1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:02,839 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Three Stories version of the Todd Herman Show. 2 00:00:02,960 --> 00:00:06,960 Story number one elan Omar's non English clan rant not 3 00:00:07,080 --> 00:00:10,679 clan like KKK, although sort of, but clan with a seat. 4 00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:15,400 Story number two, Women you didn't know you harmed? Should 5 00:00:15,439 --> 00:00:19,839 you apologize? And story number three Americans value God in 6 00:00:19,920 --> 00:00:23,519 marriage much more than you've been led to believe. We'll 7 00:00:23,519 --> 00:00:25,920 talk about this with the help of God Almighty. 8 00:00:28,239 --> 00:00:32,560 Speaker 2: But Todd Herman Show is one disapproved by big pharma 9 00:00:32,759 --> 00:00:41,039 technocrats and tyrants everywhere. From the high mountains of Free America. 10 00:00:42,280 --> 00:00:47,920 Here's the Emerald City exile Todd Herman. 11 00:00:51,520 --> 00:00:54,200 Speaker 1: Today is the day the Lord has made, and these 12 00:00:54,240 --> 00:00:57,119 are the times through which God has decided we shall live. 13 00:00:58,479 --> 00:01:02,119 So it's oh a big secrets to people who follow 14 00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:05,640 anything sort of conservative, that illin Omar hates the United 15 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:09,760 States of America, that she is anti christ, anti Christian, 16 00:01:10,599 --> 00:01:14,040 anti freedom, and that she considers Samalia her home country. 17 00:01:15,159 --> 00:01:18,480 There's strong reason to believe that she committed immigration frauds 18 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:21,480 by marrying her brother. There's a bunch of evidence on that. 19 00:01:21,560 --> 00:01:23,359 I'm not saying that the case is closed because they 20 00:01:23,359 --> 00:01:26,799 don't want to provide false witness, because you know, we're 21 00:01:26,799 --> 00:01:29,040 gonna sin I just don't want to sin on behalf 22 00:01:29,079 --> 00:01:31,599 of ilan Omar. If I'm gonna go out and bear 23 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:35,959 false witness, make it with someone that matters what she 24 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:39,480 did in the wake of an election loss, not hers, 25 00:01:40,760 --> 00:01:44,120 but for a radical Somali who is running for office 26 00:01:44,319 --> 00:01:47,719 in her home state, well the hor home states Somalia, 27 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:52,439 in her visiting state of Minnesota. There are no words. 28 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:55,640 I don't often say things like I literally can't even 29 00:01:55,760 --> 00:01:58,159 or guys, what's going on here? Because I listened to 30 00:01:58,400 --> 00:01:59,879 when hosts say that, I want to say, why are 31 00:01:59,879 --> 00:02:02,519 you paid to be a host? And I literally can't even, 32 00:02:03,239 --> 00:02:06,000 And I really am just saying just what's going on? Well, 33 00:02:06,040 --> 00:02:09,840 what's going on is this? We're a nation that is 34 00:02:10,280 --> 00:02:14,879 well well into national national decline. We went through a 35 00:02:14,879 --> 00:02:17,960 pioneer phase, went through a conquest phase, went through a 36 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:21,680 commerce phase or affluence phase, which we're in now affluence 37 00:02:21,719 --> 00:02:25,000 and intellect. We're in an intellect phase and we're well 38 00:02:25,039 --> 00:02:28,680 into the decadence phase. The next phase is collapse. This 39 00:02:28,719 --> 00:02:32,439 is how nations collapse. So part of the intellect phase 40 00:02:32,479 --> 00:02:35,039 and the decadence phase is oh well we'll just well, 41 00:02:35,159 --> 00:02:38,560 we'll just go ahead and tickle our fancies, our intellectual 42 00:02:38,599 --> 00:02:42,680 fancies that we're so open minded, we're so open minded. Yeah, 43 00:02:42,680 --> 00:02:46,719 why don't we have an America hating Muslim be our congresswoman. 44 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:50,319 So you're about to see and or hear a rant 45 00:02:50,319 --> 00:02:53,319 from her, and it is for people looking visually. You 46 00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:57,000 could watch the words be translated people listening to audio. 47 00:02:57,039 --> 00:02:59,080 I'll do my best to translate them for you, and 48 00:02:59,159 --> 00:03:01,719 we'll do this in a sectecond. This is a really 49 00:03:01,759 --> 00:03:04,360 good time to pray for America. It's a really good 50 00:03:04,439 --> 00:03:06,919 time to look at cities like Dearborn, Michigan. Do you 51 00:03:06,960 --> 00:03:09,520 remember a few weeks ago we ran the video of 52 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:11,479 people who are trying to distribute the Word of Christ 53 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:14,400 in Dearborn and having the police come and corral them 54 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:16,719 and move them out. Hey, you can't do that here. 55 00:03:17,719 --> 00:03:20,319 And yet if you want to go distribute the Koran, Okay, 56 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:23,360 they get to do the call for prayer multiple times 57 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:25,080 per day, but you want to have that Bible verse, 58 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:28,639 you're inciting the police move. I had the so called 59 00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:33,000 police chief for a while. He wanted to have Smali 60 00:03:33,080 --> 00:03:37,840 language on the police cars and badges. Remember this so 61 00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:39,919 you'd be well versed to look at this and then 62 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:44,039 to understand that when Angel Studios makes a movie that 63 00:03:44,159 --> 00:03:46,759 was supposed to be well in the future, like thirty 64 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:49,360 years from now in America, it could be two or 65 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:52,560 three years if things go poorly. Look at what is 66 00:03:52,599 --> 00:03:56,039 among immigrants are trying to do in Texas. So this 67 00:03:56,120 --> 00:03:59,000 movie is called Disciples in the Moonlight, and it's a 68 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:03,159 group of Disciples of Jesus who are smuggling Bibles. And 69 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:05,400 if you think this is bizarre, think of this woman 70 00:04:05,439 --> 00:04:08,360 who just got told by a judge. She works in 71 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:11,960 a hospital and or medical setting. She can have her 72 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:14,879 Bible verses on her desk, she could have a coffee 73 00:04:14,919 --> 00:04:16,920 cup that has a Bible verse. But she had on 74 00:04:16,959 --> 00:04:19,720 the wall of her cubicle she had a cross. Judge said, nope, 75 00:04:19,720 --> 00:04:22,879 got to take that down. That's abusing the workplace. So 76 00:04:22,879 --> 00:04:25,720 it's not that far away. Disciples in the Moonlight examines 77 00:04:25,800 --> 00:04:27,879 this how they smuggle Bibles. Do you think about that? 78 00:04:27,879 --> 00:04:29,439 What are they going to take a big semi truck 79 00:04:29,439 --> 00:04:31,800 full of Bibles and try to smuggle that. There's times 80 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:35,439 where God steps in miraculously and saves people. There's times 81 00:04:35,439 --> 00:04:38,399 where God lets people die. Some of the Disciples are killed. 