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Jan. 13, 2022 - Just Informed Talk - Craig James
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Hunter's Laptop Shows Why Terrorist "Sleeper Cells" Attacked Kazak Capital? | JustInformed News #024
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Hi and welcome to another episode of Just Informed News.
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So, we're going to start with a little bit of a flashback, ladies and gentlemen.
Hunter Biden's story is Russian disinformation.com.
Dozens of former intelligence officials say.
Well, there's been new revelations in the Hunter Biden story as far as his laptop is concerned, especially given the current state of affairs in Kazakhstan and how that's directly related to his work with Bohai Harvest, a Chinese company, Devin Archer, and others in facilitating what seems to be a deal for oil for China from Kazakhstan that has major implications.
But I just wanted to backtrack and start with this story.
You guys remember this story?
October 19, 2020.
This is about five or four days after the main YouTube purge of all content creators who were talking about this subject, especially people like myself and anyone else who was talking about this particular story because they knew this story was nuclear hot.
And That meaning that Hunter Biden is corrupt as the day is long and they were trying to cover this story up and they were trying to make it go away.
Especially because we're only at this point when this article is written two weeks out of the election.
So the story goes on to say more than 50 senior intelligence officials have signed on to alert.
Now remember these are the same intelligence officials.
Who for years have been going after President Trump, trying to set him up for an impeachment with this coup that they were running on the behalf of the deep state or as part of the deep state.
But it says they signed on to a letter outlining their belief that the recent disclosure of emails allegedly belonging to Joe Biden's son has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.
So, I re-read the letter.
What's fascinating is the quote they chose to use here in the first opening paragraph or sentence of this article, which says, has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.
Information.
Not disinformation.
Not misinformation.
Information.
They were very, very particular in what words they picked in drafting.
This document right here, you can scan through all the signatures on this letter.
I'm sure you'll see a lot of people nobody's ever heard of, but who have very long titles and alphabet soup companies attached.
Now, the people you may recognize are people like Mike Hayden, Jim Clapper, Leon Panetta, John Brennan, and maybe a couple others.
But more overly, what you have to look at inside of this letter is the wording, how they worded everything.
Like I just pointed out, a Russian information operation, right?
Because...
Obviously, they're going to say, oh, well, that's just a broad term to mean any kind of information, disinformation, misinformation.
Well, why wouldn't they call it misinformation?
It's because they knew it was real.
The reporting has finally come out now, a year after the fact or more, that everything that was uncovered inside of this laptop platform It was not only real, but it's disgusting, perverted, corrupt, criminal.
I mean, think about it this way.
What I'm going to talk about here and expose through the help of incredible reporting and coverage from a reporter named Jack Maxey...
Is how Hunter Biden seems to have his tentacles inside of Kazakhstan, and as we see the country collapse with these riots, and as the city, the country's capital city has been ransacked, We're actually starting to see something that looks more like an organized push to implode a dictatorship that wouldn't allow Hunter Biden to corruptly come in and take his cut for selling oil reserves from
Kazakhstan to China.
Hear me out.
There's a lot to unpack from here.
But again, starting with this, you know, you read through this letter, it's a complete joke, especially given with what we know now.
The fact that they signed off on this is insane, and that our intelligence agency was willing to just blatantly lie, but I guess that's what they do is lie for a living, so it's so hard to get a read on any of it, but...
I'll tell you this right now.
This was one part that stood out to me.
In addition, media reporters say that the FBI has now opened an investigation into Russian involvement in the case, according to USA Today.
So, again, this is like what Nancy Pelosi was saying with the wrap-up experience.
This is all political.
They plant the story in the news, and then they take the story and use it as, say, look, you know, it's been widely reported in the news that you did this, that your Giuliani is illegally getting a smoke bomb disinformation from Russia.
So that's exactly what they did there, but let's fast forward.
We remember the stuff that was uncovered on Hunter Biden's laptop.
I don't know if you can make it out here, but here is him, for who knows what reason, I guess it would be impossible to imagine, taking pictures of his crack pipe while driving around suburban Washington, D.C., I don't even know why you do that, but regardless, here we are.
The start of the reporting today from Jack Maxey.
This is incredible stuff.
I've covered this story for over five years now, this Hunter Biden story.
I was a part of one of the first people to pull it out of WikiLeaks.
Now, I'm saying I was the first.
I was just a part of, you know, probably a group of a bunch of people in the beginning who started looking at this and going, well, this is very corrupt.
