WEBVTT 00:00:00.281 --> 00:00:01.826 Well, again, I just welcome all of you. 00:00:01.826 --> 00:00:06.142 I'm so glad that you could join us in this faith and freedom rally. 00:00:06.142 --> 00:00:10.250 You know we just went on the evening. 00:00:10.250 --> 00:00:13.060 It's so exciting, the power of God. 00:00:13.060 --> 00:00:15.246 Do you feel the power of God and the presence of God in here? 00:00:15.246 --> 00:00:19.300 Wow, amen, he's here, that's for sure. 00:00:19.300 --> 00:00:21.608 That's what we like to do at Glorious Way. 00:00:21.608 --> 00:00:28.721 We want to make sure everything comes from His presence, a baseline of His presence, and then we know that people's needs are met. 00:00:28.721 --> 00:00:31.411 I can see us holding more of these. 00:00:31.411 --> 00:00:34.881 You know, as time goes on, you know the country's just about. 00:00:34.881 --> 00:00:36.829 You know it's beginning to wake up. 00:00:36.829 --> 00:00:40.362 Do y'all see the signs it's beginning to wake up? 00:00:40.362 --> 00:00:45.738 And so tonight I just wanted to share a few thoughts with you. 00:00:45.759 --> 00:00:56.149 I'm not going to go very long, and if you brought your Bible, fine, but if not, I'm going to read to you out of a couple of places Isaiah 56 and verse nine. 00:00:56.149 --> 00:00:59.441 This is Isaiah prophesying to a backslidden Israel. 00:00:59.441 --> 00:01:09.484 Israel had once served God, and then they, they imported a lot of or didn't deport the false gods among them. 00:01:09.484 --> 00:01:23.048 You know they defeated the Canaanites, the high vites, the Jebusites, the Bud lights, all the rest of theites, but they didn't, they didn't obliterate them like God told them to, and it became sin to them. 00:01:23.048 --> 00:01:27.986 They began to worship the gods of those people and they departed from God. 00:01:27.986 --> 00:01:31.980 And so he sent them prophets to wake them up. 00:01:31.980 --> 00:01:34.629 He sent them prophets to get them set right. 00:01:34.629 --> 00:01:43.891 And so here in verse nine of Isaiah 56, he says all you beasts of the field come to devour, yeah, all you beasts in the forest. 00:01:43.891 --> 00:01:48.099 In other words, there's a bunch of people sleeping and they're not going to know. 00:01:48.099 --> 00:01:48.861 You're out there. 00:01:48.861 --> 00:01:55.492 His watchmen are blind, they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs. 00:01:55.492 --> 00:02:09.875 They cannot bark, sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber Yay, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand. 00:02:09.875 --> 00:02:15.110 They all look to their own way, everyone for his gain, and from his quarter. 00:02:15.110 --> 00:02:24.823 Come ye, say they, and I will fetch wine and we will fill ourselves with strong drink, and tomorrow shall be as this day and much more abundant. 00:02:24.823 --> 00:02:35.272 You kind of see that today in America, the shepherds are like dumb dogs that cannot bark, they don't, they don't warn. 00:02:35.272 --> 00:02:36.256 See what is a watchman? 00:02:36.256 --> 00:02:50.236 A watchman is someone that warns the camp of the enemy, and the enemy has been at the gate now for decades, laying there ready to steal our freedoms, and the church is just slumbering away. 00:02:50.236 --> 00:02:57.679 Oh it's, everything's going to turn out just fine, amen, or oh me, whichever one you want to say. 00:02:57.739 --> 00:02:59.485 Matthew tried chapter 24. 00:02:59.485 --> 00:03:01.532 Jesus is speaking to his disciples. 00:03:01.532 --> 00:03:08.114 They were asking him what will be the sign of your glorious appearing, your perusia? 00:03:08.114 --> 00:03:12.145 How are we going to know, when you're coming back, what will be the signs? 00:03:12.145 --> 00:03:18.544 And he talks about wars and rumors of wars, and earthquakes and pestilence and all of that kind of thing. 00:03:18.544 --> 00:03:25.007 But toward the end of chapter 24 and verse 42, he gives them an action to do. 00:03:25.007 --> 00:03:39.701 He said watch, therefore, for you know not what hour your Lord doth come, but know this that if the good man of the house had known and what watch, the thief would come, he would have watched and would not have suffered his house to be broken up. 00:03:39.701 --> 00:03:48.687 And so, simply, the word watch there means to stay awake, it means to be sleepless and you know, in other words, to be vigilant. 00:03:50.491 --> 00:04:00.009 And I just tell you that I get a lot of criticism and a lot of comment because we talk about politics here in this church, and I don't know how you could not talk about politics. 00:04:00.009 --> 00:04:05.028 Politics is in everything, everything has been politicized and weaponized. 00:04:05.028 --> 00:04:07.195 And guess who it's weaponized against? 00:04:07.195 --> 00:04:09.081 It's weaponized against the church. 00:04:09.081 --> 00:04:17.627 It's weaponized against the God, under whom we should be one nation under God, not one nation out from under God. 00:04:17.627 --> 00:04:19.591 That's what we've become. 00:04:19.591 --> 00:04:22.144 We've been one nation, but we've been out from under God. 00:04:22.144 --> 00:04:23.872 And the church hasn't said very much. 00:04:23.872 --> 00:04:35.879 We sat around and let abortion become the law of the land, which sat around and let prayer be taken out from schools and we've just watched one right after another, after another, after another. 00:04:35.879 --> 00:04:39.245 Until right today there's still churches in Texas closed. 