: Welcome to Real Truth for Today with Pastor Jeff Schrieve, senior pastor of First Baptist Church in Texarkana, Texas. Now, here's Pastor Jeff.
Pastor Jeff Schreve: Well, good Wednesday morning and welcome to Real Truth for today. Pastor Jeff Schrieve here. Hope you're having a great, a wonderful, Wednesday morning. I wanted to read to you from Daniel, Chapter one. We have talked about this before, but it is worth revisiting Daniel 1 8. Daniel and his, posse, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, were taken from Jerusalem in the first deportation around 605 BC by Nebuchadnezzar back to Babylon to be indoctrinated, go to Babylonian graduate school. And, these guys were handsome, in whom there was defect. They were smart. And, so they were put into this school. They had wonderful names. We know Daniel as Daniel, because of the Book of Daniel. But they called him Belteshazzar. That was his Babylonian name. And then we know his three friends, but we don't know them typically by their Jewish names, by their Hebrew names. We know them by their Babylonian names, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, by. But, Shadrach was Hananiah, Meshach was Mishael, and Azariah was the one whose name was changed to Abednego. And so we know him more that way. But it says this in chapter one, verse eight. But Daniel made up his mind that he would not defile himself with the king's choice food. Obviously, the king's choice food was sacrificed to idols or with the wine which he drank. So he sought permission from the commander of the officials that he might not defile himself. Now God granted Daniel favor and compassion in the sight of the commander of the officials. That was a big deal. It was a big ask. And the guy even said, hey, if I don't give you this stuff, he said, just give us vegetables and water. And the guy said, well, wait a minute. If you start getting looking skinny and then the king's going to look to me and I could lose my Head over this deal. And then Daniel said, well, try it for 10 days and see how we look. And so he did it for 10 days. They looked good. And so he kept it up. Vegetables and water. Not the king's choice.
Speaker D: Food.
Pastor Jeff Schreve: Well, here's the deal. Daniel had convictions. You have heard it said, the difference between a belief and a conviction. A belief is something you hold. A conviction is something that holds you. And so, when it comes to how you conduct your life, do you conduct it through beliefs or through convictions? Now, obviously, we believe, in the things of the Lord. as the Philippian jailer said to Paul and Silas, Acts 16, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? And he said, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you'll be saved, you and your household, if they also believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. And so, don't get that confused. But when we talk about convictions, those are things that we are so sure of that we're willing to die for those things. Daniel was willing to die for this. I'm not crossing this line. Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in chapter three, when they were told, hey, you have to bow before the king's image, they said, we're not going to do it. Throw us in the fiery furnace if that's what you feel you must do. But we're not going to bow before your image. They had a conviction. It wasn't a belief that they held. That was written in pencil with the eraser nearby. It was chiseled in stone. This is my conviction. You know, they tried to get Polycarp, the old man from Smyrna, when he was arrested. And, they were going to put him to death for his faith in Christ. And they just said, just denounce Christ. We'll let you live. You're an old man. We don't want to kill you. Just denounce him. And he said, For 86 years I have served him. He has done me no wrong. How can I deny my King and the one who saved me? And he gladly went to his, martyrdom to his death, because he would not deny Christ. Now, we had primaries, take place in Florida and other places, yesterday. And, you know, people are. People get really, They get really worked up when it comes to elections, because elections have consequences. And Christians need to be involved in the political process. Why? Because Jeremiah, chapter 29, verse 7. We are to seek for the welfare of, the city in which the Lord our God has sent us. As the Lord told the captives that lived in Babylon. And we're to do that. And so what is going to be best, for our community, for our city, for our state, for our nation? We need to vote for those things that are going to help the masses flourish, not that are going to hurt the masses and bring misery and destruction. I ran across a clip from Anton Scalia, the, Supreme Court justice who died some years ago. He was at my friend Mark Lanier's, compound. Mark has a, beautiful, huge house. And then he's got a, ah, chapel where my daughter Amy was married. Beautiful, beautiful chapel. fashioned after something, I think in the 500s, ad, very, very, Just blow you away. It's so gorgeous. And the ceiling's all painted like the Sistine Chapel. Well, he has lecture series. He, has had different ones there. And, Scalia was there, and he was talking about socialism and its effect on the church versus capitalism and its effect on the church. And, here's what Anton Scalia had to say a few years ago.
Joseph Parker: I know of no country in which the churches have grown fuller as the governments have moved leftward. The churches of Europe are empty. The most religious country in the west by all standards. Belief in God, church membership, church attendance. Is that bastion of capitalism least diluted by socialism, the United States. When I say least diluted by socialism, you must understand that I say it in a modern context in which we are all socialists. In the United States, that battle was fought and decided with a NewSong Deal.
Pastor Jeff Schreve: So if you go leftward, guess what? You hurt the church. You don't help the church, you hurt the church. Anton Scalia said, hey, just look at Europe. You have these huge, beautiful cathedrals that are empty. And, that is not a good thing, that's a bad thing. And I was watching a clip, Josh Howerton posted where, this guy was some historian. I can't remember the guy's name, but he was like, in no way, shape or form. Now I'm paraphrasing, but it was basically in no way, shape or form was America founded on Christian principles. And then he had one of the guys that was part of his panel, this is Josh Howerton. Read from the second President of the United States, one of our founding fathers, the first Vice President of the United States, Jon Adams, in his letter to Thomas Jefferson on June 28, 1813, he said, Now I will avow that I then believed, and now believed that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God, and that those principles of liberty are as unalterable as human nature and our terrestrial, mundane system. And he says that that was how they framed the Constitution. The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the only principles in which the beautiful assembly of young gentlemen could un night. And these principles only could be intended by them in their address or by me in my address. And what were these general principles? I answer the general principles of Christianity in which all those sects were united, and the general principles of English and American liberty in which all those young men united, and which had united all parties in America the majorities sufficient to assert and maintain her independence. The principles of Christianity. Now, you've heard it said, I've said it many times on the program. No doubt you've heard other people, people say that Islam is incompatible with America, with our Constitution, it's incompatible with the principles of Christianity. this idea, we had somebody when, my friend Dr. Dean was here and he talked about how Islam and Christianity, we're not the same. We don't worship the same God. Allah is not God. That's God they've made up, just like Baal in the Old Testament, Baal wasn't God. And in First Kings chapter 18, when you had the showdown on Mount Carmel between Elijah, and the prophets of Baal, hey, you call upon your God and I'll call upon Yahweh, God, and the God who answers by fire, that is the real God. And people said, that's a good idea, let's do that. How long will you hesitate between two opinions? If Yahweh is God, fear him, serve him. If BAAL is God, serve him. Okay, but get off the fence. Get off this fence of compromise. And so what happens in First Kings 18? You find out who the real God is, who answered by fire, Yahweh, God. Because he is the only God. BAAL didn't answer. You know why? Because BAAL is not God. That's why BAAL doesn't exist as God. Now. BAAL had demonic power and demons, no doubt. they're involved in every false religion, in every cult. It's demonic. You have the truth of God and you have everything else. And where does everything else come from? Where does everything outside the truth of God come from? It comes from the devil. He is a liar and the father of lies. Any lie that you see, in any walk of life, where is that coming from? Well, ultimately it comes from the father of lies, the devil. And so when we say, and, you have to be not cautious, but you have to be judicious here. when we're talking about Islam as a religion, we're not talking to any individual person, who adheres to that. We're just talking in general about Islam as a religion. It's demonic, it's satanic, because it's not in keeping with what, the real God has said. Now, when you're talking to a Muslim, as Dr. Dean pointed out last week when he was here in the program, that's not the way to win friends and influence people. If you immediately start poking a Muslim in the eye, well, you're going to get him very riled up. He's not going to listen to what you have to say. So we speak the truth in love. We don't use the truth as a billy club to beat people over the head. And so how you speak to, a group of people where you're educating them on this philosophy of a particular religion, that's different than how you talk one on one to somebody. So Jon Adams made it clear, hey, how did we frame the Constitution? It was based on the principles of Christianity and those guys knew the Bible. That doesn't mean they were all, born again believers. It doesn't mean they were all walking in the light with Jesus. Many of them were. But it means they understood the Bible, they knew the difference between right and wrong, and they had convictions. Convictions when it came to moral values and principles and what would be good for the masses. You know, when it comes to getting involved politically, you know, some Christians run from that. I don't want to have anything to do with that. Jesus said, my kingdom is not of this world. So I'm just, as my roommate in college told me, he said, jeff, I'm apolitical. I'm just divorced from it. Well, render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and render to God the things that are God's. Caesar is the government. And what does the government want during election time? It wants you to vote. the candidates spend an exorbitant amount of money trying to, get out the vote, get you to vote, get you to vote for them. Now, obviously, if you're not going to vote for them, they would like it if you didn't vote. They would like it if you voted. But you voted for someone that's not on the ballot. A write in vote that has no chance of winning because, say you're a conservative and you look at the, Senate race in Texas, let's say James Talarico, Ken Paxton. And you say, well, I can't stand James Talarico. I mean that guy, he is, he is spiritual poison. And so I'd never vote for him. But I don't like Ken Paxton. And I m. He's, he's not his. Morally, his life is not good. I don't like him, as a person. And so I'm not, I'm going to do a write in vote for, you know, XYZ person. And well, XYZ person has no chance of winning. Zero. So you as a conservative could have helped the conservative cause, but you chose not to. You say, I voted, but my vote is not going to count for anything. And so that is a vote in my mind. You can disagree, but that's a vote to help the other side. And if you help the other side, you hurt the masses because the other side, those pushing for bigger government, more socialism, that kind of thing, more abortion, they're going to hurt the masses. Well, you're listening to Real Truth for today. Pastor Jeff Schrieve here on American Family Radio. We'll be right back.