You have Hunter Biden working with the son-in-law of John Kerry, Christopher Hines, with another guy named Devin Archer who have this Rosemont Seneca firm, which seems to be just a front for a money laundering operation, an influence peddling operation, and for his dad, an influence peddling operation, and for his dad, Joe.
And this all gets blown up in about 2015, I want to say, late 2015, early 2016.
I could be off on the exact timeline there.
This all gets blown up, and it was right around the time WikiLeaks was coming out.
And what you saw happen was...
This complete collapse of the system, and they started calling it Russian propaganda, Russian disinformation, it's all the Russians.
What did the Russians do?
If the Russians did anything, it seems as though they helped facilitate the exposing of criminality that already existed.
So, and it also seems that people who seem to benefit the most from a lot of these situations is Russia in certain ways and aspects, and in other ways, it's not.
So, let's just get into this story, because I don't want to get too far out into the weeds here.
It says, here I discuss some of the revocations of Hunter's involvement in Kazakhstan.
This is a video.
If you want to watch it, I'll leave a link.
But it starts with this article.
Now, this article is Kazakhstan X Security Services Chief in Nazarbayev.
I'm sorry, if I butcher these names, excuse me.
Ally arrested.
Massimov faces charges of treason.
Now, why is this important?
We'll go through a few things here.
But in a turn of events that has complicated the narrative around the unfolding drama in Kazakhstan, the authorities on January 8th announced that the recently dismissed head of state or head of the security services has been arrested on charges of treason.
I've already reported this story in a previous episode, if you guys will remember.
Right here, Kazakh bioweapons lab leak and dangerous hemorrhagic fever in China.
And I'm going even further into this story because I know that it's worth reporting, especially once you start reading through the events that have taken place in Kazakhstan.
Here, you can see Russian-owned Sputnik News capturing the last known video evidence of Massimov being a free man before he was picked up and arrested on these charges of treason.
Now, why is this so important?
Why do we in America care about all this?
Because it turns out that two people that are majorly involved in what's happening in Kazakhstan right now...
Happened to be on the Hunter Biden laptop and happened to be close friends of Hunter Biden.
They were facilitating these deals between Kazakhstan and China to sell strategic reserves of oil from Kazakhstan to China.
Let me explain.
Remember though, another thing that's very important to understand about what's happened in Kiev, or not Kiev, excuse me, in the capital of Kazakhstan, which is called...
I'm sorry, these are so...
Almaty, I think it's called.
Regardless, it's neither here nor there.
But what they said and claimed was that 20,000 bandits had emerged from sleeper cells to attack the commercial capital of Almaty.
The attackers had clearly defined strategy and were reporting to a central command point.
This is what they're saying is happening in their own country.
Now, what's been speculated by Jack Maxey through his reporting is pretty simple.
Here's a picture of Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, and the two individuals involved here, which is on the left, is this Rakeshev, Keen Rakeshev.
Who is Keen Rakeshev?
He's one of the billionaires who apparently was the contact go-between for Hunter Biden and this individual here on the right, Massimov, who was the Former Prime Minister, I believe, and the former head of security services who was just arrested by the president and accused of high treason.
And what's speculated here by Jack Maxey in his reporting is that this individual was arrested for high treason when the now president of the country found out that he had been working with him to funnel strategic reserves to Hunter Biden, Biden, who is then channeling those deals to the Chinese Communist Party and taking his cut, of course, for the big guy, Joe Biden.
So this picture makes a lot of sense when you see it and you think about it in those terms.
Now, again, these are just allegations, and these are what's found inside of the emails themselves.
Now, I'm not saying this is direct, undeniable evidence, But there is certainly enough circumstantial evidence to say that there's a high probability that what you're seeing right here is the development of a deal between Hunter Biden and the Kazakh government to funnel oil reserves and take his cut to the big guy, the China and the Communist Party, which shows more complicity between Joe Biden, Hunter Biden and the Communist Chinese Party.
I just I find it fascinating that we at this point in our lives have come to a point where we don't we don't look at these things with with the scrutiny they deserve.
I mean, especially broadly speaking.
But there are people who care.
Here we are, Jack Maxey.
One big, happy, crooked family selling out every single American dead, alive, and yet unborn.
This is a plausible deniability letter, by the way.
Every GOP senator on judiciary who have had this since July 7, 2021, need to be shamed into coming clean.
This is the tame stuff, but it memorializes Hunter enlisting ex-FBI director free to help him get his criminal friend out of jail in Romania.