00:04:41.490 --> 00:04:44.721 Well, we were open on April the sixth. 00:04:44.721 --> 00:04:48.290 We gave the president 15 days, that's all we gave him. 00:04:48.290 --> 00:04:55.091 And we said enough of this, enough of this idea that the church is non essential. 00:04:55.091 --> 00:05:03.562 And so when we sued, the governor looked at the lawsuit and said well, you know, they're right and so we didn't have to break any laws. 00:05:03.562 --> 00:05:05.466 We were lawful when we opened up. 00:05:05.466 --> 00:05:12.507 And then he withdrew his, his edicts and his commands and turned them into suggestions. 00:05:14.009 --> 00:05:15.733 Well, we do what we want here. 00:05:15.733 --> 00:05:17.369 If you want to wear a mask, wear one. 00:05:17.369 --> 00:05:20.562 If you want to be social distance there's a little room over there you can be. 00:05:20.562 --> 00:05:22.708 So we don't dictate to people. 00:05:22.708 --> 00:05:31.242 We figure people are adults and they can decide for themselves what risks they're willing to take to even get in their car and drive on a freeway. 00:05:31.242 --> 00:05:36.923 There's a risk to reward computation Everybody has to make for themselves. 00:05:36.923 --> 00:05:38.908 I'm not the nanny. 00:05:38.908 --> 00:05:41.355 I don't tell people what to do. 00:05:41.355 --> 00:05:43.081 I instruct them out of the word. 00:05:43.081 --> 00:05:47.413 I help them learn how to to apply the word to what's going on. 00:05:47.413 --> 00:05:54.093 So our common faith in God and our freedom to practice it are definitely under attack. 00:05:55.196 --> 00:05:58.649 And so Isaiah is talking about not only Israel. 00:05:58.649 --> 00:06:01.663 You know, prophets in the Bible go from mountaintop to mountaintop. 00:06:01.663 --> 00:06:07.966 So they, he's prophesied, right there to Israel, but then that prophecy skipped a few mountaintops and hit our, our day. 00:06:07.966 --> 00:06:16.375 I believe it's just as much for the church in 2020 as it was for Israel back there 500 years before Jesus came on scene. 00:06:16.375 --> 00:06:34.165 I believe that prophecies right to the pastors and, being a pastor, I feel like I can say to pastors wake up and smell the coffee, it's time to speak up, it's time to take the lead from behind your pulpit and take a position. 00:06:34.165 --> 00:06:40.266 Well, you know, separation of church, first of all, separation of church and state is not in the constitution. 00:06:40.266 --> 00:06:44.685 It is not even talking about the church, not able to speak into politics? 00:06:44.685 --> 00:06:47.983 Well, yeah, but there's a law where you know the law ought to be changed. 00:06:47.983 --> 00:06:51.050 I don't remember the IRS calling me to preach. 00:06:51.050 --> 00:06:57.319 I don't remember asking any government official his permission to open glorious way church. 00:06:57.319 --> 00:07:05.343 When I did, I did it under the unction of the Holy ghost and with a permission of my pastor and with his full blessing. 00:07:05.343 --> 00:07:05.863 Amen. 00:07:07.005 --> 00:07:14.699 So our freedoms have been taken and these watchmen are just like dumb dogs who cannot bark Actually, I think it's worse than cannot bark. 00:07:14.699 --> 00:07:15.822 They will not bark. 00:07:15.822 --> 00:07:20.348 They're capable of barking and they chose not to bark. 00:07:20.348 --> 00:07:23.733 Do I sound extreme? 00:07:23.733 --> 00:07:25.382 It's because I am. 00:07:25.382 --> 00:07:29.091 I'm zealous and jealous over you, with a godly jealousy. 00:07:29.091 --> 00:07:36.252 I do not want to lose our nation to the left wing of this group of people that call themselves Democrats. 00:07:36.252 --> 00:07:40.507 It's bigger than Democrats, bigger than Democrats. 00:07:40.507 --> 00:07:49.908 And so these, these pastors, are not warning their flock to vote and to act against the tyranny of the left. 00:07:49.908 --> 00:07:53.764 We have to have less compliance and more resistance. 00:07:55.007 --> 00:07:56.108 I thank God for Peter. 00:07:56.108 --> 00:07:57.733 First Peter, chapter five. 00:07:57.733 --> 00:08:00.994 He said you know, be sober, be vigilant for your adversary. 00:08:00.994 --> 00:08:07.874 The devil walketh about seeking whom he may devour, who cooperate with the full extent, reach across the island. 00:08:07.874 --> 00:08:12.065 Agree with the devil, compromise with the devil, make a deal with the devil. 00:08:12.065 --> 00:08:13.108 You can make a deal. 00:08:13.108 --> 00:08:16.966 Maybe you can get some laws passed with with a cooperation of the devil. 00:08:16.966 --> 00:08:21.122 No, he said resist steadfast in the faith. 00:08:21.122 --> 00:08:24.495 Praise God, I'm so glad for this rally. 00:08:24.495 --> 00:08:26.942 You didn't know you were coming to a resistance meeting, did you? 00:08:26.942 --> 00:08:29.548 Praise God, we kind of sprung it on you. 00:08:31.170 --> 00:08:48.349 So you know, when I read in the Webster's dictionary about a rally faith and freedom rally so I looked up the word rally in the 1828 dictionary, you know, and most of those words in that dictionary come right out of the Bible and he is almost like a concordance. 00:08:48.349 --> 00:09:03.712 And the word rally means to muster for a common purpose, it means to arouse for action and it means a summoning up of strength or courage after weakness or dejection. 