Speaker 1: Sometimes it happens that in just getting ready to do
the show, something pops up that relates to the show.
And this just happens and just shown to me. What
if I were to tell you that gang affiliation and
multi gender bathrooms, I'll have this through line. What if
I were to tell you that gang affiliation multi gender
bathrooms are leading young men to join a different form
of gang, the most positive gang that could possibly exist.
And what if the Mockingbird media was going to blame
it on masculinity. There's a rush of young men joining
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Speaker 1: Today is the day the Lord has made in These
are the times which God's the side of the show life.
This just hit me. I just looking at things. The
show prep never stops. That was what Rush used to say.
God rest your maha. So if you do what I do,
you're always prepping. Tyler O'Neil from the Daily Signal and
thanks for following me on Twitter for whatever good that does. Tyler,
thank you for that. He reports this. Parents are outraged
about the new open planned bathrooms at christian Burg High School.
It seems to be a multi gender restroom. What's that?
A Frankenstein attempt to compromise between sanity and gender ideology.
In June twenty twenty three, architect Josh Bauer explaining toilet
rooms for the student's use are all going to be
an open plan. What does that mean? Toilet rooms are
open to the corridor so people in the hallway can
see you wash your hands, toilet stretch from floor to ceiling.
Why to reduce bullying? That's so called transgender code for
upending society to coutaut to the gender confused. So called
transactivists claim that we reduced bullying, to let them play
in women's sports, let them in women's restrooms, to put
kids on the path to sterilization. So what they're doing
is they're creating one big room with a whole bunch
of toilets, and everybody gets to go into that same room. Now,
I want to ask you a question, and I don't
mean to be I don't know, I don't need to
be overly blunt, But do women want men anywhere near
them when they are evacuating their bowels? I can tell
you this, I don't want a woman near me when
I'm evacuating my bowels. I don't even want my wife
to hear that. And my wife knows me better than
anyone ever has or ever will, and I still don't
want her to hear that. I mean, there's a reason
you can turn on the fan in the bathroom and
the master bathroom, right, it's not just the smell. And again,
I'm not trying to be blunt, but honestly, so, how
is this related to this young man in Orthodoxy and
this gang thing I'm talking about? Well, this is disorder.
It's purposeful disorder. It's to cause division in society. It's
to cause feelings of disorder. It is to crumble society,
because societies, they are not built on order, are being
built on chaos. Now, you try running a business chaotically.
Try running your home chaotically. Try running your life chaotically.
Try it. What time you come into work for marrow?
I don't know how much money do we have this month?
I don't know. Try it. We're going to eat today?
I don't know? Versus having order. So with young men
rushing into this orthodox it reminded me of something else.
It reminded me how young men seek order. Young boys
seek order, and they seek it through gangs. It's very
very similar. One is evil, one leads people to God.
But Christianity is making a comeback around the world, sometimes
a confused form of Christianity. Sometimes it's to bring Christianity
into so called Christian nationalism, which by the way, cannot
occur by force. You cannot be Christian and tell people
they have to convert to Christianity. You cannot be Christian
and say we're going to demand that everybody become Christian.
Jesus never did that. I mean, there will come a
time every knee will bow, every tongue will confess that
will happen, that it happens after the church age, and
Jesus does it not us. Sometimes there's other confused forms
of Christianity. We've talked about the sexual lefts fake Christianity,
purposely fake a lot. But we are seeing people begin
to come back to the faith. This is from New
Zealand's and media says it was only a crowd of
five hundred judge for yourself, fishier religion of New Zealand.
They're saying of Christianity, that's up to them. It's their
country that does not look like five hundred people to me. Now,
I am not one for militant Christianity because again it
goes against Jesus. I'm one for praising Jesus, recognizing him
as king, and understanding that his perfect model of sacrifice
was a submissive leadership, coming under and lifting up. But
there's also order. I was chatting with someone the other
day about what it means to be Christian, and this
gentleman's of the opinion that we need to focus on unification.
Fair Enough, you define Christians and to be as broad
a tense as possible. Okay, fair enough, but what happens
when everybody's Christian, that means nobody's Christian if there's not
an actual guide to what that means. Young men are
sensing this. They're living in a world of disorder. And
I'll tell you what I mean in regard to gangs
and this affiliation and tie this together, and then we'll
get into some of these numbers, because the numbers are
pretty pretty stunning. Young men growing up in this time
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So I'm looking at young men making this rush towards orthodoxy,
and I'm thinking again about gangs. So when I worked
in the government schools in Salt Lake City, one of
the things that I kind of wish i'd done is
I was ultimately offered the statewide directorship of the Colors
of Success program, and that was a program designed to
keep young kids out of gangs. And I couldn't have
passed legislative muster because I was not allowed to allowed
to go into the state capitol or on the state
capitol grounds. I'd been banned. See I'd become an infamous
talk show host back in the day because I was libertarian,
bordering on lunacy. And I debated a state legislature who
legislator who was a phenomenally phenomenally blind to his own ignorance,
and he lost badly in the debates, and later came
along and pretended that I threatened to kill him, not remembering,
of course, that every part of our conversation was on tape,
so I did not threaten him. But the band stood.
So I had to tell the guy who recruited me
for this job, man, I'd love to do this, but
I can't talk. Not allowed on the steps of the Capitol,
so it'd be hard for me to go there testifying
we can work through that. I don't think you can.