Crooked friend helping Hunter broker sale of their oil fields to CCP, and Free pulls out all the stops, including current FBI in Romania and State Department.
Remember, Free was also a judge.
This stinks so much, it hurts my nostrils.
And again, there's another point that Maxie points out.
Here's all the reason in the world why the FBI... We're good to go.
Well, the FBI is going to cover that up with everything they have.
They know the laptop indicates them.
Read through these emails to Free Sporkland, I guess the former director of the FBI, here saying, I'm working with a client from a Romanian businessman along with my colleagues at Boyless, Chris Boies and Michael Gottlieb, on a matter that I would like you to take a look at.
If you have time, I've become very close to the client personally, and he is, my estimation, a very good man that's being...
Very badly treated in a suspect in Romanian justice system.
Anyway, he's asking for a favor for his friend to be released.
Going on, it's talking about the web here, and as discussed previously, that they should try to get people involved to get this going.
So, you understand quickly why the FBI wanted to sweep this all under the rug, but it gets worse.
It gets worse.
Alright, so Masimov, this guy who was just arrested on high treason, which sparked this uprest, which they've speculated, like I said before, that these 20,000 bandits that were sleeper cells were actually under the direction of factions that may be connected to You know,
intelligence agencies or some sort of connection to Hunter Biden and this taking place as soon as their main ally gets put in jail for high treason.
All of a sudden, they're ransacking the Capitol.
I mean, that, I don't know, I don't think that's a coincidence.
However, I will go even further to say that what we're seeing happen here is very much reason to be worried.
Here we are, dear Devin.
This is another one talking about him meeting Prime Minister Mazumov to discuss the oil fields.
Here's another one here.
Where it's talking about Hunter and Robert Biden talking, you know, Hunter Biden talking about connecting the dots with Burisma and doing all this other stuff.
And you can go through these piece by piece and see them exactly what they are.
I've gone through each and every one of them and read them and they talk a lot about Kazakhstan and how they're headed to Kazakhstan to set up this new deal with the president and So it's obviously warring factions in that country, but it ultimately comes down to how did all this come to be?
But here's another point that Jack Maxey makes.
He says, how clear does that have to be, people?
Burisma was even willing to set up a fake entity called Burisma KZ to facilitate the sale.
This was Devin and Hunter's first trip with Burisma.
I wonder if this is why Masimov is being charged with treason.
Could it be because he colluded to sell out his country to the CCP with the help of Hunter Biden?
Maybe Fox can cover the laptop now.
Yeah, I mean, this is what you can generally infer when you read through these emails and see what they're saying back and forth with one another, right?
Is that this guy, the former Prime Minister, head of security, got busted for doing deals with Hunter Biden to give, Hunter Biden obviously giving his cut to the big man, Joe, big guy, and facilitating deals with the CCP behind closed doors.
Are you surprised?
No, I'm not.
Again, here's another interesting email where it talks about the strategic investments of Bohai Harvest and their title here is one of them, Project Carmen, which has Kazakhstan in parentheses.
Obviously, their target investment there was $120 million in total, $60 million and $20 million and $40 million.
He says also the two more in the email are Devin Archer and Hunter Biden, individuals who need to be questioned at least.
Here's some more stuff he puts up there about Hunter Biden, Jeff Cooper, and Devin Archer planning to put a star chamber together of other connected billionaire elites around the world to smooth out any problems as they grow.
Well, here we are.
So, how does this make sense?
It makes sense if you read this e-mail, right?
What they say is...
They want to put together a list of individuals who will be able to help them do things in countries.
So what they're basically saying is that this list is of people who they know who are connected in these countries who can get them the connections they need with the government officials and everything else to get things going like what happened in Ukraine, what happened with Burisma in Ukraine, what happened with Kazakhstan now seemingly.
And Keynes, Kenes, I don't know how to say that, Is the first name of none other than you guessed it, the man pictured right here.
His name is Keynes Rakashev, and he is featured in the Hunter Biden emails.
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I rest my case.
I mean, we have a lot of evidence here.
If this was a grand jury, they'd definitely, you know, say we should indict.
We should look, you know, I would assume.
But, hmm.
You guys have to tell me what you think on this one.
I have a hard time trying to believe that this is all just a big coincidence and that there's nothing to see here.
But I'll tell you what, it doesn't look good.
It doesn't look good for Hunter Biden.
It doesn't look good for Joe Biden.
And to be quite frank, it never did from the get-go.
