1 00:00:00,520 --> 00:00:02,960 Speaker 1: Welcome to the three Stories version the Todd Herman Show 2 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:07,400 is story number one aoc and the art of camorogenic emptiness, 3 00:00:07,440 --> 00:00:10,800 Story number two do you have Trump Fatigue? And story 4 00:00:10,880 --> 00:00:14,480 number three the Body of Christ versus fallen church bosses. 5 00:00:15,080 --> 00:00:17,120 And by the way, that has some great news in it. 6 00:00:17,559 --> 00:00:19,960 We'll talk about this all with the help of God Almighty. 7 00:00:22,199 --> 00:00:26,039 Speaker 2: But Todd Herman Show is one percent disapproved by big 8 00:00:26,160 --> 00:00:33,920 pharma technocrats and tyrants everywhere from the high mountains of 9 00:00:34,039 --> 00:00:41,880 Free American. Here's the Emerald City EXI Todd Herman. 10 00:00:45,359 --> 00:00:47,960 Speaker 1: Today is the day the Lord has made, and these 11 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:50,479 are the times to which God has decided we shall live. 12 00:00:51,679 --> 00:00:56,119 What happens when you announce an audition to have someone 13 00:00:56,240 --> 00:00:58,880 run for Congress in the state of New York. That 14 00:00:59,039 --> 00:01:03,320 happened a woman replied and came in and auditioned to 15 00:01:03,399 --> 00:01:08,359 be a congresswoman. Her name is Alexandria Ocassia Cortes. What 16 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:11,359 were the standards they used in that, well, the top 17 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:14,840 one was are you camera jenic? There's the camera like you? 18 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:19,280 Can you read lines? Can you be emotionally convincing? In 19 00:01:19,319 --> 00:01:22,000 other words, it was a lot like auditioning an actress. 20 00:01:22,799 --> 00:01:25,200 One of the funny things about actors and actresses if 21 00:01:25,239 --> 00:01:28,560 you ever meet some, some of them are relatively eloquent people. 22 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:30,920 Most of them are not. They're not the people you 23 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:33,599 see on screen because there's no lines written out for them. Now, 24 00:01:33,599 --> 00:01:36,159 this should be relatively obvious, but you'd be surprised how 25 00:01:36,159 --> 00:01:39,079 many people meet someone like that and say, Wow, they're 26 00:01:39,120 --> 00:01:42,239 super stupid. They didn't have anything to say. They couldn't 27 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:44,319 relate at all. Right, where what the charm? Well, the 28 00:01:44,359 --> 00:01:48,519 charm is manufactured. David Bowie said something really prescient and 29 00:01:48,640 --> 00:01:52,560 right about stage performance. He says charisma is a trick 30 00:01:53,319 --> 00:01:55,159 and Bowie knew what he was talking about because he 31 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:57,799 tricked a lot of people into loving him. I'm not 32 00:01:57,879 --> 00:02:00,920 saying he was unlovable guy, but those people know him. 33 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:04,239 AOC Alexandria a Cossio Cortez has tricked a lot of 34 00:02:04,239 --> 00:02:06,480 people into thinking she is something other than someone who 35 00:02:06,519 --> 00:02:09,199 auditioned to be on camera. And we saw this past 36 00:02:09,199 --> 00:02:13,280 week in AOC and the art of cameragenic emptiness. Here's 37 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:16,439 a sample of the cameragenic emptiness of AOC. 38 00:02:17,039 --> 00:02:21,159 Speaker 3: And should the US actually commit US troops to defend 39 00:02:21,199 --> 00:02:23,240 Taiwan if China were to move. 40 00:02:24,719 --> 00:02:31,680 Speaker 4: You know, I think that this is such a you know, 41 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:38,360 I think that this is a This is of course, 42 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:45,719 a very long standing policy of the United States, and 43 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:47,879 I think what we are hoping for is that we 44 00:02:47,919 --> 00:02:51,039 want to make sure that we never get to that point, 45 00:02:51,639 --> 00:02:54,479 and we want to make sure that we are moving 46 00:02:54,639 --> 00:02:58,639 in all of our economic research and our global positions 47 00:02:58,639 --> 00:03:02,439 to avoid me such confrontation. And for that question to 48 00:03:02,479 --> 00:03:07,080 even arise, Huh. 49 00:03:06,439 --> 00:03:09,080 Speaker 1: What was the question again? Oh, that's right. It was 50 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:11,919 a policy question. It wasn't a question about do you 51 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:15,199 hope to avoid war? Of course, you hope to avoid war. 52 00:03:16,240 --> 00:03:18,719 So she's met with a question at a security summit 53 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:21,680 they sent her to because when you're cammerogenetic, you get 54 00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:24,759 to a point where the cammerogenic nature of yourself is 55 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:27,439 no longer useful and it begins to show itself for 56 00:03:27,479 --> 00:03:29,360 what it is. But that's not the worst one. I 57 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:31,159 know that one got all the attention. It's not the 58 00:03:31,199 --> 00:03:35,520 worst one. The other was where she talked about populism 59 00:03:35,639 --> 00:03:41,599 and AOC is a populist. She was elected to Congress 60 00:03:41,599 --> 00:03:45,319 because she won the popular votes in an audition to 61 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:49,159 be cambrogenic and appear to have an emotional connection to people. 62 00:03:49,240 --> 00:03:52,039 So I'll show you this in a second. I'm wearing 63 00:03:52,039 --> 00:03:56,039 a bone Frog coffee shirt. Now this should elicit some emotion, 64 00:03:56,159 --> 00:03:59,560 particularly if you are a Navy Seal or you're from 65 00:03:59,599 --> 00:04:02,759 the sea family. In fact, I wore bone Frog around 66 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:04,719 the Navy seal wants to know a bone frog hat. 67 00:04:04,759 --> 00:04:07,360 A guy named Dave Castro who runs the CrossFit games. 68 00:04:07,840 --> 00:04:10,319 I wore it out to his ranch and we were talking, 69 00:04:10,319 --> 00:04:11,919 and I could see that Dave kept looking up at 70 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:15,120 my cap, and he finally said, let me stop you 71 00:04:15,319 --> 00:04:18,279 what about that hat? And I said, yeah, this is 72 00:04:18,279 --> 00:04:21,519 a Navy Sealan company goes it better be? And I 73 00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:25,120 said it is Tim Krukshank is his name. He was 74 00:04:25,160 --> 00:04:27,920 a medic attached to the teams, did three deployments. He 75 00:04:27,959 --> 00:04:31,000 was a buds instruct his crook Shank. I spelled it 76 00:04:31,040 --> 00:04:33,439 for me. He says, okay, and I could see that 77 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:37,000 he was still hoping. See Dave is a Navy seal retired, 78 00:04:37,079 --> 00:04:40,000 but he was and you don't wear this thing if 79 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:42,600 you don't know what this thing means. And people have 80 00:04:42,680 --> 00:04:44,319 asked me, Hey, I see you wearing that. Do you 81 00:04:44,360 --> 00:04:47,040 know what it means? Yes, that represents the fall in 82 00:04:47,480 --> 00:04:50,079 the body of a fallen seal. So I wear this 83 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:52,439 stuff with the full knowledge i'd never served. I never 84 00:04:52,519 --> 00:04:54,920 probably could have been a Navy seal. But I also 85 00:04:54,959 --> 00:04:57,240 helped Tim because I love him and I love the coffee. 