Speaker 1: So there's a guy who gave fifty sermons in fifty
states in fifty days, and I think it was even
more than fifty. I think it ended up to sixty four.
He has spread the word of God around the globe
twenty two hundred churches in North America more internationally, and
he's a colleague of mine at American Family Radio. And incidentally,
I learned that he knew Brian Wilson, the late genius
behind the Beach Boys and the music and the change
in music that he created. And I wanted to talk
to him about Brian's faith walk because I don't know
about Brian's faith walk and I want to hear about that.
So we're going to talk with doctor Alex mcfarlandes with
the help of Visible that's go bisible dot com and
of course, to the great graces of God Almighty.
Speaker 2: But Todd Harman shows one hundred percent disapproved by big
pharma technocrats in Tyron Sevran way from the hind Mountains
of Free America. Here's the Emerald City exime.
Speaker 1: Todd to her Man, today is the day the Lord
has made, and these are the times to which God
has decided we shall live What a joy and an
honor to be joined by doctor Alex McFarland's. God has
worked through him in mighty ways to spread the word
of God. He's been on every possible media network that exists. Alex,
Welcome to the Toddharama Show.
Speaker 3: Well, thank you very much, Todd. It's a great honor
to be on.
Speaker 1: Thank you for saying that. I appreciate you in these
in your time as an evangelist, preaching fifty states in
fifty days, Tell me what you observe now in twenty
twenty five, all this time taking God's word out. I've
heard a lot of people say word a period of revival.
I've heard people suggest that we're nearing one. What's your
estimation of that in terms of the health of faith
in the United States?
Speaker 3: Wow? Well, thanks very much, Todd. I'm listening. You're doing
such great work yourself, and I'm really, I really do
care about the spiritual condition of our country as as
you know. I mean, we have a rich heritage of
Christianity and morality that was the foundation for our constitution.
Some stats current as of about a week ago, there
are one one hundred and twenty million adults that profess
to be followers of Jesus Christ. There are five hundred
thousand ordained clergy and three hundred and seventy thousand churches
in America right now. Right now, people the media would say,
people of faith, you and I would know them as Christians,
regardless of what denomination or what strata. But America's Christians.
Of the one point three to one point five trillion
dollars of benevolent giving that will take place this year,
eighty two two plus percent of that will come from
the pockets of professed evangelicals. Isn't that something? So? By
the way, in December of twenty twenty three, when James
Carvill was on the Bill Marshow, and I quote James
Carvill said that Christians are a bigger threat to America
than al Qaeda. I remember this, I mean, which is
not even a rational statement. But you know, one third
of the adults in America, one third plus claim to
be followers of Christ. And almost eighty five percent of
every benevolent dollar given comes from the pocket of this
demographic that the left villifies. So it was Christianity that
built and birthed America. It's Christianity today that I think
is the spiritual and social and moral fiber that holds
this nation together. Now to your question about is there
a revival coming, Lord knows we need. I'm encouraged. I
will say I'm encouraged. Todd again some stats. I was
in like three different conferences last week, so I was
doing a bunch of work, and of gen z and younger,
they are much more inclined to believe in God and
at least God and maybe specifically Christianity than any demographic
over the last twenty five years. Back about February of
this year, I was on Fox News with a representative
from Barnes and Noble bookstore, and this individual was showing
how bibles are selling like as fast as they can
get bibles in, and the most likely customer going to
buy a hard copy of God's Word is a young
adult male. That's very encouraging. So sure, you know, the
Church in every generation has called to live and proclaim
the Gospel, make disciples of every nation, but in the
Western hemisphere and specifically America. I'm very encouraged, and I
think the spirit of God is moving in many many lives.
Speaker 1: Praise God. We talk about on the program a lot.
I look at a lot of heretical preachers, and we
use woke preacher clips and protesting and some other sources
for this. So I would later in the program like
to talk about some of these false churches that I
think the enemy's setting up, and in fact we've been
forced you know this or USAID to pay for sometimes
one hundred percent of these church's income. So I laugh
at people who call Port of Art to Mexico unsafe.
I have never felt unsafe from part of Arta. Now
when we went to uh Poota and it's not that
nasty word, I just don't say it the right Puzza Demeta. Yeah,
I said on the show, I didn't feel safe there.