00:09:03.712 --> 00:09:32.229 I think that last one fits this rally about better than any other definition, because we've had what seven months of of depression and shut downs and and financial reversals, after having our economy grow by leaps and bounds, Everybody working almost full employment in this country, wages higher than they've ever been in history for every segment of the population. 00:09:32.229 --> 00:09:37.005 And then you know, they pull this, this thing out of the box. 00:09:37.005 --> 00:09:38.990 I'm not denying that there was a disease. 00:09:38.990 --> 00:09:43.357 I'm just thinking that that our response to it was completely wrongheaded. 00:09:43.357 --> 00:09:55.966 It's not scientific at all, it's devilish, and it's time we speak it out and quit worrying about what people tell us and call us names and all of that. 00:09:55.966 --> 00:10:14.330 It's time for us to defend our liberties that were given to us by God himself and they were insured by the lives of all of our brave soldiers, and they're protected by the men in blue, men and women in blue. 00:10:14.330 --> 00:10:34.591 I mean the very least we can do, church, the very least we can do is stand up and bark, vote, pray, serve. 00:10:34.591 --> 00:10:39.445 Yeah, we're going to have to get involved, we're going to have to serve. 00:10:39.445 --> 00:10:50.969 We're going to have to participate in this wonderful Democratic Republic called the United States of America, given to us as a gift from God. 00:10:50.969 --> 00:10:53.120 And are we not going to watch over it? 00:10:53.120 --> 00:10:57.071 Are we not going to be the government of the people, by the people, for the people? 00:10:57.071 --> 00:11:01.091 Are we going to let the godless run this nation into the ground? 00:11:01.091 --> 00:11:12.106 Are we going to keep going the direction we're going until God's hand comes completely off of this nation, or are we going to rise up and let the church be the church. 00:11:15.961 --> 00:11:26.328 One comment that I receive over and over is well, I wish my pastor would speak out, and the only thing I can say to that is is first of all, pray for him. 00:11:26.328 --> 00:11:32.139 Spend a little time praying I know you have, but do it again and then determining to try to have a meeting with him. 00:11:32.139 --> 00:11:39.971 If you can't meet with him, meet with the chief of the deacons, and if they don't have that, you've got somebody that calls the shots in the church. 00:11:39.971 --> 00:11:42.706 You go there, you bring your tithes there. 00:11:42.706 --> 00:11:43.730 You're part of a church. 00:11:43.730 --> 00:11:52.452 You should be heard and respectfully go to your pastor and say listen, I just feel like we need to take firmer positions. 00:11:53.255 --> 00:12:16.774 With electoral politics, the things being the way they are, I just feel my freedoms are being stolen from me and would you please pray about this and stand up and and and take a stand, and if he refuses, then leave that church and take your tithe with you, because that's what they're afraid of anyway. 00:12:16.774 --> 00:12:19.086 They're afraid of losing you. 00:12:19.086 --> 00:12:20.090 Well, they already like you. 00:12:20.090 --> 00:12:21.484 You didn't leave them. 00:12:21.484 --> 00:12:23.990 They left you long time ago. 00:12:23.990 --> 00:12:25.791 Pastor, you're just a sheep thief. 00:12:25.791 --> 00:12:27.100 No, I'm not stealing anybody's thief. 00:12:27.100 --> 00:12:29.471 I'm not stealing anybody's sheep. 00:12:29.471 --> 00:12:40.351 I'm a pastor all the time, 24, seven, and I see a lot of sheep that are bewildered, they're confused, they're disappointed, they don't like the fact that they don't have church anymore. 00:12:40.351 --> 00:12:43.394 Well, there are churches that are open. 00:12:43.394 --> 00:12:44.120 We're not the only one that's open. 00:12:44.120 --> 00:12:44.904 We're not the only one that's open. 00:12:44.904 --> 00:12:46.999 We're not the only one that's speaking out Amen. 00:12:46.999 --> 00:12:51.650 You can find another place to be Amen. 00:12:51.650 --> 00:12:55.269 So I want to conclude with that and thank you. 00:12:55.269 --> 00:12:59.120 God bless you and make God bless America. 00:12:59.120 --> 00:13:00.642 Amen, glad you're here. 00:13:09.780 --> 00:13:11.764 That's my father-in-law, pastor John Griner. 00:13:11.764 --> 00:13:13.168 I married the preacher's daughter. 00:13:13.168 --> 00:13:18.190 My name is James Buntrock. 00:13:18.190 --> 00:13:23.549 I am an associate pastor here at Glorious Way Church, I'm a precinct chair and I'm also the Senate District 7 chairman. 00:13:24.941 --> 00:13:34.486 And along the lines about what Pastor was talking about, I think back in our nation's history, to a Lutheran pastor. 00:13:34.486 --> 00:13:49.129 His name was John Muhlenberg and he got up in his pulpit one Sunday and he preached a message out of Ecclesiastes, chapter 3, where it talked about that there's a time and a purpose for everything under the sun and he said. 00:13:49.129 --> 00:13:55.951 He concluded his sermon with these words he said there's a time to preach and there's a time to fight. 00:13:55.951 --> 00:13:58.769 And now is the time to fight. 00:13:58.769 --> 00:14:10.139 And he took off his religious robe, his black robe you'll hear the term black robe regimen. 00:14:10.139 --> 00:14:22.139 He was one of many pastors who did similar things and he revealed his Continental Army soldiers uniform underneath and he recruited 300 out of his congregation, out of his town, to join and fight against the British. 