86 00:04:57,360 --> 00:04:59,959 He's doing something called the Coffee Crushed Challenge this month 87 00:05:00,079 --> 00:05:03,040 that last all month. This is your opportunity to try 88 00:05:03,040 --> 00:05:04,879 the coffee, or if you already try it, to save 89 00:05:04,920 --> 00:05:07,079 a bunch of money. Three gift cards being given away. 90 00:05:07,079 --> 00:05:08,560 One is three hundred and fifty bucks, one is one 91 00:05:08,639 --> 00:05:10,399 hundred and one is fifty. All you have to do 92 00:05:11,240 --> 00:05:13,519 go to the social media sites for bone Frog and 93 00:05:13,720 --> 00:05:16,560 retweet or repost the pinpost. It's that easy. You have 94 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:19,199 to be a US citizen enter to win this. You 95 00:05:19,399 --> 00:05:21,720 are no purchases necessary. What is it going to be 96 00:05:21,759 --> 00:05:25,120 notified via DM and it is super easy to get 97 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:27,040 to it, just go to the social sites. Bone Frog 98 00:05:27,079 --> 00:05:29,759 Coffee is the name of the company. So when she 99 00:05:29,959 --> 00:05:32,439 is on this a stage at this global security summit, 100 00:05:32,639 --> 00:05:34,160 that was the one that got all the attention because 101 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:36,279 the elms and the ohs and there's people who actually 102 00:05:36,319 --> 00:05:40,399 think she's presidential material, but she's failing the audition. This 103 00:05:40,439 --> 00:05:42,879 one was to me far, far, far worse. In fact, 104 00:05:42,920 --> 00:05:45,160 I took a text grab of this to make sure 105 00:05:45,199 --> 00:05:47,680 that I actually hurt it the right way. This is 106 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:50,600 AOC talking about populism. 107 00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:56,000 Speaker 4: I'll start last to first. You know, I think this 108 00:05:56,079 --> 00:06:00,680 is a moment where we are seeing our presdential administration 109 00:06:01,160 --> 00:06:08,040 tear apart, the Transatlantic partnership, rip up every democratic norm, 110 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:16,319 and you know, really calling into question, as was mentioned 111 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:21,399 by Dick Karney at the World Economic Forum, the rules 112 00:06:21,399 --> 00:06:24,000 based order that we. 113 00:06:23,879 --> 00:06:26,319 Speaker 1: Have or let's pause here for a second. Here's what 114 00:06:26,360 --> 00:06:28,720 she said. I'd like to start last to first. You know, 115 00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:30,720 I think this is a moment where we're seeing our 116 00:06:30,759 --> 00:06:34,319 presidential administration tear apart, the transit partnership, rip up every 117 00:06:34,319 --> 00:06:37,319 dinner deocratic norm, and you know, so really calling the 118 00:06:37,399 --> 00:06:39,279 question as was i mentioned by Dick Karney at the 119 00:06:39,279 --> 00:06:42,199 World Economic Forum, the rules based order that we have 120 00:06:42,399 --> 00:06:47,079 or question mark do we have pause? Okay, pause. She 121 00:06:47,920 --> 00:06:51,240 works next to a installed man in the White House 122 00:06:52,920 --> 00:06:57,639 who allows Russia to invade Ukraine, that's a democratic norm, 123 00:06:58,399 --> 00:07:02,839 who funded both sides of the war between Hamas and Israel, 124 00:07:04,160 --> 00:07:09,319 who in fact, under Barack Obama, allows hundreds of billions 125 00:07:09,360 --> 00:07:14,000 of our dollars to go to Iran who change the 126 00:07:14,079 --> 00:07:18,600 rules of elections sixty days before the election to involve 127 00:07:18,680 --> 00:07:22,720 things like force mail in voting, vote harvesting, and drop boxes. 128 00:07:23,120 --> 00:07:27,680 And she's talking here about rules based order. Now this 129 00:07:27,720 --> 00:07:30,839 gets more entertaining when she is going to deliver a 130 00:07:30,920 --> 00:07:35,000 line someone wrote for her, she memorized, well, she delivers well, 131 00:07:35,120 --> 00:07:37,199 and it has to do with hypocrisy. But keep that 132 00:07:37,240 --> 00:07:40,120 all in mind. So back to AOC attempting to be 133 00:07:40,199 --> 00:07:41,759 cameorogenic on c SPAN. 134 00:07:42,160 --> 00:07:45,639 Speaker 4: Question mark do we have? And so I think one 135 00:07:45,639 --> 00:07:49,040 of the reasons why not just myself, but many of 136 00:07:49,079 --> 00:07:51,920 our colleagues here in fact Democrats many Democrats that are 137 00:07:51,959 --> 00:07:55,680 here as well, is because we want to tell a 138 00:07:55,759 --> 00:08:01,639 larger story that what is happening is indeed very grave, 139 00:08:02,399 --> 00:08:06,920 and we are in a new era domestically and globally. 140 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:09,879 There have been many leaders who said we will go back, 141 00:08:10,560 --> 00:08:12,360 and I think we have to recognize that we are 142 00:08:12,399 --> 00:08:14,120 in a new day and in a new time. 143 00:08:14,279 --> 00:08:16,040 Speaker 1: Fair enough, we are in a new day, in a 144 00:08:16,040 --> 00:08:18,040 new time. It's going to be very difficult to put 145 00:08:18,079 --> 00:08:20,879 the populist genie back into the square bottle they want 146 00:08:20,920 --> 00:08:24,199 it to be in But she's transitioning into making a 147 00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:27,160 statement now about hypocrisy and about what Americans want. She's 148 00:08:27,199 --> 00:08:30,639 going to transition from what democrats want to what Americans want. 149 00:08:30,839 --> 00:08:33,000 And this is a good shift. Someone gave her good 150 00:08:33,159 --> 00:08:36,440 responses on this, a good bit of rehearsal. She knows 151 00:08:36,480 --> 00:08:39,240 this is her role now. She's going to be anti populist, 152 00:08:39,240 --> 00:08:42,039 the rules based person, even though she's only in office 153 00:08:42,039 --> 00:08:44,879 because she won the popularity contest of being camera Janic. 154 00:08:45,120 --> 00:08:47,320 This is so well rehearsed. And then we get to 155 00:08:47,360 --> 00:08:50,159 the laugh line that no one laughed at because they 156 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:50,799 didn't catch it. 157 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:53,240 Speaker 5: It has to do with hypocrisy, but that does not 158 00:08:53,519 --> 00:08:57,639 mean that the majority of Americans are ready to walk 159 00:08:57,679 --> 00:09:01,600 away from a rules based order. 160 00:09:01,919 --> 00:09:05,240 Speaker 1: So there's that line, rules based order, rules based order. 161 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:08,720 In times of chaos, people want rules based orders. Except 162 00:09:08,720 --> 00:09:13,399 for what open borders. We had a rules based order 163 00:09:13,399 --> 00:09:17,320 on how you enter the country, rules based order. I 164 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:20,279 just started a discussion on NPR radio this weekend. Accually 165 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:22,919 tuned into NPR and they were talking about this woman 166 00:09:22,960 --> 00:09:26,279 who praised God survived being shot five times by ice agents, 167 00:09:26,679 --> 00:09:29,080 and they pretend that it's now new and important information 168 00:09:29,440 --> 00:09:31,679 that the ICE agents decided to run into her car 169 00:09:31,720 --> 00:09:33,759 while they were trying to run into her but to 170 00:09:33,840 --> 00:09:36,879 them and never did they get to the point In 171 00:09:36,919 --> 00:09:39,320 the endpair discussion to saying, is it okay for American 172 00:09:39,399 --> 00:09:42,799 citizens to chase down law enforcement officers as they're carrying 173 00:09:42,799 --> 00:09:45,639 out their duty and attempting to block them into parking 174 00:09:45,639 --> 00:09:47,759 spots so they can't in fact effect and arrest rules 175 00:09:47,799 --> 00:09:51,840 based order? So that line rules based order, she's going 176 00:09:51,919 --> 00:09:54,120 to combine with hypocrisy here in a moment as she's 177 00:09:54,120 --> 00:09:56,440 being camera janic and well rehearsed, and that. 178 00:09:56,399 --> 00:09:59,240 Speaker 4: We're ready to walk away from our commitment to democracy. 179 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:02,600 I think what we identify is that in a rules 180 00:10:02,639 --> 00:10:07,559 based order, here we go. Hypocrisy is vulnerability. 181 00:10:07,679 --> 00:10:12,320 Speaker 1: Hypocrisy is vulnerability. You're looking at a woman whose net 182 00:10:12,320 --> 00:10:19,919 worth has skyrocketed in Congress, who bemoans the rich, middle 183 00:10:19,919 --> 00:10:23,240 class and poor gap. You're looking at a woman who 184 00:10:23,279 --> 00:10:28,399 flies private with Bernie Sanders but bemoans people who can 185 00:10:28,440 --> 00:10:31,600 afford their own private jets. You're looking at a woman 186 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:34,720 who acted as if she was crying in a pretty 187 00:10:34,720 --> 00:10:38,639 convincing pose outside of a parking lot at an ICE facility, 188 00:10:39,159 --> 00:10:42,399 but not actually in the facility reconstructing what she did. 189 00:10:42,679 --> 00:10:45,799 You're talking about someone who's talking here about rules based order, 190 00:10:46,080 --> 00:10:49,159 ignoring the fact that they threw all the rules out 191 00:10:49,159 --> 00:10:51,840 in the last election, that they continue to throw the 192 00:10:51,879 --> 00:10:54,159 rules out when it comes to shifting the electoral college. 