And when I went back and talked to people at
the resort, they're like, yeah, don't go there. Yeah, the
resort Poosa Meta, that's cool, but don't go to Poota
de Meta. What do you do it. Port of Arta,
on the other hand, has seven police forces guarding it,
two of them two of them attached to tourists.
Speaker 3: Let's go.
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stick with good news for a second while we're talking
to this. I've learned from a listener. I did a
segment on American Family Radio and then on my podcast
about Brian Wilson and about this genius of music and
people really if people haven't studied the music, when you
have music theorists arguing about what key a song is
in that's a commercial hit, that is top I think
top three, and he had songs like this or to
this day theorists don't know what key it was in
that it contains seven major movements, write songs within songs.
That's what Brian Wilson wrote. But he descended into just
this madness. And I've told the story about him bumming
cigarettes outside the gates to Belle Air as a multi
multimillionaire in his bathrobe, then the strive doctor de gene
Landy taking his life over. But you met and got
to know Wilson.
Speaker 3: I really did, and Todd Man, we could do a
whole show on the Beach Boys and Brian Wilson. I
would love to do that and if we let me
adequately set a little bit of context on this that
I discovered the music of the Beach Boys when I
was probably about eight years old. I'm very blessed. I
have an older sister. She's a great Christian. I love
my sister. And so I was seven or eight years old.
My sister was probably like about thirteen or fourteen, and
she was buying records, right, And so one day she
comes home with the Beach Boys' Greatest tips and I
hear the first Beach Boy song ever heard was Surfing
Safari and I'd never heard music like that. And I'm
like eight years old. I'm trying to learn to play
the guitar, and I had figured out a few Beatles songs,
GC and D some of you guitar people, that's one,
four and five chords. But when I heard don't Worry Baby,
God only Knows. Here's the weird thing. I'm just a
farm boy in North Carolina. And I would play God
only Knows, like over and over and over, and it
would almost make me cry. And there was something. And
I was not a believer yet, Todd. I didn't really
get to save the last twenty one years old, but there
was something in my soul that was stirred by these harmonies.
And I remember I would get up my mother's record
player and put the needle down, and I have my
little Sear's acoustic guitar, and let me tell you, and
I love the Beatles, but figuring out the Beatles was
easy peasy. Transcripting and figuring out the Beach Boys stuff
that became my music education, all right. Now, the Beach
Boys in the seventies eighties, they would come to my
little hometown of Greensbury, North Carolina, and I would go
around to the loading dock and I would lie to
the security guard and I would say, Hey, I'm a relative.
They're expecting me. Please let me in. And they would
always say, you know, beat it kid. All right. Twenty
one years old, I got saved through a Bible study.
I was in college, and I began to pray because
I came across some thirty seven to four that said,
commit your way to the Lord and He'll give you
the desires of your heart. And I said, Dear Jesus,
if you would let me meet Brian Wilson, I will
share the gospel. Forgive me. This is just like so
special and so miraculous really, because and Todd, I know
God is not a respector of persons. Brian Wilson is
no better than anybody else. We're all sinners that need salvation.
But I begin to pray. And this was nineteen eighty five.
The Beach Boys came to Charlotte, North Carolina.
Speaker 1: I drove.
Speaker 3: I was in college. I got my car and I
drive to this football stadium. Well, I had watched enough
TV that you know it takes about fifteen or sixteen
guys on stage to replicate their sound. Well, I noticed
there was a guy who played a rickenbacker twelve string
and I had I was in a band, I had
a Rickenbacker. Well, I later learned this guy's name was
Jeffrey Foskett. Now, some of you Beach Boys people will
know the name Jeffrey Foskett. So I'm in this crowd
on the football field at Charlotte's Memorial Stadium, shoulder to shoulder. Well,
pushing his way through the crowd is a guy with
two armloads of Kentucky Fried chicken boxes. And it was
Jeffrey Foskin. And I said, hey, well, wait, wait, wait,
wait hey, I said, aren't you Jeffrey, I have a
Rickenbocker twelve string, just like yours. And he stopped and
he turned super nice. He smiled, and he said, what's
your name? I said, Alex McFarlane. I said, I know
you play up there and you sing Carl Wilson's parts.
I've got a guitar just like yours. And everybody's suddenly
looking at us, and he leans and he whispers. He said,
you want to meet the guys, and I said yeah.
