Speaker 1: Welcome to the three Stories version of The Todd Hermer Show.
Story number one, President Trump loves black people more than
the pretenders like Nancy Pelosi and Gavin Newsom. Story number
two Republicans want you more censored? And story number three
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Speaker 1: Man, today is the day the Lord has made, and
these are the times to which God has decided which
shall live. I'll say something that could get some people
sort of bothered and that is that President Trump loves
black people more than do people like Gavin Newsom or
Nancy Pelosi. And I'll base that upon a number of
things that will go through here in this little presentation,
but I'll start with this. When Jesus Christ spoke of
the Body of Christ, one of my favorite statements of
his is, in the body of Christ, there's neither Greek
nor Jew, nor servant nor master. And you can send
that into neither black nor white. Now, Jesus didn't say
in the body of Christ there's neither Greek nor Jew.
Although those Greeks, man, they need some help with emotion.
They're just not very they're not very good with empathy.
And the Jews, you know, they need some help with
some of the ideas of grace. Plus, gosh, don't get
me started in the blacks. Those people can't follow laws
and they can't get into advanced placement courses. Plus the whites,
he was walking around being all white with their privilege
and keeping everybody down. Jesus didn't do that because he
wasn't a race bader. Oh, he recognized that the powerful
have a challenge. It's difficult, if not impossible, for a
rich man to make it into the Kingdom of Heaven
easier for the camera to go through the eye of
the needle, which was, by the way, a real place.
It's a difficult place to get a camera to go through.
So we can start with that. We could also start
with how we treat people we love. You know, we
give people we love everything they want. We never say no, Nope,
sometimes we do say no, and sometimes we recognize when
our loved ones have problems. Are challenges in the black community,
and government is responsible for a whole series of those challenges,
such as the absence of black fathers. You can thank
the Democrat Party for that, and the Welfare Party for that.
And Andrew Johnson who said, well, very very famously, give
me a few years and I'll have those blanks eaten
out of the palm of my hands. That was one
of his designs. In terms of this safety net program.
It was brutal. It was done on purpose, just as
the people who ran Joe Biden have been using Hispanic
people largely in this mass immigration for their political ends,
not to eat out of their hands, but to come
and change the Electric College. What a hallmark of loving
people is treating them equally like you treat your kids
and equally. Sure, some kids are more grown so they
get more privileges than others. Some kids might be more
emotionally able to handle let's say, a violet film than others,
but all in all, you love them equally. President Trump
treats people equally. He is not a fan of white lawbreakers.
None of the things he's doing in DC are about
race except this. The people who are most commonly victimized
by the crime in Washington, d C. Happened to be
black people. And President Trump's PR team knows exactly what
they're doing here when they put out this video that
they know that they're taking the Democrats like Nancy Pelosi
and Gavin Newsom and AOC and Eric Solwell, all of
whom have fallen for this. The fake conservative David Brooks
fell for this. Suddenly they find themselves on the side
of defending crime. This is what President Trump's Truth Social
team posted.
Speaker 3: Build our cities into beacons of hope, safety, and beauty
better than they have ever ever ever been before. We
will take over our horribly run Washington, d C. And
clean up, renovate, and rebuild our capital so that it
is no longer a nightmare of murder and crime. We're
going to get all the graffiti off the marble. We're
going to fix the roads and the medians which are
falling down all over this day, Washington, d c. Will
become a symbol of beauty, security, freedom, and strength.
Speaker 1: The White House puts that out. It's an official communication
went up on truth social and they know what they're doing.
They're pushing more Democrats like Nancy Pelosi to have to
stand for crime and Gavin Newsom to have to stand
for criminals as they've been doing. But what's the response
among the black people who President Trump supposedly hates. We'll
get to that in a quick second. I wanted to
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If you've ever lived in a high crime neighborhood and
you've ever had to behave as a person who knows
that you are in a high risk of victimization, and
you've had to have head unswivel, you have to sit
with your back to the wall. You have to pay
attention to why did that car drive by? Second time?
If you don't live in circumstances like that, or you
have to say, is this a drive by coming? I've
seen that car for the third time. There's five guys
in that car. Are they going to shoot? Let's get
out of here. If you've never lived in a neighborhood,
you've had to leave behind items you're getting ready to
purchase for your pregnant wife because three guys walked in
on a hot summer night, wrapped up in ski coats
and hoods and hats. Rieo said, that's it. I'm out.