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Pastor Jeff Schreve: Welcome back to the program. Pastor Jeff here. I do want to tell you that tonight at First Baptist Texarkana we always have a Wednesday night service. We have a meal that starts at I think they start serving at 4:45. That goes up to about 5:45. We break at 6 to go to our respective classes and we have an open service. I typically preach every Wednesday Night just started a series, Rock Solid on the Book of Second Peter. But tonight we have a special guest with us, and that is, President Tim Wildmon, the president of American Family association and American Family Radio. I'm looking forward to Tim being here. And, he, taped a little commercial to let people know he's going to be here tonight.
Tim Wildmon: Hello, I'm Tim Wildmon, president of American Family association and American Family Radio. Hey. Pastor Jeff Schrieve in Texarkana. He owes me, some money, so I'm driving over there to get it. And while I'm over there, I'm going to be speaking at the First Baptist Church, Texarkana, Texas, Wednesday, August 19th at 6pm That's Wednesday, August 19th at 6pm at the first Baptist Church, Texarkana, Texas. And I look forward to getting my money and to seeing you.
Pastor Jeff Schreve: So that's, 6:00 clock tonight at FBC Texarkana on 3, 2015 Moores Laine. Love to have you. And if you have never met Tim and you live, anywhere close, come by, make a plan to come by tonight, eat dinner with us and then stay, for the service. And Tim's going to be talking from Matthew chapter five about being salt and light, making a difference in our world, in our culture, for Jesus Christ. you know, the sad reality is the culture has made more impact in so many situations, so many churches, the culture has made more impact on the church than the church has made on the culture. And sadly, so many pastors, they just succumb to the culture. And, they look at scripture through the lens of Marxism, and the oppressed and the oppressor. And it's just sad and it's disgusting and it produces righteous indignation. This is not what we're supposed to be doing as preachers of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We're supposed to be lifting up the Lord and His word and calling people, all men everywhere. God is now declaring, as Paul said on Mars Hill, God is now declaring that all men everywhere should repent because he has fixed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness through a man whom he has appointed, having furnished proof to all men by raising him from the dead. So we have to keep in mind, this world is a sinking ship. And as I've shared before, as Robert Jeffress shared on An American Family association getaway, he shared, hey, we understand that, this world is temporary. And he said, we're the person trying to hold up the dike. You have a raging overflowing river that is coming over the dike. We're trying to hold up the dike because what's below the dike, it's a city filled with people. We're trying to get as many people out of that city before the dike collapses. And as Jon MacArthur said, hey, we are fighting a losing battle in this life. We know, from reading the scripture, from the basic reading of scripture, we understand the book of the Revelation, what is going to happen? God has told us through, Jon the Revelator, this is going to happen. And, there is going to be, the breaking of the seven seals of the scroll. And then seven, seals come with seven trumpets, and seven trumpets come with seven bowls. And those are all seals of judgment. Trumpets of judgment, bowls of judgment. There's coming a one world leader. There's coming persecution on anyone who names the name of Christ to wipe them out. there's coming the mark of the beast, as we've no doubt you've heard about. The mark of the beast. What is that? It's, a, mark on your right hand or on your forehead. Revelation, chapter 13. Without the mark of the beast, you can't buy or you can't sell. And, we have a little, little preview of that as they tried to do with the COVID vaccine. Hey, you have to show your vaccine status. And if you weren't vaccinated, you couldn't go here, you couldn't go there, you couldn't fly here, you couldn't fly there. That was the, the, kind of the test. Who would comply? And people complied like, you know, their life dependent on it. And, oh, I have to do it. I don't have any other choice. Oh, I have to bow before Nebuchadnezzar's image. I have no choice. You do have a choice. You can say no. As, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego said, we're not going to do it. Well, I'm going to throw you in the fiery furnace. All right? Our God, whom we serve, is able to deliver us, and he will deliver us. But even if he doesn't deliver us from the fiery furnace, we're not going to bow because we have convictions. Convictions are those beliefs that hold you. A belief is something you hold, but a conviction is something that holds you and you will not violate your convictions. Now, we heard this was, from a few years ago. We heard that, there is no way Donald Trump, when he was talking about late term abortions, he was making all this stuff up, is not the case. We're not doing this. And let me find this clip because it was it was a good one. where did it go? Well, it was it was stating that's not it.
: Okay.
Pastor Jeff Schreve: Can't find it. It was there and now it's gone. but it was it was from Kamala Harris. She said, nowhere in America are we doing that. Democrats, Joe Biden, we're not for, late term abortions. And you know, Donald Trump's just making this stuff up. And what did we see last week in Massachusetts? The governor basically took all restrictions off abortion. You can abort all the way up until birth. And the women behind her were all clapping with glee. they joined Massachusetts, joined, a group of 10 states total. Now where you can, there are no restrictions on abortions. And so the rhetoric that we hear, oh, you know, Democrats aren't, as Joe Biden specifically said, the Democrats aren't for that. Well, they are for that. And you know, when it comes to voting, you need to see, does this candidate have any convictions? I saw a clip from Laura Ingraham and she was talking about Jon Ossoff and he is the senator from Georgia. He's the one that's going after President Trump and one of his staffers and he's insinuating that there's sexual immorality going on there. And she said this, she said, an ambitious man without a core is the most dangerous politician of all. If you don't have principles, you don't have a core of convictions, you're just ambitious, well then you're going to be ambitious at any cost. I've played this clip before, but I'm going to play it again. It's Dinesh d' Souza interviewing a Muslim leader, a Muslim cleric. And he was talking about how they viewed politics in America.
Speaker H: So here's a paradox.
Pastor Jeff Schreve: In America, we have a political left. It's a progressive left. As you know, it's sexually permissive. And this political movement appears strangely allied with radical Islam. Can you explain this?
Joseph Parker: When I was an extremist Islamist fundamentalist, I would only vote left.
Caroline: Why is that?
Joseph Parker: I saw them as very stupid. I would fear the conservatives because they come with principle that not someone they can brainwash, but the left I know, they have no values and no principles to begin with. I dare you to find one Islamic extremist that votes for Donald Trump. Never do it. They'd give their vote to the leftist who wants to run around in in pride parades. And Islamic extremists are against gays and homosexuals and transgenders, but they want the left to go and get busy with that. They want them go, go, go. Speak about the climate. Go, go. Speak about abortion. Go, go kill yourselves. Go, go do that, Omar. She's fighting for abortion rights and all the other. My body, my choice. Yes, go do that.
: Go do that.
Joseph Parker: But would she have an abortion?
Speaker D: Never.
Joseph Parker: Never would she kill a Muslim in her stomach. Never.
Pastor Jeff Schreve: What is the fundamentalist and jihadi agenda for America?
Joseph Parker: The future of America has to be Muslim.
