one up okay and greetings happy and greetings happy Thursday.

Welcome to the Steve Day Show.

I am Steve Dase.

I am here in downtown Philadelphia, the city of Brotherly Love.

And Todd Erz and Aaron McIntyre are back there in our posh suburban Des Moines studios.

Good to see those gentlemen. I'll be

reconnecting with them tomorrow for Friday's program. But before we get started on what we have

lined up for you today, I just wanted to just make a quick point. I got a chance to speak at last

night's Turning Point USA Faith, Make Heaven crowded event here in suburban Philly. And I,

I know, and we're going to get into a lot of this, frankly today, particularly in Theology

Thursday. I know that there is a lot of debate, discourse, division that is happening right now

on the right, that is happening right now with elements within the Christian right that are attempting to essentially install a mine virus and turn us all into Muslim

Sims. But I want you guys to know. I want everybody within the sound of my voice and Todd and

Aaron, I want you two to know that one of the reasons I'm convinced that this is happening is

because of what is

occurring under the surface. Because what I saw under the surface last night is I saw a packed

house. I saw a packed house of people that wanted to hear the gospel that came to hear about

what is the gospel? Sin? We're sinners. There's just, we're born into sin. There is something wrong with us.

We are fallen. Our brains are busted. We desire things. We know are bad for us and yet we can't say no to them at the same time.

Repentance, that we know we need forgiveness. We know that there is a chasm between us and God, which is why every human civilization has had some

form of religion in order to try to figure out how to close that gap between us and the divine.

But then third, that's redemption. And the only atonement that closes that chasm, the only sacrifice

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