82 00:04:38,680 --> 00:04:40,199 I won't say which ones, but one of them you're 83 00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:42,199 going to be glad he was killed sort of a 84 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:45,439 judas you'll see. Go watch this. It's called Disciples of 85 00:04:45,439 --> 00:04:47,759 the Moonlight. Go to angel dot com, slash herman. That's 86 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:50,240 Angel dot com, slash herman, and join the Angel Guild 87 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:52,800 that while you're not just watching, you're helping to empower 88 00:04:52,839 --> 00:04:56,279 brave Christian filmmaking. Angel dot com slash herman. So this 89 00:04:56,319 --> 00:04:59,639 is illin Omar. The situation is that there was a 90 00:04:59,759 --> 00:05:04,480 law and she was backing a candidate named Feta who 91 00:05:04,560 --> 00:05:08,079 was a radical Islamist, and he lost to Jacob Fray 92 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:10,879 from mayor. And here's what she's saying, and I'll do 93 00:05:10,920 --> 00:05:16,600 my best to translate, but a Simalian person becomes an enemy, 94 00:05:16,639 --> 00:05:21,480 to become a serious one. There are people like that 95 00:05:21,519 --> 00:05:27,040 living right here in our city. We all see them. 96 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:30,480 Some of us try to dismiss it, you know, saying 97 00:05:30,680 --> 00:05:34,240 that person just talks too much, or leave them alone. 98 00:05:34,279 --> 00:05:36,759 That's my relative. You probably met them in coffee shops, 99 00:05:41,279 --> 00:05:43,360 you know exactly the type of people I'm talking about. 100 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:48,040 You've sat with them at Starbucks, maybe you've seen them 101 00:05:48,079 --> 00:05:50,199 at the mosque once in a while maybe you've gotten 102 00:05:50,319 --> 00:05:56,839 gotten to parties together. You know who I mean, you've 103 00:05:56,879 --> 00:06:05,040 seen them. We need to get rid of these people. Oh, 104 00:06:05,399 --> 00:06:09,199 we need to get rid of these people. Huh, how 105 00:06:09,240 --> 00:06:13,839 would you do that? We will never gain power and 106 00:06:13,879 --> 00:06:16,120 move forward as Simonians as long as these people live 107 00:06:16,160 --> 00:06:22,519 among us. We will never gain power and move forward 108 00:06:22,560 --> 00:06:25,120 to Somalians as long as these people live among us, 109 00:06:26,519 --> 00:06:32,279 live among us. All when we rescued elan Omar from Somalia, 110 00:06:32,360 --> 00:06:36,519 it was because people were being unalives minute by minutes 111 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:43,040 in Islamic clan wars. When you import people, you don't 112 00:06:43,079 --> 00:06:46,720 just import their skin and bones and brain. You import 113 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:55,319 their attitudes, behaviors and upbringing. We don't need to kick 114 00:06:55,360 --> 00:06:58,680 come out the same people Somalians we try to defend. 115 00:06:58,720 --> 00:07:03,519 They're the ones who want to see us in jail, 116 00:07:05,639 --> 00:07:07,759 who spread laws about us, who make videos claiming we 117 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:11,759 said things we never said like you're saying now. And 118 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:19,199 when that happens, there's no way to defend ourselves. I 119 00:07:19,199 --> 00:07:21,199 can't keep saying all day, I didn't say that because 120 00:07:21,199 --> 00:07:26,519 I've got work to do. You have, This is your work. 121 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:31,040 We're busy doing our jobs defending you. Simonians protecting this country, 122 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:33,759 creating lives. Oh, now she gets it. Protecting this country 123 00:07:35,240 --> 00:07:41,959 by gaining power Somonians. That's protecting this country by a 124 00:07:42,040 --> 00:07:44,480 waste every day fighting against accusations of what they accused 125 00:07:44,480 --> 00:07:49,519 me of said on videos. That's your responsibility, your job 126 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:56,199 to not welcome those people who worked to block and 127 00:07:56,279 --> 00:07:59,680 undermine Samonians in this country from gaining power or have influence. 128 00:08:06,040 --> 00:08:10,920 This is a clan war in a major city in 129 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:14,399 a state, United States of America, being waged by a 130 00:08:14,399 --> 00:08:19,519 woman who has expressed her belief that her home country 131 00:08:19,560 --> 00:08:25,360 is Samoya, that her allegiance is to Samoia, who probably 132 00:08:25,360 --> 00:08:29,680 committed immigration frauds to stay here by marrying her brother 133 00:08:30,600 --> 00:08:34,480 who is building a big net worth working in Congress 134 00:08:34,799 --> 00:08:41,120 against us. And she gets re elected. And someone say 135 00:08:41,120 --> 00:08:42,840 to me the other day, someone who is very well 136 00:08:42,879 --> 00:08:46,519 known in evangelical Christian circles as a leader therein he 137 00:08:46,559 --> 00:08:51,600 doesn't have a lot of hope for America. Well, I 138 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:54,679 don't need hope in America. I need to remember that 139 00:08:54,799 --> 00:08:57,600 my defense for my hope comes from Jesus and Jesus only. 140 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:01,360 I need to remember that I'm a visitor here. This 141 00:09:01,480 --> 00:09:03,879 is not my home. It's not yours either. If you're 142 00:09:03,879 --> 00:09:06,879 a committed Christian, if you've repented of your sins, that 143 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:09,480 means you have true sorrow. You took that to the Lord. 144 00:09:09,559 --> 00:09:12,559 You asked Jesus to save you. You admitted you can't 145 00:09:12,600 --> 00:09:14,600 do it without him. You accept them as your Lord 146 00:09:14,600 --> 00:09:17,519 and savior. You agree to be changed by him. Then 147 00:09:17,600 --> 00:09:21,080 we're just visiting here. Our ultimate home is in the 148 00:09:21,080 --> 00:09:22,879 new Heaven and the New Earth. I have to remind 149 00:09:22,879 --> 00:09:26,320 myself that on a daily basis, because in an eternal sense, 150 00:09:26,679 --> 00:09:30,360 in an internal sense, there's not going to be a 151 00:09:30,480 --> 00:09:34,240 United States. In an internal sense, there's going to be 152 00:09:34,279 --> 00:09:36,600 a new Heaven and a new Earth. And the only 153 00:09:36,639 --> 00:09:38,360 way there is to the Lord Jesus. So as I 154 00:09:38,440 --> 00:09:42,240 watch that, I just realized I let her do it. 155 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:45,480 I said at the beginning of this I didn't want 156 00:09:45,480 --> 00:09:48,440 to sin on behalf of illin Omar by providing false witness, 157 00:09:48,639 --> 00:09:53,200 by saying categorically she married her brother. It's indicated that 158 00:09:53,240 --> 00:09:54,799 she did. There's a lot of evidence of that. But 159 00:09:54,879 --> 00:09:57,000 there she waited, made me good and sin for just 160 00:09:57,000 --> 00:09:59,799 a tiny bit. I hated her, So I need to 161 00:09:59,799 --> 00:10:02,200 repat that. And if you hated her, you need to 162 00:10:02,200 --> 00:10:05,600 repent that. Otherwise, elan Omar didn't just take a little 163 00:10:06,159 --> 00:10:09,639 occupation of your mind. She's opened a little doorway, little 164 00:10:09,639 --> 00:10:12,799 tiny agreement with Satan that I'm just gonna hate this person, 165 00:10:13,440 --> 00:10:16,919 just this one and then maybe one more, and then 166 00:10:16,960 --> 00:10:19,919 Satan goes about his work. So let's not hate. Let's 167 00:10:19,919 --> 00:10:22,519 just be well aware of what these people are trying 168 00:10:22,600 --> 00:10:27,559 to do. Story number two. Women, you didn't know you harmed? 169 00:10:27,840 --> 00:10:32,080 Should you apologize? You know, when you harm a person, 170 00:10:32,720 --> 00:10:36,320 you should apologize, And apologizing can be a fantastic way 171 00:10:36,360 --> 00:10:37,360 to build relationship. 