Pastor Jeff Schreve: All right, that was Dinesh d' Souza just a couple of years ago talking to this, Islamic cleric. I don't know what that guy's background was, but I think what he's saying is exactly right. Yeah. If you want to promote Islam, you want Islam to take over because you genuinely think Islam is right. Everybody needs to submit. Islam means submission. maybe you're not one that says, we don't need to do that through bullets. We need to do that through ballots. We need to get more Muslim candidates, we need to have more Muslim babies, and we need to just slowly take over the country. Seems like that's their plan now, but they're going to link arms with, the socialists, and that's what we're having, the Rick Green alliance. They're linking arms together, both using one another to say, well, we're just going to gain power, and once we gain power, we'll get rid of this entity that we have teamed up with. Well, they're both thinking that. And as we've stated numerous times, the history of Iran, when they overthrew the Shah in 1979, it was the Islamists and the Marxists that got together. And when they achieved power, then the Islamists took over and killed the Marxists. And it was brutal, and it was, difficult and horrible, but the Marxists believed, they could control the Islamists. You can't, as we're finding out in Iran. I mean, how do you win a war against Iran unless you go in there and just cut the head off the snake? You just have to have boots on the ground to, go in and annihilate them. I don't know how President been praying for him that God would give wisdom to know what to do. But, we know that, but Americans wouldn't be for that. but if you want to win, that's what you're going to have to do, because they will not quit until they're all dead. you know, I Think about that line from the original Terminator movie where, the, guy sent back to save Sarah Connor said, you don't understand the Terminator. He said, this thing, will not quit until you are dead. The radicals in Iran, they're all for death. They're not going to quit. They think that. They believe the lie that, hey, if you die in a holy war that Allah has sanctioned, that's a good thing. You're going straight to heaven with the 72 virgins. And so they believe that lie, and they go along with it, and they're in for such a rude awakening. Luke, chapter 16. The rich man. As Jesus told that story about the rich man and Lazarus, when the rich man died, he, was buried. And then in hell, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment from the flame. That's what's going to happen to all these people who believe the lies of Islam. And because we love people and we want to see people saved, not see people lost forever and ever and ever, we speak the truth in love. We call that out. And we don't just say, well, that's that.
Tim Wildmon: You.
Pastor Jeff Schreve: You have the right to believe anything you want. I'm going to pat you on the back. I'll cheer you on. That's your belief, and that's good. Your truth. Just as good as my truth. It's not. There's just truth. And there's, let God be found true, though every man be found a liar. And so we speak the truth, which is the truth of God. We speak that in love because we don't want to see people perish. We want to see people saved. I, love this. I saw this, where students on college campuses today, the young people, they're all jazzed about socialism, how great socialism is. Oh, it's so wonderful, just to share and share the wealth and that kind of thing. And then they asked them about their gpa. Well, why don't you give some of your GPA points to these other, people that haven't studied. Listen to these interviews.
Speaker L: Either have in America socialism or capitalism.
Speaker D: I would say socialism.
Speaker L: How do you view the word socialism? Favorably or unfavorably?
Speaker D: I guess I would go with favorably.
Speaker L: Like, I have family in Europe. They go to college for free. Their health care is paid for. They don't have to worry about it at all.
Speaker D: I favor that over capitalism.
Speaker H: Okay, got it.
Speaker D: I also think I favor that, like, socialism over capitalism.
Speaker H: Socialism is more geared toward, like, helping the people, people in your, you know, the governed.
Speaker D: I'd Rather, people have that same opportunity. There's a lot of excess in America.
Speaker L: Go on campus. If there's a GPA disparity where there's people at the bottom with a poor gpa, would you support a policy where people at the top spread the wealth and give that GPA to people at the bottom?
Speaker D: Give, like, help them get a better gpa? I'm all for helping. I wouldn't give, like, oh, let me just give you some of my points.
Speaker L: But it's about being fair, right? We got to help people. The bottom.
Speaker D: I've lost a lot of sleep, so I don't know if I will be fair. That's completely different.
Speaker L: How is it different?
Speaker D: Because I'm, like, studying all day for my grade.
Speaker H: I mean, I sacrifice a lot to get my gpa. You know, I. I don't, go out as much as I'd like to, but that's for some, like, a greater goal in the future, the way I see it. So, no, I wouldn't sacrifice my own things, like, sacrifice my own time to help somebody else who didn't, want to make those same sacrifices.
Pastor Jeff Schreve: Oh, yeah, I'm all for socialism. Yeah, we need to give to people because, you know, that's what. That's what it's all about. Well, yeah. Well, then give some of your GPA away. Oh, I would never do that. I worked for that. Well, I think it was Bill O'Reilly or somebody I was listening to pointed out, do these people think that folks have gained wealth just willy nilly? They just found a bag of money one day that they didn't work for it? you know, Elon Musk? Oh, he's just, you know, he doesn't know what he's doing. As AOC says, he's. He's dumb. Or Joy Reid, I think, said he's not very smart. And, you know, he just exploited everybody for all his money. Unbelievable what that guy has done. He might be a little weird, but he is a genius when it comes to technology and all the things that he's built and the 170,000 people that he employs, that guy has done amazing things. Well. You're listening to Real Truth for today. Pastor Jeff Schrieve here on American Family Radio. When we come back from the break, we'll be taking your calls. 888-589-8840. That's 888-589-8840. If you have a question or comment. We're talking about convictions and being a person of Conviction and voting convictions and not being swayed by the culture.
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Pastor Jeff Schreve: Welcome back to the program. We're opening the phone lines like we like to do in this third segment. 888-589-8840. That's 888-589-8840. If you have a question or comment, love to hear from you. And if you've never called in before but you've been listening for a long time, it's always a joy to know that hey, you know, when people call in they say, hey, I've been listening for a long time. Sometimes I'll get emails like that. But this is my first time to contact you. We found that out at From His Heart Ministries. You know, we've been on American Family radio at that 6pm Central time slot Monday, through Friday for years and years and years. Great, opportunity to share with people, especially driving home. And we'll have people that say, you know, I've been listening to you for three years, four years, five years, but this is my first time to contact you. So what I love about radio and television, online things, you never know who you're impacting. And one of my board members, he's been a board member and a dear friend from the time we started in 2004. He was reached through radio ministry. He was ready to just say, I don't want to live anymore. He had a dream of playing in the NBA and that fell apart. And he was just at the lowest point of life and he was just contemplating, do I want to keep going on. And he was reached through through ministry on the radio. And that totally turned his life around. So he has such a heart for that. And I love that, radio and television and things on the Internet, they can get to places that past gated communities, into prisons, into hospitals, into places that you can't reach any other way, perhaps. And you can get there through the airwaves. And so that's why I love that. But I would love to hear from you. Now I had mentioned about the little clip that I was looking for. We found it. I wanted to play you this because it just shows that what someone says, what a politician says, you have to look deeper than that because
Speaker H: they
Pastor Jeff Schreve: so often lie and a lie just right to your face. They know they're lying, but yet they do it. We are not for late term abortion.
Caroline: Period, Period, Period.
