December 16, 2025 • 40 mins
In today’s Toddcast, Todd Huff addresses a tragic and emotionally charged story that has ignited political backlash and cultural outrage. Following the murder of filmmaker Rob Reiner and his wife, Todd examines President Trump’s controversial Truth Social response and the broader reaction from both the left and the right. This episode isn’t about defending bad comments or excusing cruelty—it’s about drawing clear moral lines. Todd contrasts decency versus mockery, justice versus violence, and politics versus the value of human life. He also challenges conservatives to reject the same depravity they condemn and calls for restraint, empathy, and moral clarity. Ultimately, Todd makes the case that America’s deepest crisis isn’t political—it’s spiritual—and that only truth, accountability, and the Gospel can heal a broken culture.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:36):
All right, my friends, welcome to today's episode of The
Todd Huff Show. You're listening to well, whether it's the
radio show or the todcast, it's a pleasure to be here,
and thank you Glenn for that stellar as always introduction.
It's a pleasure to be here. Email Todd at toddhofshow
dot com. Thoughts, questions, feedback always always always include that
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appropriate amount of adoration and praise. I'm kidding, but you
know what, You could be kind, but it's fine if
you're not. You know it literally I think when I
started it bothered me, but it literally just bothers me
zero percent. If you want to act a full if
you want to mock the death of Charlie Kirk on
a social media post that we have, I mean, it's pathetic,
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It's sad, there's most obviously these are just the knuckleheads,
the one in a million type of clowns out there.
Although although there's a lot of these folks on the left.
But nonetheless, say what you got to say. But I
do want to hear from you, from those of you
who have questions or thoughts or whatever. Just try to
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the ground running today. Yesterday we had a special guest
on the program, so I could not address this at
all yesterday. I had seen this over the weekend. It
erupted on social media yesterday and probably Sunday Sunday as well.
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President Donald Trump post that I've outsaid tweeted. It wasn't
on x or Twitter, it was on his platform Truth
social He made a post there after the tragic death
of Rob Reiner and his wife, and it is believed
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right now the suspect in this murder is their son.
So I want to go through this today. I want
to talk about this. That's the direction that well, I
don't want to do this because this is all tragic
and it's but I do. I also do want to
do this. I think it's necessary. I think for those
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who are cheering for the death of Charlie Kirk, still
mocking his death. For those who wished after the attempted
they failed assassination attempt at President Trump what a year
and a half ago. Now, I hope that they take
notes as to how to do this properly and to
not be part of the problem. So let's get to
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the facts here. First. Rob Reiner was seventy eight. He
and his wife, Michelle Singer Reiner, who was sixty eight.
They were found stabbed to death in their home in
Los Angeles over the weekend. Their adult son, Nick Reiner,
was arrested in connection with the homicide. He is the suspect.
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He is the one that authorities believe murdered, murdered his
father and Michelle's Reiner as well. That's what we know
Rob Reiner, for those of you who don't know, he
was a filmmaker. A filmmaker, he was an actor. He
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was pretty well known in the entertainment industry. He's known
for things like This Is Spinal Tap, stand by Me,
which was a great show. I remember watching that as
a younger man, when Harry met Sally, lots of other things.
He's also a longtime political activist and a very very
outspoken critic of President Donald Trump. I did. I don't
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know if I ever agreed with Rob Ryder. I don't
know if. I mean, he had a lot of hatred
for Trump, and you can go back and see some
of his posts. I'm just telling you the facts and
the information. None of this, none of this warrants what happened,
and none of this warrants any sort of just insensitive remarks.
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So Trump, Donald Trump goes to treat truth social to
post remarks after getting news of this over over the weekend,
he posted it. Actually, I'm wrong. He posted it yesterday morning,
so I didn't see this. I thought I may have
seen the post before I went to produce the show,
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but that couldn't have been true in hindsight, because it
was posted as I was probably wrapping up yesterday's program.
So this would have happened December fifteenth, which would have
been yesterday, nine fifty one am. So I'm going to
read this post to you. Here's what President Trump said
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in response to what I just told you. Here off
the top. You've probably seen this or heard this, or
read this or whatever. Here's the post I'm reading this.
These are not my words. I don't condone this. By
the way, here we go, A very sad thing happened
last night in Hollywood. Now that's true because the murder
had happened Saturday, excuse me, Sunday night, Rob Riiner, he
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writes a this is where this is. You'll hear the
uninappropriate or unnecessary or whatever commentary here from President Trump.
But he says rob Riiner a tortured and struggling but
once very talented movie director and comedy star has passed
away together with his wife Michelle, reportedly due to the anger.
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This again Trump's words, not mine, he caused others through
his massive, unyielding and incurable affliction with a mind crippling
disease known as Trump derangement syndrome, sometimes referred to as TDS.
He was known to have driven people crazy by the
way Trump Derangement syndrome TDS, and crazier in all caps
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by his raging obsession. Trump continues here by his raging
obsession of President Donald J. Trump, with his obvious paranoia
reaching new heights as the Trump administration surpassed all goals
and expectations of greatness and with the golden age of
America upon us perhaps like never before. May Rob and
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Michelle rest in peace. Exclamation point. Now those are the
words of Trump. That's what he posted. This, of course,
has caused all sorts of backlash. Everybody is rushing out
to to condemn these words, to say that they disagree.
In fact, the first comment I see below here says,
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sir mister President, I love you, I support you one
hundred percent. I do not support this post. Highly inappropriate
and it puts us in their box, tacky and tasteless.
I mean, you can, it doesn't. It doesn't. First of all,
I know your response. More than likely your reaction is
the same as most of these comments, like mine was.
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I'm just listen some of these other posts here, mister president,
with respect. This isn't how a Christian should speak about
anyone living or dead. We can oppose ideas without mocking
a person's suffering or death. Let no corrupt word proceed
out of your mouth Ephesians four to twenty nine. Take
down this post, mister president. It's tasteless and inappropriate. It
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is unbecoming of you and the presidency. So you get
the idea, and this is on truth social which is
his his platform. The left celebrated Charlie Kirk's death, we
mourn Rob Reiner's and his wife's death were not the same.
This is a post ri ip you can. I'm not
gonna read all those. I'm just telling you that the
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the general response reaction to this is to say, this
is inappropriate, this is out of line. That shouldn't happen.
