Ep.397 How To Be a Hero: Dead Man Walking

In this episode, Dr. Keith Rose reflects on his father's life and recent passing. Seeing that society’s challenges stem from a disconnect with real history and true heroes—those who paved the way for meaningful progress. He explores why this disconnect matters, how it impacts us individually and collectively, and what we can do to rediscover our real roots and reconnect. /// The Scalpel is proud to partner with Brickhouse Nutrition. Dr. Rose uses and highly recommends Field of Greens. Your purchase through this link supports The Scalpel Podcast. /// https://scalpeledge.com/brickhouse ------------------------------------------------- The Importance of History & True Heroes
Understanding Real History: Just as Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, Peter, and Paul are revered for their faith and actions in the Bible, we should seek to understand history through the lens of faith. These figures exemplify true heroism—living out their faith and making a lasting impact. Modern Heroes: A Contrast: In today’s society, we often celebrate heroes who focus on personal gain or media attention rather than long-term impact. This contrast highlights the need for reconnecting with biblical ideals of heroism. The "Vindication Thirst Trap" (Post from Michael Foster - https://x.com/thisisfoster/status/1919125791402848755)
Seeking Validation: Like Proverbs 27:1, which warns against seeking wisdom from the wicked, our pursuit of online validation can be seen as trying to fill an empty soul with temporary comforts.
The Biblical Perspective: Jesus teaches that true fulfillment comes from trusting in God and living in humility. Galatians 6:3 emphasizes that we should not boast in flesh but seek to bear fruit through the Spirit. Overcoming Emotional Dependency: By fixing our eyes on God and seeking validation through His Word, we can break free from the trap of emotional dependency. The Impact on Individuals & Society
Stagnation and Growth: Emotional dependency and distractions can cause individuals to become stuck, focusing on grievances rather than growth. This is akin to being weighed down by anger or bitterness, as noted in Proverbs. The Call to Maturity: The Bible calls us to mature in our faith, walking in integrity and wisdom. It’s about dying to ourselves—letting go of sin and self-centeredness—to live in righteousness. The Connection to Transformation
Personal Rejuvenation: Transformation involves a inward renewal, as mentioned in 2 Corinthians 3:17. It’s about being changed by God’s work in us, growing from glory to glory.
National Impact: Similarly, national rejuvenation requires a shift from seeking shortcuts to truth to pursuing integrity and faith. The Bible encourages us to pray for our nation’s transformation, seeking a spiritual awakening. The Role of Faith
Faith as the Foundation: Biblical Christianity underscores the importance of faith in God over human effort or validation. It’s through faith that we find integrity and transformation—walking authentically and being changed inwardly by God.
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Speaker 2 (01:46):
Welcome to the Scalpel. This is doctor Keith Rose. I
need to start out by apologizing to my audience. I
haven't been as consistent as I have been in the past.
In fact, for the first few years of the Scalpel
I did a podcast almost every day. We eventually settled
in years later to about once or twice a week,
and I've been keeping up that until I would say

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the past several months, when most of the time I
was able to keep that schedule. But I had a
lot going on and still do in my life and
with my Scalpel family. You know how much I like
to talk about having integrity and honesty. So I'll give
you an insight into what I've been going through. And

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let me preface this by saying I am definitely not
a victim. I'm going through a season in my life. Recently,
my father passed away and it's caused me to have
a serious life review, to look back at my life,

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to look at my father in his life, and to
look primarily to God and see where God wants me
and who he wants me to be. And when I
was thinking about it, this podcast that I'm doing today
just came to me because my dad was my hero,

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and I've been thinking about that, and I looked up
the definition hero. I looked it up in Webster. I
looked it up in multiple dictionaries, and ironically enough, the
many dictionaries don't always agree with each other, and they
kind of jump around the definition of a hero. No
one can really really settle on one definition. Some say

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in mythology and legend, that's what a hero is. A
man now, I guess this was not gender inclusive, often
of divine ancestry, who is endowed with great courage and strength,
celebrated for his boy bold exploits, and favored by quote
the gods. Another definition is a person noted for feats
of courage and nobility of purpose, especially one who has