So five minutes later we're backstage and there's Al Jardine,
Carl Wilson, Mike Love, Bruce Johnson, Jeffrey Foskett, some of
their touring guys, Mike mirros Ed, Carter, Billy Henchey, Bobby Figueroa,
and now Brian was not at that first concert because he,
you know, his touring was off and on. Long story short,
and I'll be very brief from nineteen eighty five till
Jeffrey passed in December eleven, twenty twenty three. He had
antiplastic thyroid cancer. Jeff and I became like best friends.
And you got to understand, if anybody doubts the existence
of God. I had spent a decade of my life
trying to get backstage at a Beach Boys concert as
a born again believer. I prayed about it, and within
the first month of my conversion, I'm face to face
with my musical heroes. Now. A couple of weeks after
the Charlotte concert, Jeffrey called me. There's no internet in
nineteen eighty five, there's no cell phones, and I live
with my mom and dad, and I'll never forget check
this out. You got to understand how big this is.
One day I get high. I'm just twenty one. I'm
still living with my parents. And my mother she called
me and she said, Alex, Alex, there's somebody from Huntington Beach,
California on the phone. He says he's with the Beach Boys.
And I like, ran downstairs. I'm like, and it's Jeffrey
Foskett and we're talking. He said, Hey, I met you
at the Charlotte concert. In about a month, We're going
to be in Winston Salem at the Polo Grounds at Tanglewood.
Do you want to go? And I was like yeah,
And I said, hey, ma, I ask you a question.
He said, yeah. Now, I've only known this guy for
a little bit. But we talked about Shelby Cobra's, talked
about Rickenbocker's, talked about Brian Wilson. I said, Jeffrey, you're
a Christian, aren't you? And he said, yes, I am
first God. And I said at that football field at Charlotte,
I said, you kind of looked right through me. Why
did you stop? And you were so nice to me?
And Jeffrey Foskett he's in heaven now. He said, the
Holy Spirit told me to befriend you. And he said
to me, he said, Alex, I met Brian in nineteen
seventy four. God put me in this band to be
a witness. Now, Todd, there's a lot I'm going faster
and a long story short. From I first met Brian
in nineteen eighty seven, I had known Jeffrey we for
at least once a month from nineteen eighty five till
he died in December of twenty three. In fact, was
I had plane tickets. I was headed to M. D
Anderson in Texas to visit with him when his wife
called me and said, Jeffrey has passed. Here's the thing.
At least once a month from our meeting till the
day he died, we prayed for Brian and the Beach Boys.
It was two thousand and one in Florida, Ruth Eckert
Hall Sounds Tour that Brian and I prayed together. I
shared the Gospel many times. What started out as fanboy
visits became on his pastoral visits. In two thousand and five,
Brian had finished. In two thousand and four he finished Smile,
which lay unfinished for thirty seven years. It's an amazing accomplishment.
I was in Santa Ana, California in two thousand and five.
He had won a Grammy and we were there. Had
been a lot of trust building and taught. Brian Wilson
looked at me in a private meeting. I've never told
this till after he passed, but he said, I'd give
everything I ever did to know that my dad loved me.
And you got to understand you're gonna laugh at this.
Once we were at a show in Florida, and I
guess I was backstage and I actually went to Brian's
house one time. He wasn't there. Jeffrey and I drove
to Brian and Melinda's house in Palm Desert and we
ended up going to eat dinner at a Marie Callender's.
But anyway, one time we were at a show backstage
and Jeffrey, who was kind of Brian's helper and overseer,
the phone rang and we're standing there and Brian Wilson goes,
who is it. Jeffrey said, it's the Beg's. They really
want to meet you. And Brian Wilson said, I'm sorry,
I'm tired. Maybe another time, Jeffrey, Jeffrey, Barry Gibb. He goes,
I'm sorry, Brian's tired, and I was like, you know,
when you can blow off the Beg's, you're somebody. One
time at the Hollywood Bowl, there was like a receiving
line of people backstage and all these people just seriously
they're like, God, God, I mean, this is like Brian Wilson.
Bob Dylan was there, and I love Boby, but stammering like,
I really respect you as such an honor to meet you.