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New Pentagon Papers show COVID is bioweapon made in China, paid for, and developed by U.S. scientists who then covered it up while pushing flawed public health policies.
Now, we talked about this story yesterday.
This was Project Veritas breaking this story about Dr.
Fauci approving gain-of-function research that was rejected by DARPA because they said it was too dangerous and it was a violation of the moratorium against gain-of-function research.
However, the reason I bring this up now is obviously COVID is all the rage.
Everybody has a new thing to say about COVID every day.
You know, we need more vaccines.
We need no vaccines.
We need masks.
We don't need masks.
We need this.
We need that.
However, I just want to point out, when you tie this back to the story that we covered in the beginning of this video, it becomes even more clear the incentive and motive that China would have to release the virus onto the world.
It caused so much pain and suffering, and that caused a lot of bad things to happen.
So, you know, you can take that with a grain of salt.
Read through this article if you want to get a better idea of what this is all about.
Also, Project Veritas does a good job of explaining it.
Fauci here accusing Rand Paul of using COVID for political gain and kindling the crazies.
This is how they dismiss anybody who dissents to their orthodoxy.
They just deride you and chastise you and call you a name.
I think that if people were intellectually honest, like Dr.
Fauci, they'd want to sit down and have a true conversation.
But this is why he's a coward.
This is why he is afraid to go on major news networks.
I have a lot of people say, like yesterday I said, let's not dogpile on Fauci.
Personally, I do not like Fauci as a person, as a human being.
I think he's detestable, loathsome.
And I think that...
At the end of the day, though, God is the judge.
I am not the judge, but I will rebuke evil in all its forms, and I think that a lot of what he's done has been very evil, implementing policies that have hurt far more than they have helped, and doing things that are just despicably unheard of to animals, which we have a story we'll cover at the end about just despicable treatment of animals, and it's horrible, but it's Dr.
Fauci's work, his life work, you know?
That's the kind of people we're dealing with here.
People like to torture animals.
Dr.
Fauci claimed yesterday that his financials were available, but these claims just aren't true.
Now, according to a financial Open the Books organization here, they say that it's not quite true what Dr.
Fauci said on Capitol Hill yesterday.
And the conclusion is that the real money that Fauci has made over the years is expected to be related to royalties related to vaccines that Fauci was involved in.
And it's likely that these royalties are in the multi-millions.
And Dr.
Fauci is trying to cover this up.
Maybe Fauci is receiving royalties on the COVID vaccines.
Hmm.
Well, that would be a conflict of interest, I would say, as far as being the one who's prescribing mandates.
But, you know, who am I to say that as we drop more into a dystopic world with the Ronald McDonald House now evicting families with young children who are unvaccinated.
So you guys know this Ronald McDonald House if you haven't heard of it.
It's a charity house where, and I want to be clear, this is in Canada.
This isn't in the United States.
But the Ronald McDonald House is a charity house that helps families who can't afford to take care of their kids when they get cancer and they get other illnesses.
I'm not going to go too hard against the Ronald McDonald House, although I will say McDonald's has made way more people sick with the food they serve than they've helped with the Ronald McDonald House.
But that aside, let's just take a step back for a minute and consider the idea that this is culturally being acceptable now.
And it's become acceptable, I should say.
So this is dangerous.
This is reckless.
This is a downward spiral for our society as a whole.
And I do believe that trying to evict kids with terminal illnesses or their parents from a house that's meant to give them a place of shelter and safety and sanctuary to get through the probably hardest time of their life, Good golly, these people don't have hearts.
I just don't think they have hearts.
Here's a video of it.
I'll leave a link to that if you want to watch it.
Quebec, to heavily tax the unvaxxed, apparently Canada is also deciding to tax people for not getting the vaccine.
They haven't decided what it's going to be yet, but it's going to be significant.
You can be sure of that.
It's going to be something that hurts people in a way that continues to just chip away in this war of attrition, which is meant to wear us down until we just comply.
So...
Stand proud, Quebec.
Don't fall in line.
Don't let them get away with this.
David J. Harris Jr.
Media, Bowser, Muriel Bowser, the governor, the mayor of Washington, D.C., saying residents of D.C. will need photo ID before leaving their homes starting Saturday.
Well, this is a fascinating turn of events in a city that is predominantly 90-plus percent blue Democrat.
Who would have thought that now we're having massive authoritarian mandated vaccination just to get into a restaurant or to go out to eat or to go do anything?
Yeah.
Is this the world you want to live in?
That's the question.