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risk or sacrifice his or her life. More inclusive, like
soldiers and nurses who were heroes in an unpopular war.
I wonder what they're talking about. And then you have
a person noted for a special achievement in a particular
filled a movie star, someone that we admire or performed
a courageous act. There are a lot of definitions of

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a hero, but with the death of my father, I
finally understood what a hero really is. A hero is
a dead man. Because when I went to my father's memorial,
I was asked to speak, and I was there looking

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out over the people, some that had known my father
longer than I had been alive. My dad had had me.
I was the first born when he was twenty nine
years old, and he and my mother had already been
married almost ten years. But from listening to the other

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people before the memorial talk about my father and everything
I knew about my father, I realized one thing. Jim
Rose died long before he ever went to his grave.
He died to himself before I was born. He laid
down his life, his choices, He completely surrendered to God

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and became alive to Jesus Christ. Before I was ever
formed in my mother's womb. He had lordship. Now I
tell you that because I've heard lots of stories from
my grandparents before they passed, and from my mother, and
from lots of people that knew my father and his youth,
who said my dad was a somewhat of a wild

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man in his youth. He didn't do anything illegal, but
he was very boisterous. As a young man. He played
football for Georgia Tech. He actually was All State at
Miami High and got a scholarship to Georgia Tech when
they were number two in the nation. He went on
to be in the military and work on a Nike
missile base, and then as an aerospace engineer, went on

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to subcontract with NASA and work on the first Apollo
space mission. And in the middle of all that and
great worldly success, he died to himself and left everything
that he had of his success, and he and my
mother went to Dallas Theological Seminary, where my dad became
a pastor. And before you judge me here, understand I

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was the worst pastor's kid probably that's ever existed. I
was the poster boy for what not to do as
a pastor's kid. And that's on me because my father
never deviated from his faith and living his faith, because
his lordship led to decent discipleship. Discipleship is where you're

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not only saved by Jesus, but you're guided by the Lord.
Dad would tell me, son's salvation is God's free gift
to you. Discipleship is your gift to God. You conform
to his death, his image, his likeness, so He can
affect your life. And then you become a son. And

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my father would tell me sonship is the ultimate goal
of lordship and discipleship. He said, you become a son
to God and a father to others. You reflect Jesus
in your life. You have a childlike trust God places
in you himself to represent Him on earth. You act

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like him, you talk like him. You take on Christ's
nature and his patterns. You become a true child of God,
and like a young child, my dad had an insatiable
hunger and curiosity to know Jesus. Even after walking with
Jesus for over sixty years, and person after person that
came up and spoke about my dad at his memorial

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said he always was like a kid when he talked
about the Bible, when he visited Israel. He remained childlike
in his trust and his desire to know Jesus. He
never lost his divine curiosity. He never lost the wonder.
And I realized he never lost the wonder because he

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always had the hunger for the Lord and his word
There were a lot of people packed in that room
during the memorial, and a lot of people had a
story about my dad and would say I was with
him when he said this, or did this, or responded
like this, and it meant a lot to me. In fact,

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it marked me. Jesus moved through my dad because he
exhibited the life of Jesus, and he could only do
that because he had died to himself. Dad left verbal
and emotional footprints to everyone he had contact with. He
left living footprints that if you followed my dad's life,
you would end up at the feet of Jesus. My

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father was never transactional. He was like Jesus. And if
Dad was here today, he would say, follow me as
we follow Jesus. And like a fool, I refused to
die to myself, but like a true follower Christ, my
father was patient. And I think God he got to
see me get saved and become a disciple myself, because

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my father would tell me, salvation, son, is a free
gift to you, but discipleship is your gift to God.
Dad preached salvation as a gift from God. However, life
and teachings reflected discipleship, leading to sonship and the king
Kingdom of God on earth as it is in heaven.