193 00:10:54,519 --> 00:10:59,240 And she says, hypocrisy is vulnerability. And she continues, and. 194 00:10:59,159 --> 00:11:01,559 Speaker 4: So I think what you're seeking is a return to 195 00:11:01,600 --> 00:11:07,039 a rules based order that eliminates the hypocrisies around when 196 00:11:07,080 --> 00:11:10,120 too often in the West we'd look the other way 197 00:11:10,919 --> 00:11:17,039 for inconvenient populations to act out these paradoxes. 198 00:11:17,200 --> 00:11:20,840 Speaker 1: Inconvenient populations to act out these paradoxes. People are acting 199 00:11:20,879 --> 00:11:24,799 like this is some kind of smart statement. The Democrat 200 00:11:24,840 --> 00:11:27,679 Party has made a meal and a tactic and a 201 00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:33,919 strategy of bemoaning straight white men as inconvenient populations. And they, 202 00:11:33,919 --> 00:11:36,080 of course want us to think of immigration here with 203 00:11:36,120 --> 00:11:40,279 inconvenient populations, when there's a party that's importing as many 204 00:11:40,639 --> 00:11:43,840 illegal immigrants into the country as possible shifting the electoral college, 205 00:11:44,080 --> 00:11:46,720 which is sort of what an inconvenient population coming in 206 00:11:46,759 --> 00:11:51,000 to complete what she wants to call this paradox. Then 207 00:11:51,039 --> 00:11:53,759 she gets into talking about ICE agents doing something ICE 208 00:11:53,799 --> 00:11:56,080 agents are not doing, which is sort of a form 209 00:11:56,120 --> 00:11:59,519 of hypocrisy. Jesus, in fact, use the word hypocrisy to 210 00:11:59,600 --> 00:12:01,639 mean actor was what it meant at the time. Jesus 211 00:12:01,679 --> 00:12:03,120 is applied to people like her. 212 00:12:03,320 --> 00:12:08,759 Speaker 4: Whether it is, you know, kidnapping a foreign head of state. 213 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:11,840 Speaker 1: Kidnapping a foreign head of state, as we've done multiple times, 214 00:12:11,879 --> 00:12:14,759 not just in this case. The United States has given 215 00:12:14,759 --> 00:12:17,399 itself the right to do that. Madure was not the first. 216 00:12:17,440 --> 00:12:21,279 Speaker 4: She knows this, whether it is threatening our allies to 217 00:12:21,519 --> 00:12:28,039 colonize Greenland, whether it is looking the other way in 218 00:12:28,120 --> 00:12:33,279 a genocide. Hypocrisies are vulnerabilities, and they threaten democracies globally. 219 00:12:33,919 --> 00:12:35,720 And so I think many of us are here to 220 00:12:35,840 --> 00:12:37,759 say we are here and we are ready for the 221 00:12:37,799 --> 00:12:38,519 next chapter. 222 00:12:38,679 --> 00:12:41,879 Speaker 1: It's an amazing statement in this. You're really paying attention 223 00:12:41,960 --> 00:12:44,840 to the fact that you're looking at a pure, unadulterated 224 00:12:44,919 --> 00:12:49,480 hypocrite here. Now, I can be against the forced colonization 225 00:12:49,559 --> 00:12:52,039 of Greenland, and I am don't go steal that island 226 00:12:52,039 --> 00:12:55,120 from them, create an alliance. That's the one thing she 227 00:12:55,159 --> 00:12:57,559 says here that kind of makes sense looking the other 228 00:12:57,559 --> 00:13:00,480 way in a genocide she means, what's going on in Gaza. 229 00:13:00,519 --> 00:13:04,480 I agree that is super problematic. Charlie Kirk looked at 230 00:13:04,480 --> 00:13:06,960 it and said, this is a genocide. I get that, 231 00:13:08,039 --> 00:13:11,120 but looking the other way in genocides, this is a 232 00:13:11,159 --> 00:13:15,519 party that is abortioned all costs, which has far surpassed 233 00:13:15,559 --> 00:13:17,600 the deaths in any of these wars. And if you 234 00:13:17,639 --> 00:13:20,240 want to talk about purely innocent people, you got it. 235 00:13:21,399 --> 00:13:23,840 They've walked past the genocide of what they've done to 236 00:13:23,879 --> 00:13:29,320 the food system. They walked past the genocides in Nigeria. 237 00:13:29,480 --> 00:13:32,440 They never paid attention to these things. And she says, 238 00:13:32,519 --> 00:13:36,720 hypocrisy is vulnerability when you're talking about populism. What is 239 00:13:36,799 --> 00:13:39,320 vulnerability for this woman is if she ever finds herself 240 00:13:39,360 --> 00:13:42,240 actually on stage in an actual debate next to someone 241 00:13:42,240 --> 00:13:45,720 who's actually able to speak truth without having to triangulate 242 00:13:45,759 --> 00:13:48,639 and rehearse. Because we saw a comparison today. She didn't 243 00:13:48,679 --> 00:13:51,399 expect to be asked about China and Taiwan. She hadn't 244 00:13:51,399 --> 00:13:54,480 rehearsed that, she hadn't been fed the line about democracy 245 00:13:54,519 --> 00:13:58,399 and hypocrisy and rules based order. She thought she was 246 00:13:58,440 --> 00:14:02,080 going there to talk about her bailey Wick populism, even 247 00:14:02,080 --> 00:14:05,759 though she pretends to not be a populist. Story number two, 248 00:14:07,519 --> 00:14:11,159 Do you have Trump fatigue? What do I mean by 249 00:14:11,159 --> 00:14:14,720 Trump fatigue? Let me explain this. I will continue to 250 00:14:14,759 --> 00:14:17,399 support the policies of President Trump that I support, which 251 00:14:17,440 --> 00:14:20,000 are most of them, but I'm getting very, very tired. 252 00:14:20,200 --> 00:14:22,519 It goes to a key question for me about President Trump, 253 00:14:22,559 --> 00:14:24,240 and it's a question that has plagued me for a 254 00:14:24,279 --> 00:14:28,080 long time. In relation to Jnald John Trump. You probably 255 00:14:28,120 --> 00:14:30,679 watched the Pam Bondi hearing in Congress. I see people 256 00:14:30,759 --> 00:14:33,240 now going back into the great retreat of people who 257 00:14:33,440 --> 00:14:36,399 are all Trump all the time. He can't make any mistakes. 258 00:14:36,559 --> 00:14:40,519 This was multi layer chess. This was Pam Bondi trapping 259 00:14:41,320 --> 00:14:45,600 Congress and Democrats with her unbelievably smart scheme to search 260 00:14:45,679 --> 00:14:47,360 and see what they were searching for and what they 261 00:14:47,399 --> 00:14:49,120 search for in the files because now they know the 262 00:14:49,200 --> 00:14:51,399 names they were searching for. You see, she laid out 263 00:14:51,399 --> 00:14:57,519 a trap. She's a fox, multi level chess. No, it 264 00:14:57,559 --> 00:15:02,840 was a hamhanded, ridiculous, stupid pr nightmare for Trump, and 265 00:15:02,919 --> 00:15:05,440 it handed the Democrats all sorts of footage they're gonna use. 266 00:15:06,440 --> 00:15:09,480 Was the ladies there posing as victims, all of them victims. No, 267 00:15:10,080 --> 00:15:13,799 a lot of more adult women when they met Epstein. Now, 268 00:15:13,840 --> 00:15:16,919 some of them got conned, some of them probably got threatened. 269 00:15:17,080 --> 00:15:20,600 Epstein was a vitally evil human being who did vitally 270 00:15:20,639 --> 00:15:23,960 evil things. Pam Bondi could have said, I'm aware of 271 00:15:23,960 --> 00:15:25,799 some of the women behind me who were adults when 272 00:15:25,799 --> 00:15:28,200 they met Epstein, and can we talk about that? Can 273 00:15:28,240 --> 00:15:31,320 we talk about that? And why are you coming out now? 274 00:15:31,399 --> 00:15:33,919 She could have done that. She sat there silent. She 275 00:15:34,159 --> 00:15:38,480 screamed at Thomas Massey, failed politician. When people ask questions 276 00:15:38,519 --> 00:15:40,519 about the Epstein file, she came along and said, but 277 00:15:40,600 --> 00:15:44,000 the stock market, they can't wait to use that stuff. 278 00:15:44,480 --> 00:15:46,720 And I get Trump fatigue when I see something like this. 279 00:15:47,480 --> 00:15:51,240 Ag Pambondi, under intense fire from the Trump drained radical 280 00:15:51,320 --> 00:15:54,399 left lunatics, was fantastic at yesterday's hearing on the never 281 00:15:54,519 --> 00:15:57,039 ending saga of Jeffrey Epstein. Were the one thing that 282 00:15:57,120 --> 00:16:00,240 has been proven conclusively, But to the chagrin was the 283 00:16:00,240 --> 00:16:03,840 President Donald J. Trump has been one hundred percent exonerated 284 00:16:03,879 --> 00:16:07,320 of the ridiculous Russi Russia Russia type charges. Actually it 285 00:16:07,399 --> 00:16:09,559 is the slamball democrats, many of them big donors and 286 00:16:09,600 --> 00:16:13,799 politicians have been proven guilty, Republican losers, sanctimonius. Rhino Congressman 287 00:16:13,919 --> 00:16:17,120 Thomas Massey made a total fool of himself yesterday fighting 288 00:16:17,159 --> 00:16:20,759 aimlessly against a hopeless agenda of hate and stupidity, as 289 00:16:20,759 --> 00:16:23,720 the most clearly stated by crashing his job approval numbers 290 00:16:23,720 --> 00:16:30,120 and the great Commonwealth of stop Stop Stop Pam BONDI 291 00:16:30,200 --> 00:16:33,080 embarrassed herself, and she embarrassed the office of the President. 