You leave your stuff behind you to walk out, and
you find out later that, in fact, there was a
shooting in that store. If you've never lived in environments
like that, then you can't relate to people seeing what
President Trump has done with the National Guard in Washington,
DC and understanding that finally someone's doing something. Sometimes the
Constitution is a luxury. Now, to be clear, I'm not
going to involve myself in a stop point. If there's
a checkpoint and they're just checking IDs, I am that
guy who will say, okay, fine, I'll show you my
driver's license, but I'm not getting out of the car.
I'm going to show you anything else. I'm going to
sit here and ask one question. Am I being detained?
If I'm being detained, I'll pull my car over. You
can search. Then, you can see my license, you can
see my registration, can see my proof of insurance. But
until that point, I'm not playing. And sometimes that's a
luxury because people who live in these high crime neighborhoods
have five and six and seven year old kids being
victimized or constantly coming out having to spend thirteen hundred
dollars here and three tween hundred dollars there on the
windows being broken out in their car. Sometimes you can
view the Fourth Amendment as a luxury for other people.
President Trump is not going around violating the Fourth Amendment. Yes,
the checkpoints are on constitutional and people if they know that,
they don't have to participate. He's not kicking indoors, he's
not surveilling people. But what happened in one of the
first nights he said the National Guard out was peace.
Restaurants reported being more full than they had in years.
People dined outside on the street corners, on the sidewalks
that hadn't happened in years. There were knights without shootings.
Those are few and far between if you've ever lived
in a neighborhood where they're common. So here's some of
the responses that people were told. President Trump hates said.
This gentleman had his opinion, Well.
Speaker 4: I ain't gonna lie, boy, President Trump boy, our President Trump.
Speaker 2: Boy.
Speaker 4: He got that swag because yesterday when he was standing
on that red carpet waiting on the resting president to
walk up on him, and the way he shook his hand.
You saw the way he shook his hand with force. Boy,
I tell you I love that guy.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 4: President Trump, man, you're doing your thing well. I said,
you put in overtime right now, for real. You're trying
to stop the bloodshed in other countries, and you're working
on us to trying to stop the violence in all
these cities. I mean, my gud, you are really winning
right now.
Speaker 1: Do you see this man? Make a connection between Trunk's
President Trump's projection of strength with putin the flyover the
fact that, hey, lad, you said the Alaskist part of Russia,
welcome to America, pou, this is our air force base.
He extends it in who's stopping the bloodsheds between Ukraine
and Russia. He's trying that and then stopping the bloodshed
in the cities. I think President Trump doesn't just love
black people more than Nancy Pelosi and Gavin Newsom do.
I think he hates war more than they do. I
think President Trump is deeply committed to this West. It
are the peacemakers. For theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven,
and President Trump's trying to make this peace. So I
would contend that people who are willing to take the
abuse that Trump is taking from people like David Brooks,
who's saying that this is a sign of Nazism, and
who isn't saying it's Nazism, loves black people more. This
woman worked with a community leader in Washington, DC and
was worked with community leaders and is a leader, and
she wanted to talk about President Trump's DC cleanup.
Speaker 5: Do you not understand that this is what the residents
were I'm not talking about the bougie upper Etchealon's bougie blacks.
I'm talking about the everyday that have to deal with
these homeless people peeing and pooping on their steps and
then they have to clean it up. They don't feel
safe when they walk into their neighborhood. The gangs and
the drug the dope boys are just standing around the corner,
you know, like, do you not understand this is what
they want? I remember working with the community leader and
somebody had just gotten shot. This is like five years ago,
and I remember her praying and she said, Crystal we're
gonna have to invoke the National Guard, and that was
so foreign to me. Now I understand the shaite. These
people are helpless. And I'm not talking about the bougie
black people that live in their gated communities with their
new bills. I'm talking about the everyday grandmothers, and I'm
so glad that President Trump cares about them.
Speaker 1: So another black woman speaking differently than the black gentleman,
maybe with the different backgrounds, because race is not the
determination of views. My background iss may not match up,
but their view of President Trump does. President Trump loves
black people more than the pretenders like Gavin Newsom and
Nancy Pelosi because President Trump is willing to risk political
capital to make the capital safer. And if you've ever
lived in a zone like this that is literally something
that is becoming a war zone, then you'll recognize the signs.
