1 00:00:00,520 --> 00:00:02,680 Speaker 1: Welcome to the three Stories version of the Todd Hermer Show. 2 00:00:02,759 --> 00:00:06,559 Story number one, I pass fail test for the GOP 3 00:00:07,240 --> 00:00:11,080 on the fake Pardons. Story number two, Chip and Joanned 4 00:00:11,119 --> 00:00:14,119 Gains have surrendered to the world. And story number three 5 00:00:14,880 --> 00:00:18,280 stop thinking you know God's reason for everything. We get 6 00:00:18,280 --> 00:00:21,879 started with the help of renew dot Healthcare and to 7 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:23,640 the great auspices of God Almighty. 8 00:00:25,719 --> 00:00:29,559 Speaker 2: But Todd Herman Show is one percent disapproved by big 9 00:00:29,640 --> 00:00:37,399 pharma technocrats and tyrants everywhere from the high mountains of 10 00:00:37,560 --> 00:00:45,359 Free America. Here's the Emerald City exime Todd Herman. 11 00:00:52,560 --> 00:00:55,119 Speaker 1: Today is the day the Lord has made in These 12 00:00:55,159 --> 00:00:56,920 are the times to which God has to said that 13 00:00:56,960 --> 00:01:01,000 we shall live. Great opportunity to have a fail test 14 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:05,760 for shiny shoed Republicans in Washington, d C. And also 15 00:01:05,799 --> 00:01:09,319 a great opportunity to say, did Facebook really make a turn? 16 00:01:10,799 --> 00:01:13,680 Hillary Clinton said something there, wrote something there, and it's 17 00:01:13,719 --> 00:01:15,359 not a pardon she got. We'll talk about that in 18 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:19,200 a second. So Alex Thompson is the co author of 19 00:01:19,359 --> 00:01:23,760 the cya book that Jake Tapper and he wrote, Original Sin, 20 00:01:24,079 --> 00:01:26,719 where they pretend that the media didn't know that Joe 21 00:01:26,760 --> 00:01:30,719 Biden was demented and cognitively impaired, and they were just 22 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:33,920 fooled by the great, great, great illusions of the people 23 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:37,719 who ran Joe Biden. They didn't notice because there is 24 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:41,359 so clever so Alex Thompson has been on this unending 25 00:01:41,400 --> 00:01:43,879 book tour with Jake Tapper, and he did come out 26 00:01:43,920 --> 00:01:47,319 with a commentary on a New York Times piece. New 27 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:49,640 York Times piece, by the way, has now an a 28 00:01:49,959 --> 00:01:51,879 dendum to it. Let me start with this. This is 29 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:55,439 mix Thompson writing, Biden did not individually prove each name 30 00:01:55,480 --> 00:01:58,760 for the categorical pardons. Rather than ask Biden to keep 31 00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:01,840 signing revised versions, his staff waved and then ran the 32 00:02:01,879 --> 00:02:05,400 final version through the autopen, which they saw as routine. 33 00:02:07,959 --> 00:02:11,439 Even after mister Biden made the decision, one former aide said, 34 00:02:11,719 --> 00:02:15,159 the Bureau of Prisons kept providing additional information about specific inmates, 35 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:20,039 resulting in small changes to the list, small changes. Rather 36 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:22,879 than ask Biden to keep signing the revised visions his 37 00:02:22,919 --> 00:02:25,120 staff versions, his staff waved them and then ran them 38 00:02:25,159 --> 00:02:32,039 through the final version of thee outopen. It's routine. Mister 39 00:02:32,039 --> 00:02:35,120 Biden did not individually prove each name for the categogal partons. 