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In times like these, we all need a word of encouragement.
From Pastor and Best Selling Author, Max Lucato,
comes the Max Lucato Encouraging Word Podcast
with over 40 years of ministry
and more than 145 million books sold in 50 languages.
Max shares the greatest story ever told.
The living savior who brings hope for a lifetime
through rich, biblical insight, heartfelt storytelling.
You'll be reminded that God is always near,
always for you and always in you.
Listen to the Max Lucato Encouraging Word Podcast
where hope meets your day.
Subscribe now wherever you get your podcasts.
Every single target was civilian residential buildings.
They killed people, children, the elderly.
On the other hand, Israel and the US,
well, there would be one hole in the side of a 30-floor building
where they had taken out a nuclear scientist
who was trying to build a bomb.
They target military infrastructure, nuclear facilities.
That is the difference.
Donald Trump has spoken over the weekend
urging Saudi Arabia off the back of them being attacked as well
to enter this fight in a proper, significant, substantial way.
He also made the comment, Cuba is next.
And in his Donald Trump style, then said,
oh, don't report that media, don't report that.
We have to look at Donald Trump
and what he is doing now.
From a distance, I think.
There always seems to be a plan and eventually we find out.
I was thinking about it this morning.
Remember when Donald Trump first became president
and it felt like he was really cosying up
to the Arab states, the Gulf nations, doing tours there,
the jet, which I didn't like,
the gift of the jet, of course, from Qatar.
But I look at what has happened over the past same month
and this war against the Islamic regime of Iran.
And the way that those nations in the Middle East
have supported America, have supported Israel,
have turned against this Islamic regime,
those conversations in the earlier days,
those relationship building trips matter
and they matter in this moment
almost more than anything else.
There is always a plan.
He seems off the cuff, he makes jokes,
yes, he can be completely inappropriate, we get it.
But looking in most instances,
there was method to the madness.
I'm seeing so many people online,
particularly people who I once respected,
who are now trying to frame and paint
a terrorist organization as good people.
You know, innocence, it's insane.
Now we have to have legitimate scrutiny
and hold leaders to account,
particularly when their decisions affect
entire nations and essentially the West, the free world.
Absolutely.
But anyone defending the Islamic regime of Iran,
terrorists is not doing that.
That is not holding people to account.
What we should all agree on
if we are a good decent people
who believe in democracy, freedom and not in terrorism,
we should all be able to acknowledge they are evil.
Tens of thousands of their own people slaughtered,
the blood of Americans on their hands,
of Australians, British, Europeans on their hands,
the way they hung a young wrestler just two weeks ago
for protesting a young woman and 18-year-old
a couple of days ago, they are evil terrorists.
That should be universally acknowledged
by all of us who are good decent people.
You can then debate the best way to tackle that issue
and that problem, fine.
But to try and whitewash their evil,
that goes well beyond holding your leaders to account
and questioning everything.
It's just dumb and you're doing their dirty work.
So a lot happening,
we see constant change in this space, absolutely.
But what I would say to you is this,
the IRGC has just announced educational facilities
are now on their target list.
Yeah, really good people.
Again, I would urge you to look at the targets
that have been struck thus far by America and by Israel.
Intentionally struck, intentional targets.
In times like these, we all need a word of encouragement.
From Pastor and Best Selling Author, Max Lucato,
comes the Max Lucato Encouraging Word Podcast
with over 40 years of ministry
and more than 145 million books sold in 50 languages.
Max shares the greatest story ever told.
The living savior who brings hope for a lifetime
through rich, biblical insight, heartfelt storytelling.
You'll be reminded that God is always near.
Always for you and always in you.
Listen to the Max Lucato Encouraging Word Podcast.
Where hope meets your day.
Subscribe now wherever you get your podcasts.