And some of the signs are this. There are suddenly
areas of town where you don't go, and it's sort
of just unspoken. You don't do that, or you don't
ride the Orange line in Washington, d C. And I
was told this when I moved there. Hey, make sure
you don't ride the Orange line past eight o'clock or so.
Why well, because that's when the gang come into you
end up getting robbed. Make sure you don't do that,
or God forbid you ride the Red Line to its
point of termination. Really the Red Line, yap. I lived
for a bit in a hotel outside of Washington, d C.
In a place called New Carlton, and I was cautioned
by people make sure that you get to work early
and get home early to the hotel, because the Redline
could get really, really bad. President Trump loves black people
more because he treats them equally. President Trump is an
equal criticizer of people. He makes fun of people equally.
He doesn't stop from making fun of Gavin Newsom. He
calls him Gavin Newscum. He does the same thing the
black politicians. If he were a modern racist, he would say, well,
the blacks can't handle this. He doesn't do that because
President Trump does not have in his mind the blacks
can't handle it. They can't handle having no crime. No,
they deserve it. They're Americans who deserve to have no crime.
This woman comes out of her home with an experience.
It's very common to anybody who's ever lived in neighborhoods
like this. Her car windows busted, But it's not just
her car window.
Speaker 5: People always want to hype DC up and want to
come to DC so bad, but we deal with It's
that wake up too in the morning.
Speaker 2: The windows busted out.
Speaker 5: When I'm trying to go to work.
Speaker 1: She goes up down the streets and window after window
after window are broken out. And these aren't the old
style windows. You just take a hammer and bust them open.
They pull them out. And I said earlier that the
thirteen hundred dollars every month replace your windows. I know.
People said, oh, come on, car insurance covers that. No,
it doesn't not. If you live in neighborhoods like this,
you'll get a note from your car insurance company saying, hey, sorry,
we're changing your policy. There's been too many reports of crime.
Unless you can get your car to garage, we're not
going to be able to cover it. So sometimes people
lie in their insurance forms. They pretend they have garages
so they can even get insurance against car theft. See,
life is different in these ways. And President Trump apparently
knows this. There was apparently a trigger to this, and
this gentleman thinks he understands what ultimately pushed President Trump
into bringing the National Guard into Washington, d C. Oh
by the way, he also happens to be black.
Speaker 2: Hey, it makes sure I understand this too. I forgot
to talk about this.
Speaker 4: You got last for Trump.
Speaker 2: The trigger all this stuff that's going on in DC
was a.
Speaker 4: Three year old black girl getting And y'all say he
targeted black people, but the last drove the three year
old black girl game.
Speaker 2: Y'all care more about hating them their kids.
Speaker 1: Crazy. If you've ever lived in a high crime neighborhood,
if you've ever had the question why a car drove
by for a second or third time, if you've ever
been able to identify the gangsters when they walk up
into a park and therefore get your kids and family
is out, then you can understand this. If you've ever
been able to see the drive by coming, then you
understand this. And if you've ever heard the tears of
a family member who's lost a child in a random
drive by shooting, then you can understand why people like
we featured today might well believe that President Trump loves
black people more than the pretenders like Nancy Pelosi and
Gavin Newsom and aoc oh. And by the way, God
doesn't see the difference. Story number two Republicans want you
more censored. This is coming out of Washington, DC, clearly,
and it is a carbon copy of something that the
UK pushed. Now, let's examine something about the United Kingdom.
Do you believe that the United Kingdom is deeply committed
to protecting children? Do you see any evidence of that
the UK has foisted upon them gender confusion and gender defiance.
There's been rampant taking of girls and using them in
the worst possible ways by gangs of men from certain
parts of the world. And we're not allowed to say
on YouTube specifically what part of the world, but you
know what part of the world and you know the story.
So when you see that, do you think that the
UK shows any sign of caring about children? Or let's say,
for instance, this the lockdown societies, the upside down food pyramids,
the perverse way that they're teaching kids in schools, the
proliferation of devices, over proliferation of pharma. Do you see
any sign that they're really concerned about children. Well, the
UK pushed a digital ID verification and they did this
because it was to protect kids from harmful content meaning
what exactly harmful means a lot of things. They're just
doing the same thing in Australia. Hey, look, this is
happening all over the world, all over the world. Suddenly
there's a concern for the kids and access to harmful content.
