Are You Going To Heaven? Why You – And Donald Trump – Can Have Assurance

Wretched Radio with Todd Friel

Fortis Institute

Religion, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Segment 1

• Trump’s uncertainty about heaven reveals confusion over grace vs. works.

• Roman Catholic Matt Walsh misrepresents Protestant assurance.

• Assurance isn’t arrogance: true believers persevere because Christ keeps them.

Segment 2

• Matt Walsh calls eternal security a modern invention—but church history disagrees.

• Early church fathers affirmed God preserves His elect.

• Works prove salvation; they don’t earn it—conditional security destroys peace and produces fear.

Segment 3

• Scripture is overwhelmingly clear: God keeps those He saves.

• Salvation rooted in Christ, not in your consistency or performance.

• Assurance fuels holiness—fear-based religion produces exhaustion, not transformation.

Segment 4

• God’s children never lose their adoption—salvation is irrevocable.

• Adoption turns fear into confidence; believers can rest in the Father’s love.

• Once declared His child, you can’t be “unadopted”—your security is sealed in Christ.

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0:00.0	Ritchin Radio begins in three, two, one.
0:05.0	God told me to tell you this.
0:08.0	That's paganism.
0:09.0	Do you really expect and anticipate that the divine voice of God can be heard by you?
0:15.0	That's horoscope readings.
0:17.0	Standing in the office of the prophet of God. That's reading tea leaves.
0:22.7	You can't have a relationship to God if you can't hear God. That is not biblical Christianity.
0:28.0	You want to hear God speak to you? Read your Bible. If you want to hear God speak to you audibly,
0:32.3	read it out loud. I promise you 100% guaranteed you will hear him speak. It's time for Wretched Radio with Todd Freel.
0:40.5	You know, I'm being a little cute.
0:44.2	I don't think there's anything going to get me in heaven.
0:46.4	Rowe.
0:47.3	I think I'm not maybe heavenbound.
0:50.8	I make me in heaven right now as we fly in Air Force one.
0:53.7	I'm not sure I'm going to be able to make
0:55.7	heaven. Oh, that's kind of heartbreaking. This is Wretched Radio. That isn't the first time our
1:03.9	president appears to either not understand grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone, despite
1:10.0	the fact that he's regularly surrounded by
1:13.1	evangelicals, he doesn't appear to grasp, you can't earn your way to heaven. That, or he actually
1:21.3	thinks that he can. He thinks that attaining heaven, despite what his evangelical friends, I hope,
1:29.4	have told him about faith alone,
1:36.7	grace alone, and Jesus Christ alone. Maybe he just adheres to the Roman Catholic works-based system.
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