Good to be with you . Thanks for joining me as we start 2025 , amazing , buckle up , huh . I think we all have a sense that we're in for quite a ride here . I think we dodged a bullet . I think we all have a sense of that .
Can you imagine if , on the 20th , that , kamala Harris was going to be the president of the United States and the most powerful person , in essence , over the whole world and you can see , man we were spiraling down into abyss ? There's some craziness , this battle between good and evil going on all around us . We sense that it's standing up .
Evil's no longer lurking in the shadows , it's out in the open . It's almost mocking humanity , and so I wanted to do a series on spiritual warfare . I've done this over the years , once a year at least . I really feel that 2025 is a time for the laity . The laity , the average person who ? There is no average person , of course , in God's plan .
We're all unique , unrepeatable . There'll never be another Jack in the history of the world or another you in the history of the world . We all have a role to play , whatever that is . Some of the beautiful saints and mystics Sister Faustina , st Therese of Lisieux they lived these small lives . They would call them these humble , small lives , convents .
The world didn't know who they were , and yet they made these profound statements in the world god will take the smallest , most humble person and do great things with their lives . So we all have to stand up and realize that we're all created sacred . We're all created for eternal destiny .
Every child that's born huh is an being , and eternity doesn't mean tomorrow . Eternity means forever . We're already eternal beings .
So , to understand what's going on , you have to understand spiritual warfare , and I want to bring it down to the very basics , because when you start to talk about all the things that are going on in the world , you can think that they're all these loose pieces .
And they are in essence , because there's a lot of people in the world and you can either bring good or evil into the world , and we see this playing out all around us .
Sister Lucia said it so well , the main visionary of Fatima , who said that the last great battle , though and here's the final thing , and here's what I want to really address when I'm going through the spiritual warfare series is the last great battle between our Lord and Satan is happening now , and it's over marriage and the family .
It's the fight of marriage and the family . Can you believe that when you start to think about all the things that are going on in the world , you go what does that have to do with marriage and the family ?
So this is what I want to bring down to you , because once you understand the basics , the basic foundation , and you have a lens to see this through , you can start to put these pieces in place and start to understand how important each one of us is .
At the John Paul II Renewal Center , I meet countless individuals , both young and old , who bear the weight of the pain and suffering that we all seem to face and we all will face at some point in our lives .
Right , some face physical ailments , as we know , especially as we get older , but far more common , as I meet people every day , as we meet people in the John Paul II Renewal Center every day , the emotional turmoil , the anxiety , confusion , heartbreak stemming from broken relationships .
Often For older generations that we meet , it's from failed marriages , dysfunction that they see , if it's not in their own marriages , in their children's marriages , family marriages , and all those broken relationships come down in these fractured families and all the turmoil that causes and the dysfunction .
For the young , it's the deep scars inflicted by this culture , steeped in dysfunction . They came into a world not really understanding it and very few got the faith passed down to them . So they can't put this in context . And this is what I want to try to do to help all of us put this in context and allow God to come back into our hearts . Right ?
So this is a culture that has distorted love itself , and this is affecting so many young people Reduce love to a feeling , to an emotion , and they're told that we can further reduce this down to sex , sex activity , sexual activity , so basically , fleeting pleasure .
Basically , lust is now getting confused with authentic love , and it's very confusing to people , and this is the basis of what we see all around us today . Many fail to see the connection between the relational dysfunction and the broader societal decay caused by the ongoing attack on marriages and the families . The spiritual has been stripped from the temporal .
In other words , we've taken God out of the temporal space , out of the families . The spiritual has been stripped from the temporal . In other words , we've taken God out of the temporal space , out of the world . Many no longer attend mass , receive the sacraments . Many people are not even baptizing children today , they're not getting married in the church .
This is having a radical effect on all of us . Marriage in the church has become very rare now , and I'm talking about in generalities , among the whole population of the United States and Western civilization as a whole , and so the recognition between this profound link between man and woman , marriages , families and Christ in the church .
So , in essence , the human heart separated from the heart of God . We have rejected God and because God is love , we're trying to capture the sacred . We're trying to capture this yearning , burning desire in our heart for love , to love and be loved , disconnected like the branch off the vine right . So we have this triangle . To put it all in perspective .