00:14:22.139 --> 00:14:34.412 And it's because of pastors like that that we have a nation to live in today, where we're free today, and somewhere along the way we've lost some of that. 00:14:34.412 --> 00:14:43.528 We've lost what it takes to say stuff like that and do stuff like that behind the pulpit, and so that's what pastors talking about, and we lost it to political correctness. 00:14:43.528 --> 00:14:48.090 Political correctness will be the death of this nation if we let it. 00:14:48.090 --> 00:14:49.981 If we let it. 00:14:49.981 --> 00:14:51.447 Are we going to let it? 00:14:51.447 --> 00:14:55.788 No, god has a side on every issue. 00:14:56.087 --> 00:15:05.971 I want you to know that, and you can look at this country and the state we're in right now and see how divided this nation is, and a lot of people put blame on the president and say, well gosh, trump is such a divisive character. 00:15:05.971 --> 00:15:23.691 I can think of one more character more divisive than Trump, and I'm going to surprise you with this, but his name is Jesus Christ, because he said I didn't come to bring a bring peace, but I came to bring a sword, and he's going to divide the wheat from the chaff, the good from the bad. 00:15:23.691 --> 00:15:25.245 He divides. 00:15:25.245 --> 00:15:27.235 That's what he does with his word. 00:15:27.235 --> 00:15:27.859 That's a sword. 00:15:27.859 --> 00:15:37.625 His word divides good from evil, and so, with God's word, he has dropped a plumb line in this nation and people are having to choose. 00:15:37.625 --> 00:15:41.832 For the first time, they are having to choose between good and evil. 00:15:42.600 --> 00:15:47.792 I'll tell you that God is not a Democrat and he is not a Republican, but he does have a side. 00:15:47.792 --> 00:16:02.931 And when you compare the two party platforms side by side and compare them with God's word, there is one party that works to take God out of this country, that works to take God out of schools that even eliminated God from the pledge of allegiance. 00:16:02.931 --> 00:16:08.952 They want to take God out of him, god we trust, and, I guess, replace it with government. 00:16:08.952 --> 00:16:14.100 And then there's another party that works to honor God, that puts God first. 00:16:14.100 --> 00:16:31.365 There's one party that stands for the defense of life, of innocent life in the womb, and there is one party that advocates for the dismemberment of innocent life in the womb, that works to tear babies apart in the womb. 00:16:31.365 --> 00:16:32.188 That is pure evil. 00:16:32.188 --> 00:16:43.100 So I can say from behind this pulpit as a pastor here at Glorious Way Church don't ever vote for anyone who stands on the platform of the Democrat Party. 00:16:43.100 --> 00:16:45.668 It is pure evil and it is demonic. 00:16:45.668 --> 00:16:57.317 And so I'll tell you tonight that my God votes. 00:16:57.336 --> 00:16:59.139 You've seen some of those T-shirts around tonight. 00:16:59.139 --> 00:17:00.725 My God votes. 00:17:00.725 --> 00:17:01.951 What do we mean by that? 00:17:01.951 --> 00:17:07.868 I don't mean that he gets in the voting booth with you and he pushes all the buttons and pushes that red button down. 00:17:07.868 --> 00:17:08.932 God doesn't do that. 00:17:08.932 --> 00:17:09.803 He votes through us. 00:17:09.803 --> 00:17:11.490 We're his advocates here on this earth. 00:17:11.490 --> 00:17:24.781 We have God given authority to vote in this nation and so when we vote, we're taking the authority given to us by God and casting a vote for a party, for a platform, for a candidate, for somebody who's gonna carry it our will. 00:17:25.654 --> 00:17:27.020 Anybody want any t-shirts tonight? 00:17:27.020 --> 00:17:55.279 I understand we have a few of those shirts left at the table and you may be able to exchange those shirts you just received for the size that you want Out on the tables tonight. 00:17:55.279 --> 00:17:57.058 We're gonna have a reception at the end of this event. 00:17:57.058 --> 00:17:59.502 I'm not the doors right now, but out on the tables. 00:17:59.502 --> 00:18:01.362 You're gonna see these slips of paper, black and white. 00:18:01.362 --> 00:18:05.200 It's got some QR codes on here and I put these together. 00:18:06.414 --> 00:18:08.682 This is to help anyone who might still be on the fence. 00:18:08.682 --> 00:18:12.079 I don't expect anyone in this congregation right now to be on the fence about anything. 00:18:12.079 --> 00:18:17.500 In fact, I expect that just about everybody has likely voted and if not, you're gonna vote Tuesday. 00:18:17.500 --> 00:18:21.921 But these are for you, to help somebody in your family, your neighbor, somebody you work with. 00:18:21.921 --> 00:18:27.243 So on Monday, I want you to have these in your hand and I want you to show somebody what you got in your hand. 00:18:27.243 --> 00:18:35.163 So on the one side of this, it says vote for law and ordercom, so that you can use your camera on your smartphone, scan that code and it'll pull up the slate of candidates. 00:18:35.295 --> 00:18:36.460 Vote for lawandordercom. 00:18:36.460 --> 00:18:43.258 That is all of our Republican Party candidates in Harris County, and that is the way people need to vote this election, from top to bottom. 00:18:43.258 --> 00:18:46.061 On the back side of this are two more codes. 00:18:46.061 --> 00:18:57.560 One will get you to your sample ballot, so you're gonna help somebody on Monday find their sample ballot, help them fill it out with the law and order candidates, and then the last QR code on here is the nearest voting location. 