News Shock And Moral Outrage

Host Welcome And Opening Prayer

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Mark 14 verses 35 and 36. Jesus went on a little farther and fell to the ground. He prayed that if it were possible, the all for awful hour awaiting him might pass him by. Abba, Father, he cried out, everything is possible for you. Please take this cup of suffering away from me. Yet I want your will to be done, not mine. September 24th, 2024, Birmingham, United Kingdom. 12-year-old girl was raped by Mohammed Wahid Mohammed, a Syrian asylum seeker who lured her with a vape and crisps. Hey folks, this is Jesse Cope back with another episode of the American Soul Podcast. Hope y'all are doing well, wherever y'all are. For those of y'all who continue to pray for me and for the podcast, thank you very much for those of y'all who continue to share the podcast with others, tell others about it. Thank you. Very, very grateful. Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not to temptation, but deliver us from evil, for thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory forever and ever.

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Marriage Roles And Scripture

Last Supper And Betrayal Foretold

Watchfulness, Temptation, And Arrest

Psalms And Proverbs On Justice

Book Plug And Listener Support

Historical Atrocity And Ideology

Immigration, War, And Islam Claims

Politics Versus Spiritual Foundations

Lord’s Prayer And Closing Blessing

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Father, thank you for this day that you have made. Help us to be glad and rejoice in it. Thank you for the people listening to the podcast. Please be with them. Be with their families, bless the marriages of those who are married, guide those who have children, to raise them to know you and your Son Jesus Christ. Be with those who are anxious, upset, scared, who feel alone, who feel overwhelmed by this world, sins, concerns. Help us to trust you, Father. To turn to you because there's nowhere else we can really turn, Father. Please strengthen our faith and give us assurance. Comfort us. Have pity on us. Have mercy on us. Be with our military, our law enforcement, firefighters. EMS, keep them safe, Father. Overseas and here at home. Be with our families, comfort them. Help us to encourage each other. And guide my words here, Father, please. In your son's name we pray. Amen. I don't know why said the Lord's Prayer at the beginning. We'll probably say it again at the end, too. Lord knows I need to. Marriage verse for today. 1 Corinthians 11, 7 through 9. A man should not have his head covered because he is the image and glory of God, but the woman is man's glory. Man did not have his origin from woman, but woman from man. And man was not created for the sake of the woman, but the woman for the sake of the man. Folks, whatever advice you're getting with marriage, if it doesn't line up with God and Jesus Christ and Scripture, you gotta trash it. And if you want a husband who fulfills their God-given roles and responsibilities, you have to be a wife who does the same, and vice versa. If you want a wife who fulfills her God-given roles and responsibilities, you have to be a husband that does the same. And if you don't want to do that, just don't get married. And I'm man, I'm really talking to the Christians here. Mark 14, 22 through 52. As they were eating, Jesus took some bread and blessed it, then he broke it in pieces and gave it to his disciples, saying, Take it, for this is my body. And he took a cup of wine and gave thanks to God for it. He gave it to them, and they all drank from it. And he said to them, This is my blood, which confirms the covenant between God and his people. It is poured out as a sacrifice for many. I tell you the truth, I will not drink wine again until the day I drink it new in the kingdom of God. Then they sang a hymn and went out to the Mount of Olives. On the way Jesus told them, All of you will desert me, for the scriptures say God will strike the shepherd and the sheep will be scattered. But after I am raised from the dead I will go ahead of you to Galilee and meet you there. Peter said to him, Even if everyone else deserts you, I never will. Jesus replied, I tell you the truth, Peter, this very night before the rooster crows twice, you will deny three times that you even know me. No, Peter declared emphatically, even if I have to die with you, I will never deny you. And all the others vowed the same. They went to the olive grove called Gethsemane, and Jesus said, Sit here while I go and pray. He took Peter, James, and John with him, and he became deeply troubled and distressed. He told them, My soul is crushed with grief to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with me. He went on a little farther and fell to the ground. He prayed that if it were possible, the awful hour awaiting him might pass him by. Abba, Father, he cried out, Everything is possible for you. Please take this cup of suffering away from me. Yet I want your will to be done and not mine. When you think, folks, when you're overwhelmed, when you just feel absolutely crushed, I'm talking to myself as much as y'all here. We need to come back and read this and take comfort that our Lord and Savior knew about that kind of crushing fear, distress, anxiety, grief. Then he returned and found the disciples asleep. He said to Peter, Simon, are you asleep? Couldn't you watch with me even one hour? Keep watch and pray so that you will not give in to temptation, for the spirit is willing, but the body is weak. Then Jesus left them again and prayed the same prayer as before. When he returned to them again, he found them sleeping, for they couldn't keep their eyes open, and they didn't know what to say. When he returned to them the third time, he said, Go ahead and sleep, have your rest. But no, the time has come. The Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. Up, let's be going. Look, my betrayer is here. And immediately, even as Jesus said this, Judas, one of the twelve disciples, arrived with a crowd of men armed with swords and clubs. They had been sent by the leading priests, the teachers of religious law, and the elders. The traitor, Judas, had given them a prearranged signal. You will know which one to arrest when I greet him with a kiss. Then you can take him away under guard. As soon as they arrived, Judas