That's the level and the thing about it that Brian
was not arrogant, He was not an egotist. I mean,
he really was kind of flat in his affect, and
people could be, you know, just stumbling over themselves in
awe and humanly rightly so. But he was not full
of himself. He really wasn't. But here's the thing. When
he told me, he said, I'd give everything I've ever
done to know that my father loved me. I talked
about the love of the heavenly Father. We prayed together,
the bottom line, And there's there's at least two interviews
on YouTube where Brian talks about putting his faith in
Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: Praise God.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we prayed together. Brian was a very complex person
with mental and emotional issues, and a season of drugs
and alcohol in the sixties didn't help. A lot of
people think he fried his brain on LSD, and I
do not minimize the damage of drugs, not at all.
But really, the common psychological analysis was something called schizo
effective disorder. I personally think that he had a touch
of adult on set as Burger's and I say that
having done a master's and developmental psych at Liberty University,
although I'm certainly no clinician that could DIAGNOSEE. But here's
my point. We prayed together on at least a dozen occasions.
I'm not saying he was ready to pastor a church Todd,
but he believed in Jesus, his wife Melinda. The first
time I ever had dinner with Brian and Melinda, she
had a Bethmore Bible study under her arm. And again,
God is not a respector of persons. Just because this
guy was super talented musically doesn't mean he was deserving
of heaving. None of us deserve heaven. But he understood
the Gospel. He put his faith in Jesus Christ accepts
the Lord and Savior. Absolutely, Yes, pray Scott, and I'm
one thousand percent based on things he personally said to me,
based on he and I prayed together, I completely believe
he is with Christ in heaven today.
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was And I have a dear friend. He's more of
a brother than a friend. He actually brought me to christ.
I wouldn't be a believer without him and his family.
His family's mom and dad have honored me by calling
me an adopted son. And he is a not a
a academically trained music theorist, but he can sing anything
on key. Open his mouth and sing anything. He can
play anything. He pitched perfect pitch. He never recording music.
Wants some songs we wrote at a lake cabin and
he decided that he needed to have french horn on
this song, but his synthesizer wouldn't do the trick, so
we went in and rendered french horn. He taught himself
to play that. It's the first brass instrment he's ever played,
including the obiture. And he played a french horn solo
that he learned in a couple of hours.
Speaker 3: Oh wow.
Speaker 1: And he now his name is Matthew Bruno. In fact,
on my radio program on AFR, his music Open and
Close and closes my program. I'll get you a CD.
You'd actually love it very He loved Brian and the Beatles,
and I'll send you one of his CDs. But he
said he'd never heard the story of Brian being saved.
And he and I actually got to go see Brian
on one of the last tours he did after Eugene
Landy kind of worked with him, and like you, Alex,
we were in Seattle. There were members of Soundgarden, former
members of Nirvana there. Rim was there and Nancy Wilson
from Heart were there, and everybody acted as if this
was musical royalty on stage, and you could watch the
faces and people understood this. Did Brian understand the complexity
of his music? And here's what I mean. Clearly he
knew what he was doing production wise, writing wise. But
to him, I'd heard him say that that he heard
these things that come out, that his struggle was just
to get them down and to teach him to the people.
Did it seem complex to him or had God give
them in a way that this stuff was not complex
to him?
Speaker 3: I think God gifted him in such a way that
it was not complex to him. Now, you know, he
definitely did his part in that he practiced and practiced.
And Carl Wilson his brother, and I bring up Carl
because Carl had the greatest voice. Carl died of a
brain tumor in nineteen ninety eight and I prayed with
Carl in November of ninety seven before he passed away.
Did he accept Jesus? Yes, he did, He absolutely did.
And you know the funny thing, Carl told stories, and
he's told me this personally, how that when they were
little and they wanted to go out and play, you know,
Brian would come home from school and when Dennis and
Carl didn't want to practice harmonizing, Brian would go to Audrey,
their mom, and make them. And Carl said that he
learned to see all these harmonies. Brian was thirteen fourteen
at the piano making like ten finger chords, and they
said if Brian had two or three more fingers, he
would have made thirteen note chords. But here's the thing.
There was a documentary about ninety two or ninety three
call I just wasn't made for these times. It's in
black and white, and Melinda and Brian was really getting
back into the public sphere about the early to mid
nineties he toured. I think it was March of ninety
nine that Jeffrey. It's funny, I was at my house.
Jeffrey Foskett called me, probably about Christmas of ninety eight,
and he said, hey, please pray Brian might go back
on tour and I would be the musical director. Now,
Brian had been in the Beach Boys family, you know,
since the seventies. Jeffrey was a great musician and a
great Christian. Like I say, once a month for nearly
thirty years, we would get on the phone and pray together.
