off the book of Job. And then from Zechariah chapter 3,

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then he showed me Joshua, the angel. That is, showed me Joshua, the high priest, standing before

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the angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right hand to accuse him. Oh, Satan, the accuser.

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Satan, adversary, has been viciously, tenaciously opposing God's plan to build his great garden city

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kingdom from the beginning in the Garden of Eden, and he will oppose to the end when he is finally

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defeated and thrown into the lake of fire before that great garden city kingdom descends from heaven

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in the closing chapters of Revelation. So make no mistake, dear listener, the murderers of Charlie

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Kirk are very much adversaries, satans of God and his work. They oppose Christ and his church,

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and all for which it stands, and they seek to destroy it. And that brings me to the second aspect

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of evil. The second aspect of evil is that it is murderous and bloodthirsty. Evil seeks to kill and

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destroy the work of God, especially the apple of his eye, mankind. In upbraiding the Jews for their

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intent to kill him, Jesus said to them, you are of your father, the devil, and your will is to do your

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father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and the truth is not in him. Well,

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also, when speaking of himself as the true shepherd, Christ characterized the Jews and their father,

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the devil, as false shepherds and wolves and thieves. He said, the thief comes only to steal and kill and

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destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly, unquote, from our Lord. So, from the

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beginning, when Cain murdered his brother Abel, the evil one has been seeking to kill and destroy. And we

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have seen it in history and in our own day, whether in bloody wars where millions are killed or in an

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assassination where only one life is taken, like Charlie Kirk's. Ah, the third aspect of evil that I

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want to highlight here with you, the third component, is that evil is deceptive, a liar in the face of truth.

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As the serpent deceived Eve in the Garden of Eden, so he and his minions seek to deceive Adam

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and Eve's children. And once more, in the same speech to the Jews, where he calls the devil a

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murderer, Jesus also says of the devil that he does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth

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in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

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And the children of lies exist in the progressive movement today. So, wherever you see lies and

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deception and untruth, there you will find evil. That lie can be a big lie, like the entire big

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picture COVID hoax, or the lie of a worldwide pandemic that was going to kill the world's population.

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That lie was perpetrated, wasn't it? Or there's the single lie, like the MAGA movement was responsible

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for the death of Charlie Kirk, as AOC has tried to say. Oh, lies. Behold, dear listener, the three

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big characteristics of evil. Number one, evil is the sworn enemy of God and the good. It implacably

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opposes the good at every turn. And number two, evil is a bloodthirsty murderer. It kills God's

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creatures wherever and whenever possible. And number three, evil is a liar. It seeks to pretend

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and deceive and mislead mankind. So, where these three elements exist in human behavior, there you

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will find evil. And we see plenty of it around us, and yea, in the death of Charlie Kirk. But it is

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important to see evil in its larger context, if we are going to properly understand the evil in his death.

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Know your enemy, dear listener. Know your enemy. For example, the killer of Charlie Kirk, 22-year-old

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Tyler Robinson, is already being called the trans shooter because he and his lover were in a transsexual

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relationship where his roommate was in the process of transitioning, quote-unquote, to a woman,

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supposedly. And Charlie was shot in part because he was such an effective defender of marriage and

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family and the traditional Christian home. So, already we come up against, in Charlie's death,

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not only the evil of murder per se, but also the evil of the transsexual movement and all for which

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it stands. It is evil. It has already developed a reputation for violence in advancing its goals,

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threatening to shoot and kill those who oppose them. There was the trans shooter Audrey Hale in Nashville,

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Tennessee, for example, the girl in transition to be a male who shot and killed six people at Covenant

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School in Nashville in 2023. And of course, there was the recent Annunciation Catholic school shooting

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in Minneapolis, where 23-year-old Robin Westman killed two children and injured 21 others. He,

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too, was attempting to transition to a woman without much success. Well, the larger evil altogether

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is the attack upon God's plan for filling the earth and taking dominion of it. That is the biblical

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family. That's the real target of the transsexual and the LBGTQ plus movement. Oh, under whatever

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rubric one chooses to categorize himself under the LBGTQ plus categories, whatever rubric you choose,

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it stands in opposition to the family. And thus, you are an adversary to God if you are one. In seeking

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to kill those who oppose them, trans shooters become murderers like their first father, the devil.

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In trying to normalize and regularize their movement, too, they lie and deceive us into thinking

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that it is okay and natural to accept them. Well, since Charlie Kirk was so effective in holding out

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for the biblical family, and he modeled it with his own wife and two children, he had to be killed.