Pastor Jeff Schreve: Nowhere in America is a woman carrying a pregnancy to term and asking for an abortion. That is not happening. It's insulting to the women of America. Well, it is happening. And, that's not insulting. It's, tragic and an abomination that a woman would do that. Life, starts at conception. If it doesn't start at conception, when does it start? It doesn't make any sense. Life begins at conception, and, that is a separate life, that unborn baby. And so you talk about voting. Abortion is a huge issue when it comes to what the candidates want to do. So I wrote down some things, you know, how you vote. So in Texas, we have Talarico and Ken Paxton, and people can, say what they want about Ken Paxton, you know, as far as his personal life and things aren't good. But where does he stand on the issues? Well, there's a stark difference between those two guys with the issue of abortion. You know, Talarico goes so far as to say that in the, story in Luke with the Angel Gabriel coming to Mary, that Mary had to give. The Angel Gabriel asked, which is a lie. He didn't ask her, will you bear the Christ child? that she had to give consent. He had to ask, and she had to give consent. And he uses that as a proof text for abortion. Good grief. That guy is poison. Anybody that takes the scripture and twists it around like that is poison. Where do they stand on the issue of abortion? Where do they stand on the issue of the LGBTQIA agenda? Man, I would never vote for a candidate that's all in for the LGBTQIA that wants to trans kids and, mutilate kids. That is evil with a capital evil. law and order. Where do they stand on that? Where do they stand on the issue of borders? A country without borders is not a country anymore. Where do they stand on the socialism versus capitalism issue? Where do they stand on giveaway, programs? We want to help all these poor people. Well, look and see. Giving people money without any kind of, you know, incentive program to get them out of their lot in life. That's so awful. Just giving them money, giving them alcohol, giving them drugs, doing what Gavin Newsom has been doing to California. How's that working? It doesn't work at all. I love what Jon Wooden said. he learned from his father, never do for someone else the things that they should be doing for themselves. 2nd Thessalonians 3. 10. If a man will not Work, neither shall he eat. Don't help people who refuse to help themselves. As Adrian Rogers, we had Steve Rogers, his son, on the program yesterday. Adrian Rogers used to say, we are here to help people who can't help themselves, not people who will not help themselves. If you're an able bodied person and you will not help yourself, you will not go get a job. Well, we're not going to feed you. You, we're not going to help you. Hey, hunger is a great motivator. And when people quit helping you, and enabling you to be a slug, then you get off, the couch, so to speak, and you start looking for work. And, the Bible is very clear on that. And listen, life is not fair. You want to level everything out. Jesus gave five talents, he gave two talents, he gave one talent each according to his ability. People are different. some people have a lot more brain power than others. Some people have a lot more physical strength than others. the focus of life as a believer is whatever God gives you, use it for his glory. If it's one talent, use that one talent for his glory. But don't take from the guy that has five and say, well, we need to even this out because it's not fair that he has more than I do. That's, the way of life. Not everybody can play in the NBA and not everybody can play in the NFL. As much as I wanted to be able to play in the NBA back in the day, I can't do it. I don't have the ability that is needed to play at that level. Well, we're going to the phone lines, 888-589-8840. And we have Rob, Elvis on the line from Arkansas. Rob, welcome to Real Truth for today.
Caroline: Hey, Jeff. thank you. hey, I wanted to compliment you on your, your sermons. I listen to them every night and, and I wanted to find out where it is you get your emotion and your fire from. Because, sometimes when you estimate I can hear your emotion and it just, it makes my, it makes my hair grow. And then my second question is, do you feel that you are an evangelist, a preacher, or a pastor?
Pastor Jeff Schreve: Yeah. Well, Rob, thanks for listening. I appreciate that so much.
Tim Wildmon: Great.
Pastor Jeff Schreve: question. I don't think I have the gift of evangelism. Although I want every message to be evangelistic and give people the opportunity to, to come to know Christ. And as Paul said, God is now declaring that all men everywhere should repent. And I want to always put that in Every message, Ah, I have the heart of a pastor. I think about. I can get very emotional when I think about people, that are struggling in certain areas. People, that have been, abused and used and discarded and feel so worthless. I've heard real heart for those folks because there's hope in Jesus. I have a, passion that stirs up over, injustice. When you see with abortion, with, people believing the lies of transgender insanity, these things, you know, when people talk about injustice, they always put a Marxist, label over everything in a, film over that. All that. That's. They oppress the oppressor. I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about people who have really gone through, difficulties in life. Physically abused, sexually abused, that kind of thing. I have such a heart for those folks and, want them to come to their senses and come to the Lord. And, a lot of that comes from my own heart. And the things that I experienced as a kid with my, mom and dad separated for two and a half years when I was a kid growing up, and things that happened to me. And so, you know, I, really put myself in the shoes of other people. I learned in seminary, Rob, that, you know, if you preached a broken heart, you always have an audience because in every pew there's a broken heart. And so I want to speak the truth in love and want to give people hope and point people to Jesus. One of my, mentors in seminary, Dr. Wayne McDill, he. He would tell us in preaching class, he goes, always preach for faith. Don't preach. Do better sermons. Don't, don't, browbeat people and get them to just say, oh, I'm doing bad. I need to do better. He said, do better doesn't help anybody. He said, preach for faith. Get people to trust Christ and to look to Jesus and to know that, you know, apart from Him, I can do nothing, but with Him, I can do all things. So great questions. I appreciate that, Rob, and appreciate you listening here, on American Family Radio. Anything else?
Caroline: you get an A for your answer. I get an A.
Pastor Jeff Schreve: Thanks, brother. God bless you. We have Craig on the line from Washington. Craig, welcome to Real Truth for today.
Tim Wildmon: good morning, Pastor Jeff. I just wanted to let you know I appreciate you and speaking truthful lens. I don't listen to mainstream media for several reasons, but I just want you to know you appreciate it and, really, God continues to give you strength for the message. Also wanted to say that your last caller there, your, Your Heart for the hurting and the broken. I so much appreciate that as well.
Pastor Jeff Schreve: well, thanks, brother. Thank you, Craig. I appreciate your call. I appreciate your encouragement, and God bless you, my brother. We have, Norman on the line from Mississippi. Norman, welcome to Real Truth for today.
Caroline: Pastor Jeff, I just wanted to tell you that, the reason why Democratic socialists are, ah, winning is because Republicans are talking the talk, but they're not walking the walk. I was listening the other day when Josh Harley, and he was doing a great job up until the point that he used the f word, questioning Dr. Fauci. It sounds like Bill Moore. So I. I don't understand why a man of his character would even do that on national television.
Pastor Jeff Schreve: Yeah, Norman, was that.
Caroline: Listen, Abraham. Abraham Hamilton have a word that he say every day he's. When he comes on the air, he says that darkness is not an informative for.
Pastor Jeff Schreve: It's not what show up.
Caroline: When oh, oh is vacated. The light is not on. The light is not shining.
Pastor Jeff Schreve: Yeah, well, I'm not sure that was. I heard somebody in the Fauci, the Fauci interview there on Capitol Hill that used that. That was very appalling. I don't know if that was Josh Hawley, though. I think that was another guy. Wasn't.
Caroline: Was Josh Hawley. I saw it.
Caroline: That's why I didn't understand that.
Pastor Jeff Schreve: That's terrible. Yeah. You know, Megan Kelly does stuff like that, and you just think, why are you doing that? you're a mom, you have two or three kids, whatever she has. and it's just. It just makes you look so cheap, and it's horrible. so, yeah, I'm with you on that. And so you, know, we need to. We need to have, I guess they think it makes them sound tough or something like that. You know, I had coach, Greg Davis, who was the offensive coordinator for the University of Texas for so many years, and I asked him that. I said, why do, Why do people do that? Why do all these coaches have such filthy mouths? And, they said, because, you know, he thinks, well, it makes them sound tougher or whatever. To me, it just makes you sound horrible. Okay. So I'd looked this up. Norman. It was not Josh Hawley. It was, a Republican from, Ohio, Benin Moreno. He, was the one that dropped the F bomb in the Fauci hearing. so I wouldn't think Josh would do that. But, anyway, I appreciate the call and. And appreciate the, sentiment there, because Bernie, Bernie, Because you're exactly right. And we need to have Christians that get involved in the political process and Christians that really live out their Christianity. we. Do you know the speaker of the House, Mike Johnson? He is, openly Christian, born again Christian guy who stands for his convictions. It's not easy, in the swamp, but he is, he was doing that. Ted Cruz has faith in Christ. Josh, Hawley has faith in Christ. Others that are, born again. Pete Hegseth makes no bones about the fact that he's born again. Scott Turner on Trump's cabinet, the, chair of hud, he is a born again believer. So we need to pray for those people and that they would stand firm in the Lord. Well, thanks for listening to Real Truth for today. And listen, stand by your convictions. Beliefs are something that, we hold, but convictions hold us and shine for Christ and share what great things the Lord has done for you. And God will use you as his witness. God bless you.