292 00:16:33,159 --> 00:16:35,440 She's embarrassed the Office of the President. Are refusing to 293 00:16:35,440 --> 00:16:38,879 carry out anything. Even towards the end of this this 294 00:16:39,279 --> 00:16:43,480 truth social post, President Trump goes back to this the 295 00:16:43,519 --> 00:16:46,879 Republican successes. Maybe they should focus on their quest to 296 00:16:46,919 --> 00:16:49,559 open our borders to the world's greatest criminals, have a 297 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:52,519 so called transgender for everybody, or get men no matter 298 00:16:52,519 --> 00:16:54,840 their size or strength, to plain women's sports because you 299 00:16:55,039 --> 00:16:59,879 stop that, Yes, you sign an executive order. Now what 300 00:17:02,039 --> 00:17:06,400 it's still happening. So yes, I get Trump fatigue because 301 00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:07,960 then I turn around and I see things like this. 302 00:17:09,119 --> 00:17:11,240 It gives me this incredible hope. But it gets back 303 00:17:11,279 --> 00:17:14,559 to this core question, the core question that's always plagued 304 00:17:14,559 --> 00:17:16,680 me about President Trump. And right now, as I said, 305 00:17:16,839 --> 00:17:19,920 I don't like the answer I'm getting as I'm trying 306 00:17:19,960 --> 00:17:21,799 to be prayerful about that. I don't like it at all. 307 00:17:21,839 --> 00:17:25,039 I'll continue to support the policies, but I'm really very 308 00:17:25,079 --> 00:17:28,599 concerned about the President's soul. I'm very very concerned about 309 00:17:28,599 --> 00:17:30,799 his governing principles. But then I see things like this 310 00:17:30,880 --> 00:17:34,680 and they seem like great news. I just found this 311 00:17:34,680 --> 00:17:37,319 this morning, sitting down to do this recording, and it's 312 00:17:37,359 --> 00:17:39,559 about a guy that happens to be a black pastor, 313 00:17:40,440 --> 00:17:44,400 and he had the President's team reach out. They didn't 314 00:17:44,400 --> 00:17:46,079 want to do a pr thing, they didn't want to 315 00:17:46,119 --> 00:17:48,240 make it public. They just wanted to come by. 316 00:17:48,599 --> 00:17:50,039 Speaker 6: President Trump wants to come to your churchy. 317 00:17:50,079 --> 00:17:53,440 Speaker 7: I'm like, yeah, right, yeah. 318 00:17:53,240 --> 00:17:53,759 Speaker 1: Okay, come on. 319 00:17:53,880 --> 00:17:55,359 Speaker 6: So he sent over an agreement. I don't even read it. 320 00:17:55,400 --> 00:17:56,599 I sign it because I think it is a joke. 321 00:17:56,599 --> 00:17:59,200 Can't I sign a little veneo agreement? On a Monday, 322 00:17:59,200 --> 00:18:02,640 he comes, his team comes. Half of the people look 323 00:18:02,720 --> 00:18:06,440 like me. I'm thinking, these kids with Trump, what in 324 00:18:06,480 --> 00:18:06,839 the hood? 325 00:18:06,839 --> 00:18:07,039 Speaker 2: Hood? 326 00:18:07,039 --> 00:18:08,680 Speaker 6: I mean you gotta think about I mean, you have 327 00:18:08,759 --> 00:18:11,400 the hood and then you have the hood. 328 00:18:11,440 --> 00:18:13,680 Speaker 1: You understand what I'm saying. In our community, like you. 329 00:18:13,720 --> 00:18:14,599 Speaker 6: Gonna start for gas. 330 00:18:14,640 --> 00:18:16,680 Speaker 1: It's just it's just terrible. And the Holy ghost right 331 00:18:16,680 --> 00:18:17,160 in the middle of the. 332 00:18:17,359 --> 00:18:19,359 Speaker 6: Right in the middle of it, in the midst of darkness. Yeah, 333 00:18:19,359 --> 00:18:21,440 there shines a great light. I mean, I'm in Detroit. 334 00:18:21,519 --> 00:18:24,160 It's a democratic straw call. We have had a Republican 335 00:18:24,200 --> 00:18:27,200 mayor in sixty years. I don't think a Republican has 336 00:18:27,240 --> 00:18:30,799 come to Detroit since President Trump. Friday, the campaign says, 337 00:18:30,799 --> 00:18:31,880 by the way, pastor, we want you to be a 338 00:18:31,880 --> 00:18:33,119 part of a round table. I don't even know what 339 00:18:33,160 --> 00:18:36,400 they're doing. Nothing, nothing wants prey programmed, nothing was played. 340 00:18:36,720 --> 00:18:40,440 He comes in the most authentic person because in my community, 341 00:18:40,559 --> 00:18:42,599 when white, older white men get around black people from 342 00:18:42,599 --> 00:18:44,480 my community, because it's so polarizing, not like the South. 343 00:18:44,680 --> 00:18:47,319 To President Trump, he wanted to be around black people 344 00:18:47,319 --> 00:18:49,160 and black people they could tapally know that, and he 345 00:18:49,200 --> 00:18:52,599 wasn't socially awkward. Then he says, they pray for me. 346 00:18:53,480 --> 00:18:56,400 People were yelling his name. They were this, so I'm, 347 00:18:56,640 --> 00:18:59,599 you know, preacher, I'm in my church from sending there there. 348 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:01,480 Speaker 1: I mean Trump, I said, hold on for a second time. 349 00:19:01,519 --> 00:19:03,839 We don't even chant Jesus like that. We are even 350 00:19:03,839 --> 00:19:05,599 careful around here. They're chanting his name. 351 00:19:05,720 --> 00:19:07,599 Speaker 6: They literally say happy birthday to him. 352 00:19:07,759 --> 00:19:10,359 Speaker 1: It was un real. I thought maybe there would have 353 00:19:10,359 --> 00:19:10,799 been a couple of. 354 00:19:10,759 --> 00:19:12,720 Speaker 6: Black people there. The play. We have about four hundred 355 00:19:12,720 --> 00:19:14,559 people there. Christ's about six hundred. We have four hundred 356 00:19:14,559 --> 00:19:18,200 people there, seventy percent for black. The media, the lying media. 357 00:19:18,240 --> 00:19:20,319 I never thought the media will lie. They said it 358 00:19:20,359 --> 00:19:22,000 was nothing, but all white people there. They just lied. 359 00:19:22,039 --> 00:19:23,680 Speaker 1: It was crazy. He's a pastor. 360 00:19:24,359 --> 00:19:25,319 Speaker 6: Why don't you pray for me? 361 00:19:25,519 --> 00:19:27,000 Speaker 1: And I just pray for pray for protection. 362 00:19:27,079 --> 00:19:27,960 Speaker 6: He prayed for protection. 363 00:19:28,480 --> 00:19:32,039 Speaker 1: I see this, and then where's my fatigue? Will the 364 00:19:32,079 --> 00:19:35,759 President's pursue in Christ? He wants Jesus to be king 365 00:19:35,799 --> 00:19:38,599 of his life. And then I get hopeful and we 366 00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:40,960 all have this faith walk and we're all where we're at. 367 00:19:41,039 --> 00:19:43,000 And I think the President, I've described this as baby 368 00:19:43,079 --> 00:19:46,119 Christian and all that means if you're not evangelical, all 369 00:19:46,160 --> 00:19:50,119 that means is that you are spiritually dead. You know, 370 00:19:50,279 --> 00:19:54,680 Jesus is king. You are now spiritually awake, your little 371 00:19:54,680 --> 00:19:56,680 baby in the faith. What can the faith do for me? 372 00:19:57,799 --> 00:19:59,720 What will the church do for me? It's being me 373 00:19:59,759 --> 00:20:02,079 and me, me, me, And that's sadly and we can 374 00:20:02,119 --> 00:20:04,680 admit this right, that fits some of the way President 375 00:20:04,720 --> 00:20:07,160 Trump thinks. So then I start to get this hope. 376 00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:10,480 But there's still this core question, and it's really why 377 00:20:10,519 --> 00:20:14,119 I'm feeling my Trump fatigue today. I had forgotten something 378 00:20:15,440 --> 00:20:17,960 that me as a father, this would have floored me 379 00:20:18,119 --> 00:20:21,599 in the worst way. I would have been driven into 380 00:20:21,599 --> 00:20:26,000 depression and sadness. I certainly wouldn't have celebrated this, but 381 00:20:26,079 --> 00:20:30,079 President Trump did. It drives my Trump fatigue, and this 382 00:20:30,119 --> 00:20:34,279 core question, what is the governing principle of Donald John Trump? 383 00:20:35,200 --> 00:20:38,200 Who is lord of his life? And if it's God? 384 00:20:38,559 --> 00:20:41,160 And I hate to say this, which one I know 385 00:20:41,240 --> 00:20:43,200 that is a provocative question. And I hope to show 386 00:20:43,200 --> 00:20:45,680 you why I have this question in the midst of 387 00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:48,880 my Trump fatigue, because I see the Day of Prayer announcement. 