Because today it's some COVID vaccine.
It's the flu shot.
But tomorrow it's going to be like, oh, you don't have the mark.
Oh, you know, the mark of the beast?
You can't buy and sell.
You literally, you have to live outside the city and you're probably going to starve and die.
That's where we're headed.
Everybody goes, oh, you're hyperbolic.
I'm not hyperbolic.
I'm telling you the truth.
These things always progress in a direction of tyranny and evil if they go unchecked, and this is unchecked power and abuse here in the city that's mostly Democrat, the lawless Democrat Party.
New guidance for NCAA players here that I wanted to point out and thought was fascinating, but apparently they've updated their guidance on COVID-19, and this is the part that stood out the most to me here.
A person who has had a documented COVID-19 infection in the past 90 days is considered the equivalent of fully vaccinated.
Well, how about that?
Maybe cooler heads will prevail in the end.
Maybe we will come out of this stronger and for the better because, you know, this is what the science would dictate, right?
Right?
Apparently now you have to be able to prove you had COVID, which is still unfair, I think, to college athletes.
But it is a loophole that, you know, having had COVID, it's the flu.
I can't stress that enough.
It is literally the flu.
And people died of the flu before COVID came around.
And I just can't get over the fact that people are treating this like a plague.
I mean, the flu existed before, and maybe there's gain-of-function, maybe this is a more severe strain, but at the end of the day, it's the flu.
So...
I don't know.
Not a doctor, not medical advice.
So, there you go.
You can look at that for yourself.
19 conservative lawmakers slammed by House Republicans for demanding D.C. ditch indoor vaccine mandate.
Yeah, they tried to stand up to it.
And of course, they were slammed by the GOP because most of the Republicans on Capitol Hill are literally...
Absolutely anti-freedom and anti-autonomy.
It's just they're fake.
They're rhinos.
You know what I mean?
So, there you go.
Political analyst for you.
Trump appears to call Ron DeSantis gutless for refusing to declare booster status.
Now, I think this is kind of a little twist on words, but I do believe that what he's saying here is that He says it here.
The answer is yes, but they don't want you to say it because they're gutless.
You've got to say it whether you had it or not.
Say it, he added, before saying COVID vaccines saved tens of millions of lives.
All right, great.
I mean, if you think COVID works, that's good for you.
If you think the vaccine works, great.
Take it.
It doesn't affect me.
Just don't make me take it.
If I don't want to.
If I want to take it, I would like the opportunity to take it as well.
So, yeah.
Trump says, anecdotally, I've had absolutely no side effects.
Therefore, this is good, right?
Typical Trumpism.
But I still love President Trump.
He's still a good guy, in my opinion.
I'm not going to pretend like he's perfect, and I'm not going to pretend like everything that's happened over the last four years, five years, has been perfect by any means.
But, you know, We'll talk about it a little bit later, how they think he's the only hope for the party, and that's partially true, but it's because of things like this.
He's still calling out the fake, corrupt rhinos inside of our own party, like Mitch McConnell, and I really hope he continues to distance himself from Mike Pence, and Pence does the same with him, because Mike Pence is just as swampy as the rest, and DeSantis would be a good choice for him, but I also think that they have to be able to get along, Yeah, you tell me what you think.
Helping Biden steal the 2020 election.
Trump releases statement on Stacey Abrams.
Here is the actual statement.
Stacey Abrams helped Biden steal the 2020 election in Georgia, but now she won't even share a stage with Joe.
Stacey knows that Biden actually lost big in Georgia and the 2020 presidential election as a whole, and he's been so terrible she now wants nothing to do with him.
Even the woke radical left realizes that Joe Biden's administration is an embarrassment, Quite the understatement.
You can look through this article for yourself.
There's some more content in there that's rather funny.
Here's an article from The American Thinker, why it must be Trump in 2024.
Well, I'll tell you what, you read through this article and you see very quickly that this is somebody who clearly very much likes President Trump and I appreciate that and I understand their reasoning and logic in this article.
It seems to basically say that Trump's calling out the rhinos and he's still the strongest candidate in the field and he's got the most popular support and all of these things and I agree with every one of them.
The question remains, will we be able to defeat the fraud that's going to happen in 2022 and 2024?
That's going to be the true question, I think.
So it's going to be a whole new world in 2024 when Trump's about to run, if we get there and Joe Biden's still in office.
Antifa terrorists with bomb gets bond while January 6th political prisoners languish in jail with no bail, no bond, no equal justice.
