Speaker 1: Welcome to the Three Stories version of The Todd Herman Show.
Disgraced FBI operative Andy McCabe is freaking out about Cash
Betel running the FBI. Good Story number two, a CNN
host is stunned that the Borders are is gonna arrest
Denver's insurrectionist mayor.
Speaker 2: She says oof.
Speaker 1: Story number three was Dietrich Bonhoffer, who was heroic? Was
he an actual Christian? I want to talk about this
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It's fascinating to watch the systems that run the country,
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Speaker 1: Ian McCabe is not a fan of Cash Patel being
named as President Trump's nominee to run the FBI.
Speaker 4: Andrew, I just want to start first with you and
just get your reaction to this news tonight.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Well, it's a terrible development for the men and women
of the FBI, and also for the nation that depends
on a highly functioning, professional, independent federal peer of investigation.
The fact that Cash Patel is profoundly unqualified for this
job is not even like a matter for debate.
Speaker 6: So I think what.
Speaker 5: We should what we should really be thinking about right
now is what does this signal in terms of Donald
Trump's intent.
Speaker 6: For the FBI, the installation or the nomination.
Speaker 5: I guess we should say at this point of Cash
Paatel's FBI director can only possibly be a plan to disrupt,
to dismantle, to distract the FBI, and to possibly use
it as a tool for the President's political agenda.
Speaker 6: And you know, as an organization, we know what that
looks like. This country has been there before, right I don't.
Speaker 1: Think he means it has been there before in the past,
you know, four years underfigure had Biden. But it's been
there for the past four years underfigurehead Biden. It was
there under Barack Hussine Obama. Any McCabe was part of Russia, Russia, Russia.
He was part of protecting the Hunter Biden laptop. He
was part of pretending that the Hunter Biden laptop was
Russian disinformation propaganda. He was part of all of that.
Any McCabe was part of an FBI that has not
gone after the people who've been bombing these pro life centers,
these birth centers. There's been about eighty bombings. There's been
about six people arrested. They're not pursuing them with any seriousness.
The FBI, who knows intelligence officials lied about the genesis
of the Hillary Clinton scandal about President Trump being a
Russian asset. They know where that came from. They know
there were campaign monies or laundered through a law firm.
That's a crime, you're laundering the intent. President Trump just
about went to prison for a book keeping air or
falsification number on Stormy Danis. The FBI knows all these things.
The idea that Nana McCabe is worried about the weaponization
of the FBI is laughable.
Speaker 2: But what about cash.
Speaker 1: Ptel's actual status for the job. He was the chief
of staff at the Department of Defense, Deputy Director of
National Intelligence, Senior Director for counter Terrorism at the National
Siturty Council. He's tried sixty jury trials. He is as qualified,
if not more qualified, than all the previous FBI directors.
But Andy McCabe is right about something. Cash Patel is
there to destroy.
Speaker 2: The c suite.
Speaker 1: That's what we called them in business, the bosses, the
same bosses who've lied to the American people and who
are political actors. Here's what's fascinating about Cash Patel. He
was victimized by Andy McCabe's deeply nonpartisan FBI. When Cash
was working on the Russia investigation for the Congress with
the White House, the FBI spied on him. They went
to Google and said we want all his information. Cash
Pattel found this out five years after the fact when
Google lawyers called him and said, hey, by the way,
we had an order to give the FBI all your information.
Cash Betel said, look, I'm a prosecutor.
Speaker 2: I get it. They went to everybody. They don't just
go to Google.
Speaker 1: They went to Facebook, they went to my banks, they
went to my phone companies.
Speaker 2: They did that.
Speaker 1: In order to try to find dirt on the guy
whose task was to investigate their investigation. It's not nonpartisan,
say any mckabe. I would say this. You're getting to
victimize the CNN audience. Who's gonna listen to you and
believe you. We don't believe you, at least I don't.
Good news is you don't need to care. If I
believe you, God knows every single motive in your heart.
He listened to every conversation you had encrypted or otherwise,
even if you had them in secure rooms, God was there.
He doesn't respect your encryption or your secure rooms. Everything
whispered in the dark. But when they be shouted from
the rooftops, and one day and you will answer for
any of the lies you have foisted upon the American people,
as I will.
Speaker 2: We'll all answer. Story number two. This is kind of
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Speaker 1: Is something we've talked about on the show in relation
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Speaker 1: The mayor of Denver, Mike Johnson, has said that he'll
go to jail in defense of illegal immigrants. The newly
elected Los Angeles County Police chief is said the same thing,
he'll go to jail.
Speaker 2: He's pledged his support to.
Speaker 1: Block illegal immigrants from being deported, which would mean he'd
be setting himself up for a felony charge because it
happens that harboring illegal immigrants is a federal felony. For years,
in the separate country of Washington, state separate country of California,
judges have secreted illegal immigrants defendants out of the courtroom
when they learn that Ice is there.