388 00:20:49,720 --> 00:20:52,720 So President Trump wants to do a national Day of Prayer. Okay, 389 00:20:53,079 --> 00:20:55,319 we do that. He wants to make it special, does 390 00:20:55,359 --> 00:20:58,359 a very Trumpian announcement, because he has to build it 391 00:20:58,440 --> 00:21:00,759 up into this thing where it's an insert no one 392 00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:02,920 it's very hard. No one thought, Oh that's tough, that 393 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:06,200 can't get done. It's a very Trumpian announcements, he putting 394 00:21:06,279 --> 00:21:11,119 himself at the center of discussion about God Almighty. 395 00:21:10,759 --> 00:21:14,039 Speaker 8: Support this exciting renewal. This morning, I'm pleased to announce 396 00:21:14,079 --> 00:21:18,960 that on May seventeenth, twenty twenty twenty six, that we're 397 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:22,519 inviting Americans from all across the country to come together 398 00:21:22,799 --> 00:21:24,559 on our national mold. 399 00:21:24,839 --> 00:21:26,559 Speaker 1: Now you can see he's reading at this point, right, 400 00:21:26,559 --> 00:21:28,839 hasn't that cleared? Everybody see he's looking at the teleprompter. 401 00:21:28,920 --> 00:21:31,559 He's reading, and he does what President Trump does. He 402 00:21:31,599 --> 00:21:33,480 throws in a little ad lib, as if to make 403 00:21:33,519 --> 00:21:34,839 it seem he's not reading. 404 00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:38,079 Speaker 8: Ray to give thanks and to rid we are going 405 00:21:38,160 --> 00:21:41,759 to do something that everyone said, like, that's. 406 00:21:41,640 --> 00:21:42,440 Speaker 1: Tough ad lib. 407 00:21:42,559 --> 00:21:47,720 Speaker 8: We're going to rededicate America as one nation under God. 408 00:21:47,839 --> 00:21:53,200 You know a lot of people, Yeah, thank you very much. 409 00:21:53,279 --> 00:21:56,279 It's good. That's what I mean by that's what I 410 00:21:56,359 --> 00:21:57,160 mean by the spirit. 411 00:21:57,200 --> 00:21:58,559 Speaker 2: It's so incredible to see it. 412 00:21:58,599 --> 00:22:01,279 Speaker 8: I see it so much. You've never seen anything like it. 413 00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:04,680 Speaker 1: I don't hear a lot of conviction. I never seen 414 00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:07,559 anything like it. Now, I don't want to bear false witness. 415 00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:12,000 I don't know that the president is a non Christian. 416 00:22:12,880 --> 00:22:15,039 I don't know that I've described him as a baby Christian. 417 00:22:15,640 --> 00:22:17,440 But I'll tell you why I have Trump fatigued today. 418 00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:19,160 It's because of this last thing. It has to do 419 00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:23,599 with his daughter. Some of this escaped my attention makes 420 00:22:23,599 --> 00:22:26,440 me incredibly sad, and it gives my Trump fatigue a 421 00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:29,000 particular state of acuteness this morning. I'll share this with 422 00:22:29,039 --> 00:22:32,359 you in a second. President Trump is the driving force 423 00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:35,400 behind our economy. There's no doubt that he has been 424 00:22:35,559 --> 00:22:39,079 a disruptive force in great ways. He intends to be 425 00:22:39,119 --> 00:22:42,400 even more disruptive, say banning big companies from buying up 426 00:22:42,519 --> 00:22:46,119 entire neighborhoods. Praise God, Praise God. They should just be forced. 427 00:22:46,160 --> 00:22:47,880 If you want to do that, go build new homes. 428 00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:51,079 Then that adds homes, It adds to the available marketplace, 429 00:22:51,119 --> 00:22:52,920 and that can reduce home pricing. Not that I want 430 00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:54,880 about you've new homes where I live, But that's better 431 00:22:55,640 --> 00:22:58,920 AI eating up jobs. President Trump wants the country to 432 00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:01,359 invest in AI. He wants to back these AI companies. 433 00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:03,880 He's created a group of winners and losers of AI. 434 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:07,319 Don't like that. That's going to be completely disruptive. If 435 00:23:07,319 --> 00:23:10,640 you intend to retire and your retirement account isn't attuned 436 00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:12,759 to these things, which would mean to me it has 437 00:23:12,799 --> 00:23:15,559 to be actively managed, and I mean really actively. I 438 00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:17,720 question how you get out of this with any form 439 00:23:17,799 --> 00:23:20,640 of real retirement. I really question if you're five to ten, 440 00:23:20,720 --> 00:23:23,839 even fifteen years from retirement. 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I can't 459 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:23,319 believe I didn't see this, But this is the core 460 00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:26,519 of why I redeveloped an acute case of Trump fatigue 461 00:24:26,559 --> 00:24:31,119 this weekend. If your son or daughter came to you, 462 00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:36,079 if you're a Christian, and they said something that was say, 463 00:24:36,359 --> 00:24:41,880 you know what, I reject Jesus Christ. If you are 464 00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:45,200 in a Christian family and your daughter said, hey, can 465 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:49,279 we sit down we have a discussion. Mom, Dad, I 466 00:24:49,359 --> 00:24:53,359 reject Jesus. He's not my Lord, he's not my savior. 467 00:24:55,200 --> 00:25:01,000 He's a false Messiah. I don't believe in him. What 468 00:25:01,039 --> 00:25:09,759 would your response be. Mine would be sadness, maybe some anger. 469 00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:16,039 I might feel a little desperate. I know i'd be praying, 470 00:25:17,799 --> 00:25:21,640 and Christians hold their kids up in prayer anyway, so 471 00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:25,119 I know i'd be praying constantly. What I wouldn't do 472 00:25:26,519 --> 00:25:28,039 is what President Trump did. 473 00:25:28,319 --> 00:25:30,880 Speaker 8: And let me also give a very special thanks to 474 00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:36,960 someone who truly loves Israel, in fact, loves it so 475 00:25:37,119 --> 00:25:40,400 much that my daughter converted. 476 00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:42,319 Speaker 4: My daughter. 477 00:25:44,039 --> 00:25:46,240 Speaker 1: I didn't know this was going to happen. 478 00:25:50,119 --> 00:25:51,200 Speaker 8: And Evoka is here. 479 00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:12,359 Speaker 1: Those are people applauding in the Israeli Kinessant chamber as 480 00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:17,319 President Trump was addressing the Kanesseant, applauding that she has 481 00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:26,400 disowned Jesus Christ. I have Trump fatigue. A Christian man 482 00:26:26,559 --> 00:26:33,680 cannot applaud his child's denying Christ. So what is the 483 00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:36,960 governing principle of President Trump? And why do I get fatigued? 484 00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:41,440 Because I think the governing principle is what moves President 485 00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:45,440 Trump to the center of all conversations. How is he 486 00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:49,240 the one everyone's talking about. Those of us who are 487 00:26:49,279 --> 00:26:51,759 ambassadors for Christ should want that to be the very 488 00:26:51,839 --> 00:26:54,720 last thing. Now, it's hard to be president and not 489 00:26:54,759 --> 00:26:57,559 be at the center of the conversation. To be fair 490 00:26:57,640 --> 00:27:01,920 to President Trump and the alternative to Donald John Trump, 491 00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:07,400 the alternative Cammi Harris, I fully believe that would have 492 00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:12,240 been the last step in the unbelievable and fast destruction 493 00:27:12,319 --> 00:27:12,720 of America. 494 00:27:12,799 --> 00:27:13,119 Speaker 2: Totally. 