I wanted to point this out to just show the unequal application of law here where you still have today people who are in jail for January 6th who have not been released, who would have not been given bond, and this guy, an Antifa dude, or dudette, I don't know what's going on there, who decided to bring a bomb to a Florida rally, right?
With a pipe bomb, gas mask, pepper spray, smoke rockets, and flammable rags, and he gets Bond.
Yeah, this seems reasonable.
Seems totally fair.
Not one-sided at all.
This is the article I was talking about earlier.
This is from PETA, actually.
They appeared on Tucker Carlson of all places last night to discuss Fauci funding these absurd experiments to make male monkeys transgender.
Now, this is insanity.
They were taking male monkeys, giving them a bunch of estrogen, female hormones, and then giving them AIDS or trying to give them AIDS or to see if they wouldn't get AIDS. I'm not sure what the whole point was, but apparently monkeys can't get HIV anyway, so it was just really torturing monkeys.
For the cost of $205,000, he funded this operation.
This is what Dr.
Fauci does in his spare time.
Like I said, anybody who tortures animals, I just...
Yeah, I'm not there, so I don't think I ever will be.
So, all thanks be to God.
With that being said, let's talk about the most important thing of all, the segment we do at the end called God's Grace is Greater.
Today we have a verse out of 1 Corinthians chapter 4.
This is talking about the Apostle's example of humility.
Now, to me...
In our society, it is so easy for us to respond with anger, respond in kind with negativity or harsh words when we're confronted with that.
As Christians, we're taught by our Lord and Savior that that's not the way to respond.
Of course we're taught to rebuke evil in all its forms.
Of course we're taught to live a righteous life and to turn the other way from evil and walk the narrow path.
But I think ultimately what we have to remind ourselves is that humility is one of the most important traits we possess as human beings.
And the humility that we saw, the humble nature of the apostles after Christ came back, and then they had to go out into the world and suffer and be tortured and be abused and be reviled.
That there's something to learn there.
So I'm going to read this verse for you talking about what they did.
Now, brothers, I have applied these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, so that you may learn from us the saying, nothing beyond what is written.
The purpose is that none of you will be inflated with pride in favor of one person over another.
For who makes you so superior?
What do you have that you didn't receive?
If, in fact, you did receive it, why do you boast as if you hadn't received it?
You are already full.
You are already rich.
You have begun to reign as kings without us.
And I wish you did reign, so that we could also reign with you.
For I think God has displayed us, the apostles, in the last place, like men condemned to die.
We have become a spectacle to the world and to angels and to men.
We are fools for Christ, but you are wise in Christ.
We are weak, but you are strong.
You are distinguished, but we are dishonored.
Up to the present hour, we are both hungry and thirsty.
We are poorly clothed, roughly treated, homeless.
We labor, working with our own hands.
When we are reviled, we bless.
When we are persecuted, we endure it.
And when we are slandered, we respond graciously.
Even now, we are like the world's garbage, like the dirt everyone scrapes off their sandals.
Can you imagine?
Can you imagine that the knowledge in your heart that you were the disciple, the apostle to this amazing and great coming of the Son of our Lord, and now, as they say here, they're treated like garbage, like dirt on sandals?
What do they do?
They still live in Christ.
They still live in His teaching.
Though they don't have all the things they need, they don't have the clothes they need, they're not treated well, they don't have a home, but they labor with their hands.
They're reviled, but they bless others.
They're persecuted, but they endure it.
They're slandered, but they respond graciously.
Can you imagine?
I mean, we too live in a culture that's growing more and more hostile toward the gospel and those who proclaim it.
What's your first instinct when someone mocks your faith or slanders you for what you believe?
I mean, is it one of self-defense?
Or is it love for people who don't know any better?
Remember, Luke 23, 34, Jesus uttered these words about the ones who hung him on the cross.
Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.
In reality, their hearts are riddled by sin.
They're unable to turn the other cheek, but you have been called to do just that.
The next time you face hostility for your faith, endure it.
Even going so far as to wish the other person well, it might soften their heart.
That's my message to you.
I hope it helps, and I hope we all learn something from the humility of the apostles.
But let's end it with a prayer here.
Lord and Heavenly Father, in this highly polarized society that we live in, we often try to out-argue people who don't agree with Christianity or just our worldview in general.
But Help infuse in us love for our enemies.
Love for those who hate us.
And in doing so, help us become more like Jesus.
We thank you most of all for our eternal salvation.
In Jesus' name, amen.
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