172 00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:38,360 Speaker 2: You know. 173 00:10:38,399 --> 00:10:40,840 Speaker 1: It was many many months ago, maybe even last year, 174 00:10:41,440 --> 00:10:45,240 a young guy joined one of our youth groups and 175 00:10:45,480 --> 00:10:48,360 I was not having a good night. I was going 176 00:10:48,399 --> 00:10:51,879 through a lot of self imposed stress. And this kid 177 00:10:51,919 --> 00:10:55,200 is a bigger kid. He's tall, that he's muscular, and 178 00:10:55,200 --> 00:10:57,159 he looks more adult than he is. He's a kid, 179 00:10:58,279 --> 00:11:01,960 and he was squirrely that night, and I said something 180 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:04,120 that I wouldn't normally say during youth group. I said 181 00:11:04,120 --> 00:11:08,279 something akin to, hey, you know what, why don't you 182 00:11:08,360 --> 00:11:10,759 let me finish talking then you can finish interrupting me. 183 00:11:13,159 --> 00:11:16,519 And it was snarky and it was rude, and I 184 00:11:16,559 --> 00:11:21,840 actually saw physically that it hurt him, and I didn't 185 00:11:22,039 --> 00:11:23,879 do what I should have done, which has pauses. I 186 00:11:23,879 --> 00:11:26,919 should have paused the grip and said, wait a minute, wait, 187 00:11:26,960 --> 00:11:31,480 that was wrong. I approached that wrongly, and I want 188 00:11:31,480 --> 00:11:33,080 to I want to rechange I want to change that. 189 00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:36,399 But I give him the gift. God gave me the gift. 190 00:11:36,559 --> 00:11:40,200 The next week of seeing him alone and we had 191 00:11:40,200 --> 00:11:41,799 a moment to speak and I said, hey, can I 192 00:11:41,919 --> 00:11:45,000 chat with you for a second, and he was very reluctant. 193 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:46,159 Speaker 2: Yeah. 194 00:11:46,360 --> 00:11:47,879 Speaker 1: I came over and said, man, I really owe you 195 00:11:47,919 --> 00:11:50,440 an apology. You know, I spoke to you in a 196 00:11:50,480 --> 00:11:53,919 way that you didn't deserve. It's like difficult being in 197 00:11:53,960 --> 00:11:56,679 a new group and people get squirrely. I get squirrely. 198 00:11:56,799 --> 00:11:59,240 I don't think you were meant any harm, you know, 199 00:11:59,279 --> 00:12:01,120 you just didn't know the worked and I kind of 200 00:12:01,120 --> 00:12:04,480 bitched your head off. And I'm really apologized. I really 201 00:12:04,559 --> 00:12:06,840 am embarrassed for what I did, and I'm really sad 202 00:12:06,919 --> 00:12:09,240 that I did that to you, And would you please 203 00:12:09,240 --> 00:12:14,120 forgive me? And I could tell it was probably the 204 00:12:14,159 --> 00:12:16,799 first time an adult man has ever said to this boy, 205 00:12:16,879 --> 00:12:19,960 would you forgive me? In that way? In that setting 206 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:22,000 and I'm not trying to be hero Todd. I'm just 207 00:12:22,240 --> 00:12:25,679 telling you story what happened. Since that time, he and 208 00:12:25,720 --> 00:12:29,159 I have become really, really good friends, and it's really 209 00:12:29,200 --> 00:12:30,679 honored to have him on the group. He shares things 210 00:12:30,679 --> 00:12:36,120 with me, and that became possible because God led me, 211 00:12:36,159 --> 00:12:38,639 the Holy Spirit convicted me. You owe that kid an apology. 212 00:12:39,440 --> 00:12:42,720 There may be women in the world to home. We 213 00:12:42,879 --> 00:12:47,519 all owe apologies every man, every man who's ever watched porn. 214 00:12:48,799 --> 00:12:50,480 Ill sure what I mean here in just a second, 215 00:12:51,559 --> 00:12:53,840 and let's be honest with ourselves. This stuff is huge 216 00:12:53,919 --> 00:12:58,200 business huge. Back in the day when I worked for Microsoft, 217 00:12:58,799 --> 00:13:02,320 I was on a panel in Los Angeles and I 218 00:13:02,360 --> 00:13:05,440 said something about I was in the streaming video worlds 219 00:13:05,480 --> 00:13:07,840 hoping to get that started. And I said something about 220 00:13:07,879 --> 00:13:11,799 how porn providers understood more about streaming than Hollywood did, 221 00:13:12,559 --> 00:13:14,919 and there was all this uncomfortable laughter, and I made 222 00:13:14,919 --> 00:13:17,799 this joke. I said, oh, come on, guys, like, there's 223 00:13:17,879 --> 00:13:23,559 porn provided on the hotel TVs here and someone's watching it, right, 224 00:13:23,720 --> 00:13:26,559 and people are embarrassed and laughed. Also, it's Hollywood. That 225 00:13:26,559 --> 00:13:30,080 stuff's produced down there all the time. It's big money. Now, 226 00:13:30,080 --> 00:13:32,120 what's going to be bigger. Money is going to be 227 00:13:32,159 --> 00:13:35,000 AI driven porn because oh, then we can remove the 228 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:37,519 people right now, there's no sin. Of course there's sin 229 00:13:37,559 --> 00:13:40,559 because you're watching simulated adultery and fornication, et cetera. Of 230 00:13:40,559 --> 00:13:42,639 course there's sin, but there's not the quote actors and 231 00:13:42,639 --> 00:13:46,879 actresses see, AI is going to eat into everything. Coca 232 00:13:46,879 --> 00:13:49,600 Cola has a new television commercial coming out, a big one, 233 00:13:50,120 --> 00:13:52,759 and it's all AI driven. They're breaking about spending very 234 00:13:52,759 --> 00:13:56,399 little money at that's an ad agency gone. That's millions 235 00:13:56,399 --> 00:13:58,639 of dollars per year gone. If they don't need this, 236 00:13:58,759 --> 00:14:00,799 I'm doing a website. It's going to take me about 237 00:14:00,799 --> 00:14:03,480 an hour. Would have taken me months and employees to 238 00:14:03,559 --> 00:14:05,879 do this. I'm just talking to an AI. It's going 239 00:14:05,879 --> 00:14:08,480 to change everything. If you think this isn't going to 240 00:14:08,559 --> 00:14:11,600 change your retirement, man, I'm telling you you're smoking some sweet, 241 00:14:11,639 --> 00:14:15,240 sweet stink weed. 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They fornicated on 262 00:15:14,440 --> 00:15:17,360 camera for money, or they committed adultery on camera for money. 263 00:15:18,200 --> 00:15:21,919 Men watch this, usually men, and you know exactly what 264 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:24,519 guys do when they watch porn. Everybody knows, we just 265 00:15:24,559 --> 00:15:27,360 don't say it. So I think that we owe these 266 00:15:27,360 --> 00:15:30,240 women in apology and we can't go meet them. They 267 00:15:30,240 --> 00:15:32,480 don't want that, none of em want to see us, 268 00:15:33,080 --> 00:15:35,080 but we owe them the apology in general as men. 269 00:15:35,120 --> 00:15:37,279 So maybe it's just social media. Maybe there's just be 270 00:15:37,279 --> 00:15:39,559 a movement. I'm sorry for watching porn. 271 00:15:39,679 --> 00:15:41,639 Speaker 3: The stairs I get. I feel like people can see 272 00:15:41,679 --> 00:15:44,279 through my clothes and it brings me deep shame and 273 00:15:44,559 --> 00:15:47,159 it makes me feel like it makes me feel like 274 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:51,759 I lost all right to my privacy, which I did 275 00:15:51,799 --> 00:15:53,639 because then I'm one Google search away. 276 00:15:53,879 --> 00:15:57,360 Speaker 4: Sometimes you'd like disassociate and be like, you know, like 277 00:15:57,519 --> 00:16:00,399 it's not like normal. So in my head, no, I 278 00:16:00,399 --> 00:16:03,919 can think of like five six guys, ten guys that 279 00:16:03,919 --> 00:16:07,320 I remember, and that's it. If I didn't, if I 280 00:16:07,320 --> 00:16:09,639 didn't have the videos, hold a no of don ouns. 281 00:16:09,720 --> 00:16:12,320 You know, when people ask me if they should be porn, 282 00:16:12,519 --> 00:16:15,159 I tell them no. It makes stating really hard, It 283 00:16:15,159 --> 00:16:17,639 makes your family life really hard, and you have to 284 00:16:17,679 --> 00:16:21,559 be okay with being shamed every day of your life. 285 00:16:21,600 --> 00:16:24,360 Speaker 1: I don't even want to have children because I do porn, 286 00:16:24,399 --> 00:16:27,000 because I'm worried of the way that people will chase 287 00:16:27,080 --> 00:16:29,360 my child when I go out. 288 00:16:29,919 --> 00:16:34,639 Speaker 3: I feel as if I'm wearing slut across my forehead. 