We have a triangle . Catholic social teaching does such a great job at this . John Paul II brings it down from Leo XIII , who really spoke of this A hundred years before John Paul wrote Centennius Annus 100 years dedicated to that and brought it up into the modern age .
But basically it's like a triangle , like a pyramid in front of you if you think about it , and it offers profound wisdom for human flourishing and when you envision this pyramid with marriage in the family and in Christ and the church . This is the triangle .
So the triangle's here and at the bottom of this triangle holding the whole thing up marriage in the family , christ in the church , and these are linked and this forms the whole foundation .
When this breaks down and the cultural Marxists know about this , the socialists knew about this , the socialists knew about this , the communists knew about this very , very well , and I've spoken about all this before , but in essence , without going too far today , if you break down this foundation , then of course everything else that builds up into this triangle , which
the church would call polity , the way we organize ourselves in society , politics of course we think about that , the laws , the morality that we live out , but also includes the culture , the music , the art , everything that is created because of our taking this marriage and the family , christ and the church and the beauty of that .
You saw Western civilization how it was built up on so much beauty , the churches themselves , the music , the art . That was gone on at that time .
So when the foundation crumbles as it has in Western civilization and it was happening in the United States very rapidly , we were always behind Europe as far as taking God out and all these institutions starting to crumble . But then it happened very , very quickly .
Our institutions followed , became not only corrupt but weaponized , as we saw what they did to Donald Trump , it was very , very clear . But this has been happening for many , many years . Again , I don't want to take a lot of time to go into it right now , but we see our CIA and FBI and stuff .
I mean the CIA has been starting wars all over and we know all this right , we thought it was for our own good , huh ? So , without going too far , we've corrupted other cultures , other countries , taken away their duly elected leaders themselves because we think it's in our best interest .
I mean , what pride that we have , right , that we thought , man , we can rule the world . Well , when we become corrupt ourselves and then we go out , then we bring corruption into the world , we bring pornography into the world , abortion into the world , et cetera .
Okay , so again , when those very pillars that were to uphold everything else , which is the nuclear family and religious freedom at the base , our founding fathers , knew that what's happening , it all starts to crumble down . Bishop Fulton Sheen warned us about this 50 , 60 years ago , and I'll just read the small part to you .
He said a nation always gets the kind of politicians it deserves .
If a time ever comes when religious Jews , protestants and Catholics suffer under a totalitarian state that denies them the right to worship God according to their conscience , it will be because for years they thought it made no difference who represented them in Congress , and they abandoned the spiritual in the realm of the temporal , and they allowed our leaders to take
God out of schools , out of the culture right , push God out of the way . And you saw this . What happened even before the Biden administration came in ?
Of course , this has been happening for a long time , but then you saw the acceleration of this First day in office executive orders to expand abortion I mean , how could he not even wait till the first day was over and expanding abortion rights , expanding contraception , expanding a breakdown of the nuclear family .
You saw this attack , this affirming cure right , going after the trans you know these kids that were confused about being trans , et cetera , et cetera , and so I've talked about that many , many times . But again , you saw this breakdown right , this attack on marriage and the family , coming all the way from the Biden administration , all the way down .
This would have been continuing to accelerate , as it has around the world where you can't even pray in Britain in front of an abortion clinic by yourself , silently , by yourself , and you'll be harassed . It's really something . So today this warning has become a reality from Bishop Sheen right Evil no longer lurks in the shadows , but mocks humanity openly .
As we witness heartbreaking events like what just happened in New Orleans , we pray for those victims and their families enduring unimaginable pain . Run over by a terrorist . You can imagine just the destruction , the evil in someone's heart to do that right . These tragedies reflect the deeper loss , the confusion and despair so many young people feel in today's world .
So this is a crisis of young hearts I want to talk about . Today . There is a I've talked , spoke about this many , many times , but there is a clip on X and I'll put it in the show notes . I think I can find that for you . I'll put it in the show notes . Watch the clip .