495 00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:18,279 Speaker 1: I don't regret my vote at all. I simply regret 496 00:27:18,319 --> 00:27:23,759 wondering is President Trump truly Christian? Is the true motivating 497 00:27:23,799 --> 00:27:26,119 factor in his life? How does he move himself to 498 00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:29,640 the center of something? So I guess I have Trump fatigue, 499 00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:33,440 and I'm curious do you have it too? Story number three, 500 00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:39,200 the Body of Christ versus fallen church bosses. There's a 501 00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:42,480 fight going on and it doesn't get enough attention, and 502 00:27:42,519 --> 00:27:46,160 it is a fight between members of churches and denominations 503 00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:50,759 in church bosses. In the Bible, we're told that the churches, 504 00:27:51,079 --> 00:27:53,720 the churches that intend to be adherent to the Word 505 00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:57,160 of Christ, that they'll be bodied, they'll be governed by elders, 506 00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:01,200 that there's a leadership committee. And the Bible describes elders 507 00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:06,680 as men above repute. They have great reputations. There's some specifics. 508 00:28:07,079 --> 00:28:11,200 They're not drunkards, they're good with finances, their kids follow them, 509 00:28:11,599 --> 00:28:15,440 respect them, They've got their respect to their wives. They 510 00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:19,640 have well structured households. So they're evidently men who have 511 00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:23,319 done a good job of abiding with God. And then 512 00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:26,759 in the Church of Jesus, the church that Jesus built, 513 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:29,920 then being able to lead other people to follow Christ, 514 00:28:30,039 --> 00:28:34,480 to abide and to struert resources and to lead and 515 00:28:34,559 --> 00:28:38,160 to lead others to not stray from the path. So 516 00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:41,200 there is a governing system that Jesus laid out. We 517 00:28:41,279 --> 00:28:44,240 know this because the apostles when they founded the first church, 518 00:28:44,559 --> 00:28:47,440 created a group of elders, and that was initially the apostles, 519 00:28:48,039 --> 00:28:50,880 but they seeded churches around the world. I mean they 520 00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:52,559 seated them around the world. They went back through the 521 00:28:52,599 --> 00:28:55,920 same program. Who are going to be the elders? What 522 00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:59,200 are the qualifications of elders? Paul wrote about this in 523 00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:02,160 Timothy and Eltchi. Where as he was lecturing Timothy on 524 00:29:02,279 --> 00:29:06,039 how he was to direct church plans and well run 525 00:29:06,119 --> 00:29:09,480 Christian churches, this is still the way. So you have leadership, 526 00:29:09,519 --> 00:29:12,400 then that's held accountable to who, well, the Body of Christ, 527 00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:17,240 because the elders must come before the body and must 528 00:29:17,279 --> 00:29:19,839 be reviewed by the body. We do this at our church, 529 00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:22,640 and the way it works is, Hey, if anyone here 530 00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:24,839 has reason why this man should not be an elder, 531 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:29,000 get with us and tell us, and we have I 532 00:29:29,039 --> 00:29:33,440 think sixty ninety days in order to make these claims. 533 00:29:33,559 --> 00:29:37,720 They can't be anonymous, because why you can lie anonymously. 534 00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:39,480 If you have a reason a man should not be 535 00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:41,359 an elder, you go and you say, here's why this 536 00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:42,799 person should not be an elder. And by the way 537 00:29:42,799 --> 00:29:46,599 that's happened, people have had to withdraw from processes because 538 00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:49,480 people came up within the congregation and said that person 539 00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:51,920 should not be an elder and here's why. And at 540 00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:54,079 least one of the cases, the elder came back and said, 541 00:29:54,119 --> 00:29:58,480 you know what, they're right. I hadn't even thought about that. 542 00:29:58,519 --> 00:30:01,640 I can't be an elder. I haven't dealt with that spiritually. 543 00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:05,599 I can't possibly lead this church. So well run church 544 00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:10,240 has these leadership qualifications. Then you have the pastor, usually 545 00:30:10,279 --> 00:30:13,519 a member of the leadership team. He is beholden to 546 00:30:13,599 --> 00:30:16,720 the elders. In our case at our church, our pastor 547 00:30:16,759 --> 00:30:20,079 can't fire anybody on his own. He can't hire anybody 548 00:30:20,079 --> 00:30:22,680 in his own. This all has to go through this process. 549 00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:25,640 This is to make sure that this restraint, that the 550 00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:27,880 flesh doesn't come into play, that the pastor doesn't get 551 00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:30,119 up say you're fired. Nope, you can't do that. That 552 00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:31,720 has to go to be a forid elders work. You 553 00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:33,400 know what, I love this guy he's hired. Nope, that 554 00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:36,839 has to go before an elders board in this case. 555 00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:38,720 Then you have then the Body of Christ and any 556 00:30:38,759 --> 00:30:41,920 time can go and challenge leadership, and you do this 557 00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:44,200 in the Bible first, one on one. If that doesn't work, 558 00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:46,319 then you bring people as witnesses. If that doesn't work, 559 00:30:46,319 --> 00:30:48,400 you take it in front of the elder board. Anybody 560 00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:50,400 on the elder board could be challenged as being an elder. 561 00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:52,480 I know this person's an elder right now, but they 562 00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:57,119 shouldn't be. It's ultimate transparency. What we're seeing in the 563 00:30:57,119 --> 00:31:00,680 Body of Christ, though, is a war between the people 564 00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:03,440 who make up the body and false bosses. And in 565 00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:07,079 this case there's actually some good news. The Church of 566 00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:11,799 England voted and this is the Church universal. I'm not 567 00:31:11,839 --> 00:31:14,160 just talking about American churches. Jesus is not the Lord 568 00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:16,799 and Savior of America. He's not the God of America. 569 00:31:16,799 --> 00:31:20,160 He's the Lord of the universe. The Church of England 570 00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:22,279 voted two hundred and fifty two to one thirty two 571 00:31:22,359 --> 00:31:27,119 with twenty one abstentions to cease efforts advancing LGBQ and 572 00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:30,640 so called T acceptance in the church. So this goes 573 00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:34,160 along with blessings and same sex marriages. And this was 574 00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:38,319 between africansensus between what they like to call conservatives and 575 00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:42,720 liberals have been reached. Conservatives and liberals. What does that 576 00:31:42,799 --> 00:31:45,240 mean in a church environment? What is a liberal in 577 00:31:45,279 --> 00:31:47,960 a church environment or a conservative? I went through the 578 00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:49,880 Bible and looked at this. It doesn't exist. What are 579 00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:54,200 there teachers and false teachers? How do you tell the difference? 