Easter Message: Truth, Forgiveness & Finding Your Purpose

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Welcome everybody and happy Easter to all. Happy Passover as well. I up early in the morning, up early in the morning and I’m back and forth. So I do this every day. Do this every day. I ask for, I ask for some wisdom. I ask for direction in how I’m going to go about communicating to you. This

is an enormous responsibility that I do not take lightly by any stretch of the imagination. I stress over it. I pray over it because I want to get it right. I want to deliver the right message. I believe that each and every one of us are given certain talents and gifts in life. I talk about that here. Everybody is gifted with something. Have to find out what that is.

You gotta ask God what you’re supposed to do with these gifts and you try to do the best you can with them. And every year, talk about a similar around Easter. talk, you know, cause again, we do a lot of politics.

obviously Wall Street finance, all of these things. And I always found that in the passion, and this is in the Gospel of John, I always found the dialogue between Jesus and Pilate as just fascinating and a real.

Insight again, you have to go and read it. It’s John 18 33 to 30 38 go back and read it and You know, kind of reminded me. I thought about it this morning When I was in college and I was studying in Italy I got a chance we went to Pompeii on a trip and what an amazing place to go to but one of the things that truly struck me

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when I was there and here’s like a city that got wiped out by a volcano and they dug it out was just how similar how similar their life was to ours in many ways and you’re walking down the streets of Pompeii there’s a bar there there’s bar stools paintings on the wall it just things don’t change but they’re different they’re different but foundationally they’re

the same. In this part of the gospel, Pilate asks the question, are you the king of the Jews? Jesus wants to make Pilate understand that the question is far more serious than he thinks, and that it has meaning only if it does not repeat

an accusation from others. Therefore, he asks in turn, do you say this on your own or have others told you about me? He’s trying to lead Pilate in a certain direction. He speaks to him of his kingdom, a kingdom that is not of this world. Pilate understands only one thing, that it’s not a question of a political kingdom.

If the accused wants to talk about religion, doesn’t want to get into these kinds of problems. He therefore asked with a touch of irony, then you are a king. And Jesus replied, you say that I’m a king.

By claiming to be king, Jesus exposes himself to the danger of death, but instead of clearing himself by denying it, he strongly affirms it. He reveals his superior origins to them. I came into this world. He says there are mysteriously that he existed before his earthly life. comes from another world. He came to earth to be witnessed to the truth. Now, Jesus is trying to…

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treat Pilate, and this is a great excerpt of Cardinal Raniero, Cantalamessa’s book, The Power of the Cross. And he’s trying to treat Pilate as a soul who needs light and truth and not as a judge. What is he interested in? What’s Jesus’ focus? He’s interested in the destiny.

of the man Pilate more than his own destiny. With his appeal to receive the truth, he wants to prompt him to come to his senses to look at things with different eyes, to place himself above the momentary dispute with the Jews. And Pilate gets it. Pilate gets it, but he’s living in this world.

His concerns are about this world. That’s what he cares about. He’s skeptical. This higher type of thing, higher speculation. The mystery he glimpses in Jesus’ words, it scares him.

scares them. Truth, they scare people. And what does he do? I gotta get out of here. He ends the conversation. And I use this all the time. What is truth?

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Well, Jesus came in the world to bear witness to the truth, I am the truth. That’s what we should all be looking for. And I always find this fascinating because it’s like the politics of the day. What is true, the truth that we watch and see.

on TV and what they’re pushing on you with, know, people justifying half truths. It’s difficult. It really is. you know, I, I fail here on this program all the time. I get angry. I start yelling and screaming about things. I know I do it. I know I do it. I’ve improved.

I go back and listen to some of my shows from 26 years ago. mean, did I get hot and bothered?

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Pilot was politician. you know, I, I, I, I, again, washed his hands of this. This is not my doing. I want to share with you something. And this is when, he was a, that was Cardinal, Cardinal Ratzinger. He said this in Good Friday at 2005. Pilot is not utterly evil. He knows, he knows that

the condemned man is innocent. says, are the men who are shouting demanding the death of Jesus nor are they utterly evil. Many of them on the day of Pentecost will feel cut to the heart when Peter will say to them, Jesus of Nazareth, the man attested to you by God, you crucified and killed by the hands of those outside the law. But at that moment, they’re caught up in the crowd. They’re shouting because everyone else is shouting. Again, when I say, think of, take a look at the mirror.

Okay, it’s important you would do that. And they’re shouting the same thing that everyone else is shouting. And in this way, justice is trampled underfoot by weakness, cowardice and fear of the diktat of the ruling mindset. The quiet voice of conscience is drowned out by the cries of the crowd.

And this is important. This is important. Evil draws its power from indecision and concern for what other people think. And that’s something I try very, very hard. And I’ve tried very hard to instill in my kids not worrying about

what the mob, what everyone else thinks. You have to live apart. Live apart from what the world or what the world is pushing at any point in time. have to go against time. You have to do what’s right. We’re only here for a certain period of time, people. It’s miniscule in the grand scheme of things.