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It was at that point I realized that Dad's legacy
is not what I saw he accomplished on earth, but
seeing all these people and knowing so many more that
had reached out after his death, the seeds that he
had planted through faith and obedience in other lives through discipleship,
resulting in untold numbers of sons and daughters in the

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Kingdom of God. My father's death happened before I was born,
but I celebrated his life in Christ and continue to
as a son building the Kingdom of God because my
father was a hero to me. My father had a

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good father himself. My grandfather was a hero to my dad.
My grandfather was in the oss. My great grandfather was
a hero to my grandfather by the way he treated
his wife, my great grandmother, and the way he raised
my grandfather, and the way my grandfather raised my dad,
and the way my dad raised me. And they would

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always tell stories about great accomplishments in life, and they
would always go to those accompliments being accomplishments being the
result of someone that followed Jesus and had died to themselves,

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and I would listen to the stories because I was
blessed to have history verbally passed down to me. And
what my family understood was, we have heroes among us
here and in the past in the United States, because
we're a nation that produces heroes. Think about George Washington

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crossing the Delaware. Before he did that. Washington was in
the French Indian War and had multiple horses shot out
from underneath him. He had been shot multiple times, yet
none of those shots hit his body, just his clothes.
He was brave and inspiring all the time. But when

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you have heroes in a nation and you don't recognize him,
you detegrate them. It can have a cynical or toxic
effect on the next generation. The next generation should be
hearing about someone like Nathan Hale. My family talked about
a devout Christian. He was a hero remembered by the

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Continental Army not for his own sake, but theirs. It
is described that Nathan was noble and good. Nathan Hell
stood without fear when he was the first spy that
was actually caught spying for General Washington's army, and less
than twenty four hours later he was hung, and he

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stood and looked the British and the eye, and he
said the famous words, I regret that I have but
one life to give for my country. Then, in nineteen fourteen,
while the world was descending into the First World War,
a magnificent statue of Hale was dedicated outside Connecticut Hall

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at Yale, because Nathan Hale had gone to Yale, and
a copy of that statue sits in front of the
Department of Justice, and it has an inscription on it.
In the performance of his duty, he resigned his life
a sacrifice to the country's liberty At New York. Hale

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was a hero, and decades later Washington and Hale, both
noble and virtuous figures, have been relegated to the recycled
bin of history, instead of understanding and studying what drove
these men to such great acts of heroism and bravery,
acts and countless others performed by our founders projected the

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idea that the fabric of our nation was great and
essential to be a free society. Men like Hale in
Washington and countless others have gone before us, have lived
lives of greatness, though inspiring, through inspiring deeds and heroism,
the heroes of our founding, growth and development during the

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first two hundred years of our nation is a large
part of what inspired citizens to behave with virtue and
reach for the stars. My great grandfather, my grandfather, my
father were examples of this. It wasn't the coddling of
young citizens feelings protecting them from every challenge that forges
character that built this nation. No, it was the true

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accounts of unflinching bravery and heroic deeds by virtuous men
of faith that gave the following generations an example, a
template if you will, to inspire future Americans to overcome obstacles,
tear down barriers, and fight against evil. The challenges of
a horrific civil war, two World wars, and a multiple

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and multiple world conflicts did not tear the fabric of
this nation or reduce us to a third World remnant.
It was men and women of character and virtue, flawed, yes,
but with an overriding sense of good and evil that
propelled this nation through its greatest heights and darkest moments.

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There is no denying our heritage and those that attempt
to rewrite it or sweep it under the rug of
revisionist history threaten the very goodness. No, they threatened the
very greatness that is or was the United States of America.
American heroes and their deeds have inspired countless people to greatness,

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replenishing the ranks of great Americans that inspire the next generation.
But that was the past. Today, our way of life
in America is under attack. Not from mighty warships or
large standing armies, not from radical dictators or Islamic terrorists. No,

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our nation is under attack from an idea that America
is not great, nor is she good. This insidious heresy
is easily refuted by history and experience, and I believe
the American people understand that it's not true by the
election of President Trump, and when I travel from coast

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to coast talking to hardworking people that make up this country,
I understand that most true Americans see that America is great.
And while this truth is self evident, there are those
in the media and both parties that have decided that
there is no more nobility or justness in being great.