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Widening our lens even further, we see why the progressive left embraces the LBGTQ plus movement

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as its own, too. The progressive left is increasingly exposing its Marxist petticoat, so to speak, to the

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world. Ah, Mom Donnie's socialist credentials in the New York City mayoral race, for example, is only the

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most recent manifestation of those tendencies. Where Marxism and LBGTQ plus interests intersect is in the

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destruction of the biblical family structure. Yes, the progressive left, the socialist left, and LBGTQ plus

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have this in common, the destruction of the biblical family. The communist manifesto, for example, declares

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as one of its planks, and I quote from it, abolition of the family. The bourgeois family will vanish as a

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matter of course when its complement vanishes, and that complement was private property, and that

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the communist manifesto goes on to say, and both will vanish with the vanishing of capital.

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This is one reason we can characterize Marxist communism socialism as evil.

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Marxist communism socialism is evil. They are the implacable, violent, eternal enemy of God's plan

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for taking dominion of His creation, and that is the biblical family. And any measure taken against

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the biblical family will help to destroy it. Political power and government resources, for example,

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that are used to advance elements destructive to the family will help achieve progressivism's purpose.

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Whether it is the LBGTQ plus causes, like gender transition care, as it's called, yes. Or abortion,

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which of course is a bloody measure in itself that murders life and also destroys the family. Or whether

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it's divorce or pornography, all of these things and more are adversaries to the biblical family,

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and thus they are evil. The LBGTQ plus movement is evil. And no one understands this better than the

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progressive. It is why they continue to make excuses and create lies to cover for the shooter in the death

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of Charlie Kirk. Many, many more in this movement are evil than just Tyler Robinson. The progressive left

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is complicit in this crime, aiding and abetting him by lying to us about him and extenuating his reasons

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for reacting in violence over his choices in perversion. But we are not finished in our pursuit of evil,

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dear listener. To use an airline analogy, we can take the 35,000 foot view. 35,000 feet is the optimum

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cruising altitude for an aircraft. And you can see a lot from 35,000 feet. So we're going to take that

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35,000 foot view of evil in our world. The grip of evil is far more comprehensive than the destruction

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of the human family, I submit to you. We must also understand that we struggle against an enemy

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that would take everything that we have, everything that we are, and would reduce us to mere husks of

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humanity. Perhaps even the walking golem type creatures that you see at progressive rallies these

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days, the actual demon controlled embodied spirits with empty eyes and screeching voices, having had their

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souls sucked out of them in their progressive degeneration. Know your enemy if you will defeat

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him, dear listener. Know your enemy. Well, behind the street thugs of progressivism, the actual foot

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soldiers used to kill, burn, and bully the American public, the pawns in this 3D chess game, behind them

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lie the controllers who know exactly what they are doing. They're not fools. They're not being

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mistaken in what they do. They are the corporate and political heads that you hear about occasionally,

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who attend the summits at Davos, Switzerland, or can be seen with Klaus Schwab at the World Economic

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Forum, or who regularly enforce DEI policies from corporate boardrooms. All of these and more are

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ubiquitous and iniquitous. They love evil, and they hate the good. I have detailed their names and

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activities in other broadcasts, so I urge you to check out our broadcast archive at our website,

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americastruths.org. That's all one word, americastruths.org. Know your enemy, dear listener,

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if you will defeat him. Know your enemy. Well, even as their father, the devil, seeks to steal,

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kill, and destroy, so these elites seek to rob and steal all that we have and reduce us to the kind

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of serfdom and slavery not seen since the Middle Ages. And one of their major tools is the destruction

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of our free market economy with the implementation of socialism. Socialism is evil, dear listener.

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A core principle of socialism is, of course, the abolition of private property, one of the planks of

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the Communist Manifesto. And corporate America is only too glad to assist in this venture,

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gobbling up all wealth and assets it can lay its hands on in the meantime. For example, Blackstone and

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other hedge funds now own over 25% of private homes in America. Think of it. They are striving to make

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it impossible for the average citizen to buy and own their own home, which is the classic American

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dream, of course. And we will soon be a nation of renters and already are mostly there with many young

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people. And then also billionaires like Bill Gates are buying up farmland and sequestering its use for

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growing crops in the name of climate change. Well, in the last 10 years, for example, over 144,000

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small farms have disappeared from the American countryside. Oh, let me remind you, dear listener,

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no farms, no food. Also, thirdly, then banks are desperately trying to get us to transition to

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digital currency and away from cash so that all of our activities can be tracked, canceled when necessary,

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and controlled all the time. With the advent of your CBDC, that is your central bank digital currency

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account, with it coming soon, your days as a free man already constricting will disappear

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altogether. Those of you thinking that this CBDC account is progress, a good thing. Be careful what you

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ask for, what you wish for. Perhaps you also remember during COVID, the teaser that the World Economic

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Forum put out forecasting the future world post-COVID. COVID was really a naked power grab by corporations

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and government. And that teaser, that short, featured a grinning, unmarried, brain-dead millennial

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living in a futuristic 15-minute city who worked from home and lived in a rented 250-square-foot

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apartment. He owned no car, but he walked and used public transportation to get around. And that teaser

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concluded with the ominous prediction, you will own nothing and be happy. Oh, I always shiver and feel

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like adding, or else. You will own nothing and be happy. That is the Marxist dream for all of us.