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One of the things, again, that we’re supposed to do, and I mentioned this a couple weeks ago here on the program, and again, you see me again and people get upset with me because I got mad at politicians and the things that people say and whatnot. You need to understand that when you see me get angry here on the program, it’s frustration with people. People I’m getting angry with, they’re my brothers and sisters.

They’re my brothers and sisters and it is my belief system that we’re supposed to, the supreme law of my faith, my church is the salvation of souls. That’s what it is.

That’s what is. And you know, we live in a world, okay, with the algorithms of stuff that’s pushed on you. We give you an example. How many people, how many people you look at, maybe you look at your feet or something that’s pushed in there and you’ll see a bunch of people behaving badly, misbehaving at a mall.

You know, it’s just, you know, bunch of kids rob it and you look at this and with disgust and you get angry and it’s there to rage bait you. And it’s okay to be upset with the situation. Okay. be angry. But the hard thing to do is to say, you know what? You got to pray for these people because they’re lost souls. They’re lost.

They’re lost and we’re supposed to go out and reach out to them. And again, the world teaches us that we’re supposed to hate them and hate that one over there. am, am I, you you see me here. I am extraordinarily upset with the current administration, administration president that I voted for.

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the things that he says, the way and how he presents himself. Again, it’s like nails on a chalkboard for me. And it does this, it get me angry, absolutely. But you know what? I have to forgive him and pray for him that he’s going to change his ways. He’s gonna go in the right direction. That’s difficult. That’s a hard…

thing to do. It really, really is. But that’s what Easter’s all about. Period. The end. That’s what it’s all about.

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Jesus forgive them, they know not what they do. Guy is tortured to death. Forgive them, they know not what they do. That’s the crux of things.

And I’m here to tell people to get caught up in this, these people are bad and liberal and this one’s a good, this one and the blue hairs over here, whatever it may be. You gotta hope and pray for them to change their ways. And that’s what he’s, it’s about repentance.

And this is what I would encourage people that might be feeling a little bit lost out there in today’s world, today’s day and age. That’s what repentance is. It’s just changing.

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It’s just changing. You could be heading in the wrong direction for such a long period of time in your life, and I’ve been there at certain points. And the ability to go and confess your sins, sin no more, and change your ways, you know how great that is? People carry around all these sins and all this weight with them all the time. And when they got that weight with them all the time,

Okay, it’s still pulling them downhill

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It’s still, you can’t, you have to alleviate that because you’re gonna keep heading, you’re gonna keep spiraling in the wrong direction. You gotta stop that downward spiral.

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I am

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I talk about my kids a lot here on the program.

I am proud of my children, know, what they have done. Go watch my kids go play ball, what they do in school, know, getting, all of these various different things. That’s all well and good.

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That’s all well and good. But the most important thing to me, okay, none of that stuff. I don’t care how many goals you score, don’t make any difference, okay? How’s your soul? Are you going to church on a regular basis?

Are you communicating with God? Are you on the right path? Because I’m here to tell you something, people. You think you’re tough? You’re not. Here’s a bit of a trick. And again, this took me a long time. Well, it took me a long time to figure this shit out. Okay? And again, it’s arrogant. It’s prideful.

to think that I could do things on my own. Yeah, can bust my ass and do stuff, whatever it may be, but you can’t do anything. You think you’re gonna fight off the evil of this world by yourself? Good luck with that.

Good luck with that. You can’t. We get into talking about the founders and kind of the brilliance and understanding that you can’t have a free society, a republic unless you have a virtuous people because again, there’s so much evil that’s out there that’s constantly tempting you things of this world, pulling you in the wrong direction unless you have that regular grounding on a regular basis. You’re lost, man. I don’t care.

Okay, you may think that you’re okay, but you’re not. Sorry. That’s what I believe in.

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Often I talk about this time. I went when people wrote this down this morning even people Get after me. They don’t like some of the comments that I make and I always you know point that out I Never point out and I have to you know, thank you all the people that send Nice messages and kudos and subscribe and do various different things I’m not comfortable

With that i’m really not i’m not comfortable with that and the reason being

You know, it’s kind of Say it every week in mass You know not worthy to have you come under come underneath my roof Only say the word and I shall be I again

I’m broken too. I’m not, I’m broken and I need to do better. I’m broken and I need to do better. One of the things that’s kind of difficult to understand, you can’t be satisfied with yourself. Don’t be satisfied with yourself because each and every one of us are called to be saints and I’m not one of them.

I’m not one of them and do I appreciate the nice message? Absolutely. Absolutely. Make me feel uncomfortable because again, yes, I am not worthy. This Easter, okay? Think about it. Think about finding some things, how do you better yourself, repent, change, and most of all, okay, don’t hold.

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anything against and we forgive people. God bless everybody. Happy Easter. Watch Dog on wallstreet.com.