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Pastor Jeff Schreve: Well, good Wednesday morning and welcome to Real Truth for today. Pastor Jeff Schrieve here. Hope you're having a great, a wonderful, Wednesday morning. I wanted to read to you from Daniel, Chapter one. We have talked about this before, but it is worth revisiting Daniel 1 8. Daniel and his, posse, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, were taken from Jerusalem in the first deportation around 605 BC by Nebuchadnezzar back to Babylon to be indoctrinated, go to Babylonian graduate school. And, these guys were handsome, in whom there was defect. They were smart. And, so they were put into this school. They had wonderful names. We know Daniel as Daniel, because of the Book of Daniel. But they called him Belteshazzar. That was his Babylonian name. And then we know his three friends, but we don't know them typically by their Jewish names, by their Hebrew names. We know them by their Babylonian names, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, by. But, Shadrach was Hananiah, Meshach was Mishael, and Azariah was the one whose name was changed to Abednego. And so we know him more that way. But it says this in chapter one, verse eight. But Daniel made up his mind that he would not defile himself with the king's choice food. Obviously, the king's choice food was sacrificed to idols or with the wine which he drank. So he sought permission from the commander of the officials that he might not defile himself. Now God granted Daniel favor and compassion in the sight of the commander of the officials. That was a big deal. It was a big ask. And the guy even said, hey, if I don't give you this stuff, he said, just give us vegetables and water. And the guy said, well, wait a minute. If you start getting looking skinny and then the king's going to look to me and I could lose my Head over this deal. And then Daniel said, well, try it for 10 days and see how we look. And so he did it for 10 days. They looked good. And so he kept it up. Vegetables and water. Not the king's choice.
Speaker D: Food.
Pastor Jeff Schreve: Well, here's the deal. Daniel had convictions. You have heard it said, the difference between a belief and a conviction. A belief is something you hold. A conviction is something that holds you. And so, when it comes to how you conduct your life, do you conduct it through beliefs or through convictions? Now, obviously, we believe, in the things of the Lord. as the Philippian jailer said to Paul and Silas, Acts 16, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? And he said, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you'll be saved, you and your household, if they also believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. And so, don't get that confused. But when we talk about convictions, those are things that we are so sure of that we're willing to die for those things. Daniel was willing to die for this. I'm not crossing this line. Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in chapter three, when they were told, hey, you have to bow before the king's image, they said, we're not going to do it. Throw us in the fiery furnace if that's what you feel you must do. But we're not going to bow before your image. They had a conviction. It wasn't a belief that they held. That was written in pencil with the eraser nearby. It was chiseled in stone. This is my conviction. You know, they tried to get Polycarp, the old man from Smyrna, when he was arrested. And, they were going to put him to death for his faith in Christ. And they just said, just denounce Christ. We'll let you live. You're an old man. We don't want to kill you. Just denounce him. And he said, For 86 years I have served him. He has done me no wrong. How can I deny my King and the one who saved me? And he gladly went to his, martyrdom to his death, because he would not deny Christ. Now, we had primaries, take place in Florida and other places, yesterday. And, you know, people are. People get really, They get really worked up when it comes to elections, because elections have consequences. And Christians need to be involved in the political process. Why? Because Jeremiah, chapter 29, verse 7. We are to seek for the welfare of, the city in which the Lord our God has sent us. As the Lord told the captives that lived in Babylon. And we're to do that. And so what is going to be best, for our community, for our city, for our state, for our nation? We need to vote for those things that are going to help the masses flourish, not that are going to hurt the masses and bring misery and destruction. I ran across a clip from Anton Scalia, the, Supreme Court justice who died some years ago. He was at my friend Mark Lanier's, compound. Mark has a, beautiful, huge house. And then he's got a, ah, chapel where my daughter Amy was married. Beautiful, beautiful chapel. fashioned after something, I think in the 500s, ad, very, very, Just blow you away. It's so gorgeous. And the ceiling's all painted like the Sistine Chapel. Well, he has lecture series. He, has had different ones there. And, Scalia was there, and he was talking about socialism and its effect on the church versus capitalism and its effect on the church. And, here's what Anton Scalia had to say a few years ago.
Joseph Parker: I know of no country in which the churches have grown fuller as the governments have moved leftward. The churches of Europe are empty. The most religious country in the west by all standards. Belief in God, church membership, church attendance. Is that bastion of capitalism least diluted by socialism, the United States. When I say least diluted by socialism, you must understand that I say it in a modern context in which we are all socialists. In the United States, that battle was fought and decided with a NewSong Deal.
Pastor Jeff Schreve: So if you go leftward, guess what? You hurt the church. You don't help the church, you hurt the church. Anton Scalia said, hey, just look at Europe. You have these huge, beautiful cathedrals that are empty. And, that is not a good thing, that's a bad thing. And I was watching a clip, Josh Howerton posted where, this guy was some historian. I can't remember the guy's name, but he was like, in no way, shape or form. Now I'm paraphrasing, but it was basically in no way, shape or form was America founded on Christian principles. And then he had one of the guys that was part of his panel, this is Josh Howerton. Read from the second President of the United States, one of our founding fathers, the first Vice President of the United States, Jon Adams, in his letter to Thomas Jefferson on June 28, 1813, he said, Now I will avow that I then believed, and now believed that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God, and that those principles of liberty are as unalterable as human nature and our terrestrial, mundane system. And he says that that was how they framed the Constitution. The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the only principles in which the beautiful assembly of young gentlemen could un night. And these principles only could be intended by them in their address or by me in my address. And what were these general principles? I answer the general principles of Christianity in which all those sects were united, and the general principles of English and American liberty in which all those young men united, and which had united all parties in America the majorities sufficient to assert and maintain her independence. The principles of Christianity. Now, you've heard it said, I've said it many times on the program. No doubt you've heard other people, people say that Islam is incompatible with America, with our Constitution, it's incompatible with the principles of Christianity. this idea, we had somebody when, my friend Dr. Dean was here and he talked about how Islam and Christianity, we're not the same. We don't worship the same God. Allah is not God. That's God they've made up, just like Baal in the Old Testament, Baal wasn't God. And in First Kings chapter 18, when you had the showdown on Mount Carmel between Elijah, and the prophets of Baal, hey, you call upon your God and I'll call upon Yahweh, God, and the God who answers by fire, that is the real God. And people said, that's a good idea, let's do that. How long will you hesitate between two opinions? If Yahweh is God, fear him, serve him. If BAAL is God, serve him. Okay, but get off the fence. Get off this fence of compromise. And so what happens in First Kings 18? You find out who the real God is, who answered by fire, Yahweh, God. Because he is the only God. BAAL didn't answer. You know why? Because BAAL is not God. That's why BAAL doesn't exist as God. Now. BAAL had demonic power and demons, no doubt. they're involved in every false religion, in every cult. It's demonic. You have the truth of God and you have everything else. And where does everything else come from? Where does everything outside the truth of God come from? It comes from the devil. He is a liar and the father of lies. Any lie that you see, in any walk of life, where is that coming from? Well, ultimately it comes from the father of lies, the devil. And so when we say, and, you have to be not cautious, but you have to be judicious here. when we're talking about Islam as a religion, we're not talking to any individual person, who adheres to that. We're just talking in general about Islam as a religion. It's demonic, it's satanic, because it's not in keeping with what, the real God has said. Now, when you're talking to a Muslim, as Dr. Dean pointed out last week when he was here in the program, that's not the way to win friends and influence people. If you immediately start poking a Muslim in the eye, well, you're going to get him very riled up. He's not going to listen to what you have to say. So we speak the truth in love. We don't use the truth as a billy club to beat people over the head. And so how you speak to, a group of people where you're educating them on this philosophy of a particular religion, that's different than how you talk one on one to somebody. So Jon Adams made it clear, hey, how did we frame the Constitution? It was based on the principles of Christianity and those guys knew the Bible. That doesn't mean they were all, born again believers. It doesn't mean they were all walking in the light with Jesus. Many of them were. But it means they understood the Bible, they knew the difference between right and wrong, and they had convictions. Convictions when it came to moral values and principles and what would be good for the masses. You know, when it comes to getting involved politically, you know, some Christians run from that. I don't want to have anything to do with that. Jesus said, my kingdom is not of this world. So I'm just, as my roommate in college told me, he said, jeff, I'm apolitical. I'm just divorced from it. Well, render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and render to God the things that are God's. Caesar is the government. And what does the government want during election time? It wants you to vote. the candidates spend an exorbitant amount of money trying to, get out the vote, get you to vote, get you to vote for them. Now, obviously, if you're not going to vote for them, they would like it if you didn't vote. They would like it if you voted. But you voted for someone that's not on the ballot. A write in vote that has no chance of winning because, say you're a conservative and you look at the, Senate race in Texas, let's say James Talarico, Ken Paxton. And you say, well, I can't stand James Talarico. I mean that guy, he is, he is spiritual poison. And so I'd never vote for him. But I don't like Ken Paxton. And I m. He's, he's not his. Morally, his life is not good. I don't like him, as a person. And so I'm not, I'm going to do a write in vote for, you know, XYZ person. And well, XYZ person has no chance of winning. Zero. So you as a conservative could have helped the conservative cause, but you chose not to. You say, I voted, but my vote is not going to count for anything. And so that is a vote in my mind. You can disagree, but that's a vote to help the other side. And if you help the other side, you hurt the masses because the other side, those pushing for bigger government, more socialism, that kind of thing, more abortion, they're going to hurt the masses. Well, you're listening to Real Truth for today. Pastor Jeff Schrieve here on American Family Radio. We'll be right back.