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Their answer is to sophear into our nation's fabric. Their
answer is to weave mediocrity and government into the tapestry
of this great nation. To create dissent in communities with
disorganization under the guise of community organizing, and then the

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heroes that represent bravery, commitment, and unwavering faith are being
hidden in the pages of history. We no longer erect
statues of men who have performed deeds so great they
can only be explained by divine inspiration. We now have
statues in multiple cities of random, overweight people we don't

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even know, but are told they've done great things. The
threat to this nation is a generation of Americans that
do not understand that they are all created equal and
can reach any height, conquering any task without the help

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or hindrance of government. We are at a crossroads and
it is going to be up to us, the American citizens,
whether this is a waypoint or an endpoint. And this
is a time for remembering and continuing, a time to
remember the great men and women of our nation who

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perform selfless, heroic deeds and birth the greatest nation in
the world. To remember America is great because, as Alexandra
Detokeville said, America is good. But not only remembering. This
is a time for continuing, a continuing of tradition, the

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tradition of freedom and innovation. But we're up against a wall,
and it will take God's grace and the help of
a free people to start to roll back the expansion
and incursion of an all powerful central government that seeks
to redistribute wealth and consolidate power. That is the threat

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to our nation. Nothing in this world can conquer the
United States and its people from the outside. It is
only from within can we erode in some day crumble.
By studying and understanding the greatness of our founding and
the selfless motivation of true heroes, we will put our

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republic back on the course of freedom. By understanding what
the cause of our current problems are, we will continue
that course of freedom. It was the unflinching faith preached
by George Whitfield prior to the Founding that brought a
diverse and rugged people together. It was a message that

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we all were created equal that laid the foundation for
freedom and the perpetual light on a shining hill for
all the world to see. The way we get back
to the United States is to continue through faith, to
preach the message that we are still created equal, that

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we are stronger together, not divided. And I pray the
American people will understand that and continue to be a
beacon of freedom. It's going to take God's grace. It's
going to take understanding our true history and a resurgence
of faith based virtue, which are the only things that

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can stabilize this republic and restore it now. In order
to do that, we have to identify how we got here.
Only by recognizing the root of a problem will we
be able to address it. Quite simply, how did we

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fall so far? If you came of age during COVID
and then the Biden administration, essentially every major event in
your life has been a farce. You have been taught
revisionist history. You haven't seen the greatness of America. And

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if you're not seeing the history, that's going to be
part of the root cause of the undermining of this nation.
Because those young people are now in positions in government,
they don't really understand the true culture of the American people.
And to remain vital, the culture must be remembered by
every generation. I recently found a book called The Shallows

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What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brain by Nicholas Carr,
and that reading it and looking through it, I realized
the Internet is like the Roman Road edged sword. It
can be used for great learning, but it can also
be used for great deceit and distraction. And anyone that

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knows me no, I love to dig into the science
and understand root cause, so I looked into it. And
when you're distracted distraction and have constant distraction, it hurts
your memory. We flip through Instagram and TikTok, we look

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at reels ore ee ls instead of reality, and distraction
sets in over distinction. You see a lot, you just
remember nothing. Your memory and ability to sit and contemplate
is dying a death by a thousand cuts? Or should

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I call them reels of You have heard that when
you look at a reel or you look at something
on the internet, it releases a chemical called dopamine. And
as most people know, I'm a surgeon, and dopamine is
a type of neurotransmitter. It's made in your brain and
it acts as a chemical messenger, communicating messages between nerve

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cells and your brain and the rest of your body.
Dopamine also acts as a hormone. But what is the
role of dopamine. It's an important neuro hormone released by
your brain that plays a major role in your body functions.
So when you're flipping through reels and you're being distracted

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by the Internet, you're seeing a lot, but you're learning nothing,
but your body keeps shooting out small amounts of dopamine.
And dopamine is involved in movement, memory, pleasurable reward and motivation,
behavior and cognition, attention, sleep, and arousal, mood, and learning.
Dopamine is a critical component to your life and as

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God designed you to live. And if you look back
at history, you understand that dopamine is released at certain times.
But it was not designed to be released all the
time and on a moment's notice for your pleasure. It
wasn't designed for you to flip from role to role
and just get a little bit out each time, because