00:18:57.560 --> 00:19:13.376 You can vote in any location in Harris County, as long as you're a resident here in Harris County and you're registered to vote, and so you're gonna help them find the location, get their sample ballot, fill it out with the law and order candidates and get them to the polls Every vote. 00:19:13.376 --> 00:19:17.359 We need everyone who's gonna vote this way to vote in this election. 00:19:20.241 --> 00:19:25.384 So, speaking of law and order, I'd like to invite a couple of friends out on stage. 00:19:25.384 --> 00:19:32.646 We've got Mary Ann Huffman and she's our candidate for district attorney. 00:19:32.646 --> 00:19:37.414 She is our next district attorney here in Harris County. 00:19:37.414 --> 00:19:43.394 And we've got Joe Dana. 00:19:43.394 --> 00:19:46.104 He's gonna be our next sheriff in Harris County. 00:19:46.104 --> 00:19:54.970 I guess y'all care about law and order. 00:19:54.970 --> 00:20:05.782 You know, over the last couple of years there's been about 61 people in this county murdered by people who were released on multiple felony and PR bonds. 00:20:05.782 --> 00:20:16.503 So we've got a district attorney right now that likes to have a revolving door where the criminals come in and go right back out on the streets and most recently we've lost law enforcement to that. 00:20:16.503 --> 00:20:18.419 That's a crime. 00:20:18.419 --> 00:20:19.939 She needs to go. 00:20:19.939 --> 00:20:22.540 Let's have Mary Ann Huffman. 00:20:22.540 --> 00:20:26.347 Thank you. 00:20:26.387 --> 00:20:27.934 Thank you, thank you, thank you. 00:20:27.934 --> 00:20:31.694 Thank you all so much for welcoming me back to your church. 00:20:31.694 --> 00:20:33.707 It's always a pleasure to come and see y'all. 00:20:33.707 --> 00:20:43.080 I'm Mary Ann Huffman and I'm running for Harris County District Attorney because public safety should be the one thing the government provides for its people. 00:20:43.080 --> 00:20:49.525 But over the last four years Kim Augh has done nothing to keep the people of Harris County safe. 00:20:49.525 --> 00:20:53.704 Our murders are up by 40% from last year. 00:20:53.704 --> 00:21:00.327 Our violent crimes with guns are up by 44%, our domestic violence cases up by 37%. 00:21:00.327 --> 00:21:08.124 You know, and it doesn't matter if we have these beautiful churches or parks, nobody wants to go there if they don't feel safe. 00:21:08.935 --> 00:21:10.775 You know I was a prosecutor for 10 years. 00:21:10.775 --> 00:21:13.684 Currently I'm an attorney for the Houston Police Officers Union. 00:21:13.684 --> 00:21:15.039 I go out on a lot of scenes. 00:21:15.039 --> 00:21:23.902 What I've seen is a significant increase in violent repeat offenders hurting innocent people. 00:21:23.902 --> 00:21:26.467 Again, you know I'm a mom. 00:21:26.467 --> 00:21:27.509 I have two young boys. 00:21:27.509 --> 00:21:29.101 I want my boys to grow up in a safe place. 00:21:29.101 --> 00:21:32.002 I want all kids to be able to grow up in a safe place. 00:21:33.315 --> 00:21:43.546 But as long as criminals have no consequences, have no accountability, we are going to continue to see crime rise in Harris County. 00:21:43.546 --> 00:21:48.881 You know, our families, our communities, our businesses are in danger. 00:21:48.881 --> 00:21:54.244 You know, I had a business owner the other day tell me he owns 11 stores. 00:21:54.244 --> 00:21:59.883 He owns stores in 11 states across the nation with only 10% of his stores being in Harris County. 00:21:59.883 --> 00:22:09.442 He said he's had more armed robberies at his Harris County locations in the last two years than all other states combined. 00:22:09.442 --> 00:22:11.839 That's shocking. 00:22:11.839 --> 00:22:18.700 You know our families aren't going to want to be here, our businesses aren't going to want to be here, but we have a chance to change this. 00:22:18.700 --> 00:22:20.439 We really do. 00:22:20.439 --> 00:22:30.315 You know, we pray on our knees but we take action with our feet and God is in control and I've never really felt like that more than I have in the last three years. 00:22:30.315 --> 00:22:31.519 We flooded in Hurricane Harvey. 00:22:31.519 --> 00:22:34.315 We had 13 feet of water for 10 days. 00:22:34.315 --> 00:22:38.856 We flooded, I had a three-month-old and a three-year-old and when this is happening, I'm like why? 00:22:38.856 --> 00:22:39.881 Why is this happening to us? 00:22:39.881 --> 00:22:44.402 But looking back, I know that that was God giving me perspective to run this race. 00:22:44.402 --> 00:22:50.042 You know, before Hurricane Harvey had been a long time since I'd done something hard and man, that was hard. 00:22:50.042 --> 00:23:00.476 And although campaigning is hard too, it makes every day on the campaign trail feel like Christmas compared to Hurricane Harvey, and that was God giving me that perspective, you know. 00:23:00.476 --> 00:23:05.199 So then I go and I win the primary 10% of the vote with two opponents, and I'm making it through. 00:23:05.740 --> 00:23:06.496 You know my boys. 00:23:06.496 --> 00:23:18.848 They're in school at our church in Houston and after I won the primary, my church told me that there wasn't room for my boys at school this year and that we needed to seek excellence elsewhere. 00:23:18.848 --> 00:23:28.321 You know, and we talk about church and we talk about all these things that a church should do for its people and how they should be a leader in politics. 