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Pastor Jeff Schreve: Welcome back to the program. Pastor Jeff here. I do want to tell you that tonight at First Baptist Texarkana we always have a Wednesday night service. We have a meal that starts at I think they start serving at 4:45. That goes up to about 5:45. We break at 6 to go to our respective classes and we have an open service. I typically preach every Wednesday Night just started a series, Rock Solid on the Book of Second Peter. But tonight we have a special guest with us, and that is, President Tim Wildmon, the president of American Family association and American Family Radio. I'm looking forward to Tim being here. And, he, taped a little commercial to let people know he's going to be here tonight.
Tim Wildmon: Hello, I'm Tim Wildmon, president of American Family association and American Family Radio. Hey. Pastor Jeff Schrieve in Texarkana. He owes me, some money, so I'm driving over there to get it. And while I'm over there, I'm going to be speaking at the First Baptist Church, Texarkana, Texas, Wednesday, August 19th at 6pm That's Wednesday, August 19th at 6pm at the first Baptist Church, Texarkana, Texas. And I look forward to getting my money and to seeing you.
Pastor Jeff Schreve: So that's, 6:00 clock tonight at FBC Texarkana on 3, 2015 Moores Laine. Love to have you. And if you have never met Tim and you live, anywhere close, come by, make a plan to come by tonight, eat dinner with us and then stay, for the service. And Tim's going to be talking from Matthew chapter five about being salt and light, making a difference in our world, in our culture, for Jesus Christ. you know, the sad reality is the culture has made more impact in so many situations, so many churches, the culture has made more impact on the church than the church has made on the culture. And sadly, so many pastors, they just succumb to the culture. And, they look at scripture through the lens of Marxism, and the oppressed and the oppressor. And it's just sad and it's disgusting and it produces righteous indignation. This is not what we're supposed to be doing as preachers of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We're supposed to be lifting up the Lord and His word and calling people, all men everywhere. God is now declaring, as Paul said on Mars Hill, God is now declaring that all men everywhere should repent because he has fixed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness through a man whom he has appointed, having furnished proof to all men by raising him from the dead. So we have to keep in mind, this world is a sinking ship. And as I've shared before, as Robert Jeffress shared on An American Family association getaway, he shared, hey, we understand that, this world is temporary. And he said, we're the person trying to hold up the dike. You have a raging overflowing river that is coming over the dike. We're trying to hold up the dike because what's below the dike, it's a city filled with people. We're trying to get as many people out of that city before the dike collapses. And as Jon MacArthur said, hey, we are fighting a losing battle in this life. We know, from reading the scripture, from the basic reading of scripture, we understand the book of the Revelation, what is going to happen? God has told us through, Jon the Revelator, this is going to happen. And, there is going to be, the breaking of the seven seals of the scroll. And then seven, seals come with seven trumpets, and seven trumpets come with seven bowls. And those are all seals of judgment. Trumpets of judgment, bowls of judgment. There's coming a one world leader. There's coming persecution on anyone who names the name of Christ to wipe them out. there's coming the mark of the beast, as we've no doubt you've heard about. The mark of the beast. What is that? It's, a, mark on your right hand or on your forehead. Revelation, chapter 13. Without the mark of the beast, you can't buy or you can't sell. And, we have a little, little preview of that as they tried to do with the COVID vaccine. Hey, you have to show your vaccine status. And if you weren't vaccinated, you couldn't go here, you couldn't go there, you couldn't fly here, you couldn't fly there. That was the, the, kind of the test. Who would comply? And people complied like, you know, their life dependent on it. And, oh, I have to do it. I don't have any other choice. Oh, I have to bow before Nebuchadnezzar's image. I have no choice. You do have a choice. You can say no. As, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego said, we're not going to do it. Well, I'm going to throw you in the fiery furnace. All right? Our God, whom we serve, is able to deliver us, and he will deliver us. But even if he doesn't deliver us from the fiery furnace, we're not going to bow because we have convictions. Convictions are those beliefs that hold you. A belief is something you hold, but a conviction is something that holds you and you will not violate your convictions. Now, we heard this was, from a few years ago. We heard that, there is no way Donald Trump, when he was talking about late term abortions, he was making all this stuff up, is not the case. We're not doing this. And let me find this clip because it was it was a good one. where did it go? Well, it was it was stating that's not it.
: Okay.
Pastor Jeff Schreve: Can't find it. It was there and now it's gone. but it was it was from Kamala Harris. She said, nowhere in America are we doing that. Democrats, Joe Biden, we're not for, late term abortions. And you know, Donald Trump's just making this stuff up. And what did we see last week in Massachusetts? The governor basically took all restrictions off abortion. You can abort all the way up until birth. And the women behind her were all clapping with glee. they joined Massachusetts, joined, a group of 10 states total. Now where you can, there are no restrictions on abortions. And so the rhetoric that we hear, oh, you know, Democrats aren't, as Joe Biden specifically said, the Democrats aren't for that. Well, they are for that. And you know, when it comes to voting, you need to see, does this candidate have any convictions? I saw a clip from Laura Ingraham and she was talking about Jon Ossoff and he is the senator from Georgia. He's the one that's going after President Trump and one of his staffers and he's insinuating that there's sexual immorality going on there. And she said this, she said, an ambitious man without a core is the most dangerous politician of all. If you don't have principles, you don't have a core of convictions, you're just ambitious, well then you're going to be ambitious at any cost. I've played this clip before, but I'm going to play it again. It's Dinesh d' Souza interviewing a Muslim leader, a Muslim cleric. And he was talking about how they viewed politics in America.
Speaker H: So here's a paradox.
Pastor Jeff Schreve: In America, we have a political left. It's a progressive left. As you know, it's sexually permissive. And this political movement appears strangely allied with radical Islam. Can you explain this?
Joseph Parker: When I was an extremist Islamist fundamentalist, I would only vote left.
Caroline: Why is that?
Joseph Parker: I saw them as very stupid. I would fear the conservatives because they come with principle that not someone they can brainwash, but the left I know, they have no values and no principles to begin with. I dare you to find one Islamic extremist that votes for Donald Trump. Never do it. They'd give their vote to the leftist who wants to run around in in pride parades. And Islamic extremists are against gays and homosexuals and transgenders, but they want the left to go and get busy with that. They want them go, go, go. Speak about the climate. Go, go. Speak about abortion. Go, go kill yourselves. Go, go do that, Omar. She's fighting for abortion rights and all the other. My body, my choice. Yes, go do that.
: Go do that.
Joseph Parker: But would she have an abortion?
Speaker D: Never.
Joseph Parker: Never would she kill a Muslim in her stomach. Never.
Pastor Jeff Schreve: What is the fundamentalist and jihadi agenda for America?
Joseph Parker: The future of America has to be Muslim.