Mister president. Take down this post. What are you doing?
This is how the left behaved. This is not how
this is not how conservatives behave, Republicans behave. Whatever this is,
this is the standard typical response. By the way, I
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agree with that. That is exactly. It is inappropriate, no doubt,
my friends, it's inappropriate. I will say this. I will
say this. I've not seen I have seen circles on
social media where people are just in and joining the mockery.
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Probably people some people anyway who agree with me politically,
some people who are Republicans or conservatives. That does happen.
I have not seen all out celebrations, and thankfully not
and hopefully we don't. Who knows. I mean people. Again,
as I've shared on this program before, this is critically
important to understand we are, and I'm going to get
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into this today. We as humanity, my friends, are broken. Now.
I know that depending upon your upbringing, your background, your faith,
your religion, you may or your lack of religion, you
may or may not agree with that statement. But biblically,
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there is no Let there be no mistake. We as
humanity are one hundred percent broken. We have all sin,
we have all chosen to gone to go astray of
all rebelled against the creator of this universe. The creator
of this universe, who who we should be eternally grateful for,
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grateful for, grateful for creating us, grateful for giving us
a place to live, grateful for heaping blessings upon us,
Grateful for lots of things. We're not we haven't always
been now through the process of repenting and choosing the
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free gift of salvation through Jesus, Christ's son, and through
the process of being sanctified, the ongoing work of God's
Holy Spirit in your life, in my life, if you're
a believer to be made more like Christ. We've found
ourselves on a path towards turning from our sin. At
least we should, that's the direction we should go. But
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all of us are on that path. We're on the
path of sin. And the question is are we turning
away from that sin and going back towards God embracing
him through his son Jesus, or are we not? And
what's unfortunate. There are lots of consequences for the fall,
the fall of man, the original sin of Adam and Eve.
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There are tons of consequences for that, and one of
those is that no matter what group you're part of,
you're gonna find knuckleheads and idiots and people who are
using their liberty and their freedom to do some really
reprehensible things. It doesn't matter your group. I'm telling you,
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it doesn't matter. You can be in a group of
whatever the purest group of people you think morally are,
and you will find reprehensible behavior. Now, you will find people. Again,
this is this think about what we've seen with inside
the Catholic Church, with priests and so forth. Certainly there
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are people who condemn that what happened, But there are
people that are within any group. And I'm not picking
on Catholicism here, I'm just saying, no matter where what
the group is, there are people that choose within that
group to use their freedom, to use their liberty to
exercise their choice for reprehensible things. Now, there is a
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difference between that truth and that that matters. Listen, whether
you're Colts fans, Patriots fans, whether you're soccer fans, whether
you're WNBA fans, or whether you are Christian denomination, this
denomination that, whether you are whatever, there are bad people
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that are making bad choice, people who are choosing actively
in this moment to do reprehensible things in any group. Now,
There's also there's also the reality that if the group
embraces if the group itself embraces evil as an ideology,
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if a group itself actually endorses or talks highly about
certain immoral activity, you'll find obviously a much higher percentage
of that happening within that group, because they will basically
be saying, this is what we this is what we
want to do. I mean again, I can choose here
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as to which groups we we pick on, but some
of the most egregious in my mind, would be some
of these organizations like NAMBLA, which I don't want to
get into that, but they're condoning absolute evil, depravity, and sin.
You get into the l g B, t q I
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A A plus whatever agenda movement group, you'll find that
they're condoning sinful, ungodly behavior. So so in that sense,
you'll find find a higher propensity of people because they've
basically gotten together and said, Hey, we're going to pretend
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like this thing isn't this thing that we want to
do isn't against the will and the nature of God
or whatever, and so we're gonna all make arguments that
it's not bad. The pro abortion crowd, same thing and
we're gonna just, you know, come up with one liner's
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love always love always wins, for example, my body, my choice,
and we just you know, we just yell that loud enough,
pound that into the minds of the youth, and hopefully
eventually people will stop seeing these evils, these sends, this
depravity for what, for what it is. So so the
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Republican Party, the conservative movement does not fit that that mold.
Now someone on the left think it does, and I
would say, explain to me how it does, because I'd
be happy to have that conversation with you. But it doesn't.
But that still doesn't mean that there are people within
the conservative movement, even even up to and including the
President of the United States, who can say things or
do things that are not good and decent. This is
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not a good and decent thing he's gotten, by the way,
bipartisan condemnation on this. Thomas Massey, who, of course he's
got an ongoing feud with Thomas Massey, Representative of the state.
Is it stand d Commonwealth of Kentucky? I think is
it commonwealth? It is a commonwealth. OZ knows these things.
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Commonwealth of Kentucky Representative Thomas Massey He called Trump's comments
disrespectful towards someone just murdered. I agree with that Representative
Marjorie Taylor Green, who of course is retiring. She's had
a rift with Trump as well. She said, this is
a family tragedy. This is not This shouldn't be something
that's viewed as some sort of a political fight between
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enemies or whatever. Of course, celebrity, these commentators, all sorts
of folks have jumped in criticized Trump's remarks is insensitive
and politicizing a family tragedy. They are right, my friends,
the people who are saying this, this is unnecessary. This
is making an issue, making himself about an issue when
it isn't. And I understand. Listen, I understand this. I
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understand as much as I can as someone who's not
in the crossfire. I've been in the crossfire one to
one billionth as much as someone like Trump. I understand
that if you live in that every day, if every
move that you make is criticized, if your character is
constantly maligned, if you're taking out of context, if you're
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lied about, if you're called the Nazi, I mean, all day,
every day. For as long as he's been on the
political stage. I mean, at first they mocked him, they
didn't take him seriously, but once they started realizing this
guy could win, they've been calling him what someone who
colludes with Russia wants to be a king, He's a Nazi,
he's a dictator, and just take your pick. There's so
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many options. But you know, you know what's been done
that still doesn't justify treating another person like this. It's
not about Trump again, I do it's absolutely not the
right way to respond how Trump did here. But I
also understand his desire to fight back because this is
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an all day, everyday thing, and Rob Reiner was one
who came at Trump with everything he had, which is
fair game. I mean to a point, it's fair game, right,
I mean, I guess if you hate the guy and
you just can't whatever say anything nice, if you want
to go after him and his policies, a certain amount
of that is fair game. I'm not here to defend
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every Rob Reiner post on social media, because I'm pretty
sure that there's some reprehensible things there as well, But
that doesn't change None of that changes this. None of
that changes this life was lost, my friends. That is
a tragic, tragic thing. It was horrific as well. It
was it was a murder. A murder of a husband
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and wife murdered by their adult son, should have never happened. Nothing,
hear me say this, Nothing Rob Reiner did politically or
otherwise made him deserve this. The only way that something
like this is justifiable is in the you're you're defending yourself.