00:23:28.321 --> 00:23:38.315 But my church closed its doors, but you guys opened yours and I've gotten to meet, you know, so many incredible, incredible people. 00:23:38.315 --> 00:23:50.315 So I know that when we come together, when we, you know, do the right thing, when we take action, when we tell all of our friends and family to vote, we can make Harris County the safest, greatest place to live. 00:23:50.315 --> 00:23:54.031 So I'm asking for your vote, mary Ann Huffman, on Tuesday. 00:23:54.031 --> 00:24:02.693 Thank y'all, thank you. 00:24:03.355 --> 00:24:14.315 So when the criminals are picked up off the street, we know that they're going to get what's right when we have Mary Ann Huffman as our district attorney, because she's going to fight for what's right. 00:24:14.315 --> 00:24:24.800 Another one who's going to fight for what's right is our next sheriff, joe Dana, and he's going to make sure they're off the street, mr Dana. 00:24:26.507 --> 00:24:26.891 Thank you, james. 00:24:26.891 --> 00:24:27.315 Thank you, james. 00:24:27.315 --> 00:24:29.102 Thank you, pastor Reiner. 00:24:29.102 --> 00:24:33.315 You are a perfect example of an effective leader. 00:24:33.315 --> 00:24:35.315 I walk in here two months ago. 00:24:35.315 --> 00:24:41.295 The doors are wide open, everybody's smiling, their hands are out, no mask. 00:24:41.295 --> 00:24:42.560 I love it. 00:24:42.560 --> 00:24:43.586 Thank you very much. 00:24:43.586 --> 00:24:44.451 And thank you, james. 00:24:44.451 --> 00:24:45.315 I am Joe Dana. 00:24:45.315 --> 00:24:50.126 I'm running for Harris County Sheriff to be your sheriff, as James mentioned. 00:24:50.126 --> 00:24:51.255 I hope everyone here has already voted. 00:24:51.255 --> 00:24:57.288 If you haven't, we would ask you to vote for Joe Dana for Harris County Sheriff. 00:24:57.288 --> 00:24:59.021 And, of course, mary Ann has got our support. 00:24:59.021 --> 00:25:04.982 She has the support from every law enforcement agency that I know of in Harris County Unbelievable. 00:25:04.982 --> 00:25:07.315 We need a DA and we need a sheriff. 00:25:10.082 --> 00:25:12.186 I don't make promises, I don't keep. 00:25:12.186 --> 00:25:22.315 I'm making your promise today and I've made it for the last six months this county will have law and order if Joe Dana, when Joe Dana is elected. 00:25:22.315 --> 00:25:24.101 I promise you that. 00:25:24.101 --> 00:25:28.315 I promise you that I thank all the crime statistics. 00:25:28.315 --> 00:25:34.315 I believe Mary Ann covered most of them the brutal it's horrible out there. 00:25:35.260 --> 00:25:37.233 The sheriff you've heard of defunding the police. 00:25:37.233 --> 00:25:39.295 Well, we need to defend the police. 00:25:39.295 --> 00:25:42.315 The current sheriff's office is defunding the police. 00:25:42.315 --> 00:25:58.063 Behind the scenes there is 101 budgeted approved positions for deputies and sergeants that could be out here patrolling your streets 101, that's horrible, that's not effective management. 00:25:58.063 --> 00:26:02.315 Like your, pastor, joe Dana will organize his sheriff department. 00:26:02.315 --> 00:26:07.262 We have already created a new organizational chart which is effective. 00:26:07.262 --> 00:26:11.275 It's not about your friends and your relatives and all these high-paid positions. 00:26:11.275 --> 00:26:14.224 It's all about the safety of the neighborhoods. 00:26:14.224 --> 00:26:21.315 And you can look me up six months from now, year from now, two years from now or further, and that's exactly what I'm going to do. 00:26:21.315 --> 00:26:24.295 I'm going to keep my word, I'm going to keep my promise. 00:26:24.295 --> 00:26:27.644 So thank you so much, pastor Joe Dana, for sheriff. 00:26:27.644 --> 00:26:29.315 If you haven't voted, god bless you all. 00:26:29.315 --> 00:26:30.057 Thank you. 00:26:37.455 --> 00:26:39.315 We all give our candidates another hand. 00:26:39.315 --> 00:26:44.275 We're going to we're going to have a great day. 00:26:44.275 --> 00:26:47.295 Y'all can go ahead and step down right up front here. 00:26:47.295 --> 00:26:52.238 Miss Rachel's got you Well. 00:26:52.238 --> 00:26:55.866 Now it's my pleasure to introduce our next guest tonight. 00:26:55.866 --> 00:27:09.580 This is our keynote speaker and he's quite a star and he's come a long way in a very short period of time, but I can tell you he's a godsend. 00:27:09.580 --> 00:27:15.020 He's a godsend for a lot of reasons, but I'm going to name one of them right now. 00:27:15.020 --> 00:27:31.957 How many have seen you've seen a lot of political ads rolling on TV and on Facebook and on different places, and I just I want to thank the Crenshaw team from the bottom of my heart for making political ads great again, and you're going to know what I'm talking about when you watch this. 00:27:48.295 --> 00:27:53.326 Your mission, should you choose to accept it, will be to save Texas. 00:27:53.326 --> 00:27:59.125 To do so, you must recruit an exceptional team of congressional candidates. 00:27:59.125 --> 00:28:04.913 They must be courageous, patriotic and absolutely fearless. 00:28:04.913 --> 00:28:07.943 Time is of the essence. 00:28:07.943 --> 00:28:12.239 The nation's future is dependent upon your success. 00:28:42.431 --> 00:28:43.832 You still know how to fly one of these things. 00:28:43.832 --> 00:28:50.036 Damn Crenshaw, I'm putting the team together, wesley, you in. 00:28:52.954 --> 00:28:54.839 You know I would miss this for the world right. 