40 00:02:35,120 --> 00:02:37,680 That applied to large numbers of people. And by the way, 41 00:02:37,719 --> 00:02:41,439 we said that at the time, there's no way he 42 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:43,360 sat down and read all their cases. He might have 43 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:47,240 read their names, there's no way he sat down and 44 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:49,840 read all these cases. It's routine to take one of 45 00:02:49,879 --> 00:02:55,680 the most extraordinary powers of the presidency and turn it 46 00:02:55,719 --> 00:03:01,439 over to whoever's controlling the autopen. That isn't the least 47 00:03:01,439 --> 00:03:08,360 bit routine. It's in fact a huge test for shiny 48 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:13,039 shoed Republicans if this is true. Oh and by the way, 49 00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:18,639 the addendum the New York Times, Biden said that's not true. 50 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:23,719 This is ascertainable. They have people behind closed doors who 51 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:25,599 have testified that, yeah, I had access to the out 52 00:03:25,599 --> 00:03:27,000 of pen, and yeah I had access to the out 53 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:28,759 of pen. I had access to the out of pen, 54 00:03:28,840 --> 00:03:30,840 and maybe Jill, doctor Jill had access to the out 55 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:35,400 of pen. If this is allowed to stand, we had 56 00:03:35,560 --> 00:03:39,280 never again have need for anything but a figure out. 57 00:03:40,840 --> 00:03:44,719 Someone who trapes is about and plays comforter in chief, 58 00:03:44,759 --> 00:03:50,240 or in the role of Biden forgetter in chief. And 59 00:03:50,319 --> 00:03:54,680 that's the bad news. There might be good news. There 60 00:03:54,759 --> 00:03:58,080 might be a true shift has to do with words 61 00:03:58,120 --> 00:04:01,479 on paper, just like this did, and a power broker 62 00:04:01,639 --> 00:04:03,479 just like this did, or let's say a former power 63 00:04:03,479 --> 00:04:06,199 broker no more, but a woman who knows how to 64 00:04:06,240 --> 00:04:09,360 go out and make money, give her that credit. You 65 00:04:09,439 --> 00:04:12,520 better believe that the Clinton Foundation and the Gates Foundation 66 00:04:12,639 --> 00:04:15,919 and all these foundations are set up partly for money laundering, 67 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:19,680 partly for protection of assets, partly to allow them to 68 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:22,319 spend money anyway they see fit. So were the web 69 00:04:22,360 --> 00:04:26,439 of LLCs that surrounded the Biden crime family. That was 70 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:30,839 all money laundering. And you better believe that they've established 71 00:04:30,959 --> 00:04:36,639 actual nonprofit credit, actual credits, corporate credit to protect their assets. 72 00:04:36,639 --> 00:04:39,560 Better believe it because their banks take care of them. Now, 73 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:41,120 I'm not saying your bank doesn't want to take care 74 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:43,879 of you, but they are incentivized to not tell you, 75 00:04:43,959 --> 00:04:46,319 if you're a smaller medium sized business owner, to not 76 00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:49,959 tell you that you actually don't have corporate credit. Corporate 77 00:04:49,959 --> 00:04:54,920 credit means it can grow more quickly, It is fundable. 78 00:04:54,959 --> 00:04:58,800 It makes your business something banks can fund, venture capitalists 79 00:04:58,839 --> 00:05:02,519 can fund. 