Rick Green

This is the Intersection of Faith and Culture. It's the WallBuilder Show, taking on the hot topics of the day from a biblical, historical and constitutional perspective and today from a good news perspective. In other words, we're going to be sharing all kinds of good news with you, things that are happening out there that you may not have heard about. Some of them you may have, but maybe not got the behind the scenes on them and it's just amazing to see what God's doing in our culture. Despite all the bad, despite all the negative, despite the fact that the American culture is crumbling around us, there are a lot of people that are picking up the pieces and rebuilding, and God is blessing many of those efforts, and that's why we keep saying here on the program we got to do our duty and leave the results up to God, and part of the way that we do that is by encouraging each other with the good news, the victories of things that are happening out there, and that's what Good News Friday is all about.

I'm Rick Green, America’s Constitution Coach, here with David and Tim Barton. Tim's a national speaker and president of Wall Builders. He's a pastor. He's just always bringing the good news and a good perspective on how to deal with the issues of the day. And, of course, David Barton, America’s premier historian and our founder here at WallBuilders a wealth of wisdom. I'm telling you, if you're not tuning in every day here for the WallBuilder Show, you are missing out. It's timely. We constantly have interviews with people that are on the front lines dealing with the things that are happening in the culture, and then, of course, today, bringing you the good news. Yesterday, if you missed yesterday, by the way Foundations of Freedom.

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All right, guys, I know you got stacks of good news to get to. Can I just say praise the Lord, Donald Trump saved from another assassination attempt. Can we just start there with some good news, and I would say the same if it was Kamala Harris or another official. These assassinations really cause us to become even more polarized in this country, and so you know. Thankfully, a lot of folks have been praying for the safety of Donald Trump, knowing that there's a lot of people that would love to take him out. So let's start there with some good news. Once again, a foiled attack on the president, so let's start there with some good news.

Once again, a foiled attack on the president. 

Tim Barton

Yeah, and it's one of the crazy things too, that even after this, you had Team Harris getting on the road saying that he's a threat to democracy and he would weaponize the DOJ. They don't even acknowledge that, that he was just the target of an assassination attempt, and I even saw media talking heads say well, you know Donald Trump, he just upped the rhetoric oh they basically blamed

him for his right.

Yeah, you know he raised the temperature so bad that, you know, if it wasn't for him, this stuff never would have happened again. It's just, it is crazy the gaslighting nonsense going on, but it's also something that we can look at and recognize that that god has definitely protected him. In fact. Fact, dad, really cool, you got a text message from a friend in Congress who was able to actually with Trump the day that the assassination attempt happened and got to meet with Trump and he shared with Trump about George Washington and the story from the Battle of the Monongahela where George Washington became known as the as you famously titled the book, the bulletproof George Washington, and shared that with president Trump. Uh, we actually are working now to send that uh to some people on the Trump team so they can uh get that in hand.

Uh, nonetheless, I mean definitely super interesting to see from. We're in the middle of the forest, so sometimes it's hard to see the forest because of the trees, but to see that God is protecting Donald Trump. And the question is for what purpose? That's yet to be determined. We can speculate at this point that he's maybe going to be the next president, et cetera, et cetera, but there is no doubt that God has had his hand on Donald Trump, protecting him in these moments, and now that God even surrounded him with people that the very day it happens, they're able to share with him some of these incredible moments from American history where God did the same thing for other leaders in our nation.

It's really cool. 

David Barton

Yeah, it's interesting in that story. They were the first people to meet with Donald Trump after the second assassination attempt. They were the first folks that met with him and we were told today that they're going to deliver the bulletproof George Washington to him this weekend, so he'll be with him this weekend. That'll be interesting. But they said he had never heard the story and was so captivated by it and I would imagine he would be, because he does talk about President George Washington. You know the relationship he sees himself in some ways in that light, and so now you've got this miraculous story. But that leads to my first good news article and it deals with the first assassination attempt, now that there's been two.