289 00:16:34,759 --> 00:16:36,559 The names that people have called me. 290 00:16:37,120 --> 00:16:39,639 Speaker 1: It's as if if you could take out those names 291 00:16:39,679 --> 00:16:42,639 and print them and put a ribbon around my whole 292 00:16:42,679 --> 00:16:43,679 body of all. 293 00:16:43,559 --> 00:16:45,519 Speaker 4: The names and things that people say to me on 294 00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:46,200 the Internet. 295 00:16:46,440 --> 00:16:49,200 Speaker 1: That's how I feel when I walk outside the door. 296 00:16:49,519 --> 00:16:53,200 There are days, two weeks at a time where I 297 00:16:53,279 --> 00:16:58,159 don't leave my house because I don't feel like facing 298 00:16:58,320 --> 00:16:58,879 the world. 299 00:16:59,480 --> 00:17:01,120 Speaker 2: I want you when I grow up. 300 00:17:03,960 --> 00:17:09,920 Speaker 1: I don't please, don't tell your mother that you don't 301 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:11,640 really love you, but do better than me. 302 00:17:12,319 --> 00:17:15,279 Speaker 3: You don't see the bruises all over the woman's body 303 00:17:15,599 --> 00:17:18,720 after an abusive scene and her crying and feeling like 304 00:17:18,759 --> 00:17:20,759 if she hadn't done the scene, she would have gotten 305 00:17:20,799 --> 00:17:21,400 her paycheck. 306 00:17:22,839 --> 00:17:25,759 Speaker 1: There's a group called Fight the New Drug and they 307 00:17:25,799 --> 00:17:28,720 do a lot of great research on what having sex 308 00:17:28,759 --> 00:17:32,079 on camera for money does to women, and committing fornication 309 00:17:32,160 --> 00:17:34,960 and adultery and camera for money does to women. So 310 00:17:35,039 --> 00:17:37,839 let's start with the most important thing. Jesus Christ loves 311 00:17:37,880 --> 00:17:43,359 these women, absolutely loves them, created them in his and 312 00:17:43,440 --> 00:17:48,200 created them in his image. He created the men who 313 00:17:48,240 --> 00:17:52,759 also cremit fornication and adultery on camera for money. He 314 00:17:52,799 --> 00:17:57,519 loves them, he wants them back in the family. He 315 00:17:57,559 --> 00:18:02,079 wants to adopt them. This repentance they're talking about, this 316 00:18:02,200 --> 00:18:06,559 social shame, he wants that. He wants them to give 317 00:18:06,599 --> 00:18:09,599 it to him, to come to him in repentance for 318 00:18:09,680 --> 00:18:13,640 what they did with the bodies he gave them, in 319 00:18:13,720 --> 00:18:16,440 the existence he gave them. And when they do that, 320 00:18:16,519 --> 00:18:19,480 and they repent fully with the sorrow to the Lord Jesus, 321 00:18:20,359 --> 00:18:22,880 and they accept him as Lord and savior, he will 322 00:18:22,920 --> 00:18:27,680 cleanse them. He'll cleanse the men. If you've watched porn, 323 00:18:27,960 --> 00:18:32,079 you created a marketplace for this. You drove the marketplace. 324 00:18:33,200 --> 00:18:38,240 You created a marketplace that has resulted in children being abused, 325 00:18:38,640 --> 00:18:42,680 still does. If you're in this marketplace, you owe these 326 00:18:42,680 --> 00:18:45,359 women in an apology, So you can't reach out to them. 327 00:18:45,440 --> 00:18:47,440 That would be creepy, it would be horrible, be wrong. 328 00:18:47,519 --> 00:18:52,759 Don't do it. But you could post on social media, 329 00:18:53,039 --> 00:18:55,599 I'm sorry for ever watching porn, or if you like, 330 00:18:56,279 --> 00:18:59,880 you can confess to friends and brothers. You can confess 331 00:19:00,079 --> 00:19:03,480 in that setting, and you can commit to trying to 332 00:19:03,519 --> 00:19:06,319 never do it again. Think that helped me stop was 333 00:19:06,359 --> 00:19:10,000 realizing many many years ago, probably twenty years ago that 334 00:19:10,079 --> 00:19:12,880 I was watching videos of girls being sexual assaulted. That 335 00:19:12,960 --> 00:19:16,000 was it for me. Praise God that stopped it. Do 336 00:19:16,039 --> 00:19:19,200 you think you owed them an apology? Definitely? Definitely. If you're 337 00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:22,680 a Christian man, you owe Jesus an apology. These are 338 00:19:22,839 --> 00:19:26,519 people He created. Some of them are still Christian. They' strade. 339 00:19:27,240 --> 00:19:32,039 They're definitely prodigals. They're at risk of removing themselves from 340 00:19:32,079 --> 00:19:34,519 God's presence for eternity, but we don't know that they've 341 00:19:34,519 --> 00:19:37,640 done that yet. For my money, you owe them an apology, 342 00:19:37,720 --> 00:19:42,079 even if it's two accountability brothers, even if it's in 343 00:19:42,119 --> 00:19:44,680 a group prayer setting. I feel like you owe them 344 00:19:44,680 --> 00:19:47,319 an apology. And maybe that step on social media, maybe 345 00:19:47,319 --> 00:19:49,759 that's not such a bad idea, and may go. May 346 00:19:49,799 --> 00:19:53,680 God work through this entire society of men to let 347 00:19:53,680 --> 00:19:57,920 these women see our faces, Christ's face replacing it. And 348 00:19:57,960 --> 00:20:01,960 to the men involved in this thing, they God have mercy. 349 00:20:02,279 --> 00:20:07,160 Story Number three. Americans value God and marriage more than 350 00:20:07,160 --> 00:20:11,640 you might think. There is a prevailing belief, and it's 351 00:20:11,640 --> 00:20:14,799 easy to see in society that people just don't value 352 00:20:14,799 --> 00:20:19,200 marriage like they used to. And there's a consistent thread 353 00:20:19,279 --> 00:20:21,720 that goes through discussion of marriage and It has to 354 00:20:21,720 --> 00:20:24,000 do with statistics, and you probably know how to unwind 355 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:27,279 these statistics, right. You know half of marriages end in divorce. 356 00:20:27,319 --> 00:20:30,240 You've heard this statistic. Well, there's a really interesting way 357 00:20:30,279 --> 00:20:32,680 to look at this. How many of them were civil unions, 358 00:20:33,920 --> 00:20:37,200 how many of them were marriages or people went through 359 00:20:37,240 --> 00:20:40,920 premarital counseling, how many of them went through Christian premarital counseling. 360 00:20:41,119 --> 00:20:44,160 How many of them when married or part of a 361 00:20:44,200 --> 00:20:46,680 home group or a life group for a church, a 362 00:20:46,759 --> 00:20:51,519 Christian church. The percentages start to drop precipitously. You're talking 363 00:20:51,559 --> 00:20:54,559 now about ten five percent of marriages ending in divorce. 364 00:20:55,400 --> 00:20:58,079 You can back that back out of the world of 365 00:20:58,200 --> 00:21:01,079 Christianity and go back to the world at large, and 366 00:21:01,119 --> 00:21:04,240 that fifty percent. You can take that and say, look, 367 00:21:04,279 --> 00:21:07,680 I know couples who've been married for fifty sixty years. 368 00:21:07,759 --> 00:21:10,000 We do this in church, do this in Mother's Day 369 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:12,240 and Father's Day. People raise their hands or stand out 370 00:21:12,279 --> 00:21:14,640 if they've been married for something. I think we saw 371 00:21:14,680 --> 00:21:16,240 someone the other day who was married for something like 372 00:21:16,279 --> 00:21:20,119 sixty five years. It's pretty embracing that they've stayed married 373 00:21:20,319 --> 00:21:22,720 and they never had any problems, like not not a 374 00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:26,000 single argument. So of course they did. They had hard seasons. 375 00:21:27,039 --> 00:21:29,680 So then there's the people who get divorced, it seems 376 00:21:29,759 --> 00:21:31,720 for sports. I mean, you can take the absurd cases 377 00:21:31,759 --> 00:21:34,119 out of Hollywood, seven or eight divorces. Those skew the 378 00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:38,920 numbers because it's marriages. They don't say individual marriages or 379 00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:43,319 individual people. They're talking about as a group. So there's 380 00:21:43,359 --> 00:21:45,079 a lot of ways to look at this, and there's 381 00:21:45,079 --> 00:21:47,599 a lot of ways to examine it. There's also ways 382 00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:49,759 to look at the fact that God is moving through 383 00:21:49,759 --> 00:21:51,920 people's lives in ways you wouldn't think. So there's also 384 00:21:51,960 --> 00:21:56,079 this belief that God is no longer relevant and therefore 385 00:21:56,119 --> 00:21:59,240 marriage is less relevant, and it's easy for us, even 386 00:21:59,279 --> 00:22:03,599 as Christians believe this now certainly, certainly, certainly, if you 387 00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:06,200 look at something called the barn and study, there's a 388 00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:09,279 lot of people who say they're Christian, but they don't 389 00:22:09,279 --> 00:22:12,440 know what it means. But at least they say they're Christian. 