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On June 99 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:09,279 twenty fourth, the former First Lady New York Senator, US 100 00:06:09,279 --> 00:06:13,160 Secretary of State and failed presidential candidate wrote or posted 101 00:06:13,360 --> 00:06:16,519 three years ago. Today, Trump's far right Supreme Court majority 102 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:20,160 ended America and America's federal right to abortion under row 103 00:06:20,240 --> 00:06:22,959 versus way. Since then, over one hundred women have been 104 00:06:22,959 --> 00:06:26,399 denied emergencies so called abortion care. One of them, Amber 105 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:29,240 Nicole Thurman, was only twenty eight and left behind the 106 00:06:29,319 --> 00:06:32,040 sun today. Share her story, which you can find that 107 00:06:32,079 --> 00:06:34,639 pro publica, and keep fighting for reproductive freedom for all. 108 00:06:35,439 --> 00:06:39,160 Clinton's post received a community note for explaining note explaining 109 00:06:39,240 --> 00:06:42,839 the context that Thurman died from infection after taking abortion 110 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:46,199 pills in North Carolina. She went to a Georgia hospital 111 00:06:46,399 --> 00:06:50,839 where she became seriously ill. Doctors delayed and needed DNC 112 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:55,600 for nearly twenty hours. Despite George's law allowing emergency care. 113 00:06:56,279 --> 00:06:58,879 Her death was ruled preventable. Her family's suing for wrongo 114 00:06:58,959 --> 00:07:02,360 death and medical malprit attorney Ben Crump said the law 115 00:07:02,439 --> 00:07:06,920 did not stop care and action did. Facebook announced community 116 00:07:06,959 --> 00:07:10,199 notes in March, inspired by X and a feature there 117 00:07:10,319 --> 00:07:11,759 by the same name. It would draw on a broader 118 00:07:11,839 --> 00:07:14,120 range of voices exist on a platform to decide what 119 00:07:14,240 --> 00:07:18,000 content would benefit from additional information. So there is no 120 00:07:18,120 --> 00:07:21,120 longer a true free for all for people like her 121 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:25,079 to be allowed to lie. So, in other words, Mark 122 00:07:25,199 --> 00:07:32,920 Zuckerberg's Facebook is more serious about enforcing truth than it appears. 123 00:07:33,199 --> 00:07:37,000 The gop in Washington, DC, is in relation to these 124 00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:45,000 fake pardons, Zuckerberg more honest than the congressional gop wow 125 00:07:46,639 --> 00:07:52,000 story number two, Chip and Jones gains have effectively surrendered 126 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:52,480 to the world. 127 00:07:53,839 --> 00:07:54,040 Speaker 2: Now. 128 00:07:54,120 --> 00:07:56,839 Speaker 1: I don't know much about these guys. I am almost 129 00:07:56,839 --> 00:08:00,519 completely disconnected from pop culture. My beloved wife and I 130 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:03,600 we watch certain shows, a very small number of them, 131 00:08:03,959 --> 00:08:06,759 and increasingly just spend their time in prayer and praising God. 132 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:11,000 So praise God for that. I mean, I'm tangentially aware 133 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:14,199 of these guys. But what the charge is is that 134 00:08:14,240 --> 00:08:17,199 they are now going woke. I would say it a 135 00:08:17,240 --> 00:08:20,000 different way. I don't think it's going woke from what 136 00:08:20,040 --> 00:08:22,000 I've read and what Ship has said. We don't know 137 00:08:22,040 --> 00:08:24,720 the end of the story yet. Maybe there's more to 138 00:08:24,759 --> 00:08:27,240 this story, so we'll dig into the story here in 139 00:08:27,279 --> 00:08:29,040 a second. Because no doubt, there's a lot of big 140 00:08:29,079 --> 00:08:31,279 money behind this. These guys have been very, very, very 141 00:08:31,279 --> 00:08:33,360 successful in media, so you know there's a lot of 142 00:08:33,360 --> 00:08:36,000 big money behind this. Now, you may not have big money, 143 00:08:36,039 --> 00:08:39,639 but you certainly have savings. 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Oh look at it you guys ready? 177 00:10:28,320 --> 00:10:28,559 Speaker 2: Yep? 178 00:10:29,200 --> 00:10:33,120 Speaker 1: Are Dallas based dads that Hannah Riggs all of your 179 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:34,039 tech here? 180 00:10:34,320 --> 00:10:34,919 Speaker 2: Phones? 