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The Eric Metaxas Show

David Cortman & Kelvin Cochran (Encore)

The Eric Metaxas Show

Metaxas Media

Religion & Spirituality

4.73.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Attorney David Cortman from Alliance Defending Freedom and former Atlanta fire chief, Kelvin Cochran, join Eric to discuss the ongoing threat to freedom across America. (Encore Presentation)

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0:00.0

Hey you then, you can't ignore me. No one can ignore me. I'm Todd the announcer and Eric lets me do his announcing. I'm always right there by his side to allow the announcer everything he does.

0:20.0

I can ignore you Todd. I can ignore you. Hey Alman. Yes. Don't cough. His Todd might announce it. He might say something. Hey folks today is one of those days.

0:35.0

The Kavanaugh news. I think it's fascinating to me. This man has been subjected to a kind of scrutiny that almost no one in the world is ever subjected to.

0:53.0

He has come out looking clean and yet partisan political people are still refusing to acknowledge it because I guess this proves the point and the fear that many of us had that this had nothing to do with sexual assault and everything to do with making sure that this man was not confirmed to the Supreme Court.

1:21.0

Now that I have to say that's what's called politics naked ugly politics and it's terrible and it's it comes down to what they think he's going to do about abortion in this country. That's what which which by itself is so silly. Yeah, but that's what put that aside. I just want to say that I really have and I've said this for a couple of years now. It's why I wrote my book if you can keep it. I am very concerned for my country. Why? Well, first of all.

1:51.0

This is the greatest country in the history of the world, not because I say so, not because I'm great, not because you're great, but because the ideas behind this country are a gift from God to the whole world. We are stewards of these ideas of self government and freedom. And basically, we have to take that seriously.

2:16.0

It's like somebody gives you an extremely valuable object worth so much money. It's so fragile. You can't say, it's not mine. I don't care. They've given it to you. You've been entrusted with it. You need to take it seriously. And I think that we have to take what we have seriously. And part of that means we have to understand how it works. And so what's been going on with the cabinet nomination has been depressing because people on the democratic side of the aisle.

2:45.0

Traditionally have played by certain rules. And I think somehow they feel now they no longer can play by those rules because there's so much at stake.

2:56.0

That's bad for everybody. It's bad for them. It's bad for the whole country. So I'm asking you if you're listening to this right now. Pray for this country. Now people, we always say that. Pray for the country. I mean genuinely pray when there's a commercial or when you have a second.

3:13.0

Say a prayer, whether you're in a car, wherever you are, say a silent prayer or a spoken aloud prayer for this nation, for this confirmation process, because this is dark stuff right now. We are.

3:25.0

We're talking about what a man did or didn't do when he was 17 years old, whether he got drunk or whatever. And I think, wow, this is, this is madness has descended on America. And then when the GOP relents to pressurance has okay. We'll drag this out again.

3:42.0

And then we have an FBI probe. Of course, finestein and others say, oh, it's not the right kind of FBI probe. It's not deep enough. It's not broad enough, which really means that they wanted to lay this forever. And they're using every political advantage. You have to see it for what it is, folks. You've got to see it for what it is.

4:00.0

It's as nasty and unpleasant as anything I have ever seen. And so I want to ask people, pray, pray for Kavanaugh. But more than that, pray for the country. Please pray for this country that we could heal and that people who are nakedly partisan would, would understand that we have certain standards that we have to abide by no matter what.

4:24.0

That's my, that I want to say that. My fear is if Kavanaugh does not get put on the Supreme Court and that Democrats take over in November, that that is the one to punch that will knock out America.

4:38.0

Well, this is why thank you for reminding me to say to everybody you need to vote. And actually, I want to say particularly to pastors out there, you need to understand you have free speech. And the idea that you can't speak politically from the pulpit is a joke. And it's being used to keep you silent.

4:53.0

Now you may out of respect for your congregation, and I would advise it. Don't advocate for any candidate or for any party. But speak about how we have an obligation to vote biblical principles.

5:05.0

The unborn are, are expecting us to vote because nobody's protecting them. We have all kinds of sexuality issues.

5:15.0

The issues, a madness has descended across America. And if you don't stand up, not just by praying, but also by voting, I have to say you're going to be held accountable. Okay, you're going to be guilty. When bad stuff happens, you can say, yeah, I should have voted in 2018. It was, it was kind of tough for me that day.

5:32.0

Folks, please get an absentee ballot now. Do what you need to do to vote. I want to say, speaking of which people know this week we're doing a fundraise for the Alliance Defending Freedom.

5:44.0

When we talk about the madness that has descended on America right now, and most Americans get this, you don't have to be a conservative or a Christian to get this. Anybody with common sense gets that a madness has descended on America.

5:59.0

Okay, for example, yesterday, literally yesterday, what's today? Thursday. Okay, Wednesday yesterday, the US Department of Education announced that acting on a complaint filed by our friends at the Alliance Defending Freedom against the Decatur Georgia City Schools, that they, the Department of Education, is opening an investigation into a horrible assault of a kinder gardener, a girl in her school bathroom as the result of the murder.

6:28.0

The courtroom as the result of a boy being allowed into the girls restroom. People said this would happen here. It is due to the school district's transgender bathroom policy. Okay, folks. So, so here it is. It happened immediately almost right.

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