Pastor Jeff Schreve: All right, that was Dinesh d' Souza just a couple of years ago talking to this, Islamic cleric. I don't know what that guy's background was, but I think what he's saying is exactly right. Yeah. If you want to promote Islam, you want Islam to take over because you genuinely think Islam is right. Everybody needs to submit. Islam means submission. maybe you're not one that says, we don't need to do that through bullets. We need to do that through ballots. We need to get more Muslim candidates, we need to have more Muslim babies, and we need to just slowly take over the country. Seems like that's their plan now, but they're going to link arms with, the socialists, and that's what we're having, the Rick Green alliance. They're linking arms together, both using one another to say, well, we're just going to gain power, and once we gain power, we'll get rid of this entity that we have teamed up with. Well, they're both thinking that. And as we've stated numerous times, the history of Iran, when they overthrew the Shah in 1979, it was the Islamists and the Marxists that got together. And when they achieved power, then the Islamists took over and killed the Marxists. And it was brutal, and it was, difficult and horrible, but the Marxists believed, they could control the Islamists. You can't, as we're finding out in Iran. I mean, how do you win a war against Iran unless you go in there and just cut the head off the snake? You just have to have boots on the ground to, go in and annihilate them. I don't know how President been praying for him that God would give wisdom to know what to do. But, we know that, but Americans wouldn't be for that. but if you want to win, that's what you're going to have to do, because they will not quit until they're all dead. you know, I Think about that line from the original Terminator movie where, the, guy sent back to save Sarah Connor said, you don't understand the Terminator. He said, this thing, will not quit until you are dead. The radicals in Iran, they're all for death. They're not going to quit. They think that. They believe the lie that, hey, if you die in a holy war that Allah has sanctioned, that's a good thing. You're going straight to heaven with the 72 virgins. And so they believe that lie, and they go along with it, and they're in for such a rude awakening. Luke, chapter 16. The rich man. As Jesus told that story about the rich man and Lazarus, when the rich man died, he, was buried. And then in hell, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment from the flame. That's what's going to happen to all these people who believe the lies of Islam. And because we love people and we want to see people saved, not see people lost forever and ever and ever, we speak the truth in love. We call that out. And we don't just say, well, that's that.
Tim Wildmon: You.
Pastor Jeff Schreve: You have the right to believe anything you want. I'm going to pat you on the back. I'll cheer you on. That's your belief, and that's good. Your truth. Just as good as my truth. It's not. There's just truth. And there's, let God be found true, though every man be found a liar. And so we speak the truth, which is the truth of God. We speak that in love because we don't want to see people perish. We want to see people saved. I, love this. I saw this, where students on college campuses today, the young people, they're all jazzed about socialism, how great socialism is. Oh, it's so wonderful, just to share and share the wealth and that kind of thing. And then they asked them about their gpa. Well, why don't you give some of your GPA points to these other, people that haven't studied. Listen to these interviews.
Speaker L: Either have in America socialism or capitalism.
Speaker D: I would say socialism.
Speaker L: How do you view the word socialism? Favorably or unfavorably?
Speaker D: I guess I would go with favorably.
Speaker L: Like, I have family in Europe. They go to college for free. Their health care is paid for. They don't have to worry about it at all.
Speaker D: I favor that over capitalism.
Speaker H: Okay, got it.
Speaker D: I also think I favor that, like, socialism over capitalism.
Speaker H: Socialism is more geared toward, like, helping the people, people in your, you know, the governed.
Speaker D: I'd Rather, people have that same opportunity. There's a lot of excess in America.
Speaker L: Go on campus. If there's a GPA disparity where there's people at the bottom with a poor gpa, would you support a policy where people at the top spread the wealth and give that GPA to people at the bottom?
Speaker D: Give, like, help them get a better gpa? I'm all for helping. I wouldn't give, like, oh, let me just give you some of my points.
Speaker L: But it's about being fair, right? We got to help people. The bottom.
Speaker D: I've lost a lot of sleep, so I don't know if I will be fair. That's completely different.
Speaker L: How is it different?
Speaker D: Because I'm, like, studying all day for my grade.
Speaker H: I mean, I sacrifice a lot to get my gpa. You know, I. I don't, go out as much as I'd like to, but that's for some, like, a greater goal in the future, the way I see it. So, no, I wouldn't sacrifice my own things, like, sacrifice my own time to help somebody else who didn't, want to make those same sacrifices.
Pastor Jeff Schreve: Oh, yeah, I'm all for socialism. Yeah, we need to give to people because, you know, that's what. That's what it's all about. Well, yeah. Well, then give some of your GPA away. Oh, I would never do that. I worked for that. Well, I think it was Bill O'Reilly or somebody I was listening to pointed out, do these people think that folks have gained wealth just willy nilly? They just found a bag of money one day that they didn't work for it? you know, Elon Musk? Oh, he's just, you know, he doesn't know what he's doing. As AOC says, he's. He's dumb. Or Joy Reid, I think, said he's not very smart. And, you know, he just exploited everybody for all his money. Unbelievable what that guy has done. He might be a little weird, but he is a genius when it comes to technology and all the things that he's built and the 170,000 people that he employs, that guy has done amazing things. Well. You're listening to Real Truth for today. Pastor Jeff Schrieve here on American Family Radio. When we come back from the break, we'll be taking your calls. 888-589-8840. That's 888-589-8840. If you have a question or comment. We're talking about convictions and being a person of Conviction and voting convictions and not being swayed by the culture.
: If you'd like to contact Pastor Jeff, email pastor jeffromhishheart.org now back to Real Truth for today with Pastor Jeff Schrieve.
Pastor Jeff Schreve: Welcome back to the program. We're opening the phone lines like we like to do in this third segment. 888-589-8840. That's 888-589-8840. If you have a question or comment, love to hear from you. And if you've never called in before but you've been listening for a long time, it's always a joy to know that hey, you know, when people call in they say, hey, I've been listening for a long time. Sometimes I'll get emails like that. But this is my first time to contact you. We found that out at From His Heart Ministries. You know, we've been on American Family radio at that 6pm Central time slot Monday, through Friday for years and years and years. Great, opportunity to share with people, especially driving home. And we'll have people that say, you know, I've been listening to you for three years, four years, five years, but this is my first time to contact you. So what I love about radio and television, online things, you never know who you're impacting. And one of my board members, he's been a board member and a dear friend from the time we started in 2004. He was reached through radio ministry. He was ready to just say, I don't want to live anymore. He had a dream of playing in the NBA and that fell apart. And he was just at the lowest point of life and he was just contemplating, do I want to keep going on. And he was reached through through ministry on the radio. And that totally turned his life around. So he has such a heart for that. And I love that, radio and television and things on the Internet, they can get to places that past gated communities, into prisons, into hospitals, into places that you can't reach any other way, perhaps. And you can get there through the airwaves. And so that's why I love that. But I would love to hear from you. Now I had mentioned about the little clip that I was looking for. We found it. I wanted to play you this because it just shows that what someone says, what a politician says, you have to look deeper than that because
Speaker H: they
Pastor Jeff Schreve: so often lie and a lie just right to your face. They know they're lying, but yet they do it. We are not for late term abortion.
Caroline: Period, Period, Period.
Pastor Jeff Schreve: Nowhere in America is a woman carrying a pregnancy to term and asking for an abortion. That is not happening. It's insulting to the women of America. Well, it is happening. And, that's not insulting. It's, tragic and an abomination that a woman would do that. Life, starts at conception. If it doesn't start at conception, when does it start? It doesn't make any sense. Life begins at conception, and, that is a separate life, that unborn baby. And so you talk about voting. Abortion is a huge issue when it comes to what the candidates want to do. So I wrote down some things, you know, how you vote. So in Texas, we have Talarico and Ken Paxton, and people can, say what they want about Ken Paxton, you know, as far as his personal life and things aren't good. But where does he stand on the issues? Well, there's a stark difference between those two guys with the issue of abortion. You know, Talarico goes so far as to say that in the, story in Luke with the Angel Gabriel coming to Mary, that Mary had to give. The Angel Gabriel asked, which is a lie. He didn't ask her, will you bear the Christ child? that she had to give consent. He had to ask, and she had to give consent. And he uses that as a proof text for abortion. Good grief. That guy is poison. Anybody that takes the scripture and twists it around like that is poison. Where do they stand on the issue of abortion? Where do they stand on the issue of the LGBTQIA agenda? Man, I would never vote for a candidate that's all in for the LGBTQIA that wants to trans kids and, mutilate kids. That is evil with a capital evil. law and order. Where do they stand on that? Where do they stand on the issue of borders? A country without borders is not a country anymore. Where do they stand on the socialism versus capitalism issue? Where do they stand on giveaway, programs? We want to help all these poor people. Well, look and see. Giving people money without any kind of, you know, incentive program to get them out of their lot in life. That's so awful. Just giving them money, giving them alcohol, giving them drugs, doing what Gavin Newsom has been doing to California. How's that working? It doesn't work at all. I love what Jon Wooden said. he learned from his father, never do for someone else the things that they should be doing for themselves. 2nd Thessalonians 3. 10. If a man will not Work, neither shall he eat. Don't help people who refuse to help themselves. As Adrian Rogers, we had Steve Rogers, his son, on the program yesterday. Adrian Rogers used to say, we are here to help people who can't help themselves, not people who will not help themselves. If you're an able bodied person and you will not help yourself, you will not go get a job. Well, we're not going to feed you. You, we're not going to help you. Hey, hunger is a great motivator. And when people quit helping you, and enabling you to be a slug, then you get off, the couch, so to speak, and you start looking for work. And, the Bible is very clear on that. And listen, life is not fair. You want to level everything out. Jesus gave five talents, he gave two talents, he gave one talent each according to his ability. People are different. some people have a lot more brain power than others. Some people have a lot more physical strength than others. the focus of life as a believer is whatever God gives you, use it for his glory. If it's one talent, use that one talent for his glory. But don't take from the guy that has five and say, well, we need to even this out because it's not fair that he has more than I do. That's, the way of life. Not everybody can play in the NBA and not everybody can play in the NFL. As much as I wanted to be able to play in the NBA back in the day, I can't do it. I don't have the ability that is needed to play at that level. Well, we're going to the phone lines, 888-589-8840. And we have Rob, Elvis on the line from Arkansas. Rob, welcome to Real Truth for today.