181 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:39,679 Speaker 1: Devices? Okay, what's first? No more work, no more emails, 182 00:10:39,960 --> 00:10:42,399 no more pings, no more bings everywhere we go. Are 183 00:10:42,399 --> 00:10:44,000 you guys ready to get rid of these devices? 184 00:10:44,159 --> 00:10:44,200 Speaker 2: No? 185 00:10:46,440 --> 00:10:54,240 Speaker 1: Alexa, Good morning, I'm Jason Hannah. My name is Joe Riggs. 186 00:10:54,559 --> 00:10:57,240 We have our twin boys, Ethan and Lucas, that are 187 00:10:57,480 --> 00:11:03,639 ten years old, so probably surrogates created these children with 188 00:11:03,720 --> 00:11:08,159 these men and these guys Chip and Jedi Gaines are 189 00:11:08,279 --> 00:11:13,879 confession Christians, Christians confessing Christians, so they can certainly have friendships. 190 00:11:14,799 --> 00:11:19,039 Of course, these seem like nice men. I'm sure they're 191 00:11:19,039 --> 00:11:22,720 super successful, and I bet they're charitable. I bet they're nice. 192 00:11:22,759 --> 00:11:27,480 They're probably very honest men. Those are great qualities. They're 193 00:11:27,519 --> 00:11:34,039 also living against God's design. That's hard when we talk 194 00:11:34,080 --> 00:11:38,279 about these issues. I cannot help but remember and know 195 00:11:38,399 --> 00:11:40,799 and be hurt by the fact that I've lost friends 196 00:11:40,799 --> 00:11:46,480 because of this. I am now thought of as a homophobe, hateful. Now, 197 00:11:46,559 --> 00:11:50,080 the truth is I can't conjure a bit of hate 198 00:11:50,320 --> 00:11:54,000 for anybody because of their sexual attraction, because I myself 199 00:11:54,120 --> 00:11:59,000 am a sinner because my father committed adultery and I 200 00:11:59,039 --> 00:12:02,120 still loved him. And the Church has made a horrible 201 00:12:02,159 --> 00:12:05,799 mistake by taking acting upon same sex attraction and making 202 00:12:05,799 --> 00:12:08,080 it the specialists and a horrible mistake, a hurtful mistake. 203 00:12:09,639 --> 00:12:14,559 It's a mistake filled with massive hypocrisy. But Shippen Jointy 204 00:12:14,600 --> 00:12:18,279 gains being confessing Christians and bringing these guys onto the 205 00:12:18,320 --> 00:12:21,600 TV show. I mean, if it's there to discuss the issue, 206 00:12:23,440 --> 00:12:25,919 so maybe talk about what the Bible says on this 207 00:12:27,159 --> 00:12:30,159 to maybe hope to share light into this. That's one thing. 208 00:12:31,559 --> 00:12:36,639 Another thing is to normalize it. Now, am I arguing 209 00:12:36,639 --> 00:12:39,480 that these guys shouldn't be allowed to have kids? Nope, 210 00:12:41,159 --> 00:12:45,840 this is not a theocracy, and no Christian nationalism can 211 00:12:45,879 --> 00:12:50,759 actually really exist. You can have a Christian nation where 212 00:12:50,759 --> 00:12:54,720 the majority of people are biblically strict Christians. That can happen, 213 00:12:55,879 --> 00:12:58,879 but there can be no top down Christian theocracy because 214 00:12:58,960 --> 00:13:03,440 Jesus Christ. Never mind that he never forced anybody to 215 00:13:03,519 --> 00:13:08,039 do anything. Now, eventually every knee will bow and every 216 00:13:08,039 --> 00:13:12,440 tongue will confess all of us. All of us will 217 00:13:12,440 --> 00:13:17,240 face judgment day and I have I'm sure a whole 218 00:13:17,679 --> 00:13:20,799 massive list of sins that I'm going to be faced with. 219 00:13:20,919 --> 00:13:23,720 Now I believe I'm saved. In fact, I know I am. 220 00:13:24,080 --> 00:13:26,600 I've given myself to Jesus christis my Lord and savior. 221 00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:29,200 I choose to be saved by Him. When I depart 222 00:13:29,240 --> 00:13:32,840 the path, I am repentant, and sometimes it takes me 223 00:13:32,879 --> 00:13:35,399 a while to get to truependance. And when I do, man, 224 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:40,159 it is heavy. What Ship and Joanna Gains are doing 225 00:13:40,200 --> 00:13:44,200 here isn't going woke. It is giving into the world. 