Harmful meaning what they don't want to say. I mean,
they're saying that this is about kids being no longer
exposed to overtly and horrible and violent sexual imagery. But
why not just say that, because that's not the design.
The design is to use the excuse of kids as
a human shield to come in or kiddy shield as
it were, to come in and make sure that the
government gets more and more opportunity to censor. And it's
about making sure that social media sites understand if we
the government come along and say you expose people to
harmful content, and we the government later came and said,
see it was harmful, we're going to find you money.
So what might be harmful In the United States, we'll
talk about this carbon copy bill in a second. And understand,
Congress isn't going to give up their protection for free
speech because remember, they can't be sued for things they
say on the house floor. They can't be sued for
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This is from Reclaimed thanet dot org. The Kids Online
Safety Act is moving forward in the US Senate with
sixty new co sponsors as of July thirty one, twenty
twenty five, reviving a proposal that copies the same type
of provisions found in the UK's controversial Online Safety Act,
which caused much backlash across the Atlantic. In Britain. That
measure forces online platforms to implement digital ID checks before
granting access to content deemed harmful quote harmful a policy
has caused intense resentment over policy violations, the erosion of anonymity,
and government overreaching the realm of free speech. Now laws,
US lawmakers are considering a similar framework, with more senators
from both parties throwing a support behind the bill in
recent weeks. Marketed as a way to shield children from
harmful online material, COOSA has gained prominent backing from Apple,
which is publicly praised as a step towards improving online safety.
Why would they do this? Apple because they want smaller
competitors who can't afford to pay the bills to not
be allowed to post contents or not be able to
do it economically, so things like Apple News could thrive,
that people could take refuge in Apple News, making sure
that if harm harmful content is out there, that people
are indemnified from it in terms of finance. They also
want to strike out anonymity because they do not like
anonymous people being able to criticize them. And yet anonymous
people have always been able to criticize governments, and you've
always been able to anonymously read something, say a book. Well,
they don't want you reading things anonymously. They want to
know who you are and what you're reading. There's people
who fancy themselves big defenders of freedom, big defenders of
small government, people like Marshall Blackburn. Yeah that Marshall Blackburn.
She's defended the bill stating big tech platforms have shown
time and time again they will always prioritize the bottom
line over the safety of our children. Okay, fair enough,
So do this, Marcia. Just say what you want to
be considered harmful. If it's sexual imagery, say it. If
it's violent, sexual imagery, say that. If it's imagery of violence,
say that. You be the censors that you don't want
the kids to see this stuff. I don't want them
to see sexual imagery. I have no problem making sure
that kids who aren't eighteen don't see that. I have
no problem with age ratings on things, no problem at all.
What I have a problem with is you leaving this
phrase open. Harmful is far too open. Mike Johnson remarked
that he loves the principle, but the details are very problematic.
Praise God for recognizing that. The list of senators who
backed this shouldn't surprise anybody. John Thune, who's a pretend conservative, backsit.
Chuck Schumer backs it. You can go through in the
show notes and see the link to some of the
other Republicans who back this, People like our senator in
Idaho backs this thing. What are you doing backing this?
You can't be a conservative and back this without coming
around and saying, I want specifically known what we're going
to call harmful, Senator Mike Crapo. What they want is
the ability to lord their power over others. What they
want is the ability to determine afterwards what's harmful. And
by the way, you just watch what becomes harmful. Remember
we live in a world where they made an attempt
to make it illegal, illegal for officeholders to question the
outcome of an election because it could be harmful. Remember
we live in a world where people were disappeared from
social media for asking simple questions like, hey, if that
mask works, why doesn't it work? And then remember this,
God himself is pro free speech. We know that because
he invented free speech. He's also a pro accountability. We
know that well, because he's told us that story number three.