Speaker 2: In many of these.
Speaker 1: Separate countries, like Oregon, Washington, in California, they will not
charge you legal immigrants with felonies because if felony gets
you time in prison. In other words, you are detained
in prison for more than a year, at which point
Ice gets an automatic notice that you are here. Casey
Hunt has never responded with an oof to that. She's
never responded and shocked to wait a minute, hold on,
you have city, county, and state officials harboring criminals. They
took a pledge to defend the Constitution in the United
States against enemies foreign and domestic, and they're harboring criminals.
She's never responded this way. It's a quick clip, but
it says at all about CNN and Casey Hunt.
Speaker 5: I think we will see Denver rights and folks around
the country who will not violently resist them.
Speaker 2: Me and the Denver mayor, we agree on one thing.
Speaker 3: He's willing to go to jail. I'm willing to put
him in jail.
Speaker 6: Oof.
Speaker 2: Why hoof?
Speaker 1: If he becomes borders are She's a phrase I hate.
We shouldn't have anything like stars. He takes an oath
to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
He takes an oath to do that, So why the oof?
That shouldn't be an oof?
Speaker 2: It's this.
Speaker 1: She cannot relate to a federal government doing anything other
than virtue signaling. Casey, what is the act of harboring
illegal immigrants?
Speaker 2: What is that?
Speaker 1: Is it's upholding law? Is it defending the constitution? Is
it defending the taxpayer? Is it defending our border? Is
it doing their duty?
Speaker 2: What is it? You can say it's humanitarian?
Speaker 3: Is it.
Speaker 1: When our open border is used to bring carts, tells
and into our country? Who set up then supply lines
to bring human beings across, sometimes for sex trafficking, sometimes
for labor trafficking? Is that humanitarian? Is it humanitarian to
give illegal immigrants in our country twenty two hundred bucks
a month and ten thousand dollars in walking around money,
when we have homeless veterans, when we ourselves are a
bankrupt nation, is that really really humanitarian? We as a nation,
or five percent of the world's population, we have taken
in at least twenty percent of the.
Speaker 2: World's displaced people. Is that really a good thing?
Speaker 1: To take good people out of their country instead of
giving them the ability to fight within their own country
to save their country. On the topic of immigration, I
don't think it gets more entertaining than seeing a young
woman who, for whatever reason, does this video I think
laying on her back, wrapped up in a blanket. Maybe
this is a young girl thing. I don't know, but
this is a probably fourteen or fifteen year old girl
who asks some very precise questions in a response video
to AOC's videos. I'm responding to a response video by
a fifteen year old. That's where we've landed in this
media age. We agree being undocumented is a problem, but
our solution, instead of turning the military on our.
Speaker 2: Own people, is to document them. To document the undocumented.
Speaker 7: Why is America not allowed to have borders. If I
illegally crossed in other country's borders decided to start a family,
and then their leadership changes and I get caught, why
are they expected to now feel bad for me? I
understand having compassion for those sad stories out there, and
I'm not here for families getting torn apart. But if
you came here under false pretenses and now you get
caught and you're not here legally and you get sent home,
why do I have to feel bad for you? You
don't feel bad that people here who work every day
and pay taxes haven't been able to afford gas or groceries,
or car payments, or rent or a more. People can't
even afford to get their own house. And you guys
just get to walk in here and get stuff handed
to you on our backs. You don't feel bad. What
if Americans walked into your country and started demanding housing
and demanding food vouchers because what you were already supplying
us with for free wasn't good enough. All I'm saying
is the entitlement is getting a bit too out of hand.
And that's exactly why Trump and Holman are going to
step in. This country needs a harsh dose of reality,
and that's what we're about to get.
Speaker 1: The reality is this, Tom Holman will take a pledge
to support the Constitution and defend it against enemies foreign
and domestic, and foreign countries flooding our borders with people
they don't want in their countries, which is what very
often is going on, is an attack against our constitution.
One of the things on this because I find it fascinating,
The Economist wrote this headline to panic people.
Speaker 2: Donald Trump or this is a tweet. Donald Trump and.
Speaker 1: Tulca Gabbart are both opposed to section seven oh two
of the Foreign Surveillance and Tell At, which authorizes electronic
surveillance on American soil. If they caution it, the FBI
will lose a major source of intelligence. Glenn Greenwald, who's
written about the intelligent services for decades, A doctrinaire liberal,
same sex attracted man who recently lost his partner. Hope
he's healing his heart. I hope that God will call
Glenn to himself.
Speaker 2: Glenn writes this.