And I have a couple of funny stories. I've got
to tell you a couple of funny stories. But anyway,
so Jeffrey called me and he said, Brian is going
to go back on the road. He wants me to
be as MD as musical director. And we prayed about that.
But here's the wild thing. It had taken several years
because Melinda helped get a court order and get Eugene
Landy out of the way and all this kind of stuff.
But there was this documentary made call I just Wasn't
made for these times. I remember it and Carl and
Brian are talking about how intimidated they were by the Beatles,
and listen to the so that there's the Beach Boys
sixty three sixty four. They are on top of the
world surfing USA. I get around in my room surfer girl,
and Brian says, one day Dennis bursts in the room
and says, oh no, and they're like, what's wrong, and
he goes turn on the TV and landing at JFK
are the Beatles in New York City, and they said.
Dennis Wilson is walking around going oh no, oh no,
and Brian is listening to I Want to Hold Your Hand,
which Brian instantly said, that's the same chord progression as
canon in d By, but it's in G and so listen.
They're in the Wilson's living room, the Beatles are breaking
out on the world, and Brian says to Dennis, calm down,
this isn't that complicated. We can beat this. Don't worry now.
What's funny is Carl and Brian begin to pray, and
in the documentary, I just Wasn't made for These times
Brian Wilson said, Carl and I begin to pray. And
Carl Wilson said, we sought God's will about our music.
Speaker 1: No kidding, I don't remember.
Speaker 3: And so the interviewers said you to pray. Brian Wilson goes, yeah,
and they said to who. Brian said to Jesus. And
the interviewer goes, and what did Jesus give you? And
Brian said, pet sounds and smile. Now to my super
spiritual Christian friends listening, this might sound crazy, and I look,
our heart belongs to Jesus. God's word is our roadmap
for life and eternity. But God, I believe good art
glorifies God.
Speaker 1: I do too.
Speaker 3: And look and again, I ain't saying the Beach Boys
were exemplary in a lot of ways, but Brian over
and over would say that God gave him these these
chord changes that are unlike anything else. As much as
I respect the Beatles and folks, trust me here. The
Beatles are great, but there's nothing McCartney did the Long
a Winding Road yesterday. Even John. The only decent song
John Lennon did in my life is an okay song.
Speaker 1: Oh we're gonna have to do argue hare, I'm on London.
I'm sorry I didn't like his views, but yeah.
Speaker 3: But Brian did all this stuff that is just It
is a master class in music theory to this day.
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So you mentioned Dennis Wilson Carl. It sounds like Carl
Wilson was saved. Praise God. Brian was saved. You praise God. Dennis.
Of course you know this, and a few people unless
you're a huge Beach Boice fan, know this. He fell
in with Charles Manson, Yes, Dennis Wilson, and actually helped
him get a song published. The song Manson had named it.
Speaker 3: Ceased to Was it ceased to exist? Okay?
Speaker 1: I thought it was ceased to resist because he was
changed that lyric. Okay. And he was wanting.
Speaker 3: He was on the twenty album.
Speaker 1: He was wanting. It's a song about him wanting a
girl to allow him to unalive her. We have to
say that because off YouTube to stay un alive. It's
so silly. Did Dennis come back from that? Because I
don't know that. It gets closer to pure satanic evil
than Manson and Helter Skelter. Did Dennis get saved?
Speaker 3: Well, I don't know. I never met Dennis. He died
in nineteen eighty three. Hey, I got how much time
do we have, Todd? Do we have plenty of time?
Speaker 1: Yeah, we've got another fifteen minutes.
Speaker 3: Okay, you got to hear this, folks, listen to this.
I don't know anything. Dennis Wilson lived a pretty rough life.
I never met him, you know, And sadly he was
scuba diving drunk and he drowned. That's not a good
way to leave this world. But here's the thing, Dennis
Matt Charles Manson. Although the Tate LaBianca murders had not
taken can place, this is the late sixties around La
and yeah, yeah, so the bottom line, the word is
that Dennis saddled up alongside the Manson family because here's
all these young girls and Charles Manson was an aspiring musician. Now,
the Beach Boys had started Brother Records. This is even
before the Beatles had Apple Records, and so they were
looking for new talent. So Doris Day's son, Terry Melcher,
was a record producer and a friend of the Beach Boys. Yes,
so check it out, Terry Melcher. They bring in Charles
Manson and they said Brian was so afraid of him
that he left the building. And everybody, one person said,
sparks flew off of this guy. That's how revolted everybody was.
