Hey guys, welcome to Relatable Happy Wednesday. I hope everyone has had a great week so far. I was on vacation last week, which is why you had the two part interview with Stephen Bancars on Monday and Wednesday. Then you had a replay episode rise of the Millennial witches on Friday. And then you have a great week.

I had another interview on Monday with Jim daily of focus on the family. If you haven't listened to those podcast episodes yet, I encourage you to do so. Some of my favorite of all time. I just love listening to talking to guests that are experts in a particular field.

They gave me a lot of insight and I know for a fact that they gave you a lot of insight as well because I got emails and messages and reposts on Instagram stories of all of you who listened to the podcast episodes, especially last week the interviews with Stephen Bancars on the new age.

If you have not listened to those yet, I highly encourage you to do so. And just a little bit of encouragement to you guys as you're looking around and you're thinking, oh my gosh, this entire world is devolving into chaos. People are abandoning the objective truth of God's word and they are slipping into the anarchy that inevitably comes with postmodernism and moral relativism. All of that may be true.

But as I shared on my Instagram story the other day, God's work does not make headlines. God is working on hearts. He is softening hearts. He is calling people to himself. He is calling people to repentance. People's eyes are being opened. The eyes of their hearts as Ephesians, I think 118 says are being enlightened. They are coming to know the truth of the gospel and the truth of God's word in the midst of all of this.

And that won't be reported on. It's not going to be trending on Twitter, but we can rest assured that not only is God still on his throne. And she's just the same yesterday today and forever. But he is also actively working. He doesn't come in later just to clean up the mess. He doesn't stand back a gas and surprise that everything that's going on and saying, you know, I didn't see that coming. He is actively planning actively, uh,

purpose scene actively working in everything that is going on right now. And I was reminded of that in the messages in some of the emails that I received after people listened to the interview with Stephen Bancars and also the episode I did a few months ago with Doreen Virtue who also left the new age the same way that Stephen Bancars did.

And these messages of people saying, I did not realize that I was deceived. I did not realize that I was following new age philosophy. I didn't realize that some of the beliefs and some of the so-called doctrines that I held on to actually weren't biblical doctrines, but were new age doctrines.

Or, hey, I thought that I was a Christian before I listened to these episodes, but now after listening to them and hearing the real gospel and hearing the difference between the new age and the true biblical gospel, I, I realized that I was wrong, that I was deceived. And now I have seen the light by the grace and the power of the Holy Spirit. I have gotten a lot of messages like that. And it's just a reminder that even though, even though that is not going to be a real gospel, I'm not going to be able to say that I was wrong.

That even though, even though that is not going to be headline news, that that is what is happening behind the scenes. And we can praise God for that. And we can ask God to help us be a part of that into be used by him to advance his kingdom and to share his gospel.

And if he so chooses to do that, which if you're in Christ, he will choose to do that. We don't take credit for any of that. We simply thank him for graciously and mercifully using us as his vessels to spread his truth and his love.

So I just wanted to encourage you with that. I might maybe I'll start posting some of these with their permission posting some of these messages that I receive if they are encouraging to you guys because I think like I said, it's easy to get kind of trapped in a trap than a pit of despair, looking at everything that is going on. That's not what we're focusing on today. And I kind of got off on a tangent, but I just wanted to give you a little bit of encouragement to start out.

I'm kind of going to do a little bit of rapid fire today because since I was on vacation last week, went to the beach with my family, kind of checked out of everything. And I didn't comment on a lot of things that were going on.

And I'm not going to be able to cover every single story that we missed last week. But I want to go through some of them and just give you kind of a quick analysis or at least a quick reaction to some of that.

And then we are going to talk about what I call wrecking versus reckoning. So reckoning with our history versus wrecking our history and what we as Christians are called to in the mindset that we should be taking on and a mindset that I think can give us as Christians a lot of peace.

So we're talking about coronavirus again. We stopped talking about coronavirus for a long time because it seemed like things were abating. And especially when the protest started happening. I think that's what a lot of people said, Oh, okay, the protests are happening. And we don't see the media having the same reaction towards these protests in these riots as they were about people say going to the beach or wanting to go to the hair salon or go to work so they can feed their children or

protest the draconian lockdowns. The media said all of those things were actually racist and all of those things were irresponsible and immoral. And you are complicit in murder. If you are not actively a murder yourself. If you go out and do these things and you go out into the public. And if, hey, you want to go to work. We heard from a lot of people on the left and a lot of people in the media during those lockdowns. If you are concerned about the economy. If you're concerned about, for example,

the economic downturn driven driven suicides or depression or child abuse or anything like that. Then you're just a grandma killer. And you don't care about humanity at all and you lack compassion and you just care about your 401k. That's what we were told.

When people were saying, Hey, I've got some concerns about how these draconian lockdowns are actually going to affect people's mental and physical health and how they're going to affect the economy long term, which does affect real flesh and blood human beings. And there are livelihoods. We were told, no, you, you can't be concerned with that at all because that means that you just want people to die.

And then we saw the protests where hundreds of thousands of people across the country went out and they protested against police brutality. That's what a lot of these people were protesting against. Of course, a lot of the writers and looters did not have police brutality in mind. They didn't have any kind of injustice in mind.

They went out to do something that they simply wanted to do because they could do it. People acted lawlessly in some cases because they wanted to act lawlessly. It didn't have any correlation whatsoever with injustices that were going on.

But you had people who were peacefully protesting out in droves in the streets, that peacefully protesting against police brutality. And I am all for that. By the way, whether we are in a pandemic or not, I believe that the first amendment is absolute and that the government can't tell you or punish you.

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