Speaker 1: Fiz's Section seven oh two didn't exist until two thousand
and eight, when the Pelosi led House enacted it. It
retroactively legalized Bush Cheney spying and Americans without warrants, they
still use suede to stop it. But now that it's
Trump and Gabbard a post everyone acts like it's a
sacred part of US history.
Speaker 2: Indeed it is acting. Story Number three.
Speaker 1: Do you know anything about Dietrich Bonhoeffer? Eric Metaxas wrote
what I think is probably the defining book about Bonhoeffer.
Speaker 2: And it was called bonne Hoffer.
Speaker 1: Eric is a great writer, great communicator, brilliant man who
wrote with a lot of love about Didrich Bonhoeffer. Jadrich
Bonhoeffer was a pastor in Germany who decided to not
give in to Hitler. For that he'll always be heroic.
Hitler had been quietly going around the churches. Nudge, nudge, nudge,
is just to change here or there in how you
practice your faith, just a little change. We'd like to
see maybe the music change just a little bit. Then
there was some scripture we found bothersome. Then we'd just
like you to put a picture of the fear in
the church. Does it need to be bigger than Jesus,
just needs to be there.
Speaker 2: Oh, by the way, could we start with Hyle.
Speaker 1: Hitler before we get to the sermon, and then there's
that picture of Jesus. He doesn't look particularly aran. So
we've had some of our artists with the third Reich
where and there's some other paintings. Here's a choice of them.
You can see all of them are erin which one
do you choose? After all the choices? Yours cash or charge?
Bonheffer refused. He came to America Ditrich Bonhoeffer, and he
hung out in New York and in the South, and
he heard American music, rock and roll and jazz, and
he became just smitten with that experience. He attended some
Black Baptist churches and loved the way they worshiped the Lord.
He loved the joyous worship. He loved the unstructured worship.
After all, remember he was a Lutheran, very structured form
of practicing Christianity at the time. Now we have Lutheran
churches that are very opposite of Christianity. Distreet Bonhoeffer agreed,
after a long debate, a lot of soul searching, to
involve himself in a plan to attempt to assassinate Adlf Hitler.
You shall not murder. He had to go through a
huge internal debate, huge prayers on this there's a new
movie coming out about Bonhoeffer that hits the theaters I
think now coming up this week twenty twenty four. It
focuses on that specific plot. It's a movie some of
my friends have seen. I'm probably gonna go see eventually.
And the question is this. I don't think there's any
debate that he's a hero, but was he actually a Christian?
Speaker 6: Something's coming?
Speaker 1: Look around and my friend, how much light do you see?
Speaker 4: Hello?
Speaker 3: Talkness file come to talk with you.
Speaker 7: Because of vision or something.
Speaker 1: It is in the black churches, black society, and America,
spensing the segregation.
Speaker 6: Colusion possible times.
Speaker 2: Back in Germany takes impossible courage.
Speaker 1: That they are in the plot, praying are they gonna.
Speaker 4: We have devised a plot to assassinate the fear.
Speaker 2: And told true story?
Speaker 4: Do we go to England?
Speaker 2: As a spy?
Speaker 3: Churchill sees Germany as a whole.
Speaker 7: He's afraid that a bomb trace to England would be
invasion or.
Speaker 3: Invasion invasion My country was invaded from Winding People.
Speaker 2: Bound Pastor it says on the screen, Hi, spy.
Speaker 1: Assassin design. So there's no doubts that he was heroic.
Jijuke bon Hoeffer was murdered. He was executed days before
the war ended. They still killed him.
Speaker 2: So I don't mean to say that he was not heroic.
But was he a Christian?
Speaker 1: We'll answer that in the second was Jijuke Bonheffer actually
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so was Deititch Bonhoeffer actually a Christian. There's a fascinating
article on this called Bonhoefer Reliable Guide that's linked in
the show notes.
Speaker 2: Bonheffer stated that the Holy Scripture.
Speaker 1: Alone witness to the divine revelation, which occurred as a
one time, unrepeatable, and self contained.
Speaker 2: History of salvation. They're right.
Speaker 1: There's a huge difference between the scriptures being a witness
to divine revelation and being divine revelation. Bonheffer happily accepts
the so called findings of higher destructive criticism. He rejects,
for example, the Biblical account of creation in favor of evolution.
Bonhoeffer on one occasion told his congregation unequivocally that the
Bible is filled with material that is historically unreliable. Even
the Life of Gesus, he said, is overgrown with legends myths,
so that we have scant knowledge about the historical Jesus.
Bonhoeffer concluded that the life of Jesus cannot be written.
He followed Rudolph Boltman in finding the New Testament full
of myths which have to be de mythologized.
Speaker 2: Bonhoffer wrote, my.