And again, nobody yet knew who Charles Mance would be.
But the song was called Ceased to Exist. Now on
the album twenty twenty, it's called never learned not to love,
and it opens with the lyric ceased to Resist. But
here's the thing. Terry Melcher comes out of the control
booth and says, to Manson's face, you're a no talent bomb.
You're wasting our time. Get out of here. And Dennis
basically had brought Charles into the studio to placate him
because Dennis was getting to go and have relations with
all of these little girls, right Lord God. So anyway,
Dennis eventually check this out. The Mansons would not leave
his house. So Dennis vacated his house, got a realtor
to sell it, and Charles Manson sent word to Dennis, Hey,
I don't like what you did. You vacated your house
just and never have to see me again. So Terry
Melcher's house, the furniture began to get rearranged, and so
Terry Melcher got very paranoid, sold his house to a
young Roman Polanski and his wife, Sharon Tate. Here's the thing.
Sharon Tate was brutally murdered. She was pregnant. It is
believed that the Sharon Tate murder and I forget it
wasn't Belagia way, I forget whatever street that was on.
But Manson thought his people were going to execute Terry
Melcher because Terry Melcher had so brutally insulted him in
front of people, and Terry Melcher had spread the word around,
Hey there's this hack Charles Manson. He's got zero talent.
Dennis brought him into the studio very possibly and take
massacre was really meant for Terry Melcher and his wife.
Good God, do you see what I'm saying?
Speaker 1: I do? But now I don't know that my friend
Tim Krukshank knows what it is to be unwilfare. I've
never asked him that. I know he did not grow
up with the silver foon, spoon, fork and a knife
in his mouth. I know that, I know he earned
I know it was a sacrifice for him to work
hard to get into the Navy Seals, and he successfully
did that on his first attempt, by the way through buds,
which is pretty pretty cool. I know that then he
chose to go out and be willing to lay his
life down for his brother, and no girder love has
man than to lay his life down for his friend
or be willing to. Tim went on three separate deployments
in combat for US and over there. He said that
one of the things that helped him live through the
teams and the fights and the battles and watching having
to be there as people died. He was a medic.
He saved lives and sometimes didn't succeed in saving them.
One of the things that helped him survive was coffee.
He became a coffee addict. And one day, I don't
know where he was. Maybe it was when he was
fighting that Warren Babylon. Maybe they got a little bit
of sleep that night, and maybe as he's going to sleep,
he thought, I love coffee. I want to start a
coffee company when I go back to the United States.
If you know anything about seal culture, when they decide
to do a thing, they go through hardcore visualization on
how this isn't going to get done. It occurred to Tim,
I don't know stink and think about coffee. I just
like the way it tastes, what it makes me do
in my body, it makes me feel. So he did
some research. He found a guy named Dave Stewart's. Dave
was a coffee legend. Tim went to him and said, hey,
I have an idea. It's a company called bone Frog Coffee.
Ten percent of proceeds go to the Navy Seal Foundation.
Here's the design of the bags. They say God Country
team on him. Here's this insignia means it insicates a
fallen Navy Seal. That's what this means. And Dave Stewart said,
I am in and Dave created many of the roasts.
Still does he mentors the team. Then Tim made himself
a promise. I'm hiring Vets. I'm gonna work with Bets
whenever I can, and lo and behold. This year, Tim
sent two of his key employees. He let them leave
the company. Why because they are now becoming Navy Seals.
You can join with this coffee company, but I make
one request. When you go to Bonefrog Coffee dot com
slash Todd and you use promo code Todd at checkout,
you'll save ten percent on your first purchase. This is
what I ask you to promise me. Just do that, Okay,
just that. Try the coffee and if it is not
to your taste, never go back, delete it, block the emails.
If you love it, make a decision to support this
company by going back to Bonefrog Coffee dot com slash Todd.
Use promo code TOAD at checkout and subscribe. You'll save
fifteen percent. You present this duality too, because Dennis, you
know one would hope he was saved, sounds like he
Wasn't you present this too? I got no idea, Right,
there's this is duality. And we started talking about your
work as an evangelist. Fifty states in fifty days, sixty
four sermons, twenty two hundred churches in America. More internationally,
we've talked about America and in terms of state of revival.