It's very , very short , but it's a young woman , woman , and I've spoken about this again myself many times . So this is something I'm very common with . But when it's captured on video , I think it's really important to see a young woman crying beautiful young woman , by the way , and you can see it go viral these videos , these real-life conversations .
And tearfully she asked what kind of world do we live in ? She said , and she lamented how difficult it is to find a man to share we live in . She said and she lamented how difficult it is to find a man to share their lives and their values with . And she said we no longer live in a world where a regular woman can find a regular guy to date .
Men don't want real women anymore , she said . They'd rather indulge in a fake fantasy , watching pornography and then , do you know , masturbate into pornography , watching robots on the screen , she said , to navigate the complexities of a real relationship with a real woman . How sad is that , how just tearful . And I meet so many of them .
It's very common now today to say Jack , are there really young men out there yet ? And we're starting to see now there's a little spark . We start to see that with the Generation Z going up to say , 27 years old and down maybe into 12 , 13 years old , but the voters there , so the older ones of them , voting for Donald Trump , seeing the dysfunction .
So this is a very good move . You know , when young men start to sense there's something wrong , you know we should be idealistic at that age . We should be looking for what's true , good and beautiful and understand , you know , this beauty , the awe and wonder of what it is to be a human being .
But this is being stripped from them and it's our responsibility as the lady , our parents and family to be able to speak the truth to them . Somebody needs to speak the truth to get them through this period in life , so they have choices at least . So here's what I want to talk about in spiritual warfare .
Number one Rediscovering awe and wonder of human sexuality . The sexual union of a man and a woman is a profound mystery , a sacred act of awe-inspiring beauty . Yet society has reduced it to a mere transaction devoid of meaning . Today , to understand the crisis we face , we must reflect on this loss .
We have to open up our hearts to the wonder of God's design , right through our bodies , for human love and share this with young people . It's not enough to know this . We have to share this and take this out to young people . See , in the coming weeks , I'm going to share stories that both eliminate this truth , both on our website and through these podcasts .
This is part one in this series . I've already written many articles on this . This is the core to this . I'm going to share one of those articles with you . Already written many articles on this . It's the core to this . I'm going to share one of those articles with you . I'm posting it on our website , so go to our website .
I've already posted the core part of this short articles , so I put up one , two and three . You can look at it . Under contraceptive mentality spiritual warfare , you'll see part one , part two , part three . If you have any problem with that , email us and we'll find it for you . I'm also publishing it at Catholic Exchange .
We've published article one already , but we'll be publishing article two January 7th , so you can go there too to find them . So part one of this series is now available . I encourage you to read it with an open heart . I'm going to go over it today . I'll put a link in to our website so you can come find it , along with that link for that young woman .
So let us approach these topics not with a defensive attitude , but with a heart open , a desire for understanding , because otherwise we're going to push back . When I talk about contraceptive mentality , oh , you want to talk about contraception , whatever people are afraid to talk about it , but there's reasons .
We need to talk about it because we have lost the sacred through that contraceptive mentality . Sister Lucia , fatima again , she says the last great battle between good and evil , between our Lord and Satan , will be over marriage and the family . We're living through that battle now . To overcome it we must return to prayer .
The awe and wonder of connecting the human heart , our human heart , with God's heart . That's really what prayer is , where we go beneath the surface of this noise into the silent , deep place called the human heart . And there , in that depth , you meet just two people there , you and God , and you sit there and converse together . That's really what prayer is .
Now , god , of course , brings all of heaven with him , and I bring , of course , all of my family , my friends , my grandparents , all these people that have brought me to this point . They're all there with me , but just God and I can converse there about all of those things . This is the beauty of prayer , right ?
Only then can we start to rebuild what has been lost . So let me just start with a little bit of a philosophical event on this . Things are not always as they appear , and I knew that as a young man . I left home very early looking for the truth . I knew it . I was looking for the truth .
I grew up in the sexual revolution , when it was just getting really going and we fell for the lie and I looked around . I said there's got to be more to this . I just saw the awe and wonder of the beauty of a woman . It would take my breath away and I'd say no , no , no , something's wrong here , right ?