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what happens is the continual stimulation doesn't always have the
same effect. It's kind It is a drug that your
body makes. It's a drug that you have to get
more and more of to get back to a baseline sensation.
And so instead of the role of dopamine regulating movement, memory, pleasure, behavior, attention, sleep, arousal, mood,

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and learning, it just short circuits all of those and
constant dopamine diminishes it its real effect and makes it
a cheap counterfeit fix that stimulates in the moment, but
it requires constant attention or another real or another film

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to get back to your baseline. And constant attention leads
to something we call addiction, and addiction leads to distraction,
and distraction to inaction, inaction to failure, and hence a
victim is born. And when you're a victim, we've talked

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about this before, you have a right to rebel. So
why is it important that we read and study history.
We study history because we need to understand the true
stories instead of get the short versions of things that
keep us distracted from reality. And that's what happened during COVID,

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It's what happened during the Biden administration, and we have
created a generation of folks that are distracted and become victims.
They're addicted. They're addicted to the dopamine. And to liberate

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yourself from any addiction trap, you must first identify it.
Like any twelve step program, you have to admit or
confess it, and then the healing can begin. So where
do we go from here? We've identified we are not
paying attention to history. We're not looking for true heroes.

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We're letting the press, the media divide us and create
the people they want you to look at, to distract you. Well,
when I was looking at that, I was thinking, and
I'm doing a lot of reading, and a dear friend
of mine, Pastor Rob McCoy, sent me something. It was
a little treatise on X by a gentleman named Michael Foster,

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and you can find him at this as Michael Foster
on X. And when I read it, I was blown
away because it tied a bow on what I was
trying to understand. Because I knew that if we didn't
understand the problem, we couldn't find the cure, and if

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we don't have the cure, we won't get the heroes.
We need to keep this nation great because there are
a lot of people out there that believe in God
but aren't dying to themselves. They're distracted and they're on
a constant loop of dopamine hits. They're on a constant

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loop of distraction, and it's pulling them deeper and deeper
into a whole where they don't have good memory, they
don't have good focus, they're not sleeping well, and they're
not paying attention to life and right now, to fix
this nation, we need people paying attention. And when I

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read this, I will call it an article by Michael Foster.
It really woke me up, and I'm going to kind
of paraphrase it for you, but I think it's one
of the most present things I've read in a long
time because he talks about the vindication thirst trap, because
since COVID in the Biden administration, there are a lot

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of people that we could just described as being ignored, dismissed,
or disrespected, and there's something deeply seductive about hearing you
were right along. It's not about lust. It's about loyalty alignment,
the emotional bond that forms when someone finally sees what

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you you've seen and felt and says what no one else
would say, You were right now. This trap isn't a
suggestive photo like the traditional thirst trap. It's in the storyline,
and when you have generation of victims, it becomes debait.

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Instead of offering sex, it offers something more powerful to
the wounded, moral vindication. It shows up as spicy quotes, screenshots,
hot takes, or half failed spiritual posts, just sharp enough
to whisper betrayal and to signal righteousness. These aren't come ons.

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They don't say I want you, They say I'm with you.
I see what they did to you, and I would
never do that. If you study the Bible, you might
recognize some of those temptations because they come straight from
the pillow hell themselve. But the vindication thirst trap is

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a heady cocktail for someone nursing rejection. Think of the
man who once trusted the system and then was hurt.
One trusted church, schools, media science. He bought in, played
by the rules. But then when he started asking real
questions when COVID hit, when he started asking real questions,

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when DEI hit, the response wasn't engagement, it was exile.
It wasn't They just disagreed with him. He was labeled misogynist, racist,
anti science. He wasn't debated, he was canceled. And we
have a lot of people floating around the internet like this,
and then a podcast or a writer, a social media

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voice puts it into words what he's been holding, and
it's like water on dry ground. You feel like, I
wasn't crazy, you weren't the problem. You were right, And
finally you feel saying you feel justified, and that sense
of being justified creates a loyalty, a fierce loyalty, and

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the same passion that fueled shame and rejection now fuels allegiance.
And once you have that allegiance, you start to overlook
the faults of a man who rescued you, the character flaws,
the sloppy theology, the hypocrisy. And that's why it's so
important to look back at what the Word of God says.