00:29:00.884 --> 00:29:01.345 Wait, wait. 00:29:01.345 --> 00:29:04.040 I think August is going to want to come too. 00:29:06.319 --> 00:29:07.924 You guys looking for a real pilot. 00:29:07.924 --> 00:29:09.858 Let me get cleaned up. 00:29:15.844 --> 00:29:16.967 You're an F-22 pilot. 00:29:16.967 --> 00:29:17.797 What were you doing? 00:29:17.797 --> 00:29:18.820 Working under a helicopter. 00:29:19.474 --> 00:29:21.965 I have no idea what I was doing, but typical Air Force fixing the. 00:29:22.007 --> 00:29:23.855 Army is probably this guy, this guy, damn bro. 00:29:24.924 --> 00:29:27.662 You could have just texted me, man, why you got to jump out of your airplane. 00:29:28.096 --> 00:29:29.759 Because it's cooler to jump. 00:29:29.759 --> 00:29:30.261 Never mind. 00:29:30.261 --> 00:29:30.762 Cool, never mind. 00:29:39.586 --> 00:29:42.230 I want to thank these officers for a job well done. 00:29:43.154 --> 00:29:46.778 Hey, beth, when you're finished over there, texas could use your help. 00:29:46.778 --> 00:30:19.788 Hey, tony, texas has a better use for your talents. 00:30:40.269 --> 00:30:41.451 Hey guys, who's next? 00:30:41.790 --> 00:30:44.900 No, I got this. 00:31:13.291 --> 00:31:22.827 Good crowd America, all right. 00:31:22.827 --> 00:31:24.309 Democrats can't produce that. 00:31:24.309 --> 00:31:25.380 They don't know how to have fun. 00:31:25.380 --> 00:31:29.685 You guys been working the polls. 00:31:29.685 --> 00:31:33.044 They're like the least happy people, aren't they? 00:31:33.044 --> 00:31:34.720 They're just so unhappy. 00:31:34.720 --> 00:31:37.161 It's okay to have fun, right? 00:31:37.161 --> 00:31:38.338 That's a sense of humor. 00:31:38.338 --> 00:31:48.864 Thank you, guys for being out, thank you for being active, thank you for loving this country, thank you for welcoming all the great candidates here tonight. 00:31:48.864 --> 00:31:50.435 Appreciate you all. 00:31:50.455 --> 00:31:57.622 In the fight for freedom, the fight for justice, the fight for the rule of law, there's a lot on the line. 00:31:57.622 --> 00:32:03.019 There's a lot on the line this election, and I'll tell you what. 00:32:03.019 --> 00:32:16.363 What I want to talk about tonight is this sense of truth that we're defending and the reason that the church plays such an important role. 00:32:16.363 --> 00:32:19.788 It's incredibly important. 00:32:19.788 --> 00:32:25.886 I mean, the reason I'm up here is because I had to go through a difficult moment or two. 00:32:25.886 --> 00:32:28.981 I was blown up in 2012. 00:32:28.981 --> 00:32:48.144 And part of that experience was having to engage in a sense of perspective First, allowing God to give me the strength to get through it, the strength to believe that I would see again, the strength to believe the impossible, so that I wouldn't lose my mind. 00:32:48.144 --> 00:32:50.400 This was the gift God gave me. 00:32:50.400 --> 00:33:09.243 So when I came back from Afghanistan through Germany, hallucinating the whole time, and eventually back to my wife in Bethesda where she had to deal with the reality of it honestly and listen to the medical realities and listen to the doctors. 00:33:09.243 --> 00:33:10.626 I did not. 00:33:10.626 --> 00:33:13.163 I had to live in a different world in order to stay sane. 00:33:13.163 --> 00:33:14.436 I had to live in this. 00:33:14.436 --> 00:33:27.228 It was almost delusional, this belief that I would see again, but I'm thankful that I did, because, one, I think belief heals and positivity heals. 00:33:27.228 --> 00:33:29.676 But two, just thank you. 00:33:29.676 --> 00:33:48.169 But second, it allowed me to remain sane and go on this path. 00:33:48.169 --> 00:33:59.661 Eventually, until today I wouldn't be here, otherwise my wife and I probably would have stayed in the Navy and I would have loved to have joined those guys in Nigeria freeing hostages. 00:33:59.661 --> 00:34:06.830 My path was different. 00:34:07.236 --> 00:34:15.907 The other thing that got me through that moment is a sense of perspective, and if you've read my book, I talk about this in chapter Perspective from Darkness. 00:34:15.907 --> 00:34:18.222 If you haven't read my book, I don't know what you've been doing all summer. 00:34:18.222 --> 00:34:20.360 You've been in quarantine. 00:34:20.360 --> 00:34:28.798 You should have been buying my book and so just saying it's called Fortitude, you can buy it on Amazon. 00:34:28.798 --> 00:34:39.003 But I talk about perspective from darkness and I mean that quite literally, because I was living in darkness. 00:34:39.155 --> 00:34:43.463 And I think about my mother, who suffered through cancer when I was. 00:34:43.463 --> 00:34:45.228 She was diagnosed when I was five. 00:34:45.228 --> 00:34:46.639 She died when I was 10. 00:34:46.639 --> 00:34:49.400 And she suffered through it for five years. 00:34:49.400 --> 00:34:51.074 But I wouldn't have known that she was suffering. 00:34:51.074 --> 00:35:10.039 I mean, sometimes it was pretty obvious going through chemo and the sickness that was physically obvious, but you wouldn't have known it from her attitude Because she engaged in it with Texas, grace and Humor and Grit, and she took care of her two young boys, me and my brother, and she never complained. 