What if God didn't invent marriage in order to make
you happy? Does that seem like an odd question? In
First Corinthians, Chapter thirteen, verses four through seven, we read this,
Love is patience. Love is kind. It does not envy,
It does not boast. It is not proud, It does
not dishonor others. It is not self seeking. It is
not easily angered. It keeps no record of wrongs. Love
does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Where
should that be particularly true?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 1: All over the place? Where would be a great price
to practice that? That sort of behavior. If you think
about practicing anything, it's done in intensity. For instance, you know,
one of my hobbies, and probably my core hobby, is CrossFit,
and I enjoy it and I intend to go compete
in it. And when I do that, of course, I
do this in concentrated form. If I'm building up to
a competition that's coming up, for instance, I'm going to
be working out a lot more than if it weren't.
So as I'm doing that, I'll be adding volume and
volume and volume and workouts and workouts and workouts, because
it's in that concentrated form that I can practice the
behavi I need now far more important to me than
CrossFit ever was ever will be is my marriage. And
in marriage we practice these behaviors not just on a
daily basis, but every single day. It's opportunities to get
better at them. CrossFit could disappear from the face of
the earth tomorrow, and what would still remain is my
deep commitment to my marriage and my wife and the
deep gift I get from that, the profound gift. One
of those gifts that we get from marriage is of
course moments of happiness. We get seasons of happiness, and
sometimes we get seasons of struggle. So what if God
didn't invent marriage to make you happy? This is a
common modern belief that marriage is about giving us happiness.
Marriage is about something because God invented it. But what
if happiness is a byproduct of something else. If you
go back through when you look at First Corinthians. Here,
love is patient, Love is kind. It does not enby,
It does not boast. It is not proud, It does
not this on others. It is not self seeking, It
is not easily angered. It keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trust, always helps, always perseveres. Marriage
is a concentrated form of life. What an amazing thing.
You share a home with another adult, you share a
bed with another adult, I would hope don't ever give
up your marriage bed. You share discussions sometimes arguments with
another adult. You share finances, you share bodies. That's a
pretty concentrated form of interaction. And if it's going to
break down these things, this biblical form of love, If
it's going to break down, I bet it's going to
be in marriage. But that's where the fishers will show,
because that's where the stress points show. They go back
to the CrossFit metaphor. I could walk here, walk out
and find out there's no CrossFit. I could walk out
of here and find out that that doesn't exist. There's
no chance I may ever do that again. And I
wouldn't care. Not a relation to my marriage. But if
I use the metaphor, where's it going to break down?
Where's my form going to break down? In working out?
Not in the first through reps, but what about on
the hundredth rep or what about doing those reps? If
there's significant weight under let's say a metabolic at tax, Hey,
good job, you have a barely heavy dead lift. How
does it look after you have run a five K,
how's your deadlife look? Then that's where form breaks down.
Where does our ability to love biblically breakdown? Is it
when you're talking about finances with your wife or your husband?
Is it in times of stress with your kids? Sometimes
it's after trauma. Sometimes families go through significant trauma and
all of a sudden love isn't patient. Well, then it's
not love. It certainly doesn't feel like it. You may
have the feelings of love, but you're not displaying them.
Suddenly you're not kind, so you're not showing that form
of love. You might be envying others. Well, other people
aren't going through this problem. They don't have it. They
don't have this trauma. It does not dishonor others. It's
not easily an in times of trauma. Do you ever
find yourself easily angered? And see that's the stress test.
Use a different metaphor when you go through let's say
the Navy seals. Not every battle is hell weak. Not
every battle is fifty hours of not sleeping. Not every
battle is like that. Some battles are very very quick.
You're in and you're out, Thank God you lived. Some
battles are longer than the fifty hours, But fifty hours
is about finding your limit and getting in that limit.
What breaks down? Was it mental? Was it physical? Was
it your shooting? Was it your targeting? Was it your running?
Was it your polps? What broke down? Because when you're
in war, you're gonna want to know. I don't have
that breaking point. Hey, in the seals, you know what,
my swimming went terrible. The further on we went in
evolutions that can't happen because I'm gonna have to be
able to swim. It's war, but it's in this concentrated form.
Marriage shouldn't be war, but it's a concentrated form of
being what Corinthians first, Corinthians describes love in a biblical form,
how God defines love. It says verbs things we do
in things we don't do. Now, I bring this up
because in the modern world there's not just the belief
that marriage is all about romance, that the wedding is
the marriage, and the second that tingling is gone, well
then the love is gone. That we have this purpose
that if marriage isn't making us happy, then jettis in
the marriage. It's one of the most poisonous thoughts in
the world. Because what if God didn't design marriage to
make us happy? What if the design was bigger than happiness?