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You know them by their fruit, but in this day
and age, people know them by their ability to recognize
that they weren't wrong, and you can't ignore them, so
you make excuses for them. You say they're raw, they're real.
He's not like those fake, polished frauds who threw me out.

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This man isn't just a voice. He's a redeemer. Except
one problem. Only Christ is the redeemer, and that's where
the danger creeps in. The author talks about seeing this
play out firsthand again and again, especially in the manosphere.
He says, I've counseled a lot of men, many who
reached out because it's good to be a man. These
were not bitter losers. They were men who had every

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reason to long for vindication. Some were unjustly divorced, cast
aside by wives who broke covenant. Others were slandered and
sidelined by their churches when they should have been shepherded.
They didn't lose wealth, they lost access to the greatest
treasure their children. And wherever they turned, they ran into
the walls. Critics everywhere, friends nowhere. So they turned to

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the Internet, and they found voices that didn't hate them.
They found voices that took their side. In a dry
wasteland of rejection, they finally found an oasis, a place
that didn't spit on their wounds, but spoke to them,
a place where someone finally said you were right. And
at first it helps, it really does. When someone validates you.

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It feels like strength, like clarity. Someone finally handed you
a sword after years of being beaten with a stick.
But in many cases, the one doing the vindicating only
ever talks about what was done to you, not what
you're supposed to do. Now it's all grievance, no grit,

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no call to build, no call to rise. And that's
when it happens. Vindication becomes a cage. You stop moving
you feed the high of being right instead of pressing
on towards being holy. You build your identity around your
wounds instead of the mission you were called to by God.

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You start confusing being right with being righteous. You measure
your life by what you're tearing down, not what you're
building up. And that's not growth, that's rot. My father,
my hero, taught me that true maturity is biblical maturity.
It takes humility to lay down vindication and your own life.

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You're right to yourself. It takes courage to stop licking
old wounds and start laying a new foundation. Yes, being
vindicated feels good, but if that's your lifeblood, you'll die
in the desert. My dad taught me about that. He
knew how to avoid getting stuck living off the fumes

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of vindication instead of walking in victory. He would always say,
it's easy, you just got to die first. The author
talks about the way to lay that down is stay
acutely aware of your sin. The fact that others were
wrong doesn't mean you were entirely right. Vindication isn't the
same as sanctification. Had let every grievance be a mirror,

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not just a megaphone. If God uses that rejection to
humble you, don't waste it by inflating yourself on the
other side. The other way to die to yourself is
resists the temptation to be consumed with the sins of
those that hurts you. Bitterness masquerades as truth telling when
it's really just payback in a holy wrapper, and the

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Holy Scripture doesn't give us a pass to speak evil
simply because we were mistreated. We can acknowledge wrong without
turning vindication into vengeance. The way we heal is to
move from what we're against to what we're for. When
you die to yourself, God doesn't just rescue you from something,

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He calls you into something. He gives you a new
ground to build on, new people to walk with, a
new mission worth sweating for. Satan wants you to spend
all your days proving you were right. Christ wants you
to spend your days dying to yourself, becoming alive to him,

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building something and bringing beauty from ashes. The way you
get your country back, the way you become a hero
is realize you're more than a victim, or at least
you can be. God is moving now in this nation.
I truly believe it and never forget. God hears your prayers,

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and he keeps his promises. The Psalmist cried out, vindicate
me a Lord, not as a man wathering bitterness, but
as one resolved to keep walking in faith. He went on,
But as for me, I shall walk in my integrity.
Redeem me and be gracious to me. My foot stands
on level ground, and in the great assembly, I will
bless the Lord Psalms twenty six, eleven and twelve. You

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can be a hero to this new generation. If you
die to yourself, you don't have to vindicate yourself. God
will vindicate you. Your job is to walk in integrity.
God will handle the outcome. You handle the obedience, because
if we're going to get our nation back, that is

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the only way to keep freedom.

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