Aristotle thought that philosophy begins with wonder . Wonder is something children do quite well , right , I have seven grandchildren . Six of them are girls . That's why I'm going to continue to do this , because we have to get this down to them . They're so beautiful .
And to steal and rob them of their innocence and take away their dreams of finding a young man in their life , it's really sad . And so , with children , it comes natural to them .
When I bring my wife and I bring out , we do this thing where we call , we kidnap them on their birthdays or close to their birthdays and we just bring them out one at a time and we tell stories and we go out for dinner we usually go out to a play or something age-appropriate stuff and then we read some good books at night when we're after dinner and
different things , and they just talk and you see their creative imaginations go . It comes natural to children . Unfortunately , as we grow older , we stop wondering and stop questioning and stop attempting to look at things in new ways or non-traditional ways . We say , right , well , the culture itself ?
Right , we lose that awe and wonder through this culture , again , nothing's been attacked more than sexuality . It says no , there's no traditional ways .
Now you can't just throw out tradition , because tradition comes down and flows down to us and we have to look at it through a lens that , like I said , this pyramid lens , this Catholic social teaching that says okay , let's look at it through the lens of all , through human history man and woman , marriage and family .
That's the bedrock of every single civilization . That's where we all came from Christ in the church , where it purifies , that gets us out of our brokenness , redeems and saves us , saves our marriages , saves our families . And then we go out into the culture and build a culture of life .
When we take God out of our own hearts first , we come into a culture of death . We'll abort our children , have children out of wedlock , get divorced and all those things affect children and these young people . Right , stop bringing them to mass and the sacraments . So we stop wandering , we get busy , we get in dysfunction , we get on these phones all the time .
Right , we spend so much time on our phones that we disconnect from our own hearts . Not everything we believe is true . We found that out too right . So philosophy begins with the sense of awe and wonder . It begins when we wonder about what otherwise is taken for granted or assumed to be true .
Wonder is a marvelous thing that we should cherish and hold on to as long as we can , and we should be able to hold on to it and always walk outside on a beautiful sunlit day or watch the sun go down . There's nothing like nature to bring that back right . It's one of the hallmarks of youth . Small children are filled with wonder .
That's why Jesus Christ always said bring the children to me and all of you have to become like children . Why it's the awe and wonder of the sacred . Don't lose that . He said . So I can have that wonder , awe and wonder of a child at my age today . And if I lose that , ooh , I can get down . No , no , no , no , no . We're going somewhere .
We're going somewhere . Jesus Christ himself said blessed are the children , for they shall inherit the kingdom of heaven . And he also said to enter the kingdom of heaven , you should have the mind of a child . What is it about the mind of a child that merits such high value ? Is it curiosity , inquiry , open-mindedness ? It is .
It is Not just open-mindedness to nothing , though . Gk Chesterton said at some point your open-mindedness has to start to grasp things , and then you close up on what you find is the truth , what is true , what is good , what is beautiful . Then you have to close on that , otherwise everything comes out of your head and you become empty .
I want to read you most of an article that I was just alluding to a little while ago . I called this the contraceptive mentality , ground zero in spiritual warfare . So this is part one . God created man . Now think about awe and wonder . Now , right , no defensive posture on this . Just open yourself to awe and wonder .
God created man in his image , the divine image . He created them , male and female . He created them Be fertile , multiply , fill the earth and subdue it . This is from Genesis , chapter 1 , right off the bat . Right . God creates us in his image and likeness , how Male and female . This is the beauty of our sexuality that we don't understand that .
We're a tiny sacramental sign . God is not a sexual being , but he created in this creative space . He created our sexuality to express what ? To express eternal exchange of love . That's what God is right , and I've gone over this before so I'm not going to the time on it , but I just wanna say this to you .
That's the very first thing that God chooses to say about us in the whole Bible , that he created us in his image , in the divine image . He created this . Male and female were created from the beginning as the crown of all creation , invited to what , to become one flesh to join in sexual union .
So they're no longer two , but they're one , to bring forth new , what Eternal life . Sexual union is about bonding so that the two become one , the physical bonding right .
