Welcome to the podcast.

This is episode 400.

Can you imagine that 400? 400. 4-0. Episode 400. This is the podcast. I'm Douglas Wilson. You are you. And thanks for joining us. Good to be together.

So I want to talk this time a little bit about the president, Donald J. Trump, and heaven. The thing that is interesting

about all of this is over the last number of months, the president has made various comments

about going to heaven, his desire to go to heaven. His hope that his Middle East work would be

one of the things that would get him in.

He recently said, I think he's probably been talking to some people,

and they've tried to communicate some things to him,

theologically, about this, where he said he didn't think he was going to,

he probably not going to make it, that

sort of thing. But I find it really interesting that he is so open and vocal about his desire to go

to heaven and where he thinks his chances are. He said he thought he was pretty low on the totem pole.

Here he wasn't sure he was going to make it. Previously, he thought maybe one of the

things he had done would be good enough to scoge him in. And so this is a very, very good sign.

It tells us and tells the world that being right with God is very much on his mind. Now, I'm going to say these things as someone who has

appreciated much of what he's done as precedent. I'm very grateful for many of the things he's done

and have been grateful to God for the things he's done as president. There are other

things that I just flat disagree with. So there's that too. But that's just the way life is, right?

I agree with a lot, I'm grateful for a lot, and flat disagree with some of it. But what I'm going to say

here has nothing to do with any of that.

If a Democratic president were talking the same way, I'd be saying the same thing.

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