 Good afternoon Pastor David. How you doing John? I'm doing well. Thank you welcome everybody to unfiltered a random moment with Pastor David and as you guys know as on Tuesdays we talk more about current events that are going on in our nation or worldwide and on Thursdays we like to tease out your message for Sundays and so today as we look at some of the headlines or some of the things that are going on around us I wanted to ask you a question and get your feedback on this the sense that our government our our leadership is committed to chaos and and so I wanted to ask has our failing leadership weakened America on the international stage? You know I I don't know that the government per se you know beginning we'll say with the with the president you know the executive branch with the president and all I don't know that that he could actually be committed towards chaos I don't know that he is I frankly wouldn't judge his heart in such a way but is the path he's taking creating chaos I'd say absolutely because instead of being a unifier he has become a divider he campaigned under the the what would it be wasn't really a slogan so much but under the the belief that he was going to unify the nation that that Trump had he had thought divided so he he basically tried to unify people by saying that he was going to counter the things that created the problems etc and we all know that I'm just saying that which people already know so I wouldn't think that he with intent is causing chaos I would say the fruit of what he does is chaotic and that's because instead of uniting us he has taken positions that even constituents those of the Democratic Party and even those who classify themselves as independent are incapable of actually following or agreeing with so he has by taking the the more liberal positions that his his party holds he has successfully on his own created that kind of confusion which always will lead to chaos and so under his inability I would say to to to compromise under his incapacity to see somebody else's position he's created what I would say is the the dissatisfaction of the general American I mean poll after poll points out that people don't trust his leadership they don't trust his his ability to make decisions they don't they don't agree with his vice president in her positions and all and so yeah the great uniter has become the great divider well you know as we had tried this once before and we were speaking of of the disconnect with the American people and some of the ways in such of the ways as gas prices or going to the store and and how does as an American we view that as a president who's saying I'm doing the best for the country you know we see our vice president even in a podium she's asked a question and she has to refer it to a foreign leader and I just see this disconnect between the people of the United States and our and the well there is an absolute disconnect John president Biden doesn't have to worry about the cost of gas and even if you were not the president having other people fill up vehicles that he doesn't own even if he was filling his own vehicle one he probably wouldn't be the one who was putting gas into his own car he's a multi-multi-millionaire but millions that he has made in political office over 40 plus years when one wonders how you can be so rich have so many homes when you're supposed to be a public servant but that's I guess for another broadcast right but he wouldn't understand he wouldn't understand the cost of gas because it doesn't affect him we the taxpayer are paying to fill up his tank he wouldn't understand waiting in line at a grocery store because he doesn't have to do that the only time he's ever in line is when he's getting ice cream and that's usually for a photo op the same is true with the vice president and that goes on both sides of the aisle I mean Republican presidents wouldn't know that anymore than a Democrat I mean that's just the political life right and so you just can't tell me that you're a scrappy guy from Scranton and understand because you don't you don't pay for your own meals you don't pay for the upkeep of the house you're living in we do you don't pay for your own gas you don't pay for your own medical costs you don't pay for anything it's all paid for you plus you're taking the president's salary every year you could live very well on even if we you weren't the president if you were making four hundred thousand dollars a year you can live very comfortably you can do that obviously so when he tries to say when any political official like that a president I don't care again if it's Republican or not when they say I feel your pain that may be a nice thing to say politically but that's just not true practically see so people my age people who have lived for some time and have seen many presidents come and go I don't listen to their rhetoric I don't listen to their supposed compassion they don't pay medical costs they don't have to wait in line to to finally see a doctor they have a private doctor they don't live in our world John and that's why I think the the only thing that matters with these people is whether or not they're leading according to the will of the people and this this president is not this president doesn't believe apparently doesn't believe in the greatness of the United States our vice president is is an apologist for other countries she doesn't she doesn't have a grasp of what's going on either that poor I feel sorry for her in many ways because she hasn't the capacity to actually answer the questions that are asked of her and it's not because she's not intelligent and it's not because she hasn't been disciplined she received her her law degree this is an educated woman who who is in the midst of the leaders the world shakers she just she's not up for the task and neither is he I don't think he ever has been up