I wanted to ask you, as an evangelist and someone
who's done this for a very long time, you presented
the duality. The beach Boys, Heaven, Hell, people made their choices.
So there is in America. We've talked about the good news.
We see this on YouTube with young men seeking videos
about Jesus praise God. That's been really really neat for
us to see God work through us in that way.
But there are these fake churches that keep popping up
and they speak the gospel of pride, they speak the
gospel of worshiping humanity, they speak the gospel of God
is whoever you want him to be. It's not just universalism.
It's nothingism. So what do we as a culture do
as Christians to I guess warn people to label these churches.
I mean, I know, we spread the word, we rely
on God's word, We stand on the solid work of
the foundation. We make sure that young people are educated.
What does the Bible actually say? What is the context?
We armed them with the of God. We do these things.
But since these things keep popping up these churches, what
do you think the response should be of the Christian
Church together to churches that are plainly heretical.
Speaker 3: Well, that's a great question. And you know churches are gathering.
The Greek word is ecclesia, the called out assembly those
of us that have found salvation in Jesus. We are
part of the church worldwide, but we're also we are
to be a part of a local assembly of believers.
And the bottom line, church must be based on the
Word of God, the Bible, that is the word of God.
Jesus said in John ten thirty five regarding the Bible,
Jesus of the scripture cannot be broken. Okay, now I
realize that there are cultural nuances. Church in South America,
church in Africa, church in your is different. Than church,
maybe in Middle America, but some of the commonalities should be.
Jesus Christ, God Incarnate, is the one and only way
of salvation. Jesus alone shed his blood on the cross,
rose from the dead. That's called the atonement, and we
receive his forgiveness by turning to Christ, repenting of our
sin and putting our faith in Jesus. Now, then, as
born again Christians, we are to grow. And in Matthew
twenty eight eighteen through twenty Jesus he gave this thing
called the Great Commission, and he said it's very key.
Go into all the world and make disciples. Now, a
disciple is a follower, and we are to follow the
son of God based on the word of God. Now,
what said Todd is that in America and a little
bit in Europe, but really America excelled at this. We
made a big lucrative business out of cherry picking things
from God's word that sound good and maybe conveniently glossing
over or omitting things. You know, does God love me? Yes,
God loves you. God loves everybody. But Jesus said in
Luke thirteen three, if you don't repent, you will perish.
Regarding the deity of Christ. In John eight twenty four,
Christ said, if you do not believe that I am He,
you will die in your sins. And these pop heretical
you know, smoke machines, subwol for churches, They don't include
the hard sayings of scripture very often. And I think
that we have a fiduciary responsibility to say the world,
you know, read Matthew seven twenty four. There's gonna be
a whole lot of people who say, Lord Lord, I
was religious. Jesus is going to say, hey, I never
knew you. So it's what we need is a revival
of the authority of God's Holy Word. The Bible agreed.
Speaker 1: And I think that we need to make sure that
we speak this at all times to young people so
that they have a measure. I almost want them to
have cards they take with them. Am I observing at
Churtch This truly truly Christian? Because the enemy has been very,
very clever in setting it up. Hey, we have a
link to Alex's work as websites thirty one days Pray
for America equip retreats. We've got a speaking events linked
in the show notes and Alex, what a pleasure to
talk with you. I would just love to have you
back just to talk about the state of things, and
thank you for what you do. Thank you for sharing
the good news with us that Brian Wilson, as you
see it is in heaven with Lord Jesus Christ as
his carl and again no respector of man. But maybe
this can inspire other people from Hollywood too, So thank
you very much, Alex Well.
Speaker 3: God is good. I just I had such a passion.
I just wanted to share the gospel of these guys
and the Lord allowed that to happen through my friend Jeffrey.
And God is good. Hey to everybody out there, there's
somebody waiting on the other side of your obedience. And
by that I mean we know Christ were to make
him known. And first Grintan's fifteen fifty eight says our
labor in the Lord is not in vain.
Speaker 1: Praise God. What a beautiful way to say that. Show
the gospel today with someone this is the Todd Herman Shaw.
Please go be well, be strong, be kind, and walk
in the light of Christ. And I haven't made that
decision yet. Make that decision today. Ask Jesus to be
your Lord and savior, to forgive you of your sins,
and then make a habit of abiding with him.