0:00 it's crazy how old are you 47 so I'm about 10 years younger than you let me give you a little tip I think you could convince a lot of people if you make an account in this place called Reddit and if you start posting uh like just responding to people in certain places you'll have a great time and you'll really convince a lot of [Music] people Lieutenant Aram show can you tell us is it more difficult to maintain Christian values as a police officer no and I get that question I don't understand that um because as a Christian you don't compromise your your your beliefs right yeah and at police work you can't compromise either thou shal not kill what if you got to well that's in context right I mean it also says an eye for an eye right so I
0:52 believe in that though yeah in the Bible it says if you read the Old Testament it's brutal man they did a lot God ordered that's our Testament it's your favorite right man I think it makes it easier uh cuz I used that you know like I'll you I considered when I'm out there in the field that's my Ministry and you can relate to a lot of people with God isn't our actual judicial like the foundation all based on Christian laws though so like well the Magna Carta and but it's not like you're a Buddhist becoming an officer in the western world M or it might be a little bit different but I mean what the way that things were meant to be and the way they've turned out aren't necessarily you know what do you think would be the conflict though I don't know that's what I was asking like what if there's like a situation where
1:43 uh it's more beneficial for your department if you're untruthful about something that's in any like you know in the business world too that's an advantage too it just depends on what your integrity level is technically going undercover or sinning then cuz you're a liar holy ████ I never thought that way I mean we're all born we're all born with sin nature and luckily because we're not imperfect people right uh luckily God Jesus died for our sins not just the sins that were committed up until the point he died he died for all our sins ever our book's already written we know the sin we could I could be the most loyal Bible theming Christian today and live in a monastery or whatever and I'll still commit a sin yeah it's going to happen and there's no different levels of sin I know some some uh denominations and some religions believe that there's a one sin is greater than
2:34 the next right but they're not a sin is a sin so there's no value there's no like greater punishment for one sin to another and um so that's a beauty of it it's like yeah we're Sinners and when you acknowledge you're a sinner then you submit yourself for the Forgiveness of Christ so I know I'm going to send the minute I leave this place the minute I go home you know it's going to happen in 10 years um but all we can do is strive to be a better version of ourselves when you say Jesus died for our sins can you send me a Huffington Post link about that oh what Huff yes yeah I didn't know they were still existing something from Ni yeah that'd be really great thank you that's a citation needed thank you and it's it's a conversation Builder cuz I'm so outspoken about it and I um I actually have one of my message requests um because I post a Bible study verse every day um so so when you if you start with me from day
3:25 one you'll finish reading the Bible in 365 days which I've never done before so I said I'm going to start this program in January 1 but I'm going to put it out there for everybody else who doesn't have this book I'll just put the verses out there so I got people that do it I got someone that responded not only know you know you're for a smart guy you're believing in a man-made God blah blah blah I sent that oh yeah that was it that was a burner account and normally I would just ignore them I'm like cool man hey well help help me understand what you said how do you know this is man-made cuz I know that there's more evidence proving Christianity than there is evidence disproving Christianity and um so it was an opportunity for me to open up a dialogue yeah he cool those are cool facts what about these facts you know and um I'll do that and at some point it's you're going to hit a wall where there you can't change people's minds overnight but at least I gave them my my piece so having your belief
4:15 systems kind of run in tandem as you do your job was never like you never ran into that wasn't something you had to learn to do it was like very natural no I I don't it's like the rest of my life right and and people hate hearing this uh cuz they they they how can you not do anything for your wife Wife and Kids the thing is this in my household and and my wife is on board with me God is here yeah before my wife before my kids and that's hard for a lot of people to hear CU yeah there's nothing I wouldn't do for my wife kids and then I'm not saying that when it comes to you know my my son's baseball game or church I have to go to church on Sunday I'm going to miss my kids I'm not saying that what I'm saying is any decision I make for the family has got at the center of it is it glorifying God is it edifying for our family glorifying God a lot of people have a hard time with it saying that oh no you should make a decision solely based on your family well I wouldn't
5:05 have my family I wouldn't have been blessed with my wife let on my kids if it wasn't for God intervening then putting us together that just means that they're misunderstanding what you're saying because your that happens a lot oh yeah well cuz like whenever I see a football game Patrick Mahomes like I first of all I just want to thank God and people like ████ you what are you talking about God didn't win the game God doesn't care about your football game he's not talking about that he's talking about when he was growing up how all these opportunities came to him and how his dad helped him focus on football and how he got to where he is and all the work he put in ████ like that dude influen his decision making he's not saying God ████ scored the touchdown he didn't pass it to God made it stick the T Travis Kel's gloves in the end zone shut the ████ up it's so simpleton ████ you guys asked a question before about how I made a lieutenant right this