226 00:13:44,279 --> 00:13:46,919 It's surrendering to the world. He simply can't have a 227 00:13:46,960 --> 00:13:51,000 show like this without same sex attracted dads. And I'll 228 00:13:51,039 --> 00:13:53,320 be paying attention to this. I've never paid attention to 229 00:13:53,360 --> 00:13:55,519 their careers before. But Ship said, we don't know how 230 00:13:55,559 --> 00:13:58,679 the whole story. So when the whole story comes out, 231 00:13:58,799 --> 00:14:01,360 I look forward to telling it because maybe the whole 232 00:14:01,360 --> 00:14:05,480 story is they actually share their faith and the reality 233 00:14:05,480 --> 00:14:07,639 of what the Bible says about same sex attraction and 234 00:14:07,679 --> 00:14:12,399 fornication and adultery. May God make that soe story number three. 235 00:14:13,919 --> 00:14:17,440 We need to stop thinking that we know God's reasons 236 00:14:17,480 --> 00:14:22,720 for everything we really do. This is a disease. God's 237 00:14:22,879 --> 00:14:26,960 ways are so far above ours. In every possible capacity, 238 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:31,200 He sees things we are incapable of seeing. It's a trite, 239 00:14:31,399 --> 00:14:34,159 perhaps metaphor, and perhaps if you've been in church you've 240 00:14:34,200 --> 00:14:36,440 heard this often. If you've not, I don't know that 241 00:14:36,480 --> 00:14:38,320 you have. But when you watch an ant, if you've 242 00:14:38,360 --> 00:14:41,399 ever sat and studied an ant, and you see the 243 00:14:41,440 --> 00:14:43,840 ant trying to let, say, get across a stream of water. 244 00:14:43,879 --> 00:14:45,919 I can remember this as a boy sitting in the 245 00:14:45,919 --> 00:14:47,799 front yard at my dad's house. He had these twenty 246 00:14:47,799 --> 00:14:51,080 two acres and there'd be some water going down his hill, 247 00:14:51,279 --> 00:14:52,759 and we could see the bugs trying to make their 248 00:14:52,759 --> 00:14:54,320 way across. In fact, we made a little game out 249 00:14:54,360 --> 00:14:58,360 of it. We would build little bridges for the bugs, 250 00:14:58,360 --> 00:15:00,120 the ants. No, here's your bridge, go to your They 251 00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:04,919 wouldn't go there because they couldn't see it. We've said, silly, aunt, 252 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:06,840 if you just came here, you could get right across 253 00:15:06,879 --> 00:15:11,039 this thing. That's God's view of us. We think we 254 00:15:11,080 --> 00:15:13,399 see all things. We think we see all options. But 255 00:15:13,480 --> 00:15:17,360 God doesn't respect hills or time, or time constructs or 256 00:15:17,399 --> 00:15:19,360 dare night. He doesn't need any of that. He already knows. 257 00:15:20,559 --> 00:15:22,679 So we need to stop thinking that we understand God's 258 00:15:22,679 --> 00:15:24,919 reason for everything. And I bring this up because of 259 00:15:24,960 --> 00:15:28,320 a guy named Joe Blankson. I had no idea what 260 00:15:28,399 --> 00:15:30,600 this guy did. And it was a few years ago 261 00:15:30,679 --> 00:15:36,159 that this Nigerian man saved thirteen lives before drowning on 262 00:15:36,200 --> 00:15:40,399 his fourteenth attempt. That's a picture of Joe. God rest them. 263 00:15:40,919 --> 00:15:43,240 So I'll tell you why I was inspired to speak 264 00:15:43,279 --> 00:15:45,919 this way by his story of what Joe did, And 265 00:15:45,919 --> 00:15:47,720 it has to do with some of the responses that 266 00:15:47,759 --> 00:15:51,120 came after people learned about Joe Blankson and what he did. 267 00:15:51,320 --> 00:15:54,519 They started to want to understand all of God's ways. 268 00:15:55,600 --> 00:15:58,200 Now there are some ways to understand God for sure. 269 00:15:58,399 --> 00:16:00,600 We can spend time in his word, can spend time 270 00:16:00,600 --> 00:16:03,519 with Christians more mature than we are. We can pray 271 00:16:03,600 --> 00:16:06,440 and make sure that we listen and spend time