00:35:11.175 --> 00:35:19.422 And it dawns on me as I'm laying in my own precarious situation, you know, blind and bloodied and pretty unable to move. 00:35:19.422 --> 00:35:31.682 I mean, I walked off the battlefield but I was put into a medically induced coma for five days and by the time I woke up from that, my body was, I couldn't move, I couldn't really get up, not at least for a good week. 00:35:31.682 --> 00:35:34.818 And what it dawned on me? 00:35:34.818 --> 00:35:39.559 That a young woman in her late 30s had gotten through something worse and so I could too. 00:35:39.559 --> 00:35:49.474 And this sense of perspective, something society, the human race, really sorely needs in the year 2020. 00:35:49.474 --> 00:35:53.355 2020 is the most comfortable year in human existence. 00:35:53.355 --> 00:35:56.342 It's the most comfortable year in human existence. 00:35:56.342 --> 00:35:57.085 That is a fact. 00:35:57.494 --> 00:36:02.637 We've got COVID and all that, but it certainly is the best time in human history to have COVID. 00:36:02.637 --> 00:36:07.061 You've got all the medical resources you could possibly want. 00:36:07.061 --> 00:36:11.661 In America, the government's made sure that your care would be free. 00:36:11.661 --> 00:36:15.521 If you get COVID, you have access to grocery stores. 00:36:15.521 --> 00:36:19.463 Like just the fact that we have grocery stores is amazing. 00:36:19.463 --> 00:36:23.965 The fact that we don't have to figure out where to get water is amazing. 00:36:23.965 --> 00:36:27.766 A couple generations ago, that was the thing to do for the day. 00:36:27.766 --> 00:36:28.818 Where do I get water? 00:36:28.818 --> 00:36:32.621 We don't appreciate much these days. 00:36:32.621 --> 00:36:37.159 We don't have a sense of gratitude for anything anymore, and I think that's a problem. 00:36:37.715 --> 00:36:44.500 And this gets to this lack of perspective that we've lost, because there's some truths that I think have to be told. 00:36:44.500 --> 00:37:04.338 Anytime you're going through some kind of hardship, you can rely on two truths Either you've been through something harder so you can get over this, or, if that's not true, if this is the hardest thing you've ever been through, whatever it is, there's another truth Somebody else has been through something far harder and they dealt with it better than you're dealing with it now. 00:37:04.338 --> 00:37:07.400 It's always true. 00:37:07.400 --> 00:37:25.786 I have to remind myself of that and then I'll say these things in speeches and then I'll get in the car and complain about something down and my wife will be like I thought you said you were living with perspective and I'll say don't use my book's lines on me. 00:37:25.786 --> 00:37:27.961 You're not allowed to quote me back my book. 00:37:27.961 --> 00:37:45.623 That's the rule, which is why I wrote another chapter called Sweat the Small Stuff, because it gives you permission to complain about the little things so that you can deal with the big things, the important things. 00:37:45.623 --> 00:37:47.735 And so because I like to give myself that out. 00:37:47.735 --> 00:37:51.461 See, in the SEAL teams we do like to complain a lot, but we do deal with the hard stuff. 00:37:55.875 --> 00:38:01.186 But back to perspective, back to the year 2020, the human race, it's not just America. 00:38:01.186 --> 00:38:07.480 America, I think, is the last glimmering hope of personal responsibility and accountability in this pioneer spirit. 00:38:07.480 --> 00:38:13.778 The Europe has lost that to an exceptional degree, but we're losing it too. 00:38:13.778 --> 00:38:32.623 It's pretty obvious when you have a large swath of the population begging, begging to be locked down, begging to be told what to do, begging to be told that they should be scared and fearful, and then what's worse, is leaders willing to give in to that. 00:38:32.623 --> 00:38:37.184 You know I was reading a book review on Andrew Cuomo's new book. 00:38:38.358 --> 00:38:42.297 Oh yeah, give him a little, let it out. 00:38:42.297 --> 00:38:49.663 Yeah, but he wrote a book about how great his leadership is during the pandemic. 00:38:49.663 --> 00:39:08.744 Put aside the opportunism, put aside the gross opportunism 30,000 plus New Yorkers dead that he is now standing atop this mountain of death and talking about how great of a leader he is. 00:39:08.744 --> 00:39:43.945 But that aside for a second, what's interesting about his main message is this Is that he talks about his ability to lead, and the reason that his ratings are so high in New York you know he still has great approval ratings is because of that emotional connection with the people, and at first, that doesn't seem all that bad of a thing to have an emotional connection with someone, and maybe it's not, but it is if it's the only thing you're doing, and this has been, I think, a key feature of 2020. 00:39:44.715 --> 00:39:52.862 Leaders engaging in this emotional leadership, right Populism, really Telling you what you want to hear, not what you need to hear. 00:39:52.862 --> 00:39:54.840 This has been a problem. 00:39:54.840 --> 00:39:57.463 It's been also a problem that people want that. 00:39:57.463 --> 00:39:59.199 People are desperate for it. 00:39:59.199 --> 00:39:59.983 I've seen it. 00:39:59.983 --> 00:40:04.418 I've seen it because people call my office about it, my political opponents. 00:40:04.418 --> 00:40:06.184 This is their main message. 00:40:06.184 --> 00:40:08.601 Why don't you tell people to be more scared. 00:40:10.856 --> 00:40:16.945 This has been a strange occurrence and it gets to a real problematic trend in our culture. 00:40:16.945 --> 00:40:21.485 I think it's reflective leadership versus transformational leadership. 00:40:21.485 --> 00:40:26.137