390 00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:15,480 At least there's something in them that leads them to 391 00:22:15,640 --> 00:22:17,720 welcome the Holy Spirit coming to them, and they want 392 00:22:17,759 --> 00:22:19,880 the Lord Jesus. They know they need the Lord Jesus. 393 00:22:19,920 --> 00:22:21,680 They just don't know what it means to be Christian. 394 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:25,039 That's our job, those of us who call ourselves the 395 00:22:25,079 --> 00:22:28,079 exiled elect, and those are people who have been who're 396 00:22:28,279 --> 00:22:29,720 told to be in the world and not of it. 397 00:22:30,640 --> 00:22:33,799 One of our primary duties, beyond making disciples, is to 398 00:22:33,839 --> 00:22:37,079 rescue captives. So there are people who are captive. They 399 00:22:37,079 --> 00:22:39,599 don't know they're captive. They think they're Christian because they 400 00:22:39,599 --> 00:22:42,720 go to church one point one times per month and 401 00:22:42,839 --> 00:22:46,359 they set a special prayer and they sprinkle some Jesus 402 00:22:46,680 --> 00:22:48,799 powder on top of the things. The decisions they make, 403 00:22:49,279 --> 00:22:51,759 and they try super hard to go and obey the 404 00:22:51,799 --> 00:22:54,880 portions of the Bible with which they agree, but they 405 00:22:54,920 --> 00:22:58,359 don't even understand the salvation issues. That's on us. That's 406 00:22:58,359 --> 00:23:01,000 on us. Certainly, they can go read the Bible, they 407 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:03,359 can go spend time around Christians more mature than they are. 408 00:23:03,359 --> 00:23:05,599 They can make that decision. They have agency. God gave 409 00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:09,000 them agency to a degree. In America, we still have life, liberty, 410 00:23:09,039 --> 00:23:11,359 pursuit of happiness to a degree. So they can go 411 00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:14,359 do these things. But it's also on us. See when 412 00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:16,960 Jesus said to whom much is given, much is expected. 413 00:23:17,039 --> 00:23:21,000 Do you think being given salvation? Do you think being 414 00:23:21,039 --> 00:23:24,319 bought at the price of the blood of the Savior 415 00:23:24,359 --> 00:23:27,119 of mankind, Jesus Christ. Do you think that's being given much? 416 00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:32,079 I do being given eternity with him in a worry 417 00:23:32,119 --> 00:23:37,440 free zone, in a hate free zone, no discord, nothing 418 00:23:37,519 --> 00:23:40,759 like that. That's not being given much. That's being given 419 00:23:40,799 --> 00:23:44,839 everything forever. So part of our job is to take 420 00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:48,160 that because we've been given much, and to realize just 421 00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:52,200 much expected of us, like freeing the captives. So this 422 00:23:52,359 --> 00:23:55,559 combination of things God gaining influence in the world and 423 00:23:55,599 --> 00:23:57,680 marriage being more important than you think should be a 424 00:23:57,720 --> 00:24:02,720 reason for optimism because we're talking hear about momentum. You know, 425 00:24:02,759 --> 00:24:05,720 it's one thing to cold start something. I don't know 426 00:24:05,759 --> 00:24:07,960 if you ever do this, but this is ridiculously difficult, 427 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:11,839 at least for me. Cold starting exercise. Try this sometime. 428 00:24:12,119 --> 00:24:14,559 Don't warm up now, be careful with this. Be careful 429 00:24:14,559 --> 00:24:16,880 with this. But for instance, something that you're not going 430 00:24:16,960 --> 00:24:19,839 to get superhard at, like go run a mile with 431 00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:23,559 no warm up, just get up from your chair. And 432 00:24:23,799 --> 00:24:25,960 if you don't, man, I should be careful here. If 433 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:28,279 you are not trained, don't do this because it could 434 00:24:28,319 --> 00:24:30,680 kill you. But if you're sitting around one day you've 435 00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:32,240 been sitting around for a couple of hours. And let's 436 00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:35,359 say you're trained athletes or you train a lot, get 437 00:24:35,359 --> 00:24:37,319 out of your chair and run the fastest mile you 438 00:24:37,319 --> 00:24:40,400 can without warming up. You're going to find it incredibly 439 00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:42,960 difficult because you've gone from a zero you know, movement. 440 00:24:43,319 --> 00:24:45,039 Your body's not warmed up. You don't have the heart 441 00:24:45,079 --> 00:24:48,000 rate up. It isn't doesn't recognize you're going to exercise. 442 00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:52,160 That's one thing. Then do a warm up. Your mile 443 00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:55,359 time's going to be what thirty percent faster. Same thing 444 00:24:55,359 --> 00:24:58,400 with trying to get a car moving right, pushing it 445 00:24:58,440 --> 00:25:00,920 from a dead stop versus its roll. Go keep it going. 446 00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:05,519 We have momentum. We should use this momentum. So let's 447 00:25:05,599 --> 00:25:08,559 go through some of the ways that momentum is possible 448 00:25:08,559 --> 00:25:11,039 for us to use given some of the current state 449 00:25:11,079 --> 00:25:12,960 of the world. The fact we've got a video to 450 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:15,559 this point, the seconds I'll play for you, it's tons 451 00:25:15,599 --> 00:25:19,200 and tons of people getting connected to churches and baptized. 452 00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:21,720 And that's so important because people have have a defense 453 00:25:21,759 --> 00:25:24,240 for their faith. You know, I think just about every 454 00:25:24,279 --> 00:25:26,000 day and pray just about every day for my friend 455 00:25:26,039 --> 00:25:30,400 John and his family. They're the family behind Alan soaps. John, 456 00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:32,799 who runs a company, he's gotten a good long heads 457 00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:36,440 up that Jesus has called him home, that he's going 458 00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:38,880 to go to the Lord. He's spending that time with 459 00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:41,119 his family and his friends and mostly his family, and 460 00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:43,839 praise God, he's getting to do that. And that's the 461 00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:46,160 cause for fearful lot of us, not for John. He 462 00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:48,759 knows where he's going. In a way, it's also a 463 00:25:48,799 --> 00:25:51,160 cause for celebration in that he has a defense for 464 00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:53,359 his faith. So does his family. They know where John's going. 465 00:25:53,359 --> 00:25:55,480 They're going to miss him. And you have a chance 466 00:25:55,519 --> 00:25:56,880 to do something in a way of sort of a 467 00:25:57,279 --> 00:26:01,480 I don't know, pre memorial service gift. Honestly, it's to 468 00:26:01,519 --> 00:26:03,559 try the soap at Alan Soaps. If you haven't yet 469 00:26:03,559 --> 00:26:05,960 done that, give it a shake. If it's not better 470 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:08,400 than the soap you have now, then don't buy it again. 