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So if if in this scenario, the son alled who
allegedly did this went after Rob Reiner and and his
wife then and and they protected themselves and the perpetrator
was lost his life, that would have been that would
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have been justifiable homicide, at least in theory. Not knowing
all the details and everything else, that certainly fits the
bill on what is justified. This was nothing like that.
They did not deserve this, They did not deserve the violence.
They did not deserve to die. There's no justification for celebrating,
which I haven't seen the celebration. I will say that
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that is a difference I saw people and maybe it exists.
If it does, you can share it with me, because
I'll condemn that as well. I had plenty to say
about the people who did that in the wake of
Charlie Kirk's death, but there's no justification for celebrating or
mocking or murder. I don't know that this how I
would categorize Trump's response, but they're clearly it's clearly inappropriate.
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It's about it's making it about himself, and he did
say things in here that were nice. A very sad
thing happened last night may guide him. Michelle rest in peace.
But there's a lot in there that's not not necessary,
talking about his his Rob Reiners, being a struggling actor director.
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It's not appropriate at this time. It's it's unnecessary, and
it's it's not something that the vast majority of Trump's
supporters are going to support. Now again, I don't I
don't engage in this stuff. I don't condone derogatory remarks
about someone's death. I don't. I don't condone his remarks
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on truth social I condemn that that's unnecessary. I don't
like that. There's conservatives out there who have on social
media and elsewhere that have made unkind jabs. I don't
stand by that either. I'm not going to post attacks
like this. The vast, vast, vast, vast majority of you
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aren't going to do that either, We're not going to
look for tragedy as a time to post things that
are unnecessary and unhelpful, whether that be for Charlie Kirk
or Rob Reiner. That's just not the way that this
is going to be done, at least by people like me.
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just a minute. Welcome back, my friends, coming to you
from the full Sweet Wealth Studios. Talking here today about
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Trump's social media posts on truth social regarding the tragic,
horrific murder alleged murder of Rob Reiner and his wife
allegedly murdered by their son. Talking about that today, talking
about the discourse that we have out there, talking about
the value of human life. Folks. We need to win
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the battle that's being waged in this country politically. You've
heard me talk about we're in the midst of a
cold civil war and we have to use every legal, ethical, moral,
constitutional solution that we have at our fingertips. We have
to do this. That's why I favored redistricting. I'm not
going through all that again, but it's a it's a
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viable option. It's it's not the use of violence. Violence
has to be rejected in a civil society. Violence that's unjustified,
Which what makes something justified in the world of using violence?
As if someone is using violence against you. I just
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had lunch with a friend yesterday. He was telling me
about one of his kids had gotten in trouble at
school for, you know, telling somebody on the bus he
was going to bust his mouth or he's a little kid,
and he got in trouble for this. And when he
dug deeper, he realized his son was kind of getting
picked on. He's a younger kid and he was getting
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picked on by an older kid that his son was
trying to there's a bus monitor. He went and told
the bus monitor, Hey, can you keep this kid from
hitting me? The bus monitor said something. The kids continued
to do it, so the kid told the bus driver.
The bus driver saw it, told the kid to quit
doing it. The kid kept doing it, and finally the
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little guy, to his credit, says, if you don't stop it,
I'm gonna bust you in the mouth. And of course
the kid gets in trouble by the bus driver. According
to my friend here, but if the kid decided to
hit him in response to being hit, that's different than
being the person who's the aggressor. Right, So there is
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violence as defense versus violence as an act of provocation.
There's obviously a difference. I unequivocally announce or reject. I
should say violence, threats of violence, bomb threats, assassination, attempts,
political murder of any kind. I hope everybody can agree
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with me on that. Unfortunately I know that they can't
because I've seen them on social media. By the way,
if you want to know how to do this, I
think we're doing that today. This is how you address this.
This is absolutely how you addressed us. But we have
a problem of evil in humanity. We have humans, human
beings who are responsible for this depravity we have brought.
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We ourselves have brought evil into the world through the
choices we've made. Now, you and I didn't make the
choice to that resulted in this heinous murder of Rob
Reiner and his wife, or the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
We didn't choose that. But people made those choices. And
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if we're all being honest with ourselves, we all made
choices that have harmed other people. It's called sin biblically.
You missed the mark, you fail, you come up short,
you do things in such a way that is against
the nature and the will of God. We've all done this.
We've all been dare I say, absolute rebels against the
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creator of the universe. So the Gospel, my friends, the
Gospel message, which is really what I want to get to,
the gospel listen. In fact, I did the Todd talk
on this, not this particularly, but as we enter into
this Christmas season, I always feel it to be a
burden upon my heart to say to share with people
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out there that whether you agree with me zero percent
or one hundred percent, the Gospel message is for you.
The Gospel message is that, well, let's back up. God
created man, humanity, a man and woman in his image.
He made us to be, you know, the rulers so
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to speak, over this planet. We are the top of
the pyramid as far as who is in charge of
planet Earth. Of course, he wanted us to do this
in partnership with him, not in rebellion against him. But
we chose the latter. We chose to do this with rebellion.
And that's why this looks like it looks. So He
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gave us free will. We use that free will to
choose things that were not that we're not in alignment
with how He created this world to work. And now
as such we are all accountable for those actions. But
God didn't just stop there. He didn't say, you broke it.
You know, you made your bed, now lie in it
sort of thing. God provided a way out, my friends,
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and he offered this way through his son Jesus Christ.
By the way, that's the only way to God, the Father.
This is upsetting to a lot of folks because a
lot of folks will tell you that all just as
all rivers lead to the sea, all religions lead to God.