5:55 is a Trippy story so my my wife my wife my mom was murdered in 2015 yeah 6 months later I decided I'm going to take can I ask by by like who or how so she um my mom was a type of person that would take a straight dog at one point we had like five straight dogs right she's just she's that person are you calling homeless people straight dogs or actual dogs no dogs dogs I actually she taking people in from the streets Bart dehumanizes homeless people just so you [Laughter] know so so my mom owned a bunch of Properties Real Estate and um and she was a good-looking woman right she was very sweet and and she was like my friend's favorite mom growing up and uh so she entered this relationship with this man that lasted like a week he was he was in it for the money but he needed a place to stay and my mom had this trailer in a senior trailer home park
6:45 that was a available right and she's like you stay here for a month and a month turned to 2 months 3 months next thing know it took a year um she ended up rekindling a relationship with our old golf coach his name is Peter Hong he was a Senior PGA Tour guy and he proposed my mom Christmas day in Palm Springs and um so my mom's like I can't have any loose attachments to ex-boyfriends or anything oh yeah tell this guy hey I need to kick you out uh time to go he said fine come meet me here and I'll hand you the keys and uh my mom was living in San Diego at the time so she needed to go um Oceanside was like on the way to her house doesn't tell Peter tells Peter I just have to go home to pick up some stuff he doesn't want to start a fight or anything doesn't want to bring up the ex-boyfriend and and says I'm doesn't tell him so she goes and he ambushes her
7:35 and uh kidnaps her knocks her out puts her inside the house stops her to a chair and shoots her in the head and then um he he's such a ████ that his first attempt at killing himself he misses uh cuz a round goes through the bathroom and he gets to one of the other rooms and then he offs himself there but this was hours later so he was contemplating not doing it that's crazy and as a someone that's an investigator that's been on other homicides and stuff it was really hard for me to avoid cuz the first thing I want to do is talk to Oceanside please hey give me your criminal file but I knew I would see pictures and I didn't want to too far yeah yeah so so anyways that happened in Oceanside um I decided I'm going to push forward and try to promote to Sergeant and I'd already this is my third time trying the first two times I I bombed my tests and um mind you this is Elman police when we have outside panels it's
8:26 like azuza San Gabriel Las the you know I walk in the room and the first guy in the panel is an Oceanside lieutenant and he remembers you no oh I didn't know who he was but he knows of me I didn't know this I didn't assume anything oh but then the department spoke about what happened and their they knew him from he knew me because of that right he knew um I don't think he related he knew me immediately until my oral interview um but but I just locked eyes on the ocean side thing I'm like that's we've never had anybody outside the county right that's all the way in San Diego like what do if we did we would have Riverside or or Orange County or san before San Diego it's the first and only time we had an Oceanside San Diego County guy ever sit on a panel yeah I aced that thing cuz one of the questions they asked was tals by the time you had to go through um uh a difficult moment
9:16 and push through and I said well you know 6 months ago my mom was murdered and here I am and that's when it clicked for him I think oh so I don't know what happened I thought I did okay but when I left the oral I'm sure they talk about it right cuz you know when I leave the panel talks and they kind of fix their scores I'm sure the Oceanside Lieutenant told the rest of them and maybe I got some sympathy points but I came out number one on that list and um it's never happened again no other San Diego influence wow and I thought man that cannot be a coincidence and I talked about this to a pastor friend of mine he says it's not coincidence if you're a Christian there's something called Providence it was meant to happen there's no coincidences when you're with God so I mean that's that's one of the impact I mean that's it's crazy it's crazy how old are you 47 so I'm about 10
10:06 years younger than you let me give you a little tip I think you could convince a lot of people if you make an account in this place called Reddit and if you start posting uh uh like just responding to people in certain places you'll have a great time and you'll really convince a lot of people i' I've seen it before I've never really spent time oh you'll love it yeah you know you you'll you'll really convince a lot of people about all this stuff no don't even bother please don't even go there yeah you're fine I wasn't sure where you were going don't ever go there is my point cuz those people are like oh really the floating man in the sky got you a job it's like so I get it enough on Instagram it's like nuts but I'm desensitized to it you know I know it's going to you can't you cannot be but some coincidences are just like so what how you know like how and you you have to not be paying attention to to little things that are actually given to you in
10:56 life to to just write it all off so that's interesting what you just said how um it's hard to be both of those things in 2024 I feel like police and Christian uh like how so I don't I don't well because police are unpopular Christians Christians are unpopular too yeah so I think it's interesting that you're both of those things and it's like uh unpopular where though cuz social media is different like I think Christians are popular outside of social media but on social media it's hard yeah I think social a Lal on social media hates you yeah legit I think I I figured it out I think just now I I identify as a Christian that's who I am but I'm if you ask me if a police officer is who I am it's not it's my job it's my profession it's my career am I is it a large part of my life yeah but it's not if you ask me who I am I'm a believer I'm a husband I'm a father
11:47 I'm a good friend but police officer is going to be towards the end of that list has it changed my yeah I've done it for 25 years of course it's a part of me but it's not who I am I don't identify as a cop it's what I do yeah so I think that's how I can maybe separate that if that makes sense yeah thanks bro that's awesome
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