Sexual union is a sign in the truth of our bodies , of what we feel inside , authentic love being expressed not to use somebody , not as just an emotion , but to say I give my life to you , you receive it , my wife receives it and gives it back to me , and we make a statement there and then we're open to life . Right , fill the earth and subdue it .
Be open to life , that sacramental sign when the two become one is sacred , it's holy . John Paul said to young men , young married men , at a conference before you make love to your wife , take your shoes off . You're entering unto holy ground . This is what that young girl that I mentioned earlier is lamenting .
She can't find a young man that looks at her , looks at the marriage bed as a holy , as a sacrament , as a sacrament to express love and to bring God right into this relationship , to link again this marriage of a man and a woman directly linked to Christ in the church , when all the smoke and fog clears , our great desire to love and be loved , to nurture
one another , to be there with one another , to share friendship with a woman and a man together and to be open to children . This is the incredible awe and wonder of this tiny reflective sign of eternal love . John Paul II wrote the human body with its sex . Sign of eternal love .
John Paul II wrote the human body with its sex , its masculinity and femininity , seen in the very mystery of creation , is not only a source of fruitfulness and procreation , as in the whole natural order , but contains from the beginning the spousal attribute that is , the power to express love , our sexuality , and the act , the marital act , expresses love , authentic
love I give myself totally freely , faithfully and fruitfully to you , and you say yes , and we come into this dance of awe and wonder . It's a sacred act , not some way to use and abuse one another .
And so it's precisely that love , john Paul said , in which a human person becomes a gift a gift to one another the spousal analogy he would call it and through this gift fulfills the very meaning of his being and his existence . We are created to become persons of love , to be filled with divine love and to give this to one another .
Now , you don't have to be married to do that , right ? I'm not talking about sexual union , mother Teresa , john Paul II , these were celibate , chaste , celibate people , but they knew this power of love , right ? This power of love , this sign within our body to love all other people . Mother Teresa was called a mother because she was a spiritual mother .
Now , we all are called to be mothers , spiritual mothers . We're all called to be brothers and sisters to one another , to love our neighbor . But in a marital act where the two become one , become three , that's a special , sacred sign , isn't it , not to be played around with . Otherwise , all of civilization comes when we miss the beauty of that .
I think it's safe to say that the vast majority of modern men and women have lost the glorious vision from the heights from which they've fallen Tragically . This includes their sense of the awe and wonder of the human body and of its sex , its masculinity and femininity . Today we , as men and women , can't even define what a woman is right .
We have a Supreme Court justice today that says she's not a biologist , so she can't define what a woman is . I mean , that's how twisted this gets when we start to walk away from it . Somehow , what was obvious to us , to humanity , throughout human history , has become quite confusing .
Take the battle of the bathrooms being fought in the US Capitol today You've probably heard about this , you've probably heard me speak about this where Congresswoman Nancy Mace , a Southern Carolina Republican , has introduced a resolution to ban transgender individuals in the US Capitol from using bathrooms that align with their gender identity instead of opting for biological
reality . In other words , men dressing as women were coming into the woman's washroom and she said no , no , no . Now she had been raped as a younger woman . She said what is this ? This is insanity . A man can say he's a woman , anyways . So there was a battle going on . She put a resolution together and man did she take the heat for that .
This is a crazy society that we live in , right ? How do we get here then ? So that's the question how do we get here ? Because you can argue those things till the cows go out . But the answer how do we get here ?
The answer is slowly , beginning with the sexual revolution and even before that , with Adam and Eve , when they put loincloths on and hid from God right in the beginning of human history . But then , slowly and then all at once , it accelerated , especially again when Biden and Kamala Harris came in .
That election was taken from Trump , and now you saw the evil accelerate In a way . Not happy with evil , of course , not happy with the human suffering that that causes , but happy , I guess .
Maybe that's the wrong word , but somehow , when I saw evil stand up and become so obvious , I thought now everybody's going to see this , and it wasn't quite true , but it was certainly true that people that had eyes of faith certainly saw this , this sense of evil just standing up , mocking us , standing right in front of our faces , and mocking us and say you
shut up , right , us standing right in front of our faces and mocking us and say you shut up , right , be quiet , shut up . Of course a man can become a woman . The queering LBGTQ is for queering . Queering just basically means take all this heterosexual , let's call it nuclear family , take it out , throw anything that's normal is out and we bring the abnormal in .