That's not true. God told us through his son Jesus
that Jesus is the way, the truth, the life. No mon,
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no one, no man, no person comes to the Father,
but through his son Jesus. And so God has given
us this grace. We talk we have Bible studies here,
our family does we talk about, you know, grace and mercy.
Mercy is not getting something you do deserve. So if
you've broken the law, and the law says you deserve
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X as the punishment, whatever, the punishment must fit the crime.
Mercy is when a judge says, I'm not gonna give
you what you deserve. I'm gonna include other factors. You're
not you're a first time offender, whatever, and you've you've
thrown yourself at the mercy of the court, and I've
decided to respond with mercy. That's what mercy is. Grace
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is getting something, proactively getting something that we do not deserve.
Grace is what this is, getting the forgiveness of God.
We can ask for mercy. It's it's again, it's perspective.
Ask for mercy. God's mercy through his son Jesus, and
then through his the grace of Christ, we get what
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we don't deserve, which is the presence of God living
in our hearts eternally, being united with the Father, through
the Son Jesus, being stilled with the Holy Spirit. This
is powerful, powerful stuff, and this g is available to everybody. Everybody,
my friends, I'm gonna say, listen, everybody, you have to
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You have to choose it and accept it. You have
to repent, turn from your sin. You know, we're not saved.
We're saved by grace through faith, not by works. Bible
also says if you love me, you will keep my commandments.
There's a difference between that initial bit of forgiveness that
that wipes our slate clean. That's available. That check, by
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the way, is written for you. All you have to
do is take it and deposit it. God paid the price.
It's written, the money is in the account. You just
have to receive it and you will be You will
be forgiven. A sanctification, my friends, is an ongoing process.
Sanctification is taking up your cross daily and following him.
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Sanctification is the process of being made into the image,
being shaped and molded to look a little bit more
like Jesus. The Bible gives us an example or an
analogy of a silversmith who is refining silver and you
heat it up and you know, take the impurities out,
and you keep purifying it and purifying it, and it's
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amazing to me. The silversmith knows the silver is done
when the silversmith can see his reflection in the silver.
And it's a beautiful metaphor, right, because God is He's
never done with us this side of heaven. But what
he's trying to do is create. This is the process
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of sanctification, which is different from being forgiven. You can
be forgiven and still have really bad, you know, ideas
and things that you're arguing for, whether it be politically
or doctrinally or whatever, the way that you treat people.
But if you're being sanctified. Those things are getting removed
from your life. You're becoming more like Jesus to where eventually, hopefully,
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when the silversmith, the great Silversmith got himself, when he
looks at the refined silver, he can see his That's
what God is after. And it doesn't matter. Friends, This
that matters. But what doesn't matter is who you are
and where you are now. You can be an atheist,
you can be an agnostic. You can be a very animated,
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hate filled agnostic or atheist. You can be a democrat
or Republican, an independent. It can be a communist. You
can be a fascist. You can be any number of things.
I'm not condemning any or I'm excuse me, not condoning
any of those ideas. In particular, I'm a conservative Christian,
a constitutionalist. But where you are today, whatever category you
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fall into, the grace of God is made available to
you through Jesus Christ. Wherever you are, whoever you are,
that's available to you. The Gospel transcends politics. This stuff
still matters tremendously. In fact, I think that if you
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my friends, I've given you a little bit about my
viewpoint on this, my viewpoint as a Christian on this
I mentioned that we're just We're not just saved by grace.
We're also we're also to be sanctified, made more, made
to look more like God, be more christ Like. And
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that includes things like resisting sinful reactions, showing empathy, choosing restraint,
even loving those my friends with whom we disagree and listen.
Our political worldview, for those of us who have a
belief in the Scripture, should be shaped by the Scripture.
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We should strive to follow, of course, God's spirit, the
Holy Spirit. We should read the Word, We should seek
his guy, we should pray, acknowledge that we sometimes mess
up where a sinner saved only by the grace of God.
And so when I look at this reaction, what I
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want to make sure that we hit is that we
should be decent to one another. We can have tremendous fights,
and these fights are important to have, but at these
times of tragedy, we should be decent and graceful to
one another. We should reject mockery. We should reject violence
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or endorsing the violence that has happened time and time
again in the wake of course of the attempted assassination
on President Trump, or in the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
People still. I still got to quote a post the
other day when I posted the video of me speaking
at the State House during the Turning Point action event,
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somebody posted something like, where's your boy, Charlie? What is
wrong with people? And it doesn't like they do that
to personally, I guess attack me or whatever in that instance,
but it actually shows the depravity of their heart and
their mind that it's just it's reprehensible that stuff has
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got to stop. My friends, this world is broken. This
world is broken, and we need we need more Jesus
in this world, dare I say? And I know for
some people this is a lot today because they're like,
I didn't sign up to go to a church service.
But listen, I think we're to the point. I think
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we're to the point where these things have to be well.
As Christians, we always should have been about this business,
but we've got to proclaim these ideas. We've got to
proclaim the truth from the mountaintops. What America needs more
than anything is a spiritual revival, of spiritual awakening, starting
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with may I say it respectfully, I say it to myself,
starting with the person that you see when you look
in the mirror and see what's the old thing. I
don't know if it was Gandhi who said this, but
I've seen this before. Everyone thinks of changing the world,
but no one thinks of changing himself. First of all,
you can't change yourself. Ultimately, it takes the grace and
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the help and the guidance of the Holy Holy Spirit
to be truly sanctified and changed to where you reflect
the image of God. And that starts by looking in
the mirror. It starts by impacting first after ourselves, those
who are closest to espouses, children, immediate family. You can
think to your church, your community, your state. That's how
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these things grow. That's how these things will ultimately change.
You're not going to go I'm not going to go
to this microphone and just say some words and then
it change things dramatically. It's going to take action on
our parts that are complimentary with one another, that are
complimentary with one another, and they're replicated all around, right
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all around. In your home, first of all, in your heart,
just like it's in would be in my heart, an
our in my home, in your home, in our churches,
in our communities. That's how these things change. We shouldn't
be having reactions and responses like this. This needs to stop.