listening 272 00:16:06,440 --> 00:16:09,120 to God's responses to our prayers. We can do all 273 00:16:09,159 --> 00:16:12,960 of these things. We can also choose to expose ourselves 274 00:16:13,039 --> 00:16:18,840 to media that is faith affirming, media that helps us 275 00:16:18,879 --> 00:16:23,039 build our faith. Angels Studios has a new release. It's 276 00:16:23,080 --> 00:16:26,399 called Testament, and this is a series that brings the 277 00:16:26,440 --> 00:16:31,480 Gospel post resurrection to life. It's the Book of Acts 278 00:16:31,519 --> 00:16:36,080 and it's filled with surveillance and censorship, hostility to truth. 279 00:16:36,120 --> 00:16:40,519 Does that sound familiar. The Apostles literally put their lives 280 00:16:40,559 --> 00:16:43,960 on the line, and all but John were martyred. They 281 00:16:44,120 --> 00:16:47,440 just couldn't finish the job with John. So as they 282 00:16:47,480 --> 00:16:50,200 go throughout the worlds spreading the word of Jesus Christ, 283 00:16:50,240 --> 00:16:52,919 they're also building his church. You will watch this happen. 284 00:16:53,240 --> 00:16:55,039 You'll see that we live in times that are kind 285 00:16:55,039 --> 00:16:58,840 of similar to this. Paul, James, Phillip, Stephen, Mary. You 286 00:16:58,960 --> 00:17:00,600 see them in a whole new life. Do you bet 287 00:17:00,679 --> 00:17:04,279 there's some license taken with this. Mary's not really depicted 288 00:17:04,279 --> 00:17:05,839 in the Book of Acts, but we can guess what 289 00:17:05,920 --> 00:17:09,279 she did. But the depictions that do exist are biblical 290 00:17:09,279 --> 00:17:12,440 and biblically sound, because that's what Angel Studios does. So 291 00:17:12,480 --> 00:17:16,039 here's what you can do to support this bold look 292 00:17:16,559 --> 00:17:20,319 on how the Church of Christ was built, because the 293 00:17:20,400 --> 00:17:24,359 Church of Jesus, the one He constructed, will not fold 294 00:17:24,400 --> 00:17:26,839 to the gates of Hades at all. Join the Angel 295 00:17:26,920 --> 00:17:30,160 Guild that Angel dot Com slash todd Premium members receive 296 00:17:30,200 --> 00:17:33,200 two free tickets to every theatrical release that's Angel dot 297 00:17:33,240 --> 00:17:36,839 com slash tod to stream Testament and support bold faith 298 00:17:36,880 --> 00:17:39,759 oven content about the one and only God to try 299 00:17:39,839 --> 00:17:44,880 you in God personified here through Jesus Christ. So the 300 00:17:44,920 --> 00:17:49,079 personification of God through Jesus Christ. It's a way that 301 00:17:49,119 --> 00:17:50,759 we can get to know God and what God did 302 00:17:50,799 --> 00:17:52,960 and how he did things as a man. That's very 303 00:17:53,039 --> 00:17:55,519 very helpful for us, and people want to take that 304 00:17:55,599 --> 00:17:57,559 and read into a whole bunch of things about God's 305 00:17:57,599 --> 00:18:01,000 decision making. It's a good pattern, but it doesn't mean 306 00:18:01,039 --> 00:18:05,240 that we know all things. Joe Blankson saved thirteen people 307 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:08,720 on a fourteenth attempt. He died. This is from local 308 00:18:08,839 --> 00:18:11,880 Nigerian media. And by the way, it's so fun to 309 00:18:11,920 --> 00:18:13,839 look back at the time where people wore wok masks 310 00:18:13,880 --> 00:18:15,400 because they were told they would die if they didn't. 311 00:18:15,400 --> 00:18:18,519 Speaker 3: He was raining heavily during the boat's passage and the 312 00:18:18,680 --> 00:18:22,720 river was full of debrits. Eventually the boat cap site 313 00:18:22,920 --> 00:18:27,559 turned over. Unfortunately, now Blankson swum in and out of 314 00:18:27,599 --> 00:18:34,960 the river fourteen times, so exhaustion stepped in. He moving 315 00:18:35,119 --> 00:18:37,079 back to rescue the fourteenth person. 316 00:18:38,759 --> 00:18:39,119 Speaker 2: Yeah. 317 00:18:39,400 --> 00:18:42,240 Speaker 3: That Unfortunately, that became the end of his journey on earth. 