Caroline: Hey, Jeff. thank you. hey, I wanted to compliment you on your, your sermons. I listen to them every night and, and I wanted to find out where it is you get your emotion and your fire from. Because, sometimes when you estimate I can hear your emotion and it just, it makes my, it makes my hair grow. And then my second question is, do you feel that you are an evangelist, a preacher, or a pastor?
Pastor Jeff Schreve: Yeah. Well, Rob, thanks for listening. I appreciate that so much.
Tim Wildmon: Great.
Pastor Jeff Schreve: question. I don't think I have the gift of evangelism. Although I want every message to be evangelistic and give people the opportunity to, to come to know Christ. And as Paul said, God is now declaring that all men everywhere should repent. And I want to always put that in Every message, Ah, I have the heart of a pastor. I think about. I can get very emotional when I think about people, that are struggling in certain areas. People, that have been, abused and used and discarded and feel so worthless. I've heard real heart for those folks because there's hope in Jesus. I have a, passion that stirs up over, injustice. When you see with abortion, with, people believing the lies of transgender insanity, these things, you know, when people talk about injustice, they always put a Marxist, label over everything in a, film over that. All that. That's. They oppress the oppressor. I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about people who have really gone through, difficulties in life. Physically abused, sexually abused, that kind of thing. I have such a heart for those folks and, want them to come to their senses and come to the Lord. And, a lot of that comes from my own heart. And the things that I experienced as a kid with my, mom and dad separated for two and a half years when I was a kid growing up, and things that happened to me. And so, you know, I, really put myself in the shoes of other people. I learned in seminary, Rob, that, you know, if you preached a broken heart, you always have an audience because in every pew there's a broken heart. And so I want to speak the truth in love and want to give people hope and point people to Jesus. One of my, mentors in seminary, Dr. Wayne McDill, he. He would tell us in preaching class, he goes, always preach for faith. Don't preach. Do better sermons. Don't, don't, browbeat people and get them to just say, oh, I'm doing bad. I need to do better. He said, do better doesn't help anybody. He said, preach for faith. Get people to trust Christ and to look to Jesus and to know that, you know, apart from Him, I can do nothing, but with Him, I can do all things. So great questions. I appreciate that, Rob, and appreciate you listening here, on American Family Radio. Anything else?
Caroline: you get an A for your answer. I get an A.
Pastor Jeff Schreve: Thanks, brother. God bless you. We have Craig on the line from Washington. Craig, welcome to Real Truth for today.
Tim Wildmon: good morning, Pastor Jeff. I just wanted to let you know I appreciate you and speaking truthful lens. I don't listen to mainstream media for several reasons, but I just want you to know you appreciate it and, really, God continues to give you strength for the message. Also wanted to say that your last caller there, your, Your Heart for the hurting and the broken. I so much appreciate that as well.
Pastor Jeff Schreve: well, thanks, brother. Thank you, Craig. I appreciate your call. I appreciate your encouragement, and God bless you, my brother. We have, Norman on the line from Mississippi. Norman, welcome to Real Truth for today.
Caroline: Pastor Jeff, I just wanted to tell you that, the reason why Democratic socialists are, ah, winning is because Republicans are talking the talk, but they're not walking the walk. I was listening the other day when Josh Harley, and he was doing a great job up until the point that he used the f word, questioning Dr. Fauci. It sounds like Bill Moore. So I. I don't understand why a man of his character would even do that on national television.
Pastor Jeff Schreve: Yeah, Norman, was that.
Caroline: Listen, Abraham. Abraham Hamilton have a word that he say every day he's. When he comes on the air, he says that darkness is not an informative for.
Pastor Jeff Schreve: It's not what show up.
Caroline: When oh, oh is vacated. The light is not on. The light is not shining.
Pastor Jeff Schreve: Yeah, well, I'm not sure that was. I heard somebody in the Fauci, the Fauci interview there on Capitol Hill that used that. That was very appalling. I don't know if that was Josh Hawley, though. I think that was another guy. Wasn't.
Caroline: Was Josh Hawley. I saw it.
Caroline: That's why I didn't understand that.
Pastor Jeff Schreve: That's terrible. Yeah. You know, Megan Kelly does stuff like that, and you just think, why are you doing that? you're a mom, you have two or three kids, whatever she has. and it's just. It just makes you look so cheap, and it's horrible. so, yeah, I'm with you on that. And so you, know, we need to. We need to have, I guess they think it makes them sound tough or something like that. You know, I had coach, Greg Davis, who was the offensive coordinator for the University of Texas for so many years, and I asked him that. I said, why do, Why do people do that? Why do all these coaches have such filthy mouths? And, they said, because, you know, he thinks, well, it makes them sound tougher or whatever. To me, it just makes you sound horrible. Okay. So I'd looked this up. Norman. It was not Josh Hawley. It was, a Republican from, Ohio, Benin Moreno. He, was the one that dropped the F bomb in the Fauci hearing. so I wouldn't think Josh would do that. But, anyway, I appreciate the call and. And appreciate the, sentiment there, because Bernie, Bernie, Because you're exactly right. And we need to have Christians that get involved in the political process and Christians that really live out their Christianity. we. Do you know the speaker of the House, Mike Johnson? He is, openly Christian, born again Christian guy who stands for his convictions. It's not easy, in the swamp, but he is, he was doing that. Ted Cruz has faith in Christ. Josh, Hawley has faith in Christ. Others that are, born again. Pete Hegseth makes no bones about the fact that he's born again. Scott Turner on Trump's cabinet, the, chair of hud, he is a born again believer. So we need to pray for those people and that they would stand firm in the Lord. Well, thanks for listening to Real Truth for today. And listen, stand by your convictions. Beliefs are something that, we hold, but convictions hold us and shine for Christ and share what great things the Lord has done for you. And God will use you as his witness. God bless you.
Daniel 1:8
"But Daniel made up his mind that he would not defile himself with the king’s choice food or with the wine which he drank; so he sought permission from the commander of the officials that he might not defile himself"
In this episode of Real Truth for Today, Pastor Jeff Schreve challenges Christians to stand firm on their convictions and refuse to compromise biblical truth. Using Daniel's example, he explains why believers need convictions that are firmly rooted in God's Word rather than beliefs that can easily be changed by cultural pressure.
Pastor Jeff discusses the importance of Christians being involved in the political process, evaluating candidates according to their convictions and positions on important moral issues. He also addresses the influence of socialism, secularism, and Islam on American culture and emphasizes the need for Christians to speak the truth in love while remaining faithful to Scripture.
The program also explores the importance of living out one's faith consistently, being a light in a dark culture, and standing for Christ even when doing so comes with opposition or personal cost. Pastor Jeff takes listener calls and shares why his passion for hurting and broken people comes from a desire to point them toward the hope found in Jesus.
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