Right , we'll make it up as we go . So , for instance , republican Nancy Mace made the statement on social media . She said we support gay marriage . She said and voted for the Respect for Marriage Act twice , which is everybody can get married , which is craziness . Right , we've redefined marriage , but she accepts that . She said .
However , if you think protecting women is discrimination , you are the problem . So she accepts marriage as undefined , or we can define it any way we want . So she accepts that .
She doesn't see it through the lens that we're trying to talk about here today , that when you take away that basic foundation of marriage and the family , you take God's plan out of it . Right , you've ruined the base and everything starts to come in . Well , she doesn't see that yet , and that's something that's common for many of us .
But while she doesn't see that , she says this if you think protecting women is discrimination . You're the problem . In other words , we have to stop at this allowing men to come into women's bathrooms . We don't care if you're trans , but if you have balls , we don't want you in the women's bathroom . To which pro-life advocate ?
Now Abby Johnson replies who does see it through this lens that we're talking about today . So it doesn't matter in marriage , you're saying , but it matters in the bathroom . It doesn't matter in a holy sacrament , but it matters where you urinate . No , nancy , it matters everywhere . You've missed the lesson on the slippery slope . And Abby Johnson is right .
Of course , she used to work for Planned Parenthood . She saw abortion . No , she came out of that . She had abortions herself . So don't think that this is some self-righteous woman that's speaking here . No , this was a very broken woman , right , that's got into sin and this culture of death , herself , just like so many people I meet all the time .
So you know , god , the beauty of God is divine mercy . This is Sister Faustina . I mentioned earlier , had the image of the divine mercy , which is right there . See it over my shoulder , there , the two rays coming out of Jesus' heart , one is white and one is red , baptism and the Eucharist . Right . So , jesus , this is the divine mercy .
Jesus , I trust in you , he says . You know the worse sinner you are , the more you have a right , he said , to come into my divine mercy , that God looks for each person . It doesn't matter who you are , what you've done in the past . Abby Johnson totally came in . She's had so many beautiful children since then . She's been a pro-life advocate .
So when she's speaking about these things and speaking about the slippery slope , she knows this very well , as I do too , for all kinds of reasons I've talked about in the past . So first it happens slowly , then all at once . Well , katie Faust , someone else that supports the Catholic teaching on this , says now she goes further .
She says if gender doesn't matter in marriage , it doesn't matter anywhere . You got the trans madness because of gay marriage . Now she's trying to show Nancy that they're linked .
Once you go down that slippery slope , once you can redefine marriage as anything at all , then it's nothing right , it's nothing , it's meaningless , and this is what it's become to young people today .
That's why they're not getting married , say in the church , this pornographic culture that we're in , because if marriage doesn't matter , if our sexuality doesn't matter , if the two becoming one open to life , becoming three doesn't matter anymore . Then anybody can marry anybody . What difference does it make ? You know , two women , two , whatever ?
And so she says , when that happened , then you come into the trans madness because you've opened that up , so why not ? Why can't a man just become a woman ? Then sex doesn't matter , marriage doesn't matter . You see , we go down that slippery slope . So now to get to the core of this . I responded to all of them and I said it goes even deeper .
It all comes down to the contraceptive mentality . If sex doesn't lead to babies and bonding , it leads to anything and everything and in the end , nothing . It's nothing . It's the culture of death where , if a man and a woman do conceive a child , as Mother Teresa would say , it's a poverty to decide that a child must die now so that I can live as I wish .
We've become very selfish , you know . So , of course , pope Paul VI warned about the slippery slope years ago in Humanae Vitae in 1968 , right during the sexual revolution . So this short encyclical rejected by most Catholics at the time that embraced contraception I mean , most people did , because we don't really understand what we're talking here about today .