318 00:18:42,759 --> 00:18:45,559 He wasn't able to make it back after that one. 319 00:18:45,160 --> 00:18:48,799 Speaker 1: So the man died on his fourteenth attempt. He saved 320 00:18:48,839 --> 00:18:52,400 thirteen lives. And it was reading some of the responses, 321 00:18:52,480 --> 00:18:55,839 and some of them were so utterly foul. I have 322 00:18:55,960 --> 00:18:58,559 to hope they were created by bots. They were just 323 00:18:58,599 --> 00:19:01,839 there to create racial divisions, saying ridiculous things about black 324 00:19:01,839 --> 00:19:08,599 people in swimming. Why division? This caught my eye from spectrum. 325 00:19:09,759 --> 00:19:12,640 He saves thirteen people from drowning, but then he himself drowns. 326 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:14,839 I believe in God, but things like this just don't 327 00:19:14,839 --> 00:19:18,160 make sense. It'says though he's being punished for helping others. 328 00:19:18,880 --> 00:19:21,200 Drowning is a painful way to go and panic inducing. 329 00:19:21,880 --> 00:19:25,799 Why couldn't he have died in his sleep? In nineties 330 00:19:25,839 --> 00:19:29,519 Kid writes, no good deeds goes unpunished. Rond s possible 331 00:19:29,559 --> 00:19:31,880 or rewarded, depending on how you look at death, though, 332 00:19:31,920 --> 00:19:34,000 I will say his loved ones suffered, and I'm sure 333 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:36,680 his family has similar thoughts. I think his soul's removed 334 00:19:36,680 --> 00:19:39,480 to struggle and fear. From struggle and fear. Why so 335 00:19:39,599 --> 00:19:42,400 many accounts of seeing God, Jesus and loved ones and 336 00:19:42,480 --> 00:19:47,200 your death experiences gen x unsolicited opinion sweety if even 337 00:19:47,240 --> 00:19:50,200 if you believe in the Bible version of lower case God, 338 00:19:50,240 --> 00:19:52,480 you should know by now free will is a thing. 339 00:19:53,640 --> 00:20:01,440 Such remarkably smart commentary. What did God see the entire picture? 340 00:20:03,319 --> 00:20:07,400 God knew that this man would face this moment? So 341 00:20:07,440 --> 00:20:10,440 what can we take from this? One of the greatest 342 00:20:10,480 --> 00:20:16,480 examples of how the Lord Jesus described love. No greater 343 00:20:16,559 --> 00:20:18,799 love has man than to lay down his life for 344 00:20:18,920 --> 00:20:22,720 his brothers. These are people he didn't know, thirteen of them. 345 00:20:24,680 --> 00:20:27,720 Do you think it's possible that the God of the universe, 346 00:20:27,759 --> 00:20:31,079 who created everything in the universe, including the rules that 347 00:20:31,119 --> 00:20:34,920 govern it. Do you think it's possible that the God 348 00:20:34,960 --> 00:20:37,920 of the universe that moment took that man from pain 349 00:20:39,039 --> 00:20:43,440 and brought him to reward and showed him the future 350 00:20:43,640 --> 00:20:48,319 of what his act of kindness did and made him 351 00:20:48,359 --> 00:20:50,799 aware of the way he changed lives and inspired people. 352 00:20:51,160 --> 00:20:55,920 This post happened because every year people remember this man 353 00:20:56,039 --> 00:21:01,480 and his sacrifice. Let's stop pretend that we know why 354 00:21:01,680 --> 00:21:04,480 God does something, and let's just know this. We know God. 355 00:21:05,559 --> 00:21:09,119 He never does a thing to harm us, only to 356 00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:13,000 help us, because he's a good and loving father, and 357 00:21:13,039 --> 00:21:17,880 he has one big major offer. Do not drown and sin. 358 00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:23,480 Do not spend eternity drowning. Spend it with him by 359 00:21:23,559 --> 00:21:26,720 choosing Jesus Christ as your Lord and savior, admitting he 360 00:21:26,759 --> 00:21:29,440 is a Messiah, admitting you can't do without him, and 361 00:21:29,519 --> 00:21:33,680 agreeing to be changed by him. This is a Todd Hermannshaw. 362 00:21:33,759 --> 00:21:36,759 Please go, be well, be strong, be kind, and please 363 00:21:36,799 --> 00:21:39,359 make every effort to walk in the light of Christ.