Speaker 1: Opinion of it today would be that he Boltman went
not too far as most people thought, but rather not
far enough. It's not only mythological concepts like miracles, ascension
and so on that are progmatic, but religious concepts as such.
Speaker 2: Let's pause.
Speaker 1: Here's the challenge when you begin picking apart the Bible.
If the Genesis account is not true, none of it is, well,
oh no. You could say, well, no, I agree with deuterotomy.
That's true, okay, but someone else might not. Someone else
might say, yeah, Genesis is true, but deuterotomy is not. Well, no,
but it's just a New Testament. Okay, what part of
it the Bible tells us that this is the complete,
in errant word of God. It's not to be added
to or subtracted from.
Speaker 2: But I don't like that part. Okay.
Speaker 1: Then you are dealing with the document that anyone can
slice apart. When you do that, you're slicing apart the
body of Christ again.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 1: You can accept the Bible as complete, the complete, inerrant
word of God, or you can say, yeah, it's got
some God stuff in there, and then everyone gets to
debate what's the God stuff and.
Speaker 2: What's not the God stuff.
Speaker 1: Back to Bonhaeffer in this article is he a trustable
guide for evangelicals the Cross is at the center of
their faith. Bonhaeffer did not believe in substitutionary atonement, Christ
suffering as a substitute for our sins, dying in our
place to earn eternal.
Speaker 2: Life for us.
Speaker 1: The Cross of Christ certainly is important to him, but
in a very different way. It is an example in
an inspiration. He's concerned that we live cross centered lives,
and by that he means that we wake up our cross,
our take up our cross, and follow Christ, living as
lives of self denial. Yes, as with Barth there's a
great emphasis on grace, but the idea of Christ as
the lamb of God taking where sins by suffering for
hell is missing to evangelicalism. That is a critical omission. Indeed,
Bonheffer would argue that we are saved by the incarnation
Christ taking on our nature rather than by his atoning death.
He taught us that in the body of Jesus Christ,
God is united with humanity. All of human is accepted
by God and the world is reconciled with God. In
the body of Jesus Christ, God took upon himself the
sin of the whole world and bore it. The Bible
is not hard to understand. Here you can look at
the most famous saying from the Bible bit a scripture,
John three sixteen.
Speaker 2: Look it up.
Speaker 1: He was also a universalist. Bon Hoffer was a universalist,
believing in the eventual salvation of all. He wrote, there's
no part of the world, no matter how godless, which
is not accepted by God and reconciled with God in
Jesus Christ. Whoever looks on the body of Jesus Christ
in faith can no longer speak of the world as
if it were lost, as if it were separated from Christ.
Every individual will eventually be saved in Christ. No, the
Book of Revelation makes very very clear there's a throne
of judgment where some will suffer forever in hell. There
is Jesus Christ saying he is the Truth, the Way,
the Truth, and the Life. And no one gets to
the Father but through him. If you don't get to
the Father, you spend a eternity apart from him. Jesus
spoke of winnowing. He spoke of branches being thrown in
the fire did not produce fruit because they were unconnected
from the vine. You cannot be a universalist and be
an evangelical. I don't think you can be a universalist
and be a Christian. Bonheffer believed in situation ethics, It
writes in this article the Sermon on the Mount receives
great attention in the Cost of Discipleship.
Speaker 2: This is one of Bonhoeffer's books.
Speaker 1: Bonhoeffer called fellow Christians to radical discipleship, to follow Jesus
with abandonment. However, most evangelicals miss one of his key points.
Discipleship does not, according to Bonhoeffer, involve learning the content
of Jesus teaching and following it. Rather, what is said
about the content discipleship is follow after me, run along
behind me. That is all, to follow him is something
completely empty of content. Bonheffer picks up Luther's strange phrase
sin boldly and draws the distinction between trying to keep
the law, which he regards as legalism. In obanying God,
for example, Bonhaeffer argues that trying to not tell lies
is legalism. He held a form of situation ethics, or
held to a form of situation ethics. What is right
and wrong depends on the circumstances and not on the
absolute law of God. However, God's law is an expression
of God's character, and he's unchangeable. The only way to
know the will of God is by studying the Scripture,
which contain the law of God. There can never be
a contradiction between God's law and God's will. Jesus did
not add asterix next to his teaching you shall not
lie unless it would hurt someone's feelings to tell the truth.
He didn't do that. Bonhoffer was a hero. He did
undertake an attempt to assassinate Hitler. He refused to be
told to stop preaching the gospel, even as he himself
didn't fully believe it, and yet God used him, didn't he.
I wonder how many people have come to the Lord
through Bonhoffer. A concern is that they actually come to
the Lord and not to teach Bonhoffer.
Speaker 2: This is the Todd Hermannshaw.
Speaker 1: Please go, be well, be strong, be kind, and please
make every effort to walk in the light of Christ.