471 00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:10,559 It's that easy. I think it'll be better because it 472 00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:12,960 is all natural. I think you'll feel better about it 473 00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:15,240 because it's made in America, and I think you'll love 474 00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:17,559 it because it's made by a family that's done this 475 00:26:17,599 --> 00:26:20,559 for three generations. There's not a single chemical in it. 476 00:26:20,759 --> 00:26:22,960 And then I know you're going to love its purpose. 477 00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:27,440 Its purpose is to employed people like Alan, who's nonverbal. 478 00:26:27,519 --> 00:26:30,279 He's been through about eighteen operations. He's fourteen. He'll probably 479 00:26:30,319 --> 00:26:33,079 be through twenty more in his lifetime, so he can 480 00:26:33,119 --> 00:26:36,720 continue to move and live. His brother, Ian is impacted 481 00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:39,319 by autism as well. He also works there. He's another kid. 482 00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:41,480 The world would say he's got no value. So I 483 00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:43,759 think you feel good about purchasing the soap, and I 484 00:26:43,799 --> 00:26:45,400 think you love the fragrances, and I think you love 485 00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:47,440 the communication with them. I think you'll fall in love 486 00:26:47,599 --> 00:26:49,799 with not the brand, but the people behind this. So 487 00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:53,640 here's this special sort of pre memorial gift for John. 488 00:26:54,039 --> 00:26:56,440 If you love the soap once you try it, subscribe. 489 00:26:56,720 --> 00:26:59,039 This way the company can survive as John's wife is 490 00:26:59,079 --> 00:27:01,440 being trained to take it over after he goes to 491 00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:03,799 the Lord, so we can continue to employ people like 492 00:27:03,839 --> 00:27:06,160 Ian and Allan and hire more young people like we 493 00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:08,599 were doing before this particular period of time. It's Alan 494 00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:12,039 Soaps dot Com slash Todd, Alan Soaps dot Com slash 495 00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:15,119 Todd speaking of a defense for a faith. Here's a 496 00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:16,960 video that I think gives us a great defense for 497 00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:21,880 a faith. This is from thousands, thousands and thousands of 498 00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:25,559 people who are rededicating their lives to Jesus Christ. This 499 00:27:25,799 --> 00:27:32,720 is momentum right here. 500 00:27:33,519 --> 00:27:36,000 Speaker 3: When you've worship, you start to take your eyes both 501 00:27:36,039 --> 00:27:38,200 for the giant and you've been fighting. 502 00:27:38,319 --> 00:27:41,839 Speaker 1: When you worship, you remind your soul. Huge crowd of 503 00:27:41,839 --> 00:27:44,440 people being baptized, Praise God. Look at this God who 504 00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:55,920 is greater. There is a God who is stronger. Every 505 00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:59,200 time this happens, we should feel a thrill. Every time 506 00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:02,400 you get to watch them dying to your old self, 507 00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:08,880 they risen again and in Christ signifying this and saying, yes, Lord, 508 00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:12,359 I submit. I can't go to the cross like you did, 509 00:28:12,359 --> 00:28:15,519 but I can go in the water. So this is 510 00:28:15,519 --> 00:28:17,880 a Rededications are happening all around the country. That is 511 00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:21,400 the University of Cincinnati during a unite US college event, 512 00:28:21,519 --> 00:28:25,480 two thousand students were connected. They got connected to local churches. 513 00:28:25,519 --> 00:28:27,880 And this is according to CBN, praise God for this, 514 00:28:28,279 --> 00:28:31,640 that connection to local churches. Let's go back to divorce rates. 515 00:28:33,079 --> 00:28:35,240 People who join their local churches and stay with their 516 00:28:35,279 --> 00:28:37,880 local churches, they get in small groups and life groups. 517 00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:39,920 And what that means is you meet once maybe twice 518 00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:42,680 a week. When those groups are really fruitful. You end 519 00:28:42,759 --> 00:28:46,960 up forming actual family like partnerships. And you start this 520 00:28:47,039 --> 00:28:49,720 at a young age. You know, you're a young person 521 00:28:49,839 --> 00:28:51,920 and you're not yet married, or maybe you're just engaged. 522 00:28:52,519 --> 00:28:54,559 These are people you can go through life with for 523 00:28:54,599 --> 00:28:57,759 fifty years, through all the seasons of marriage. So when 524 00:28:57,759 --> 00:29:00,720 there's an upsetting season or you disappoint spouse or they 525 00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:04,279 disappoint you, you don't go and tell tales. You don't 526 00:29:04,279 --> 00:29:05,880 go and complain. You go and say, man, I'm in 527 00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:08,480 a tough spot. I'm having a tough season. Can we 528 00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:11,279 talk about are you? As a couple, you go to 529 00:29:11,319 --> 00:29:12,920 your life group and sit down and say, hey, guys, 530 00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:15,519 you know before we start, can we just tell you 531 00:29:15,519 --> 00:29:17,119 some things that are going in our life. We really 532 00:29:17,119 --> 00:29:20,359 need prayer. And those groups are not about fixing you. 533 00:29:21,759 --> 00:29:23,440 The goal of life group is not to have human 534 00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:25,200 beings come in and fix you. Is to hear you, 535 00:29:25,519 --> 00:29:27,759 to hear the confession, to bring Jesus into it, to 536 00:29:27,759 --> 00:29:29,799 bring the Holy Spirit into it, and let God do 537 00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:34,400 this fixing. So it's a big belief people have that 538 00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:36,839 this is God doesn't matter anymore. The fact is that's 539 00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:40,119 not true. There's a growing share of us adults who 540 00:29:40,119 --> 00:29:43,759 say religion is gaining influence in American life. More Americans 541 00:29:43,799 --> 00:29:46,640 are also expressing a positive view of religion's role in society. 