This is unacceptable. Nothing Rob Reiner and his wife did
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warranted this. You know, we all have sin, and the
wages of sin is death. But that is true for
all of us in a general sense. But to do
something specifically that warrants a capital offense to the loss
of my life. There are things that I can do,
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or that someone can do that warrant that response by
the state, or even again in this case of self defense,
that warrant that outcome. That is not the case here,
at least, there's no evidence to suggest that this is tragic.
This is sad. Friends, We need Jesus and listen. You can.
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You can reject what Trump said and still think he's
done a lot of good things. The left ones to
tie those things together, left ones to say, yeah, but
you got to reject him completely. I don't. I don't
condone what he said. I condemn it fully. We don't
need to go that direction. But I also understand that
there's lots of things that he has done politically that
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are good for the nation, that are good for religious liberty,
that are good for prosperity. I'm just out of time
and I gotta go. SDG
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appropriate amount of adoration and praise. I'm kidding, but you
know what, You could be kind, but it's fine if
you're not. You know it literally I think when I
started it bothered me, but it literally just bothers me
zero percent. If you want to act a full if
you want to mock the death of Charlie Kirk on
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the one in a million type of clowns out there.
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the ground running today. Yesterday we had a special guest
on the program, so I could not address this at
all yesterday. I had seen this over the weekend. It
erupted on social media yesterday and probably Sunday Sunday as well.
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President Donald Trump post that I've outsaid tweeted. It wasn't
on x or Twitter, it was on his platform Truth
social He made a post there after the tragic death
of Rob Reiner and his wife, and it is believed
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right now the suspect in this murder is their son.
So I want to go through this today. I want
to talk about this. That's the direction that well, I
don't want to do this because this is all tragic
and it's but I do. I also do want to
do this. I think it's necessary. I think for those
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who are cheering for the death of Charlie Kirk, still
mocking his death. For those who wished after the attempted
they failed assassination attempt at President Trump what a year
and a half ago. Now, I hope that they take
notes as to how to do this properly and to
not be part of the problem. So let's get to
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the facts here. First. Rob Reiner was seventy eight. He
and his wife, Michelle Singer Reiner, who was sixty eight.
They were found stabbed to death in their home in
Los Angeles over the weekend. Their adult son, Nick Reiner,
was arrested in connection with the homicide. He is the suspect.
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He is the one that authorities believe murdered, murdered his
father and Michelle's Reiner as well. That's what we know
Rob Reiner, for those of you who don't know, he
was a filmmaker. A filmmaker, he was an actor. He
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was pretty well known in the entertainment industry. He's known
for things like This Is Spinal Tap, stand by Me,
which was a great show. I remember watching that as
a younger man, when Harry met Sally, lots of other things.
He's also a longtime political activist and a very very
outspoken critic of President Donald Trump. I did. I don't
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know if I ever agreed with Rob Ryder. I don't
know if. I mean, he had a lot of hatred
for Trump, and you can go back and see some
of his posts. I'm just telling you the facts and
the information. None of this, none of this warrants what happened,
and none of this warrants any sort of just insensitive remarks.
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So Trump, Donald Trump goes to treat truth social to
post remarks after getting news of this over over the weekend,
he posted it. Actually, I'm wrong. He posted it yesterday morning,
so I didn't see this. I thought I may have
seen the post before I went to produce the show,
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but that couldn't have been true in hindsight, because it
was posted as I was probably wrapping up yesterday's program.
So this would have happened December fifteenth, which would have
been yesterday, nine fifty one am. So I'm going to
read this post to you. Here's what President Trump said
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in response to what I just told you. Here off
the top. You've probably seen this or heard this, or
read this or whatever. Here's the post I'm reading this.
These are not my words. I don't condone this. By
the way, here we go, A very sad thing happened
last night in Hollywood. Now that's true because the murder
had happened Saturday, excuse me, Sunday night, Rob Riiner, he
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writes a this is where this is. You'll hear the
uninappropriate or unnecessary or whatever commentary here from President Trump.
But he says rob Riiner a tortured and struggling but
once very talented movie director and comedy star has passed
away together with his wife Michelle, reportedly due to the anger.
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This again Trump's words, not mine, he caused others through
his massive, unyielding and incurable affliction with a mind crippling
disease known as Trump derangement syndrome, sometimes referred to as TDS.
He was known to have driven people crazy by the
way Trump Derangement syndrome TDS, and crazier in all caps
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by his raging obsession. Trump continues here by his raging
obsession of President Donald J. Trump, with his obvious paranoia
reaching new heights as the Trump administration surpassed all goals
and expectations of greatness and with the golden age of
America upon us perhaps like never before. May Rob and
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Michelle rest in peace. Exclamation point. Now those are the
words of Trump. That's what he posted. This, of course,
has caused all sorts of backlash. Everybody is rushing out
to to condemn these words, to say that they disagree.
In fact, the first comment I see below here says,
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sir mister President, I love you, I support you one
hundred percent. I do not support this post. Highly inappropriate
and it puts us in their box, tacky and tasteless.
I mean, you can, it doesn't. It doesn't. First of all,
I know your response. More than likely your reaction is
the same as most of these comments, like mine was.
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I'm just listen some of these other posts here, mister president,
with respect. This isn't how a Christian should speak about
anyone living or dead. We can oppose ideas without mocking
a person's suffering or death. Let no corrupt word proceed
out of your mouth Ephesians four to twenty nine. Take
down this post, mister president. It's tasteless and inappropriate. It
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is unbecoming of you and the presidency. So you get
the idea, and this is on truth social which is
his his platform. The left celebrated Charlie Kirk's death, we
mourn Rob Reiner's and his wife's death were not the same.
This is a post ri ip you can. I'm not
gonna read all those. I'm just telling you that the
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the general response reaction to this is to say, this
is inappropriate, this is out of line. That shouldn't happen.
Mister president. Take down this post. What are you doing?
This is how the left behaved. This is not how
this is not how conservatives behave, Republicans behave. Whatever this is,
this is the standard typical response. By the way, I
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agree with that. That is exactly. It is inappropriate, no doubt,
my friends, it's inappropriate. I will say this. I will
say this. I've not seen I have seen circles on
social media where people are just in and joining the mockery.
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Probably people some people anyway who agree with me politically,
some people who are Republicans or conservatives. That does happen.