Could it be that God's design for marriage is bigger
than happiness. I'll show you here a clip in a
second from United Methodists Church, so called pastor or rather
as a friends at protest you dot com com in
pastor named Ryan Scott, arguing in favor of divorce. And
we'll show you how much God hates divorce. And wrap
this up with a theory not mine, but from a
book my wife and I read some time ago about marriage.
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and pastor Ryan Scott arguing in front in favor of divorce.
Speaker 6: And if your marriage is something that is keeping you
from being your most authentic and whole self, and I
don't think God would mind if you end up breaking
that covenant.
Speaker 1: Yeah, God's known for being a big fan of covenant breaking.
And God certainly said that. Jesus said that on his
knees in the garden. You know what, Father God, I'm
not feeling it. I don't want to do this. This
isn't me being my authentic self. I punt or God
himself when he pursued us with his son, Jesus Christ,
why didn't you just say be your authentic selves. We're
authentically broken. Sin is an authentic issue. And by the way,
God hates divorce.
Speaker 6: Be continuing our series on scripture we don't like, So
today we're talking about divorce. Next Sunday we are talking
about God's judgment, though fun topics to engage with. So
were my parents wrong to get a divorce? Many of
you in the room have been divorced. Many of you
have children who are divorced. Statistically speaking, half of y'all
who have been married or or are married, have been
divorced before. So does Jesus condemn half of this church?
Does Jesus condemn my parents? The Church taught for centuries
that divorce is wrong, even sinful. Some traditions still hold
fast to this teaching that we heard from Mark's Gospel
story today that whoever marries after a divorce commits adultery.
I imagine Jesus would be more concerned with a number
of women who have been forced or felt forced to
stay in an unhappy, dysfunctional, or abusive marriage because that's
what their church leaders told them to do over and
over again.
Speaker 1: I am sure that God hates seeing women forced to
see in a marriage where they're beaten and abused. And
you will not lord your power others over others. That's
a sin. Men are to love their wives as Christ
loves the Church, and to do otherwise is a refusal
to carry out God's command. He didn't say, if you
feel like it, love your wives at Christ, love the Church.
That's not what's spoken to us. Course, there is a clear,
clear delineation if a woman is being beaten, that she
should get to a place of safety. Everybody should believe that.
But that's not the sin. And what this guy says,
he's going back and intermingling two thoughts, that is, does
God condemn the divorced. God condemns divorce. God hates divorce.
And it's not some traditions that believe that. It is
the Bible that states it. That's not some traditions. That's
God's word. And we'll get to that. If you have
been divorced, and you recognize that you did this against
God's will, and you did it for your own fleshly desires,
and you did it out of a state of confusion
or frustration or immaturity, because you're returning to returning to
acting like a child seeking to go out and simply
have the things of this world. You became part of
the world. Guess what God can forgive that, but only
if you repent. If you're still walking around happy, happy, happy,
having done that to your husband or wife or God
forbid your kids, Yeah, God's going to have a problem
with that because you haven't repented. But if you have repented,
then I imagine God's going to want you to make
what you can of the new marriage. And if you're
married and contemplating divorce, and you do not have biblical grounds,
which would be unrepentant adultery or sexual perversion, then you
have this the Bible to consult Malachi two, verse sixteen.
For I hate divorce, says the Lord, the God of Israel,
and him who covers his garment with violence, says the
Lord of Armies. So be careful about your spirit, that
you do not deal treacherously. That is not an ambiguous
statement for I hate divorce. That's not a tradition, that's
the word of God. Matthew, Chapter nineteen, verses eight through nine.
Jesus replied, Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because
your hearts were hard, But it was not this way
from the beginning. I tell you that anyone who divorces
his wife except for sexual immorality and marries another woman
commits adultery. Jesus took the bar for sexual behavior and
he raised it, And in this case he was communicating
to men whose hearts had grown hard. Jesus also hated
divorce because Jesus was and is the same god quoted
in the Book of Malachi. Those aren't traditions, those are
the word of God. So why marriage was it to
make us happy? I think in a roundabout way. I
think in a roundabout way. Now, certainly when you're given
the blessing of spending time with your best friend, living
with your best friend, working together on finances with your
best friend, overcoming struggles with your best friend, when you're
given the gift of having a marriage, because many people
have lost that gift. I know people who are hard
broken when I speak about my marriage and that I
get to go home and be blessed by seeing my
beloved wife. I've gotten notes from people saying, Hey, you
know what, that seems really prideful. People hurt by divorce.