walked up to Jesus. Rabbi, he exclaimed, and gave him the kiss. Then the others grabbed Jesus and arrested him, but one of the men with Jesus pulled out his sword and struck the high priest's slave, slashing off his ear. Jesus asked them, And I am I some dangerous revolutionary that you come with swords and clubs to arrest me? Why did you not arrest me in the temple? I was there among you teaching every day. But these things are happening to fulfill what the scriptures said about me. Then all his disciples deserted him and ran away. One young man following behind was clothed only in a long linen shirt. When the mob tried to grab him, he slipped out of his shirt and ran away naked. Psalm 52, 1 through 9. Why do you boast about your crimes, great warrior? Don't you realize God's justice continues forever? All day long you plot destruction. Your tongue cuts like a sharp razor. You're an expert at telling lies. You love evil more than good and lies more than truth. You love to destroy others with your words, you liar, but God will strike you down once and for all. He will pull you from your home and uproot you from the land of the living. The righteous will see it and be amazed. They will laugh and say, Look what happens to mighty warriors who do not trust in God. They trust their wealth instead and grow more and more bold in their wickedness. But I am like an olive tree thriving in the house of God. I will always trust in God's unfailing love. I will praise you forever, O God, for what you have done. I will trust in your good name in the presence of your faithful people. Proverbs 11, one through three. The Lord detests the use of dishonest scales, but he delights in accurate weights. Pride leads to disgrace. But with humility comes wisdom. Honesty guides good people, dishonesty destroys treacherous people. If you're looking for a family-friendly middle grade read, if you would check out the Countryside series, I would appreciate it. These are the first two books in the series. You can get them on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, pretty much anywhere. And if you find that you enjoyed, if you would leave a review, I would appreciate that. Those reviews help a great deal. Also, uh the podcast, same thing. If you feel like you're getting something out of it, if you can leave a review wherever you listen to the podcast, that helps very much. The five-star reviews, especially. And if you have five or ten dollars a month you can donate to the podcast, I would be very grateful for that as well. There's links to the book and where you can donate to the podcast in the bottom of the show notes here. April 3rd, 1983. Ooh. Lucana Marca Peru. A remote and Andean village. Yeah, I'm not gonna try and say the name of the region, I'm sorry. Uh Maoist communist, right, group, uh Sendero Luminoso, uh massacred a group of local peasants who had resisted their attempts to impose control. Axes, knives, machetes, guns slaughtered sixty-nine villagers, including women, children, and the elderly, hacking many to death, burning others alive in their homes. And they took credit uh talking about the need for popular judgment in their people's war. It's the same, folks. It doesn't matter whether it's in the Soviet Union, China, anywhere Cambodia, across the world. Uh communism, socialism, leftism, Nazism, fascism, Islam. The result's the same. Medal of Honor for today, Edward Brown Jr. Also known as Edward Brownie Jr. Corporal, highest rank sergeant, U.S. Civil War Gulf Company, 62nd New York Infantry, U.S. Army, May 3rd through the 4th, 1863, Fredericksburg, and Salem Heights, Virginia. Severely wounded while carrying the colors, he continued at his post under fire until ordered to the rear. New York, New York, not awarded posthumously. Presented November 24th, 1880, born July 6, 1841, Ireland. Died November 5th, 1911, New York, New York. Buried Calvary Cemetery, 1st, 9, Tac 544, Tac 14 slash 15, Woodside, New York. Edward Brown Jr. Again, note the discrepancies between this man as an immigrant from Ireland and the majority of the illegal, well, the majority of immigrants, all of the illegal and Muslim immigrants that we're getting today. Mass Muslim immigrants, that is. So I need I feel the need to say this real quick. I served with some men overseas in Iraq and Afghanistan that I felt like I could absolutely trust. And they were Muslims, but they weren't very good Muslims. They weren't very good Muslims. The better and better followers of Islam are at following Islam, the more savage they become. So when you see something like Israel, October the 7th or whenever that was a couple years back, and just the atrocities that occurred then, those are Muslims actually following Islam well. And that's something we just can't get our heads around here in the United States. I wanted to go over, I think I read one of these quotes pretty recently anyway, but we just also don't seem to get the fact in America today on the conservative side, so many people they want to make the success of our nation about electing the right politician. Right? You saw that pretty clearly in the last couple weeks of primaries. Uh crafting the right policy, foreign or domestic. And we're missing the big picture, folks. And the big big picture is well, this quote by John Quincy Adams from July 4th, 1821. The highest glory of the American Revolution was this. It connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity. When you hear people talk about this being a secular nation, they don't know what they're talking about. They don't know history. Almost every quote, there's there's a meme that has gone around for years. Almost every quote that you see talking about a secular nation, when you really dig into it, it doesn't say what people claim it says. One more, from the day of the declaration, they, the American people, were bound by the laws of God, which they all, and by the laws of the gospel, which they nearly all acknowledge as the rules of their conduct. Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not to temptation, but deliver us from evil, for thine is the kingdom of the power and the glory forever and ever. Amen. God bless y'all. God bless your families, God bless your marriages if you're married. God bless your nation wherever you are around the world listening. God bless America. We'll talk to y'all again real soon, folks. Looking forward to it.