I have not seen all out celebrations, and thankfully not
and hopefully we don't. Who knows. I mean people. Again,
as I've shared on this program before, this is critically
important to understand we are, and I'm going to get
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into this today. We as humanity, my friends, are broken. Now.
I know that depending upon your upbringing, your background, your faith,
your religion, you may or your lack of religion, you
may or may not agree with that statement. But biblically,
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there is no Let there be no mistake. We as
humanity are one hundred percent broken. We have all sin,
we have all chosen to gone to go astray of
all rebelled against the creator of this universe. The creator
of this universe, who who we should be eternally grateful for,
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grateful for, grateful for creating us, grateful for giving us
a place to live, grateful for heaping blessings upon us,
Grateful for lots of things. We're not we haven't always
been now through the process of repenting and choosing the
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free gift of salvation through Jesus, Christ's son, and through
the process of being sanctified, the ongoing work of God's
Holy Spirit in your life, in my life, if you're
a believer to be made more like Christ. We've found
ourselves on a path towards turning from our sin. At
least we should, that's the direction we should go. But
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all of us are on that path. We're on the
path of sin. And the question is are we turning
away from that sin and going back towards God embracing
him through his son Jesus, or are we not? And
what's unfortunate. There are lots of consequences for the fall,
the fall of man, the original sin of Adam and Eve.
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There are tons of consequences for that, and one of
those is that no matter what group you're part of,
you're gonna find knuckleheads and idiots and people who are
using their liberty and their freedom to do some really
reprehensible things. It doesn't matter your group. I'm telling you,
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it doesn't matter. You can be in a group of
whatever the purest group of people you think morally are,
and you will find reprehensible behavior. Now, you will find people. Again,
this is this think about what we've seen with inside
the Catholic Church, with priests and so forth. Certainly there
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are people who condemn that what happened, But there are
people that are within any group. And I'm not picking
on Catholicism here, I'm just saying, no matter where what
the group is, there are people that choose within that
group to use their freedom, to use their liberty to
exercise their choice for reprehensible things. Now, there is a
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difference between that truth and that that matters. Listen, whether
you're Colts fans, Patriots fans, whether you're soccer fans, whether
you're WNBA fans, or whether you are Christian denomination, this
denomination that, whether you are whatever, there are bad people
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that are making bad choice, people who are choosing actively
in this moment to do reprehensible things in any group. Now,
There's also there's also the reality that if the group
embraces if the group itself embraces evil as an ideology,
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if a group itself actually endorses or talks highly about
certain immoral activity, you'll find obviously a much higher percentage
of that happening within that group, because they will basically
be saying, this is what we this is what we
want to do. I mean again, I can choose here
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as to which groups we we pick on, but some
of the most egregious in my mind, would be some
of these organizations like NAMBLA, which I don't want to
get into that, but they're condoning absolute evil, depravity, and sin.
You get into the l g B, t q I
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A A plus whatever agenda movement group, you'll find that
they're condoning sinful, ungodly behavior. So so in that sense,
you'll find find a higher propensity of people because they've
basically gotten together and said, Hey, we're going to pretend
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like this thing isn't this thing that we want to
do isn't against the will and the nature of God
or whatever, and so we're gonna all make arguments that
it's not bad. The pro abortion crowd, same thing and
we're gonna just, you know, come up with one liner's
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love always love always wins, for example, my body, my choice,
and we just you know, we just yell that loud enough,
pound that into the minds of the youth, and hopefully
eventually people will stop seeing these evils, these sends, this
depravity for what, for what it is. So so the
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Republican Party, the conservative movement does not fit that that mold.
Now someone on the left think it does, and I
would say, explain to me how it does, because I'd
be happy to have that conversation with you. But it doesn't.
But that still doesn't mean that there are people within
the conservative movement, even even up to and including the
President of the United States, who can say things or
do things that are not good and decent. This is
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not a good and decent thing he's gotten, by the way,
bipartisan condemnation on this. Thomas Massey, who, of course he's
got an ongoing feud with Thomas Massey, Representative of the state.
Is it stand d Commonwealth of Kentucky? I think is
it commonwealth? It is a commonwealth. OZ knows these things.
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Commonwealth of Kentucky Representative Thomas Massey He called Trump's comments
disrespectful towards someone just murdered. I agree with that Representative
Marjorie Taylor Green, who of course is retiring. She's had
a rift with Trump as well. She said, this is
a family tragedy. This is not This shouldn't be something
that's viewed as some sort of a political fight between
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enemies or whatever. Of course, celebrity, these commentators, all sorts
of folks have jumped in criticized Trump's remarks is insensitive
and politicizing a family tragedy. They are right, my friends,
the people who are saying this, this is unnecessary. This
is making an issue, making himself about an issue when
it isn't. And I understand. Listen, I understand this. I
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understand as much as I can as someone who's not
in the crossfire. I've been in the crossfire one to
one billionth as much as someone like Trump. I understand
that if you live in that every day, if every
move that you make is criticized, if your character is
constantly maligned, if you're taking out of context, if you're
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lied about, if you're called the Nazi, I mean, all day,
every day. For as long as he's been on the
political stage. I mean, at first they mocked him, they
didn't take him seriously, but once they started realizing this
guy could win, they've been calling him what someone who
colludes with Russia wants to be a king, He's a Nazi,
he's a dictator, and just take your pick. There's so
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many options. But you know, you know what's been done
that still doesn't justify treating another person like this. It's
not about Trump again, I do it's absolutely not the
right way to respond how Trump did here. But I
also understand his desire to fight back because this is
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an all day, everyday thing, and Rob Reiner was one
who came at Trump with everything he had, which is
fair game. I mean to a point, it's fair game, right,
I mean, I guess if you hate the guy and
you just can't whatever say anything nice, if you want
to go after him and his policies, a certain amount
of that is fair game. I'm not here to defend
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every Rob Reiner post on social media, because I'm pretty
sure that there's some reprehensible things there as well, But
that doesn't change None of that changes this. None of
that changes this life was lost, my friends. That is
a tragic, tragic thing. It was horrific as well. It
was it was a murder. A murder of a husband
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and wife murdered by their adult son, should have never happened. Nothing,
hear me say this, Nothing Rob Reiner did politically or
otherwise made him deserve this. The only way that something
like this is justifiable is in the you're you're defending yourself.
