 Was not gonna watch this movie and it wasn't like a particularly thoughtful decision. It was just I'm super busy I don't really have time. I've heard a lot of interesting things about it But also I'm kind of conflicted about what I think and based on what I was watching on tiktok It was seemed like this was some sort of propaganda piece by the alt right and then one of my buddies said hey I'm going to this film you want to come with me So I went with my fiance and a couple of our friends and we went there Let me explain a little bit the movie is about child trafficking the movies about child trafficking if you haven't seen this movie sound of Freedom you need to go watch it because it is going to help you better understand what's going on out there and the importance of Not keeping your eyes closed to the injustice that is happening in our world even today one of the kind of More shocking statistics in the film was that there are more active slaves today Then there are then there were in any other point in history and a lot of those obviously are going to be children And so that the movie kind of hones in on the story of Tim Ballard Somebody who had worked for the government tracking down these kind of pedophiles in order to reunite one girl to her father He ends up actually leaving His agency job going to work solo for this big operation where they're gonna, you know catch all these folks And it was an amazing movie and it really got me thinking why are people it mostly Progressives so against this movie. Why are they so against this movie? And it just brought me back to the normalization of what people call minor Attracted persons or maps and you don't and that's not just a coincidence It's not a coincidence that there is the push of the normalization of men-boy Relationships and then also the denial of the you know accuracy of this movie I don't think those things are Disconnected ultimately what we need to understand is this when you reject God's moral law his objective standard of what is right And what is wrong then you are left to your own devices You are left to your own opinions you're left to the zeitgeist of the culture You're left to the desires of man and what we've seen in our culture Is a shift from what has been considered to be normal a man and a woman getting married to a man and a man and You know all of a sudden the acceptance of all sorts of things that we would have been we would have considered sexually perverse Previously but now our culture has grown to accept it. Why is that well because we've rejected God's law We've objected we've rejected God as the ultimate law giver and What this issue why this issue is so important is because we're creating the image of God that each person is created in the image of God and they are deserving of dignity and they are worthy of respect and What is going on out there is a complete degradation of that image of God and that's why I broke my heart It broke my heart to see Not only what's going on in that movie what's going on in other countries But what's going on in in my country as well. I read this book a powerful book by a man named Paul Boga He's a prolific author in my city here of Winnipeg and he wrote a book about child trafficking and and trafficking in in Canada in general and just how How all of our society is kind of Pushing this away and not we're not wanting to think about it But it's going on right in front of us and I think what the movie did well Just to give a little bit of commentary on the movie itself is is it showed that goodness can win It showed that goodness ultimately does win and that God does win. You see this man He's watching through at least when he was with his agency job He's watching through hours and hour hours of CP and just how you can see it in his eyes How how how that's raging like this war on his soul seeing these image bears taking advantage of you just can't imagine what that's like you can't imagine the kind of therapy and and Healing that needs to happen after that. I don't know how anybody could do that honestly But then you find that regardless of the trauma that he's the experience in his life That that he still goes out and and and searches for this one This one girl and it reminds me honestly and you know it reminds me of the story of God it reminds me of The shepherd losing the one sheep and going after to find him to find the lost sheep in order to bring it back to his Sheepfold and that's a beautiful picture of the gospel. It's a self-sacrificial picture of Seeing someone who is it was gonna stray and bringing them back home Bringing them back in and in this case, it's not out of their own volition They're being taken from these homes and it is so so destructive is so sad to see and I just cannot believe I cannot believe It makes me angry That people would try to dismiss this as a reality of calling it too far-fetched of calling it propaganda of calling it You know right wing extremism like It just makes no sense to me But then you begin to think a little bit more about it and it makes perfect sense Why would people in general that want to indulge in sexual perversion call out sexual perversion that doesn't make any sense Why would they call out their own? Why would the big wigs of Hollywood and in general you know promote a film that hits to the core of the debauchery of our society was a powerful moment in the film one of my favorite moments is when he tries to befriend This this pedophile in order to kind of get information from him And and and so he's in this diner with him this man had basically just kind of offered up this child form He's a hey, you know, this is he's all yours for the weekend and Tim Ballard who's still was still kind of in character He's trying to you know pretend that he's one of them in order to befriend him He kind of whispers he's like better to have a millstone tied around your neck and to be cast into the sea Then for you to cause one of these little ones to stumble and the other man doesn't know what he's saying really but in that moment he says you're under arrest and I just think even that arrest is Nowhere near compared to the judgment that God has for those that would lead one of these little children to stumble And that's why I have no problem calling down judgment on them I I pray for their repentance But I pray that God would stop them even in this moment from doing what they're doing if you haven't watched this movie yet I recommend it. It's not too graphic even if you're a little bit sensitive to these type of things I don't think it's too graphic. They don't really show anything and it just ultimately gets across the point This is something that is happening and we as Christians Specifically have not only the light of the gospel to bring into the situation have an objective worldview and objective truth God's moral standard that we can call things objectively evil But we also have a part to play and so beginning to watch this film beginning to maybe support an organization that you See is doing important work in this fight. That's I think where we begin before I jump off for today I want to offer you guys something if you're struggling with lust online and you want accountability I have a 30 days free sign up for you to get covenant eyes Covenant eyes is an accountability software that will help you if you're struggling with lust online I know a lot of you are in this place. 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