I know that. But I think when you're given these
gifts of that partnership, of knowing someone that you can
count on, of knowing someone will stand for your marriage,
of knowing someone who has your back, and you're six permanently.
All those things can give us safety and security and satisfaction.
And may that be the case in your marriage. But
what if the happiness comes in a roundabout way. I'm
not talking about the moments of happiness. I'm talking about
a state of happiness. My wife and I some time
ago write a book by Gary Thomas, Sacred Marriage. This
is pretty legendary in Christian circles. What if God designed
marriage to make us holy more than to make us happy.
That's the thesis. And if you go back and you
go back up to the top where we began this
exploration First Corinthians, Chapter thirteen, verses four through seven. Love
is patients. Marriage is an opportunity to expand your ability
to be patient for both partners, husband and wife. Because
it's a livetime scenario. You will face the greatest struggles
of your life in marriage because it's the most concentrated
form of living. And Gary Thomas makes this clear. Love
is kind. There can be periods of time where one
of the other partner has become cruel, cold hearted. I
know I've gone through seasons like that, and praise God
for my strong wife praise God for her. So in
a concentrated form. How kind are you when your kid
just came home and said, you know what. I know
you've been paying for college for the past six months,
but I haven't been attending class. Or your kid comes
home and says, hey, you know what, I sort of
got drunk and destroyed the family car. I'm fine, but
I hit two other It does not envy. How easy
is that when you guys are going through a position
of struggle in your life and everyone else seems to
be living their best life now as a couple or
as a singular person within a marriage, do you boast?
Are you proud? Because I can tell you my wife
from time to time to me has said, in a
loving sense, Hey, you know what that segment you today?
It did today? That seemed really proud, Todd. I think
you need to examine your heart. Marriage. Gary Thomas says
is a mirror. It's a mirror in an upclose mirror
because we're living in this concentrated form. It does not
dishonor others. Have you ever dishonored your spouse during an
argument or God forbid to other people? If so, you
need to correct that it's not self seeking. When you're
living a life with another, you're sharing bodies, you're sharing finances,
you're sharing time and a home, and you're sharing pursuits.
Do you ever find yourself being self seeking? Oh, but
I want. Our job as men is to love our
lives wives as Christ love the Church. Both partner's job
is to come under and lift up. Marriage is a
concentrated test of this. Love is not easily angered. If
you find yourself in a marriage being easily angered, where
is that coming from? Because it's not godly love. We
know that the enemy can distract, distort, and depress. It
can also drive people into angers. It keeps no records
of wrongs. Now, that does not necessarily mean that we
have the capability to forget. God can forget our sins.
That can't necessarily do that, but keeping a record of them.
When married people have been married for thirty years, there's
going to be hurts and harms, and sometimes they're going
to process through people's minds, particularly if those harms are fresh,
and eventually they just lose their potency because God just
changes them that way. Praise God for what He's done.
Love does not delight and evil, but rejoices with truth.
I have a nickname for my wife that God gave me.
It's related to truth telling. I won't share it with
you because it's private to she and I. It belongs
to the fortress of our marriage. But God does not
delight it evil. He does rejoice with truth. And in
a marriage where you're sharing bodies and sharing time and finances,
how destructive are lies are deceptions? Marriage is life in
a concentrated form. Love always protects, always trusts, always helps,
always perseveres. If you wind back through that, and if
you were this way all the time, you'd be a
holy person. And if your spouse was this way all
the time, he or she would be a holy person.
And how happy would you be if you both treated
each other this way all the time? I agree with
Gary Thomas. I think God invented Mary to make us holy,
and I believe holiness is happiness. This is the Todd
Hermann Show. Please go be well, be strong, be kind,
Please make every effort to walk in the light of Christ.
A man to my beloved wife, thank you for helping
me in the process of becoming more holy by your
presence in my life. It is an absolute blessing and
an honor