 Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? What is going on? What is? Is this a joke? Is this a joke? Jerry Falwell Jr. Is this a joke? Liberty University? Are you kidding me right now? Okay, this is wild. So if you guys don't know what's going on, there is a massive scandal in terms of what Jerry Falwell Jr. has been up to over the last 17 years and also Liberty University with different funds and stuff and funneling money to the Falwell family and all this crap. Okay, I say Christian, right? As a Christian, this puts a massive stain on Christ's name. Okay, I was listening to a podcast the other day, Secular Podcast, pretty big prominent one, and they were talking about kind of how they thought it was funny and how they liked it when people that kind of advocated for conservative values or Christian values and talked about how abortion's wrong and traditional marriage and all this kind of thing. And when they went off the sidelines and it turned out they were actually bad people doing not, you know, according to these people, not necessarily bad things, but things that went against what they were outspoken about for all these years. And it puts, and it's like, okay, I get it, right? I get it when people, you know, are seeing Christians and Christians are saying, you know what, this is what the Bible says, we had to hold to this. And all of a sudden behind the scenes, these Christians are like, doing whatever the heck they are with pool boys. It's like, what is this a TV show? Is this a joke? I'm like confused, right? Like, if you go to Liberty University, I'd be interested to know what you have to say about this because honestly, like, okay, number one, number one, somebody, it kind of makes sense, right? Okay, this is the son of somebody that founded the university. And when you're the son of somebody like in power, it just kind of makes sense that you would be, I don't know, really entangled in it. And like, there'd be certain things where maybe people wouldn't want to call you out in certain ways, because they knew you knew your power, like you're the son of the person who started the university. And so like, okay, with that power, right? Like that corrupts people, right? That corrupts anybody, right? And it sounded like, okay, you know, Jerry Falwell, senior, he was a strong Christian, he really like, you know, believed and lived a lot of the stuff that he said. But with Jerry Falwell, junior, it just sounds like it was a show, it sounds like it was kind of a facade to get money to get power and and and it was kind of almost fun for him and in hearing about some of the stuff that he was up to, fun for him to live these two lives, this life of being out in the public eye and saying all this, you know, stuff that that maybe conservative Christians were like, yes, I agree with that exactly. Like, that's beautiful. Thank you for staying strong to conservative values. And like also behind the scenes living this really like morally outrageous life, like really just not not conducive to any form of Christianity at all. And so he enjoyed that. And it reminds me that, you know, sin is pleasurable for a season. It's it's enjoyable for a season, but then leads to death. And and the other, the other concept in the other verse of your sin will find you out, right? We found this, like for Jerry Falwell, junior, and I'm sure other people as well, for sure, like he, he enjoyed that season of in sin and living those two different lives. And then all of a sudden, he's found out your sin finds you out. And since pleasurable for a season, but is it pleasurable now? Well, it turns out there's like a $10 million severance packages right now for him. So he's still living it up. But ultimately, we're all going to be accountable before God, we're each going to have to give an account for our lives. Jerry Falwell is going to have to give an account for his life and also the terrible witness and the stain on Christ's name that he has really placed there. And I guess my my thought is this, right? Our faith are not to be any of the in any of these figures like Jerry Falwell, junior, or we talked about Lecrae a while back or any of these people, right? Because they not love that Lecrae did something this egregious. But but it's like, yo, we are faith needs to be in the person of Christ and in God and not in our like any figurehead or like any any of that because they will let us down. They, you know, and people say this all the time is that I was a Christian, but somebody in my life that was a Christian really let me down or they backstab me or they did something terrible. And I just kind of got, you know, disinterested in Christianity. And it makes sense, right? If our faith was in, you know, hey, these Christians are nice. So I want to be a part of, you know, this Christian group. But at the same time, that's not why we are Christians. We're talking about the forgiveness of sins. We're talking about the transformation of our heart. We're talking about being from death to life. It's not about just following a figurehead with some ideas that we like or being a good person or any of that because they will let us down. Jerry Falwell will let us down. Liberty University will let us down. I mean, for me, I didn't really have any connection with Liberty University except watching their convocation every year. They usually had some big name like Tim Hawkins. I think they might have Tim Tebow one year. Ravi Zacharias, I think. Anyway, a bunch of different people. But, but it's like, oh, this is kind of an interesting event. This is a massive Christian university, a figurehead of Christian values. And yet you see in between all the corruption. And I'm not a prophet. But I think we're going to begin to see this a lot more is in a lot of these big organizations, these big Christian organizations where so much money has been pumped into them, we're going to begin to see and we are seeing this compromise. And we're going to see scandals, maybe not similar to this, but like, you know, there's going to be stuff because money, power, all that stuff. When when somebody gets it, the tendency is just to get more and hold on to what you have. And I think this is a reality check for some people that, you know, we can live in this Christian bubble and maybe you go to Liberty University and you're like, everyone's so wonderful here and everything's so great. And then you look at the top, the very top guy and it's just like, what is going on? Let's put our faith back into Jesus, take it out of these Christian universities, take it out of these Christian figureheads, put it back into Jesus and rely on him and not other people to affirm our conviction in what we believe, because people will let us down, people will fail. But the difference is this, look, in your own life, you're going to fail. But what is your move after that? Is it repentance? Is it kind of finding restoration and reconciliation with people? Or is it like Jerry Falwell Jr. Denial, denial, denial, right? And that's the sign of repentance, right? So we as Christians, people say, oh, you know, you, all your Christians are hypocrites. Well, we as Christians, don't say that we're perfect, right? We're not perfect. That's, that's in the open, right? We do fail. But the difference is, is that when we sin, we move towards repentance, which is a turning away from that into reconciliation and restoration with other people and within those relationships. But Jerry Falwell, he's done the exact opposite. He's like, I'm not, you know, I'm going to take my severance package and I'm going to do my own thing. I, I didn't, you know, it was, it was my wife's fault. It was all these other people's fault. That's a lesson in how not to deal with when you sin, right? When you sin, repent. That's what the Bible calls us to. And that's the mark that we are a Christian is when we sin, we don't stay in that and deny it, but rather we give it to God and we confess it. Anyway, that's all I have to say. I hope you guys are enjoying these videos. And if you like these videos, join us at the Daily Disciple Club on Patreon. 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