But the first assassination attempt brought Trump really close to the reality of death and he thought about it a lot. After that you saw a whole different demeanor on him, his tweets, everything about it was really different. And in this article he did a podcast just not long ago, about an hour, with a guy from Russia who was in America and they were talking about this and Trump was related to the fact that he's got this friend who's in his 80s and his friend was telling him hey, life ends. This is something you got to think about. And the friend told Trump. He says I think about it every minute of every day. And so Trump says that now, when he calls me, when he gets on the phone with me, he just says tick tock, tick tock. What are you going to do with it? And this is Trump's response. I thought this was a really good response. He says our country is missing a lot of religion. You want to try to be good people, but without religion, there's no real guardrails. I would love to see us get back to religion. We need more religion in this country. I thought this could. He says, yeah, religions are the guardrails for the culture, for the society, and the more secular we become, the less we have guardrails, the more we get off it. And so this article talks about the fact that President Trump says he wants a religious revival in the United States and that apparently may have been a really good consequence of two really tragic or what could have been very tragic but really horrific incidents where people have tried to take his life. And so now he's at the point of saying, hey, we need more religion in America, because that's it. We've talked about this before.

It's not that we oppose gun control because we're not wanting to save lives Of course we want to save lives. We oppose gun control because that's not the solution. You need heart control. It's what's on the inside that is the problem. It's not what's in your hand that's the problem. It's what's in your heart, that's the problem. So if you've got someone who's religious and moral and controlled by those wholesome instincts, you can put 50 guns in their hands and not worry about it. But if you have someone who doesn't have that self-control, those guardrails of society that restrain over the heart, you can put a pea shooter in their hand and they'll find a way to make it into a weapon that would really hurt you. So that is a great statement from the president, acknowledging that the heart is the key to this thing, that we need more guardrails and they come from more religion and society. That's been a positive consequence of the interventions that we've seen, where God saved his life.

Rick Green

So I definitely was thinking that in that first one you know, especially with it being the year because we watched it we found in our in our Chase American Legends episode, that in his letter to his brother he said something about I think you have this in the book to David the. What was it? He said? It was like music to his ears, the bullets whizzing past his ear and so, knowing that, that, you know, trump almost had that kind of attitude. It was like he got up with that fight, fight, fight thing. He's like like that, that that warrior spirit that Washington clearly showed. I mean that you know he didn't say that to his mama in her, in the letter to his mama he said that to his brother in in that letter he he left that out when he was uh writing to his mom, so you don't tell that to mom that you love, uh, the battle, but uh, just so incredibly cool. And then when we went up there he had there was a letter in that Braddock museum, uh, Braddock road museum that he had bullet fragments in his hair. I mean, it's just, you know, and you point out in the letter the horse is shot up from under the holes in his jacket and yet he almost it was like he was drawn to it. He actually enjoyed the battle.

That's how I feel about Donald Trump, like every time they punch him, every time they sue him, every time they go after him, his response is like what is it? You always say, David, it's like the war horse, you're literally running to the battle. That's the sense I get from Trump, and I bet we would in official office. Right now, he's definitely in a position of authority for our country, and so we absolutely should pray that these assassination attempts and violence and all of that, that there would be quite literally supernatural, continued supernatural intervention in those things. So, tim, all right man, what's your first piece of good news today?

Tim Barton

Well, this one is from a federal judge in Texas, although it's dealing with the US Department of Health and Human Services, now famously known as HHS. I was blown away when I saw the headline of this article. It says Judge blocks Biden admin rule requiring government funding for sex change surgeries. Rather, and as you go through the article it identifies, there was a federal judge in Texas that issued a nationwide block on the US Department of Health and Human Services rule that interpreted the Affordable Care Act, so Obamacare, to include protection for gender identity and mandates, mandates. So requiring medical funding for cosmetic sex change surgeries. Now the cosmetic again, depending on how we define that, because you have some people saying no, that's, that's life-saving care. For a girl to have her chest cut off and right for a, a boy, to have his reproductive organs removed, like that, that's, that's life-saving care. I mean just mind-boggling, right, although ultimately we know those are cosmetic things that happen. But what is so interesting? I didn't realize. I should not have been surprised. I didn't realize that the current federal government was trying to say that Obamacare covered sex change operations and these quote-unquote cosmetic procedures etc. I mean just mind-boggling. But good news, a federal judge in Texas said that that's not the way that works Federal law. And this is actually this is a quote from Matt Staver on this. He said federal law does not force doctors to perform harmful or experimental procedures, nor does it require taxpayers to pay for them. And this is from Matt Staber, our good friend, liberty Council, and just addressing responding to this, the article goes on and gives more details about Bacara from HHS and some quotes from different people, back and forth.