for the task and so we're only reaping what the political voters sowed that's what we're reaping right now we've got supply chain problems we got border problems we are paying Russia have been had been paying Russia for oil and I thought Russia was a great enemy I thought I thought this was the conspiracy how are we how do we do that give them a billion dollars basically a day how do you do that when you've been telling us that that there are such enemies and they're they're colluding with Trump and this and that I don't know why people don't see it but they they're they're just spiritually blind John because this is what they voted for and a great number of people are kind of awakening to it because the polls seem to point that over 70 percent of Americans are disagreeing with the direction of that this country is going in well you know it's uh it's crazy to even see that uh our administration reaching out to the Middle East for for makes no sense for fuel when we had so it just all these things and and you know and I think pastor that sometimes even as us Christians we hopefully that this is a wake-up call for us to to vote our conscience problem is John millions of Christians don't vote here in California we we we're good at complaining but when it comes to casting our vote millions do not vote and that's that's the problem millions of of of those who call on the name of Jesus as their savior don't even take their time to do that so we end up with the government that was voting in by those who are willing to to to cast a vote that's where our problem is there's too many too many polls that have been taken that that show that evangelical Christians are not even voting so again they have no right to complain about the government none at all they allowed that government to be voted in you know and so you reap what you sow that's how it works you know pastor in in in your experience and throughout your lifetime have you ever seen anything like you see now with our administration I've never seen such an incompetent and inept administration again I'm no political pundit what do I know about politics but in a long life and and seen presidents all the way from Eisenhower to Biden I can say I have never seen anything as bad as what we have today when it comes to leadership never a man who stumbles over the most simple statements a man who apparently lives in the past wanting us to know how tough he was when he was a young man this is a man 80 years old I don't want to hear about this frail fragile man's fighting prowess I don't want to hear it I would like to see some dignity I would like to see some wisdom I don't see that with this man and I certainly don't see it with the vice president there's absolutely none of that in these people and then when you begin to look at the the the others that are with the loudest voices the the Ocasio Cortez's and and their posse it is ridiculous and and I could go on about that I won't but I will say that we really are in a world of of hurts and the church needs to wake up and we certainly need to be praying for our our leaders more fervently than we ever have and because uh as Jesus tells us in Matthew 24 deception is going to be the greatest sign of of his return it's not going to be the wars rumors of wars and we start to see it you know we talked about this before as the Dracula that came to your your parents house as a little kid because your dad had the best candy right yeah a little boy came over and my mom gave him the candy that my dad brought home because my dad was a truck driver so they would give him a box of candy and they were they were not the inexpensive ones during that time they were mounds bars and um and joys and they were nice you know they weren't penny candy they were the candy that caused a little bit more and yeah a little boy came over and he was dressed like Dracula and he knocked on the door three different times um the first time he looked regular the second time he was hiding his face with his cape the third time he was holding his hands up like they were claws and my mother was busting up over this kid because he thought that if he tried to make himself look different that my mom would be fooled and I see that as being kind of like what we see in politics today people who are pretending that there's something they're not in order to get the treat that they desire no doubt yes and the exciting thing is about this if there's a silver lining there is a silver lining that we are to keep our eyes on christ so the bottom line is is if you don't you're going to just be in despair we have to keep our eyes on jesus he has our blessed hope and uh you know that's why we say come quickly Lord Jesus but until then we're going to occupy until he comes so we don't have a president we have a king well we will always have a king we will always have a savior we always will have that one whom we trust and look to but until that day we do we do the best that we can to elect the officials that would represent us and I I don't believe in giving up I don't believe in not having something to do with in this fight so if a christian wants to be a board member for a school if he or she wants to run for mayor or senator or whatever governor if that's a call they have in their life I fully support that and encourage them to do that amen pastor thank you so much for your time in sharing your thoughts on this I do want to invite us invite church family to our Wednesday evening service uh as pastor you're taking us to read Ephesians chapter four chapter four verses one through six we're going to look at the walk that is worthy and then communion communion so church family it's a great opportunity to invite your friends to come join us to be in God's word to worship and to celebrate community together so thank you pastor thank you guys for tuning in God bless you we'll see you soon