542 00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:50,400 And indeed, in twenty twenty five, or did bot them out, 543 00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:53,039 it's about thirty maybe about twenty five percent. Right now, 544 00:29:53,039 --> 00:29:56,079 it's thirty one percent say it's gaining influence. There's a 545 00:29:56,079 --> 00:29:58,079 pretty big change in this. There's other people who say 546 00:29:58,119 --> 00:30:02,119 it's losing influence to thirty seven percent, but there's a 547 00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:04,000 line going up from the bottom which hasn't been there 548 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:06,799 in a very very long time. And when your adults 549 00:30:06,839 --> 00:30:09,039 are saying this that it's gaining influence, there's some reasons 550 00:30:09,039 --> 00:30:12,200 for that. This is a extract of the study. To 551 00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:14,880 be sure, most Americans continue to say that religion's role 552 00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:18,400 in society is declining, but the share who take that 553 00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:21,440 position fell sharply from eighty percent in twenty twenty four 554 00:30:21,519 --> 00:30:25,359 to sixty eight percent in twenty twenty five. After answering 555 00:30:25,359 --> 00:30:27,960 the questions about whether religion is gaining or losing influence, 556 00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:31,440 respondents are asked to evaluate the change they identified, For example, 557 00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:35,039 those who said that religion's influence is declining, or asked 558 00:30:35,039 --> 00:30:37,480 whether that decline is a good thing or a bad thing. 559 00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:40,599 We combine these questions estimate how many Americans have a 560 00:30:40,599 --> 00:30:43,640 positive view of religion's influence in society and how many 561 00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:46,640 who have a negative view. And here's what Pugh found. Overall, 562 00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:49,640 fifty nine percent of you adults express a positive view 563 00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:53,000 of religion's influence on American life. Either they say that 564 00:30:53,039 --> 00:30:55,680 religion's influence is growing and this is good, or they 565 00:30:55,720 --> 00:30:58,640 say that religion's influence is declining and that is bad. 566 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:02,759 Press a negative view. Either they say that religion's influence 567 00:31:02,839 --> 00:31:04,400 is growing and this is bad, or they say that 568 00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:07,680 religion's influence is declining and this is good. Twenty one 569 00:31:07,759 --> 00:31:11,160 percent express neutral or unclear views. They say that the 570 00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:14,119 changing influence of religion doesn't make a difference in American life, 571 00:31:14,519 --> 00:31:17,559 or that they decline to answer the question. So when 572 00:31:17,559 --> 00:31:20,279 they say this that religion's influence is growing and that's bad, 573 00:31:20,319 --> 00:31:22,960 what do you think that means? I mean, we can 574 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:25,839 read into this a little bit. So there's been some 575 00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:30,200 growth in how people view marriage. Well, something happened after 576 00:31:30,279 --> 00:31:33,680 the overfelt decision. What Supreme Court said, and this is 577 00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:37,279 what they said. They didn't just say that states can 578 00:31:37,319 --> 00:31:39,799 allow people of the same sex to marry. They say 579 00:31:39,839 --> 00:31:43,119 it's a right. When something's a right, someone can be 580 00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:45,319 forced to provide it for you. That's not a right, 581 00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:48,839 it's an anti right. What Supreme Court did was created 582 00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:52,559 an anti right. And leftist organizations, those who practice the 583 00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:57,599 so called gay gospel, they use this as a cudgel. 584 00:31:57,839 --> 00:32:00,519 They went and said, we will force you to violate 585 00:32:00,519 --> 00:32:04,400 your religious beliefs. Well, guess what, there's been a fight back. 586 00:32:04,599 --> 00:32:07,400 There's been a snapback and Americans have said, no, we're 587 00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:08,799 not going to be for usd to do that. So 588 00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:12,759 now you see religious organizations beginning to push back again. 589 00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:14,480 Now we have the right to say no, we're going 590 00:32:14,559 --> 00:32:16,319 to raise money, we're going to defend people in court. 591 00:32:16,599 --> 00:32:19,359 We're going to defend bakers of cakes in court. So 592 00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:20,960 there are people on the sexual left that say, wow, 593 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:25,119 it's a bad thing that religion is gaining influence, or 594 00:32:25,119 --> 00:32:28,119 they'd say in relation to let's say Charlie Kirk, there's 595 00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:30,079 a lot of people who didn't know that Charlie Kirk 596 00:32:30,079 --> 00:32:32,279 could put Jesus at the center of his work. And 597 00:32:32,319 --> 00:32:35,480 when he was assassinated, there were people who were celebrating 598 00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:37,400 this because they thought it was a political figure. They 599 00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:40,559 didn't understand how God uses things like this. So as 600 00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:42,920 God is gaining influence, praise God. We should use this 601 00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:46,759 as momentum which God. And if you are a Christian, 602 00:32:46,799 --> 00:32:50,160 what does that mean? Evangelical Christians have the role right 603 00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:52,799 now assigned to them of getting with these people who believe. 604 00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:56,240 It's more of a sense. They have an emotional belief, 605 00:32:56,279 --> 00:32:58,039 it's a heart belief. We need to get to their 606 00:32:58,079 --> 00:33:01,680 head because we need to have head, heart, hands and 607 00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:05,359 feet to help Jesus. Our head is understanding the Gospel 608 00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:07,559 what it means to be saved. Who can communicate with others. 609 00:33:07,759 --> 00:33:10,599 Our heart is our decision to act. It's our will. 610 00:33:10,759 --> 00:33:13,240 In the Bible, the heart means our will, our will 611 00:33:13,279 --> 00:33:15,480 to act on behalf of Jesus, our hands to do 612 00:33:15,519 --> 00:33:18,119 the work of Jesus. This is to help feed the poor, 613 00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:21,720 to visit people in prison, to help people come out 614 00:33:21,759 --> 00:33:23,920 of prison. And our feet to walk with Jesus, to 615 00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:26,640 abide with him. We need all of these things. So 616 00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:29,240 this is God. God values marriage. How do we know 617 00:33:29,279 --> 00:33:33,079 this because He invented it. Because God abhors divorce for 618 00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:36,599 all reasons, even yes, even in the case of adultery. Yes, 619 00:33:36,759 --> 00:33:40,400 Jesus did say, in the case of ongoing sexual amorality 620 00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:42,920 or adultery, yes you can divorce your wife, and therefore 621 00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:47,839 she can divorce her husband. But but he still hates it. 622 00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:51,000 Because God joined these unions together and he can forgive. 