Nonetheless, overall, really really good news that we had a judge with a very clear understanding of what the law does and doesn't say. And contrary to when Obamacare was initially passed and Chief Justice Roberts said well, it's not legal and constitutional the way it is. You can't mandate this, but if you did it as a tax, then you could do it. And a judge literally took and manipulated something that was done that was clearly unconstitutional in Obamacare and said well, let's just change the direction and intent and then it's legal In this case, not only good news that we have a judge saying no to this heinous act of ultimate evil against children act of ultimate evil against children.

It's also really good news that a judge is recognizing that you can't come in and pretend like a law says something it doesn't say you can't misuse a law for your own nefarious purposes in this scenario. So overall, really good news. I have no doubt that the DOJ, the HHS, everybody involved and the Biden-Harris administration is going to continue working to change things on this, but at least for now, really good news from this federal judge in Texas acknowledging that the Constitution doesn't actually say that HHS cannot take Obamacare and change words on this scenario. So again, really good news coming from this federal judge in Texas.

Rick Green

All right, guys, we're going to take our break just a minute or so early, so we can dive right back into good news with David's next piece of good news when we return. You're listening to the WallBuilders Show.

Break

Rick Green

Welcome back to the WallBuilder Show. It's Good News Friday today. Let's jump right back in, David. What's next?

David Barton

So, Rick, my piece of good news deals with the upcoming election and, by the way, on election night, Tim and I will help anchor the election coverage on the Victory Channel. It's a cable network and so we've done that for the last several years, had great results, and we'll be heading that coverage again. And one of the things that we'll be looking at on that night is we're looking at a number of ballot initiatives, because they also tell you a lot about how the people are thinking in moral areas. For example, there are three states that said you know, we passed a marriage amendment that said marriage between a man and a woman, but we don't believe that anymore. So three states are looking to repeal their marriage amendment. Thirty-two states have done that. So there's some that are trying to head in what I would consider bad direction. Others are trying to head in a good direction, and several of those initiatives also deal with drug use, whether we're going to decriminalize it or recriminalize it or whatever. And so I think there's four states voting on legalizing marijuana and the states that have done that, they make money out of it, but they have higher crime rates, higher property crime, et cetera. So it's not been a good deal.

But Oregon, in the election some four years ago, they had a ballot initiative that said hey, we don't think criminalizing drugs is the way to stop drug use. And so what they did was they decriminalized hard drugs, things like cocaine and heroin and others. It was no longer illegal to have those drugs. And what we'll do now is we'll just focus on treatment. We'll let people use the drugs, but they're going to want treatment. And so this crazy liberal philosophy of it's okay for anybody to do anything they want because we can fix whatever they do. And that's what they've done. But now the Oregon legislature has repealed that ballot initiative from now three, three and a half years ago. And they did it because none of it worked. Imagine that. Can you imagine that you might have higher crime rates if you had more drugs etc. And so what it had done was fentanyl and cocaine and methamphetamines and heroin all these drugs. It was no longer a crime to have that. Well, after they got rid of the criminalization, drug use skyrocketed and overdoses skyrocketed and harmful medical things skyrocketed and overdoses actually rose 61%. Now the rest of the nation is at 13%. Oregon had 61%. They just went through the roof. And then when you looked at fentanyl deaths, Oregon has the highest number of fentanyl deaths of any state and so all the numbers are really bad for Oregon.

And lo and behold, people weren't calling the drug lines to get free from drugs. They weren't calling to say I want less of this. And so in the months they implemented they also set up hotlines and grabbed this. They contracted the people to have hotlines. So if someone calls and says I've got a drug problem, I need help with the drug problem, they could get help. The contract they had gave the people $10,000 a call for every call they fielded to help someone get off drugs. So $10,000, guess what? That line got zero calls. Not a single person called and said I want to get off drugs. So they have found that this has been disastrous. The law enforcement said it was a crazy idea. And lo and behold, it's a crazy idea. So what they're doing now is they have repealed that. And by the way, I don't understand this, maybe you guys can explain it to me A group called the Portland Health, justice and Recovery Alliance has said oh no, if you recriminalize drugs, it's going to result in racial inequality.