So it was not originally written to be a prophetic , but a clarifying document . He wasn't like saying I'm a prophet , I'll tell you what's going on , but to clarify it , well , amazingly it contained a clearly prophetic vision of what would happen to marriages , families and civilization as a whole if they fell under the spell of the contraceptive mentality .
So I'm going to expand on this in future articles , but in brief , pope Paul VI made four general prophecies about what would happen if the Church's teaching on contraception was ignored . Think about this .
All in wonder now , right , all in wonder of the beauty of the sexuality and what would happen if we accept this contraceptive mentality , that sex itself between a man and woman is not for bonding forever . Right To say you know , this is my vows to you , my wedding vows , being consummated to the language of the body .
And if it's not being open to life , to babies . So you take either one or two of those out it changes everything . So he said . Number one it would lead to infidelity and a general lowering of all morality . So if I start contraception , I start to cheat , I start to go out . Well , did we see all that happen ? Of course we did .
Beginning with sexual morality , he said . Second so not just sexual morality , general morality would fall . This is what we're seeing , isn't it ? Number two , it would lead to a loss of respect for women this young girl right . Third , the abuse of power by the state and public authorities would follow . Nobody saw that . They all said you're crazy , pope right .
And fourth , the final warning that contraception would lead man to think that he had unlimited dominion over his own body . Now , this is where we see the trans movement In the querying of society . I can be anything I want , and we have all these labels now .
So we've witnessed all four of these prophecies come true , and none are more startling than the darkened state of modern man who's confused by his own biological sex and no longer knows which bathroom to use . This reflects the distressing perplexity of a man who no longer knows who he is , where he came from , where he's going .
Hence we not infrequently witness the fearful plunging of the human person into situations of gradual self-destruction . Isn't that what we're seeing ? According to some , it appears that one no longer needs acknowledge the enduring absoluteness of any moral value . We don't need to accept any objectively true moral value anymore . We just throw it out .
All around us , we encounter contempt for human life , don't we ? Abortion , euthanasia , pornography , the selling and buying of babies as commodities . Don't we see that with surrogacy , we're just buying babies ? How about for their body parts ? It's amazing stuff that's going on right now the children that are being killed for vaccines and stuff .
Something Indeed , something more serious has happened . Man , meaning men and women now is no longer convinced that truth even exists and that only in truth that he can find salvation . He doesn't believe that anymore .
The saving power of the truth is contested and freedom alone , uprooted from any objectivity , is left to decide by itself what is good and what is evil . It's my freedom to decide my body , my choice , etc . Etc . Etc .
When man rejected the simple , unchanging and eternal truth that marriage is a sacred sign and that the one-flesh marital union joins the couple , bodies and souls with divine grace as a holy act meant for babies and bonding , man no longer knows who he is or for what purpose he exists .
The fact remains that until Christians return to the sacredness of marriage between a man and a woman and a one flesh union as a free , total , faithful and fruitful act of life-giving love , then our culture and way of life will continue to decline . It is inevitable , as the recent history has made abundantly clear .
You don't have to believe what I'm saying in words . Just look around and see what's happening to the human heart first , and then how that manifests out into the world . So someone at that point in a talk that I was giving , asked Jack , what are the odds of that happening , that we accept the sacredness that we're talking about ?
To which I replied with men , this is impossible , but with God , all things are possible . From Matthew 19 , verse 26 . So with man , it's impossible . Without the light of the truth , without God , without an understanding of the awe and wonder of the sacredness of how we're created , it's impossible .
But with God , without an understanding of the awe and wonder of the sacredness of how we're created , it's impossible . But with God , all things are possible . And I think the more people that are waking up , that are not afraid to at least dialogue about this right . Don't be afraid to dialogue with your neighbors about it . Share this podcast with them .
It might make it easier to unpack and share it in a way that you're not putting people on the defensive , not pushing back on them , but leading them to prayer , leading them to the awe and wonder of authentic love itself , which is not easy . This is very difficult in this time .
It's going to take a heroic effort to become persons of love , especially in this crazy , broken world . But this is the beauty of the battle and we have to share this with young people , because they're idealistic and they're willing to go to battle if they understand why . Hey , god bless you . Talk to you again soon . Everybody , thanks for joining me .