Well, welcome back.

And joining us now as our guest, Matt Truella.

And, of course, I've interviewed him several times in his excellent book, The Doctrine

and the Lesser Magistrate, talking about the history, secular and church history,

about how do we, you know, how should government be structured?

And, you know, what do we do? Do we just blindly follow the leader? Do we just do whatever

Hitler tells us? Or do we exercise some kind of moral responsibility in what we do?

And so when I saw this story, a teen arrested while preaching the gospel during a drag queen event,

I saw that he was in Wisconsin.

I thought, oh, I wonder if that's Matt.

And I looked and sure enough, it was someone from his church.

So I wanted to get Matt on to talk about that and talk about the doctor and the lesser magistrate.

You know, so many times we talked about somebody at the local level who stands in the gap

against a corrupt upper official, right, who is, you know, maybe a state official, maybe a federal

official or something like that.

But what do we do with the corruption that's there?

And that's what people always say, well, you know, we've got an awful sheriff in our area.

And that's what I've said.

You see in 2020, you could see what happened.

And you could see that, you know, depending on who the local officials were that made all the difference in the world.

And I said, that's why we've got to focus more on what is happening in our community than what is happening in the district of Columbia.

That's the more important thing.

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