It will be a racist thing if you go back to prosecuting drug use. I thought it was just a behavioral thing and I thought it was whoever did drugs. I didn't realize that it was a racist. I mean, the arguments they've got on the other side is some of the craziest stuff I've ever heard. But the good news is that Oregon has come to their senses and they've actually taken what they considered to be a conservative position that they rejected, largely because that's what conservatives believed and, as it turns out, that is the position that worked. Actually, prosecuting bad behavior gives you less bad behavior. Encouraging bad behavior gives you more bad behavior. They found that lesson out and I guess it shocked them, because they're now coming back in a conservative direction.

Rick Green

Well, I've got to say on the election night, by the way, David, that if I remember right and you tell me if I'm exaggerating this, let's make sure we're very accurate here I think on election night in 2016, you were the first one of all the networks that night to call the election for Trump. Is that right? You're right.

David Barton

And President Trump recently tweeted that out. He tweeted out that moment.

Rick Green

Did he really?

David Barton

Okay, really okay, he tweeted out. The moment we called the election for trump, the other networks couldn't believe that trump was winning and we saw Pennsylvania go and I made the declaration he just won it. He, Pennsylvania, is going to go his way because the senate had gone to the republican Pennsylvania and if the senate goes, the president's going to go, and so we called it. Nobody else would till much later, but president trump tweeted that out recently.

Tim Barton

I also want to point out I'm a little bitter about this, but in 2020, I was like, hey, my dad called 2016. I'm calling this thing because it was Michigan. We're waiting on Michigan. And if he got Michigan, we're like, hey, we're going to do it. And I'm like, guys, look, it's only, it's 99% reporting, it's only this one district left, which is a conservative leaning district. He's do this. So I'm telling, I'm telling the booth like, guys, we're doing it again, he's gonna, he's gonna win this again. And that's when miss jen, of course, called the pause. And you know, two, three hours later they come back. They find these 100 and whatever. Thousand, two hundred thousand ballots and they're almost all for biden blah, blah, whatever. I'm a little salty about that because I'm not totally sure that was above board. We were going to be the ones and I was like I'm going to do it. My dad had it 2016. I'm getting to 2020.

I'm calling it.

So I'm a little salty about that right now. Now we know the real reason Tim.

Rick Green

Now we know the real reason Tim.

Now we know the real reason the election. Well, I'm just going to say it was stolen, and it was stolen so that Tim Barton would be wrong and was not allowed to call the election for Trump.

Now we know.

There was this underlying conspiracy against—.

Tim Barton

It wasn't just to stop President Trump. It was. We can't let Tim Barton be right on this one we're going to let his dad have the victory, the 2016 call. He's going to be the infamous one here.

Rick Green

Maybe David set the whole thing up. Maybe David did it.

Maybe he did it to make sure that you couldn't take that mantle from him.

Tim Barton

Rick, you promised never to tell you weren't going to let people know that. Come on, rick, all right, so back to our land of reality. Actually, that is going to be definitely the place to watch, by the way, folks, election night, and it may go till late into the night. So you know, make sure you take a nap that afternoon if you're not standing at the polls for somebody, and be ready to stay up late on election night.

Yeah, I mean the fact you have governors already saying that they don't think they're going to have results on election night is already saying that Right. I mean that that tells you something about how they think the process is going to go in their state, which is not good, that that that is not bode well for the integrity of the system, for the security of the system, and certainly there's not transparency at that point. So there's already reasons that I have some questions already. Nonetheless, all it indicates for us is that's a direction we need to pray, that's a direction in some of those states. We need to make sure that we have people that become poll watchers, that we make sure we have people that are definitely showing up and voting in those areas, because for Christians, every time we don't show up and every time we're not part of the process, the other side doesn't have to cheat, they don't have to be dishonest.