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Most people have a hard time wrapping their heads around this phenomenon unfolding before our eyes,

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but it is happening. There's a conspiracy, if you will, for government and corporations to garner all

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the wealth of the earth. It's breathtaking to consider, and then consequently virtually enslave

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the remainder of mankind. This is nothing but pure evil, dear listener. The current fascination,

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for example, the rock star status that mayoral candidate in New York City, Zoran Mamdani,

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has with progressives is indicative of the naive stupidity of the American people when it comes to

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socialism. It's trendy for many to think that socialism is a good thing and that the reason it

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has never worked or it's been tried, places like the Soviet Union or Romania or Venezuela, is that it

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just hasn't been implemented correctly, which is what we socialists will do. Oh, dear listener,

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that is pure hubris. Charlie Kirk was very effective in explaining these things to college students.

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He argued persuasively for a free market capitalist economy, and he warned of the dangers of a shallow

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rock star politician like Mamdani. Kirk knew his history. It's another reason they killed him.

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When evil cannot argue or reason or persuade, it kills. And then, the lust for blood. Satan is a

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murderer. He has been from the beginning. And the lust for blood is nowhere more evident than in the

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pursuit of perpetual war. If the evil one seeks to frustrate the plan of God and eradicate his pet

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creature man, then war always has been and continues to be a favorite means to that end. And currently,

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that includes the ongoing bloodletting in Ukraine and that ethnic dogfight in Gaza. Recently, the

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president of the European Union outlined her plan for the next 10 years of the EU's economy, and that

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is war with Russia, the basis for an economy. Major publications like the Macro Pulse have headlines like

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the coming European war economy, what it means for interest rates, inflation, and real estate.

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Oh, this is nothing but pure evil, dear listener. As I have documented in other broadcasts, the Biden

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administration, in full cooperation with NATO and the EU, excuse me, goaded Russia. Biden's

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administration goaded Russia into invading Ukraine in 2022 and has been perpetuating that war ever since,

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despite opportunities to negotiate peace. And the stated goal is to bleed Russia dry and divide her

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into four quadrants and rule Russia from Brussels. And one must ask, in light of the millions of lives

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lost already in this conflict, how many more millions will die in the projected 10-year war,

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even if the EU achieves its objectives? The devil was a murderer from the beginning,

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and his minions continue in his footsteps. Can we adequately describe the evil bloodlust that is

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present among those who practice evil? The Luciferian cults that proliferate today, and that's a topic

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for another broadcast even. But it is another marker of the evil infesting our world when the Luciferian

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cults that proliferate today are famous for their occult blood rituals. Oh, the devil loves blood. But we

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do not have to seek out the occult to see the devil's love for blood. His evil minions are already

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practicing blood ritual openly on the battlefields of Ukraine and Gaza. Charlie Kirk also argued effectively

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with college students for the ending of the tragic war in Ukraine, and he also argued for a more measured

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response by Israel in defense of her homeland. His reasoning was cogent and reasonable. It is yet

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another reason they wanted him dead. The devil was a murderer from the beginning, and his lifeless minions

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follow in his footsteps, even in Utah. The larger takeaway for me from the assassination of Charlie

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Kirk is that we do face evil on a very broad front, dear listener. All of history, all of life, and in

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every aspect of the daily lives we live, we face evil, and it's increasing. Know your enemy, dear listener,

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if you will defeat him. Know your enemy. We are at war, and that warfare is primarily a spiritual one.

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Charlie's Roman Catholic faith informed him of this, and Kirk kept reminding us of this fact.

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As Paul says in Ephesians,

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for we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities,

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against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil

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in the heavenly places. Unquote. Yes, dear listener, know your enemy, and your enemy is primarily

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spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. And unless we are prepared to do battle in this arena,

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then we will be defeated. We will be defeated, be defeated, excuse me, time and again, and we'll be

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confused and wonder all the time at, at incidents like the murder of Charlie Kirk in Utah. But we do not

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have to be ignorant, dear listener. Know that it is Christ alone. In him, we find the spiritual armor

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and the weapons needed to do battle with evil. Unless and until there is a revival in America

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and a reformation of our entire lifestyles, we will continue to be befuddled and be bedraggled,

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if you will, and be defeated by those spiritual forces of evil if we are not prepared to do

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spiritual warfare with them. And the first thing is a new birth in the Lord Jesus Christ, and then

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he prepares us to do spiritual battle. This has been Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox

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Presbyterian Church. We meet for holy worship Sunday at 10 a.m. And for the time being,

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we are meeting at the Senior Citizen Center in Idaho Falls, which is located on the corner of 21st and

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Rolandette in Idaho Falls, 10 a.m. And we encourage you to join us for worship, and you can call us for

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more information at area code 208-523-0196.