580 00:31:55,599 --> 00:32:00,440 False teachers deny the word of God. They model the 581 00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:02,960 word of God. The Bible says multiple times do not 582 00:32:03,119 --> 00:32:05,559 add or subtract from this. In the Book of Revelation, 583 00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:08,720 it's made pretty clear, woe to those who add or 584 00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:11,160 subtract from this. It's a grave sin to change the 585 00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:13,759 word of God. False teachers are warn what will happen 586 00:32:13,839 --> 00:32:17,519 to false teachers? So what does liberal mean? It simply 587 00:32:17,559 --> 00:32:19,599 means this, they don't care about what's in the word, 588 00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:23,160 because if the word hurts them or denies them their flesh, 589 00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:25,759 in many cases they're going to deny that word, or 590 00:32:25,759 --> 00:32:27,960 twist that word, or end up saying that the word 591 00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:31,559 doesn't say what the word so clearly says. And the 592 00:32:31,640 --> 00:32:34,799 word is meant as a way to relate to God. 593 00:32:36,039 --> 00:32:39,559 We call this the vertical relationship. This is us relating 594 00:32:39,559 --> 00:32:42,559 to God. And then the horizontal relationship, this is us 595 00:32:42,599 --> 00:32:45,359 relating with one another. The Bible has some i think 596 00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:48,720 three hundred mentions of one another how we deal with 597 00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:51,079 one another. And of course the Bible also shows us 598 00:32:51,079 --> 00:32:53,599 how God intends to be worshiped, how he wants to 599 00:32:53,599 --> 00:32:55,759 be worshiped, and that he wants a relationship with us. 600 00:32:55,920 --> 00:32:59,480 Jesus when he walked the earth, it wasn't just him 601 00:32:59,519 --> 00:33:03,240 teaching and curing people and performing miracles, et cetera. What 602 00:33:03,319 --> 00:33:06,559 was he doing. He was creating relationship. He said at 603 00:33:06,559 --> 00:33:08,759 one point, I no longer just think of you as followers. 604 00:33:08,759 --> 00:33:12,279 I think of you as friends. They created relationships with him. 605 00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:15,319 Christ wants to walk with us. Go back to church leadership. 606 00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:19,440 In a well run church, in a Christian church, there 607 00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:23,480 shouldn't be this fancy dividing line between members and bosses. 608 00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:26,440 You know, at our church, we call our pastors my 609 00:33:26,519 --> 00:33:28,559 first name. In fact, my friend Jim, who is the 610 00:33:28,559 --> 00:33:31,079 senior pastor where I go to church. For a while, 611 00:33:31,119 --> 00:33:34,039 I couldn't get used to calling him Jim, and I'd 612 00:33:34,079 --> 00:33:35,599 slip on a com pastor. And he said to me 613 00:33:35,599 --> 00:33:38,559 one day, he goes, don't do that, please, He goes, 614 00:33:38,599 --> 00:33:41,359 do I call you talk show host Todd or podcaster Todd? 615 00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:43,480 I don't. I just call you Todd. Just call me Jim. 616 00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:46,200 I'm just Jim. This pastor is my job. I'm Jim. 617 00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:49,599 It's not who I am. It's what I do. So 618 00:33:49,599 --> 00:33:53,599 there shouldn't be these big dividing lines, but there are. Now. 619 00:33:53,640 --> 00:33:55,960 I know that the Catholic face has different views of this, 620 00:33:56,079 --> 00:34:00,279 that people are priests are treated like fathers, and there's 621 00:34:00,319 --> 00:34:02,480 the Confession of Booth, and I respect that aspect of 622 00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:04,559 the faith. It's not something I can do because I 623 00:34:04,599 --> 00:34:06,440 don't like that dividing line. I think it seems all 624 00:34:06,519 --> 00:34:10,559 very fair sequel. But that's me been the churches that 625 00:34:10,599 --> 00:34:15,119 are fighting against keeping the church attached to the Bible. 626 00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:19,320 You have these leaders, they stand against the church body 627 00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:22,920 in most ways. This was a consensus two fifty two 628 00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:25,800 to one thirty two to stop this advancement because the 629 00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:29,119 advancement goes against the Word of God. And just consider 630 00:34:29,199 --> 00:34:31,880 this is the Church of England, and the Church of 631 00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:33,960 England has been fallen for a very very long time. 632 00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:35,920 This is a bit of a comeback. It's like a revival. 633 00:34:37,079 --> 00:34:40,119 Claire Robinson is a priest in the Church of England. 634 00:34:40,159 --> 00:34:44,639 And incidentally, the Bible makes clear that women are not 635 00:34:44,719 --> 00:34:47,960 to be teaching men. They don't have to have pastoral roles. 636 00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:51,960 And I know that young women, in particular below the 637 00:34:51,960 --> 00:34:53,840 age of fifty look at this and go that's why 638 00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:56,360 I can't And I well, okay, this is what this means. 639 00:34:57,440 --> 00:35:00,960 God values men and women equally and he has given 640 00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:04,800 them different gifts. There is no being a pastor is 641 00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:09,320 not more important than leading a women's Bible study. Being 642 00:35:09,320 --> 00:35:12,239 a pastor is not more important than being a janitor. 643 00:35:13,079 --> 00:35:13,280 Speaker 2: You know. 644 00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:14,960 Speaker 1: I look at the janitor at our church, the guy 645 00:35:14,960 --> 00:35:18,039 who runs the janitorial services. He shows up at baptisms 646 00:35:18,039 --> 00:35:19,760 for kids. He was at this Lake Baptist and we 647 00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:23,000 did this Sunday. The kids love him and it doesn't 648 00:35:23,039 --> 00:35:25,039 occur to them. Oh, he's just the janitor. Why is 649 00:35:25,079 --> 00:35:28,880 he here? No, he's Tim, Now, Tim, I sweet, Tim's here. 650 00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:32,480 People love Tim. Maybe because we're taught and reminded that 651 00:35:32,559 --> 00:35:36,400 everybody's gifted differently. Some people are gifted to lead and teach. 652 00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:39,320 Other people are gifted to make sure that our church. 653 00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:41,000 I dare you to come to our church and find 654 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:43,159 that dirty. I dare you to come and find something 655 00:35:43,199 --> 00:35:46,719 broken because of how he runs his crew. A great 656 00:35:46,719 --> 00:35:50,360 respect for this. So when people take the Bible and 657 00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:52,360 they twist it and you end up with a female 658 00:35:52,440 --> 00:35:54,239 priest in the Church of England, they're still not going 659 00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:57,760 to address that. She's upset with these changes that the 660 00:35:57,840 --> 00:36:00,840 Church of England has come about with in regard to 661 00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:02,719 the part of the Word of God in relation to 662 00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:04,280 sexual morality. 