If the good guys don't show up, bad guys can do what they want and get away with it. When the good guys show up and they bring some accountability, they bring some eyes, some transparency to the process, then it can actually prevent in some scenarios, it can expose in some scenarios and certainly make it more difficult for dishonest people to do dishonest things. So in those states, if you live in a state where you have a governor saying those kinds of things, that should be even more indication of why you need to be involved, not to be discouraged and throw up your hands and say, well, to see, I'm not going to do it because it's all rigged, or whatever you might feel, even though there might be some validity to some of your feelings. We cannot be motivated, we cannot be led entirely by our feelings. At times we have to do the right thing in spite of our feelings, and those are the areas we have to make sure we get involved and stay engaged in the process.

David Barton

And let me throw I've got to throw a thought here. Tim, you just said something. I'm going to be bold and say it. I'm not speaking for God on this, but I'm speaking for what I understand about God and history and accountability. God's not going to hold you accountable for whether you voted and your guy didn't get elected. He's going to hold you accountable for whether you voted at all. And if you say it's rigged and I can't win and you do nothing, you're accountable for that. But if you say it's rigged and I can't win, but I'm going to vote anyway, you're off the hook.

Tim Barton

Well, and I would say that this too, dad, not only that you have to vote, but it does make a difference who you vote for, because if you're voting for the murder of unborn children, if you're voting for the destruction of children's bodies and this gender debacle we're seeing, if you're voting for that, that is not a position supported by anything in the Bible, so you are voting an unbiblical position. So I would say you're accountable, not only that number one, you have to vote, you need to show up and vote, but then, number two, you are accountable for how you cast that vote. And this election cycle is more visible in the moral issues in some areas than before that you're voting for the lesser of two evils. And I'm saying that because people might look at Donald Trump and say, yeah, but he's not right, entirely against abortion. And then you look at Kamala Harris and go, well, she's entirely in favor of abortion. Well, there's no doubt that every time you vote, you're voting for the lesser of two evils, and this time it's a little more. It's a little more visible on the moral issues that neither candidate has this really clear, morally upright position on the issue of abortion. Now, when it comes to other issues, I think there are very, very clear distinctions. But even on the issue of abortion, one candidate is in favor of of three months up to birth after birth. Right, because if you look at vice president Waltz on the Democrat side, it's in his state that there have been babies that went through a botched abortion, that were born alive and they were left to die on that abortion table, so to speak. There still is a clear distinction.

Even though Donald Trump might not be as pro-life as some might want him to be, nonetheless, not only you're responsible to show up and vote, you are also responsible to cast a vote in the most godly way that you can think possible.

And that's not something you have to defend to one of us, to Rick, to my dad or me. It's something that ultimately, you're accountable to God. And so if you feel comfortable giving God the answer of I voted this way because of this and you can defend it biblically, that's the position you need to be in, knowing you are accountable to God for what you're doing. Number one that you have to vote because God's given you that stewardship. You don't wanna be that one servant that when the master comes back and says hey, what'd you do with what I gave you and you say well, I was scared so I just buried it, I hid it in the go. Well, for that servant, we want to make sure that we are the ones that are faithful to use what the master has given us, what God's given us, but then also that we use it well, that we are supporting godly biblical things along those lines. So you got to vote and then make sure you are voting biblically as you are looking at the candidates.

Rick Green

Our folks out of time for today that was David and Tim Barton, sharing as much good news as we can get in one program, and if you're like me, you can always use more. So go to wallbuilders.show. That's wallbuilders.show. That's our radio site where you can get a list of all the programs from the last few weeks and months, and you can just skip down to all the Friday programs. If you're just looking for good news Now, you will miss out on some good news throughout the week as well, because a lot of our interviews are actually with the people that brought us the good news stories that we talk about on Fridays, and so sometimes we're just diving deeper into those good news stories and sometimes it's just a heads up, a warning. So those interviews you don't want to miss that either. Monday, tuesday, wednesday is when we have those interviews, and then Thursday's Foundations of Freedom, thursdays, and then Friday that's where you'll get just rapid fire good news, just like we shared today. But if you'd like some more of that, it's available at our website, wallbuilders.show wallbuilders.show for more good news and some of the radio programs you may have missed over the last few weeks and months. But then a final thing today make sure you go to wallbuilders.com. Wallbuilders.com that's our main website and there's a lot of good news items there, but there's also just tons of resources and materials for you and your family, and that's the place to make that one time.

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