75% of Christian men & 40% of Christian women use porn, Dems oppose protecting abortion survivors, 11% now delinquent on mortgage

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It’s Tuesday, January 28th, A.D. 2025. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard on 125 radio stations and at www.TheWorldview.com. I’m Adam McManus. ([e-mail])

By Kevin Swanson

Brazil’s Leftist president a liability

Brazil’s Left-wing president is not doing well in the polls.

Luiz Inácio da Silva’s ratings have dipped to 47%. Lula’s deficits are running 9.5% of the Brazilian Gross Domestic Product which is the measure of the total value of goods and services produced in a country over a year.

The Brazil Real, which is worth 16 cents in America, has dropped 16% in reference to the U.S. dollar since he took office. The Real took the dubious award for the worst-performing major currency in 2024, reports The Economist. Brazil’s debt to GDP also increased from 71% to 78% in 2024

Milei’s conservative policies boosted Argentina’s economy

Meanwhile, just south of Brazil, Argentina’s government under President Javier Milei has successfully reduced the nation’s Debt to GDP ratio in 2024 from 155% to 112%.

Milei’s fiscally conservative policies also improved the nation’s Gross Domestic Product slightly, year over year.

South Africa seizing private property without compensation

And, last week, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa signed a bill into law that would allow the national government to seize private property without having to pay compensation.

The confiscations will be allowed where it is “just and equitable and in the public interest.” The radical measure has fired up disunity among parties in the new South African government.

Power shifted a bit in South African government after last year’s election. The African National Congress and the South African Communist Party dropped from 68% to 49.7% control over the nation’s government.

Redistribution of the land has not yielded good results thus far for the South African people.

Business Day reported that “On-farm beneficiaries earn little-to-no income, and the majority of beneficiaries seek employment on surrounding commercial farms instead of actively farming their own land. Where land reform farms are in operation, they operate below their full commercial potential and have a strong bias towards subsistence agriculture. Across sampled sites, crop production had decreased by 79% since conversion to land reform.”

God’s law states plainly, “Thou shalt not steal.” (Exodus 20:15)

Trump’s administration arrested 2,500 illegals since Thursday

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency has already arrested 2,500 illegal immigrants since last Thursday, 956 on Sunday, reports One America News.

This isn’t the first time the United States has deported illegal immigrants.

The previous administration averaged about 311 deportations per day, according to ICE reports. About one-third of deportations in 2023 were individuals facing serious charges or convictions of crime as well as 237 known terrorists.

Democrats oppose protecting baby survivors of botched abortions

The U.S. Congress still has proven itself incapable of taking the most basic pro-life position against the greatest evil in American society today.

Republican Senator James Lankford’s Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act failed again last Thursday, as 47 Democrats voted against allowing the bill to proceed in the Senate.

Listen to what Republican Majority Leader John Thune of South Dakota said about the Democrat opposition.

THUNE: “We should all be able to agree that a baby born alive after an attempted abortion must be protected. And yet, I fully expect that later today, my Democrat colleagues will vote no on this legislation.

“They will vote against protection for a living, breathing newborn baby simply because that child has been born alive after an attempted abortion. Why are they going to vote like that, Mr. President? After all, I think most Democrats would still claim to oppose infanticide, even if the moral line at times appears to be slipping. And yet, Democrats are going to vote against legislation to provide appropriate medical care to living, breathing, newborn children.”

Be sure of this: “Though they join forces, the wicked will not go unpunished; But the posterity of the righteous will be delivered.” (Proverbs 11:21)

Rubio halts all foreign spending except for Israel, Egypt, & emergency food assistance

Politico reports that Secretary of State Marco Rubio has halted all foreign aid spending for 90 days, including distributions to Ukraine.

However, the order exempts foreign military financing for Egypt and Israel, and allows for emergency food assistance and “legitimate expenses incurred prior to the date of this” guidance “under existing awards.”

11% now delinquent on mortgage

Commercial Mortgage-Backed Security reports the highest delinquency rate on mortgages in recorded history going back into the 1990s — now at 11%. That’s up from 2% in 2023.

Coresight, which tracks store closures, recorded a total of 7,325 retail stores shuttered up last year — a 67% increase over 2023. Family Dollar and CVS were the big losers. Amazon, Walmart, and Costco had big years.

Coresight estimates 15,000 closures this year to include Party City, Big Lots, and Walgreens, reports CNBC.

75% of Christian men & 40% of Christian women use porn

Barna Group and Pure Desire Ministries issued their 2024 “Beyond the Porn Phenomenon” report concluding that pornography use has increased 11% over the last eight years.

Seventy-five percent of Christian men and 40 percent of Christian women report that they are viewing pornography at least occasionally, and 60% are addicted.

About half of practicing Christians say they are comfortable with the habit. Also, the younger generation (or Gen Zers) were the least likely to express comfort with how much porn they use. Gen Zers were almost twice as likely to say they wished they didn’t use pornography at all, as compared to older generations.

John Piper cites 2 Biblical motivations not to use porn

Pastor John Piper addressed the porn problem in his recent “Ask Pastor John” podcast.

PIPER: “The biblical principle of motivation for purity, for not pursuing or indulging in sexual pleasure where it ought not to be found, is that the Bible uses fear and hope to draw us away from impurity. You hear both of these, for example, in Romans 8:13.

“‘If you live according to the flesh, you will die. But if, by the Spirit, you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.’ So, if you spend your life giving into lust, the lust of the flesh, you perish. Now, that’s meant to make us afraid. It’s meant to strike fear into our hearts so that we turn away, flee from temptations of the flesh.

“But then he says, ‘If by the Spirit, you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.’ And that’s meant to awaken hope. In the power of the hope, pursue this purity and not sin. So, the Bible uses both fear and hope, threat and promise.”

He points to the Gospel motive from 1 Peter 2:24. It says, “He Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose stripes you were healed.”

Pastor Piper emphasized that “Christ purchased the power not to sin.”

Pray for Pastor John MacArthur’s recovery after heart surgery

And finally, Pastor John MacArthur, the host of the radio program Grace to You, remains in the hospital following heart valve surgery, dealing with ongoing issues with his heart, lungs and kidney.

Grace Community Church Elder Phil Johnson took to X to correct rumors that the pastor was dying. Johnson is urging fellow believers to “keep him in your prayers.”

Please pray for his recovery and send a get well card to Pastor John MacArthur, Grace Community Church, 13248 Roscoe Blvd, Sun Valley, CA 91352. I hope you will be one of hundreds of Worldview listeners to take the time to do so.

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