623 00:33:51,799 --> 00:33:54,759 He can forgive everything, and here's the capacity to forget sins, 624 00:33:55,359 --> 00:33:57,160 and he calls us to do that. How do I know? 625 00:33:57,240 --> 00:34:01,039 Because God said those who give mercy, we shall receive it. 626 00:34:02,079 --> 00:34:03,880 We need to think about that. For give us our 627 00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:06,160 sins as we forgive those who trespass against us in 628 00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:09,880 the exact same way. Jesus, please forgive us exactly the 629 00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:13,840 same way we forgive others. So as God matters, does 630 00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:15,920 it make a big because it cause you a big 631 00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:19,800 surprise that marriage also matters. This is Erasmussen Report, So 632 00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:22,480 a summary of marriages still matter most for Americans. And 633 00:34:22,519 --> 00:34:24,440 I use an AI to summarize this because it was 634 00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:29,880 behind a paywall. Arasmus Report National survey conducted October twenty 635 00:34:30,119 --> 00:34:32,880 through twenty second twenty twenty five, polled one three hundred 636 00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:35,599 and seven American adults and found that a strong majority 637 00:34:35,639 --> 00:34:40,679 still value marriage highly. Key highlights include personal importance. Seventy 638 00:34:40,719 --> 00:34:42,880 percent of respond that say marriage is important to their 639 00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:46,800 personal happiness, with forty eight percent rating it as very important. 640 00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:50,960 Only twenty four percent view it as unimportant. Societal benefits. 641 00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:54,519 A majority believe that the more traditional families implied through 642 00:34:54,519 --> 00:34:58,400 emphasis on marriage would improve the country. The survey had 643 00:34:58,440 --> 00:35:01,280 a margin of air of PLA plus minus three percentage 644 00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:04,440 points in ninety five percent conveidence. No detailed demographic breakdowns 645 00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:07,280 were provided in the article. When you look at this 646 00:35:07,559 --> 00:35:12,639 and marriage is important across these factors societal importance, individuality, 647 00:35:12,639 --> 00:35:15,440 why do you think that is? Why do you think 648 00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:18,320 that people who haven't studied this couldn't respond to a polster? Hey, 649 00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:21,639 do you think marriage is important? These people hadn't studied 650 00:35:21,639 --> 00:35:24,559 the outcomes of married and unmarried homes in all likelihood 651 00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:29,039 because they feel it is. Why because even if we've 652 00:35:29,119 --> 00:35:31,960 never read the word of God, we haven't read the 653 00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:35,400 Old Testament, we haven't read the New Testament. And planted 654 00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:37,320 in us is what's right and what's wrong? How do 655 00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:40,800 we know? Because the apostle Paul told us and planted 656 00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:44,199 in us is God's will. We were designed to walk 657 00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:48,000 with him. We were designed for the garden. We broke 658 00:35:48,079 --> 00:35:50,800 that design with sin, but the design is still there. 659 00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:54,239 We still want to run in those grooves. Have you 660 00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:56,559 ever found that, like to say, you're driving your jeep 661 00:35:56,599 --> 00:35:58,039 out of a I know this is kind of a 662 00:35:58,079 --> 00:36:00,719 weird example, but you're driving your jeep out of a 663 00:36:01,239 --> 00:36:03,119 let's say, wilderness area. It's hard to get your wheels 664 00:36:03,119 --> 00:36:05,360 out of a groove. Well, it's just like that. We 665 00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:07,880 are meant to be in the groove of marriage. There 666 00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:11,480 are some demographic breakgrounds with other Raspmusten polls. How important 667 00:36:11,519 --> 00:36:14,639 is marriage to your personal happiness? You look at gender 668 00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:18,239 very important, somewhat important, men sixty five percent, not important, 669 00:36:18,239 --> 00:36:23,199 as thirty, women seventy five percent, and twenty percent not importance. 670 00:36:23,320 --> 00:36:27,400 Political affiliation gets really interesting. Eighty five percent of Republicans 671 00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:30,199 say marriage is somewhat are very important, ten percent say 672 00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:34,159 not important at all. Independence it's seventy percent say it's 673 00:36:34,199 --> 00:36:36,480 somewhat important or very important, Twenty five percent say it's 674 00:36:36,519 --> 00:36:40,039 not important at all. Democrats fifty five percent say it's 675 00:36:40,079 --> 00:36:43,159 importance or somewhat important, forty percent say not important at all. 676 00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:47,199 That's the lowest of all and the reason Raspusten say 677 00:36:47,239 --> 00:36:52,480 is more emphasis on individualism and equality. Yeah, nothing says 678 00:36:52,519 --> 00:36:56,639 equality like staying apart forever. Nothing says equality like constant 679 00:36:56,679 --> 00:37:00,440 dating or constant series of girlfriends and boyfriends. That's equality, 680 00:37:01,239 --> 00:37:05,119 it's not. We were given equal need for each other, 681 00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:10,440 equal need. When God created us in his image, male 682 00:37:10,519 --> 00:37:14,920 and female. He created us, God himself said something he'd 683 00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:18,440 never said about us in creation, never once. When God 684 00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:22,280 created the stars, the universe, spoke the world in new existence, 685 00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:25,480 let there be liked. It was good. He created the 686 00:37:25,480 --> 00:37:28,159 seas and the animals that swim in it, and it 687 00:37:28,199 --> 00:37:31,199 was good. The land animals and it was good. The 688 00:37:31,199 --> 00:37:34,119 things that fly and creep, and it was good. He 689 00:37:34,159 --> 00:37:36,559 created man, and it was good. But it was not 690 00:37:36,719 --> 00:37:40,360 good that man was alone. I mean, there are all 691 00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:43,559 these animals. He had the garden, he had good, and 692 00:37:43,599 --> 00:37:47,239 it was not good that man was alone. So he 693 00:37:47,280 --> 00:37:51,119 created woman, and together it became good, became very good 694 00:37:52,079 --> 00:37:55,280 until we decided to break this. By sin. We were 695 00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:59,199 meant most of us to have partnerships for life. Marit 696 00:37:59,239 --> 00:38:01,800 a partnerships for life. Most of us, some of us 697 00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:05,239 are gifted to be single, and God uses this in 698 00:38:05,239 --> 00:38:08,239 those ways. But the reason that those people can answer 699 00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:10,119 a pole question like that, do you think marriage is 700 00:38:10,159 --> 00:38:12,960 a good thing is because God puts the knowledge that 701 00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:16,119 it is a good thing in their hearts. Their will 702 00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:19,559 is still in an attachment to the old way and 703 00:38:19,599 --> 00:38:22,559 the good way that's God's way. This is the Todd 704 00:38:22,599 --> 00:38:25,920 Hermann Shaw. Please go, be well, be strong, be kind, 705 00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:28,280 and please make every effort to walk in the light 706 00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:28,800 of Christ.