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So if if in this scenario, the son alled who
allegedly did this went after Rob Reiner and and his
wife then and and they protected themselves and the perpetrator
was lost his life, that would have been that would
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have been justifiable homicide, at least in theory. Not knowing
all the details and everything else, that certainly fits the
bill on what is justified. This was nothing like that.
They did not deserve this, They did not deserve the violence.
They did not deserve to die. There's no justification for celebrating,
which I haven't seen the celebration. I will say that
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that is a difference I saw people and maybe it exists.
If it does, you can share it with me, because
I'll condemn that as well. I had plenty to say
about the people who did that in the wake of
Charlie Kirk's death, but there's no justification for celebrating or
mocking or murder. I don't know that this how I
would categorize Trump's response, but they're clearly it's clearly inappropriate.
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It's about it's making it about himself, and he did
say things in here that were nice. A very sad
thing happened last night may guide him. Michelle rest in peace.
But there's a lot in there that's not not necessary,
talking about his his Rob Reiners, being a struggling actor director.
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It's not appropriate at this time. It's it's unnecessary, and
it's it's not something that the vast majority of Trump's
supporters are going to support. Now again, I don't I
don't engage in this stuff. I don't condone derogatory remarks
about someone's death. I don't. I don't condone his remarks
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on truth social I condemn that that's unnecessary. I don't
like that. There's conservatives out there who have on social
media and elsewhere that have made unkind jabs. I don't
stand by that either. I'm not going to post attacks
like this. The vast, vast, vast, vast majority of you
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aren't going to do that either, We're not going to
look for tragedy as a time to post things that
are unnecessary and unhelpful, whether that be for Charlie Kirk
or Rob Reiner. That's just not the way that this
is going to be done, at least by people like me.
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Trump's social media posts on truth social regarding the tragic,
horrific murder alleged murder of Rob Reiner and his wife
allegedly murdered by their son. Talking about that today, talking
about the discourse that we have out there, talking about
the value of human life. Folks. We need to win
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the battle that's being waged in this country politically. You've
heard me talk about we're in the midst of a
cold civil war and we have to use every legal, ethical, moral,
constitutional solution that we have at our fingertips. We have
to do this. That's why I favored redistricting. I'm not
going through all that again, but it's a it's a
(23:58):
viable option. It's it's not the use of violence. Violence
has to be rejected in a civil society. Violence that's unjustified,
Which what makes something justified in the world of using violence?
As if someone is using violence against you. I just
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had lunch with a friend yesterday. He was telling me
about one of his kids had gotten in trouble at
school for, you know, telling somebody on the bus he
was going to bust his mouth or he's a little kid,
and he got in trouble for this. And when he
dug deeper, he realized his son was kind of getting
picked on. He's a younger kid and he was getting
(24:42):
picked on by an older kid that his son was
trying to there's a bus monitor. He went and told
the bus monitor, Hey, can you keep this kid from
hitting me? The bus monitor said something. The kids continued
to do it, so the kid told the bus driver.
The bus driver saw it, told the kid to quit
doing it. The kid kept doing it, and finally the
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little guy, to his credit, says, if you don't stop it,
I'm gonna bust you in the mouth. And of course
the kid gets in trouble by the bus driver. According
to my friend here, but if the kid decided to
hit him in response to being hit, that's different than
being the person who's the aggressor. Right, So there is
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violence as defense versus violence as an act of provocation.
There's obviously a difference. I unequivocally announce or reject. I
should say violence, threats of violence, bomb threats, assassination, attempts,
political murder of any kind. I hope everybody can agree
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with me on that. Unfortunately I know that they can't
because I've seen them on social media. By the way,
if you want to know how to do this, I
think we're doing that today. This is how you address this.
This is absolutely how you addressed us. But we have
a problem of evil in humanity. We have humans, human
beings who are responsible for this depravity we have brought.
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We ourselves have brought evil into the world through the
choices we've made. Now, you and I didn't make the
choice to that resulted in this heinous murder of Rob
Reiner and his wife, or the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
We didn't choose that. But people made those choices. And
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if we're all being honest with ourselves, we all made
choices that have harmed other people. It's called sin biblically.
You missed the mark, you fail, you come up short,
you do things in such a way that is against
the nature and the will of God. We've all done this.
We've all been dare I say, absolute rebels against the
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creator of the universe. So the Gospel, my friends, the
Gospel message, which is really what I want to get to,
the gospel listen. In fact, I did the Todd talk
on this, not this particularly, but as we enter into
this Christmas season, I always feel it to be a
burden upon my heart to say to share with people
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out there that whether you agree with me zero percent
or one hundred percent, the Gospel message is for you.
The Gospel message is that, well, let's back up. God
created man, humanity, a man and woman in his image.
He made us to be, you know, the rulers so
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to speak, over this planet. We are the top of
the pyramid as far as who is in charge of
planet Earth. Of course, he wanted us to do this
in partnership with him, not in rebellion against him. But
we chose the latter. We chose to do this with rebellion.
And that's why this looks like it looks. So He
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gave us free will. We use that free will to
choose things that were not that we're not in alignment
with how He created this world to work. And now
as such we are all accountable for those actions. But
God didn't just stop there. He didn't say, you broke it.
You know, you made your bed, now lie in it
sort of thing. God provided a way out, my friends,
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and he offered this way through his son Jesus Christ.
By the way, that's the only way to God, the Father.
This is upsetting to a lot of folks because a
lot of folks will tell you that all just as
all rivers lead to the sea, all religions lead to God.
That's not true. God told us through his son Jesus
that Jesus is the way, the truth, the life. No mon,
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no one, no man, no person comes to the Father,
but through his son Jesus. And so God has given
us this grace. We talk we have Bible studies here,
our family does we talk about, you know, grace and mercy.
Mercy is not getting something you do deserve. So if
you've broken the law, and the law says you deserve
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X as the punishment, whatever, the punishment must fit the crime.
Mercy is when a judge says, I'm not gonna give
you what you deserve. I'm gonna include other factors. You're
not you're a first time offender, whatever, and you've you've
thrown yourself at the mercy of the court, and I've
decided to respond with mercy. That's what mercy is. Grace
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is getting something, proactively getting something that we do not deserve.
Grace is what this is, getting the forgiveness of God.