663 00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:08,920 Speaker 7: Twenty twenty three, the bishops apologized to the LGBTQI plus 664 00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:12,960 community for the way in which the Church has rejected 665 00:36:13,079 --> 00:36:16,480 or excluded you and those you love. We are deeply 666 00:36:16,639 --> 00:36:21,199 sorry we have not loved you as God loves you, 667 00:36:21,960 --> 00:36:27,519 and that is profoundly wrong. We affirm publicly and unequivocally 668 00:36:27,599 --> 00:36:30,719 that you are welcomed and valued. 669 00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:34,880 Speaker 1: They haven't changed any of this. When they voted to 670 00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:38,320 not advance same sex marriage, when they voted to not 671 00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:42,280 advance blessing the same sex marriages, they didn't say stop 672 00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:45,599 coming to church. They didn't say you're not welcome here. 673 00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:49,239 They said we cannot bless your sin. We're not going 674 00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:52,719 to come and have an adulterous couple step before the 675 00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:54,800 church and say, you know what, we're each cheating on 676 00:36:54,559 --> 00:36:58,159 our spouses, but we really like each other and we 677 00:36:58,280 --> 00:37:01,239 really like having sex. Bless this. The church has to 678 00:37:01,280 --> 00:37:05,280 say no, we can't do this, but Claire Robinson is 679 00:37:05,280 --> 00:37:06,199 going to continue here. 680 00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:10,159 Speaker 7: I wept when I read those words. I believed that 681 00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:13,719 they were heartfelt and true. I thought they would change 682 00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:19,719 my life. I was wrong. My beloved partner is eighty eight. 683 00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:24,679 The grindingly slow left process now means that we are 684 00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:29,519 very unlikely to be permitted to marry. Yet still we 685 00:37:29,599 --> 00:37:31,960 live as visible signs of the love of God in 686 00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:36,079 our community. For God is love, and those who live 687 00:37:36,239 --> 00:37:40,880 in love live in God, and God lives in them. 688 00:37:42,199 --> 00:37:47,119 Speaker 1: My intention now, God lives in people who have given 689 00:37:47,159 --> 00:37:51,719 themselves back to Jesus, accepted him as Lord and savior, 690 00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:55,239 first mentally and then through their mouths confessed them confessed 691 00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:59,400 Jesus's savior with their mouths. Who's agreed to allow Jesus 692 00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:03,159 to change them. Those are the people who have the 693 00:38:03,199 --> 00:38:06,719 Holy Spirit, not people who love as she defines love, 694 00:38:07,039 --> 00:38:09,599 because the Bible defines love in a very very different way. 695 00:38:09,679 --> 00:38:15,599 Speaker 7: Pritty remains intact. I have upheld my ordination vows in 696 00:38:15,639 --> 00:38:20,320 obedience to my bishop. I know that ordination is a 697 00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:24,000 privilege beyond telling, even if I have not lived my 698 00:38:24,199 --> 00:38:29,920 life in the fullness which Christ promises to all who 699 00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:31,039 believe in his name. 700 00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:34,280 Speaker 1: No, Jesus did not promise marriage to all who believe 701 00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:38,079 in his name. Maybe she means that she's no longer 702 00:38:38,119 --> 00:38:43,119 remember the body of Christ. If you continue to sin 703 00:38:43,719 --> 00:38:45,920 and practice sin as if to get good at the sin, 704 00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:51,159 you're probably not in the body of Christ. You probably 705 00:38:51,239 --> 00:38:55,679 excommunicate yourself from it. And maybe God can't be around 706 00:38:55,719 --> 00:38:58,079 you because He can love you and not be around 707 00:38:58,119 --> 00:39:01,159 your sin. Now I can look at her and the 708 00:39:01,199 --> 00:39:03,599 sad look on her face, and my frush comes up. 709 00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:06,360 I feel sad for her. I don't know why God 710 00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:08,079 made these rules. I just know he's God and he 711 00:39:08,119 --> 00:39:11,880 always acts on our behalf. There was a poll about this, 712 00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:14,599 and it was talking about would you perform the weddings 713 00:39:14,639 --> 00:39:16,880 of a same sex couple if your religious group allowed it. 714 00:39:17,239 --> 00:39:20,480 This is based on religion, a religious tradition of clergy, 715 00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:23,480 and this was polls given the clergy Catholic forty six 716 00:39:23,519 --> 00:39:28,480 percent absolutely not or definitely not, Evangelical eighty percent definitely not, 717 00:39:29,719 --> 00:39:34,519 Black Protestants seventy percent definitely not, and yet their course 718 00:39:34,599 --> 00:39:38,800 attached to the Democrat party mainline. There is no such 719 00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:41,760 thing as mainline anymore. Such a funny phrase. Twenty three 720 00:39:41,760 --> 00:39:45,280 percent Non Christians twenty three percent, so mainline. You know, 721 00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:51,639 Episcopal churches like that. That are falling churches. The ELKA 722 00:39:51,719 --> 00:39:57,320 Lutheran Church is mainline. They match non Christians twenty three 723 00:39:57,360 --> 00:40:02,360 percent definitely not yes, non Christians seventy two percent quote 724 00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:06,320 only forty nine percent of mainline Christians. The loss definitely 725 00:40:06,360 --> 00:40:10,920 not or definitely as the lowest is Black, Protestants and 726 00:40:11,119 --> 00:40:16,039 Evangelical by far. So I talked about this war between 727 00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:18,239 the Body of Christ, the members of the Body Christ 728 00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:22,719 and church bosses. Notice I didn't say elders, because it's 729 00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:26,079 not elders, it's people acting like church bosses. This is 730 00:40:26,159 --> 00:40:28,840 Rachel Man, a prominent so called transgender priest in the 731 00:40:28,920 --> 00:40:29,559 Church of England. 732 00:40:29,679 --> 00:40:32,559 Speaker 3: It is my heart is so bruthed I still wonder 733 00:40:32,559 --> 00:40:35,920 if I might ultimately simply abstain. I speak of someone 734 00:40:35,960 --> 00:40:39,840 who's been involved in work for greater lgbtqia plus inclusion 735 00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:42,559 and celebration in the church for long enough that LLF 736 00:40:42,639 --> 00:40:47,000 still feels almost new. The ongoing meanness and exclusions towards 737 00:40:47,039 --> 00:40:50,119 same sex married couples in ministry is not worthy of 738 00:40:50,199 --> 00:40:54,280 a national church in a modern liberal democracy. I find 739 00:40:54,280 --> 00:40:56,960 the claim that LLF has achieved the end of issues 740 00:40:57,000 --> 00:41:01,840 as execrable. The clutching at the thinnest of Is it 741 00:41:01,920 --> 00:41:06,719 right to lament? Yes, and yes, but also no. I 742 00:41:06,719 --> 00:41:11,719 don't want lament, not after the bruising decades. I want action. 743 00:41:12,039 --> 00:41:16,079 I'm tired then for good reason. But I'm also really 744 00:41:16,159 --> 00:41:18,360 tired because of our failings as a church. 745 00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:24,199 Speaker 1: He is or she so called transgender person said, not 746 00:41:24,840 --> 00:41:29,199 befitting a national church. Well, I don't care about national churches. 747 00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:32,920 I care about one church, the one Jesus created on 748 00:41:32,960 --> 00:41:36,480 his plan, because it's only that church which will stand 749 00:41:36,599 --> 00:41:40,679 against the gates of Hades. This is the todd hermanshell. 750 00:41:40,760 --> 00:41:43,920 Please go, be well, be strong, be kind, and please 751 00:41:43,920 --> 00:41:46,400 make every effort to walk in the light of Christ.