We can ask for mercy. It's it's again, it's perspective.
Ask for mercy. God's mercy through his son Jesus, and
then through his the grace of Christ, we get what
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we don't deserve, which is the presence of God living
in our hearts eternally, being united with the Father, through
the Son Jesus, being stilled with the Holy Spirit. This
is powerful, powerful stuff, and this g is available to everybody. Everybody,
my friends, I'm gonna say, listen, everybody, you have to
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You have to choose it and accept it. You have
to repent, turn from your sin. You know, we're not saved.
We're saved by grace through faith, not by works. Bible
also says if you love me, you will keep my commandments.
There's a difference between that initial bit of forgiveness that
that wipes our slate clean. That's available. That check, by
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the way, is written for you. All you have to
do is take it and deposit it. God paid the price.
It's written, the money is in the account. You just
have to receive it and you will be You will
be forgiven. A sanctification, my friends, is an ongoing process.
Sanctification is taking up your cross daily and following him.
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Sanctification is the process of being made into the image,
being shaped and molded to look a little bit more
like Jesus. The Bible gives us an example or an
analogy of a silversmith who is refining silver and you
heat it up and you know, take the impurities out,
and you keep purifying it and purifying it, and it's
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amazing to me. The silversmith knows the silver is done
when the silversmith can see his reflection in the silver.
And it's a beautiful metaphor, right, because God is He's
never done with us this side of heaven. But what
he's trying to do is create. This is the process
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of sanctification, which is different from being forgiven. You can
be forgiven and still have really bad, you know, ideas
and things that you're arguing for, whether it be politically
or doctrinally or whatever, the way that you treat people.
But if you're being sanctified. Those things are getting removed
from your life. You're becoming more like Jesus to where eventually, hopefully,
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when the silversmith, the great Silversmith got himself, when he
looks at the refined silver, he can see his That's
what God is after. And it doesn't matter. Friends, This
that matters. But what doesn't matter is who you are
and where you are now. You can be an atheist,
you can be an agnostic. You can be a very animated,
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hate filled agnostic or atheist. You can be a democrat
or Republican, an independent. It can be a communist. You
can be a fascist. You can be any number of things.
I'm not condemning any or I'm excuse me, not condoning
any of those ideas. In particular, I'm a conservative Christian,
a constitutionalist. But where you are today, whatever category you
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fall into, the grace of God is made available to
you through Jesus Christ. Wherever you are, whoever you are,
that's available to you. The Gospel transcends politics. This stuff
still matters tremendously. In fact, I think that if you
are a believer who's being sanctified, made more into Christ image,
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my friends, I've given you a little bit about my
viewpoint on this, my viewpoint as a Christian on this
I mentioned that we're just We're not just saved by grace.
We're also we're also to be sanctified, made more, made
to look more like God, be more christ Like. And
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that includes things like resisting sinful reactions, showing empathy, choosing restraint,
even loving those my friends with whom we disagree and listen.
Our political worldview, for those of us who have a
belief in the Scripture, should be shaped by the Scripture.
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We should strive to follow, of course, God's spirit, the
Holy Spirit. We should read the Word, We should seek
his guy, we should pray, acknowledge that we sometimes mess
up where a sinner saved only by the grace of God.
And so when I look at this reaction, what I
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want to make sure that we hit is that we
should be decent to one another. We can have tremendous fights,
and these fights are important to have, but at these
times of tragedy, we should be decent and graceful to
one another. We should reject mockery. We should reject violence
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or endorsing the violence that has happened time and time
again in the wake of course of the attempted assassination
on President Trump, or in the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
People still. I still got to quote a post the
other day when I posted the video of me speaking
at the State House during the Turning Point action event,
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somebody posted something like, where's your boy, Charlie? What is
wrong with people? And it doesn't like they do that
to personally, I guess attack me or whatever in that instance,
but it actually shows the depravity of their heart and
their mind that it's just it's reprehensible that stuff has
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got to stop. My friends, this world is broken. This
world is broken, and we need we need more Jesus
in this world, dare I say? And I know for
some people this is a lot today because they're like,
I didn't sign up to go to a church service.
But listen, I think we're to the point. I think
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we're to the point where these things have to be well.
As Christians, we always should have been about this business,
but we've got to proclaim these ideas. We've got to
proclaim the truth from the mountaintops. What America needs more
than anything is a spiritual revival, of spiritual awakening, starting
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with may I say it respectfully, I say it to myself,
starting with the person that you see when you look
in the mirror and see what's the old thing. I
don't know if it was Gandhi who said this, but
I've seen this before. Everyone thinks of changing the world,
but no one thinks of changing himself. First of all,
you can't change yourself. Ultimately, it takes the grace and
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the help and the guidance of the Holy Holy Spirit
to be truly sanctified and changed to where you reflect
the image of God. And that starts by looking in
the mirror. It starts by impacting first after ourselves, those
who are closest to espouses, children, immediate family. You can
think to your church, your community, your state. That's how
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these things grow. That's how these things will ultimately change.
You're not going to go I'm not going to go
to this microphone and just say some words and then
it change things dramatically. It's going to take action on
our parts that are complimentary with one another, that are
complimentary with one another, and they're replicated all around, right
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all around. In your home, first of all, in your heart,
just like it's in would be in my heart, an
our in my home, in your home, in our churches,
in our communities. That's how these things change. We shouldn't
be having reactions and responses like this. This needs to stop.
This is unacceptable. Nothing Rob Reiner and his wife did
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warranted this. You know, we all have sin, and the
wages of sin is death. But that is true for
all of us in a general sense. But to do
something specifically that warrants a capital offense to the loss
of my life. There are things that I can do,
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or that someone can do that warrant that response by
the state, or even again in this case of self defense,
that warrant that outcome. That is not the case here,
at least, there's no evidence to suggest that this is tragic.
This is sad. Friends, We need Jesus and listen. You can.
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You can reject what Trump said and still think he's
done a lot of good things. The left ones to
tie those things together, left ones to say, yeah, but
you got to reject him completely. I don't. I don't
condone what he said. I condemn it fully. We don't
need to go that direction. But I also understand that
there's lots of things that he has done politically that
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are good for the nation, that are good for religious liberty,
that are good for prosperity. I'm just out of time
and I gotta go. SDG
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