I don't think you understand how hated I am there,
and not just by them, but a lot of leadership
in the church. The Mormon Church hated my guts, But
I learned in my process of confronting gangs in this
very gang impacted school, I learned a lot. I learned
about why kids joined gangs by observing there were young
men who lived in chaos. They didn't have sometimes moms
or dads. They were sometimes living in their own I'm
talking about sixth and seventh graders living all on their own.
And yeah, we could tell CPS that they were doing that,
but they were doing okay. So why there were other
kids who lived in the ultimate chaos of having parents
who were drunkards and drug addicts, and one day they're
beating you, the next day they're sleeping, the next day
they're being a normal parent. There was a little boy
who lived in a car. His mom was a prostitute
who lived in her car. So these kids came from
these chaotic backgrounds, and what the gangs offered was stability
and predictability, the sort of stability and predictability you'd get
in a decent home. Why do I have to go
to bed because it's bedtime? Why because they said so?
Why do we have to get up because it's school time.
Why because they said, so, why can't we eat this
food all my friends do? Because we don't eat that food.
So it creates a situation where kids have this predictability.
I know that my parents are aligned on these issues,
and I can't split them. I know that my parents
are going to ask each other anything I say, well,
Dad said I could, Oh great, I'll go talk with them.
So it creates this order. Our house is relatively clean,
our house is relatively well cared for. There's a relative
amount of food in the fridge. I can count on
these things. I can count on my parents being there.
If I have a need, an emotional need, my parents
will take the time to talk to me. They can
count on this. And I'm not saying that gangs are
emotionally available, but I'm saying that there's structure, very predictable structure.
These are the colors we wear. This is when we
wear them, this is when we cover them up. The
chain of command. This is the guy who leads our gang.
This is where you sit in the pecking order. You're
being jumped in, So you're effectively gonna be a plea.
You're gonna do whatever we say because you're being jumped in.
To get jumped into the gang, you have to do
the following things, and you have to do them on
our timeline, and we have to have proof that you
did them. And you're going to go do the things
we tell you to do. We have a business we run.
That business involves drug dealing in theft. And here are
the rules in the drug dealing and theft. And you
are to sell the drugs, but you're not to use
the drugs. And if you use the drugs, it's because
you bought them from us. So they create this structure.
This is our neighborhood. These are our blocks. We control
these blocks. If you see someone from another gang within
these blocks, if you're a plea but junior member, you
can't do anything about it, but you come and get us.
You tell us where they were. We'll take care of that.
These are the women and girls who live within our blocks.
They're the people that we date. Another gang members aren't
allowed to do that. If someone comes from an outside
gang and they want to date one of our women's
or girls, then the senior leadership of the gang is
going to take care of that. We don't allow that,
So it structure and young men grow to have this
respect for the structure. They also feel protected. You can
go through families, different families, you can go through different
members of the same family, and sometimes they'll say, for instance,
one family member might say, oh, my gosh, our parents
never showed us any love, and you can have another
family member saying, well, what are you talking about? What
are you talking about? They took us on trips and vacations,
they took us to the beach, and there's incredibly loving
and the other family member can be saying, yeah, but
they never gave me anything. What love languages. So some
people's love languages are gifts. Some people's love languages or
quality time. But young men as a species need structure.
It goes across the species. As a matter of fact,
there's a great book called When Elephants Weep and Yes
to degree anthropomorphizes elephants, but it talks about a case
where they decided to thwart the poachers, the poachers of
elephants who were going after the tusks. They decided to
take the grown male elephants and put them on a
preserve so it would be harder for the poachers to
get there, in fact, than possible. So any elephant that
developed tusks, they took it and they removed it and
it went to live with other male elephants. So the
young male elephants, who didn't yet have enough ivory for
the poachers to care, they grew up without the males.
So you know what they started to do. The young
male elephants did the craziest things. They would go destroy
drinking holes. They would topple trees and bump them put
them into the drinking holes. They would attack monkeys, They
would kill monkeys for fun. They would stop on monkeys,
they would stomp on other animals. They became these atrocious,
violent creatures. These are not that's not how elephants behave.
So anthropologists and scientists are saying, oh, maybe it's the water,
Maybe it's no. And then the old types, the oldsters,
came and said, what are you talking about? The male
elephants police this behavior. Bring the male elephants back, they'll
bring back order. And sure enough, they brought the big
tossed male elephants back. Some teen elephant decides to go
start to topple a tree, and the male elephant walks
over and kicks tush. We don't do that. What are
you doing? So what elephants do, so they learn how
to be men, how to be male elephants. In our society,
manhood is to cried in our society. Masculinity is toxic.
And don't kid yourself into thinking that they mean only
toxic masculinity. Of course you don't mean that. And by
the way, beating women and being rude to people, that's
not masculinity. It's beating someone, it's being rude. So the
structure of the gangs for a negative outcome provided a
structure that young men needed. The Orthodox Church is providing
an evident structure that young men need. And yes, Christianity
is making a comeback. I'll show you something here for
a second, in a second from Moscow, Idaho, to show
how much of a comeback it's making. There's lots of
waste to be masculine. I think it was a very
very masculine thing that my friend Tim Krukshank did, the
founder and CEO of Bone Frog Coffee, where he decided
to dedicate to the second part of his life to
keeping his wife Liz alive for as long as they
possibly could. She was dying of cancer and Tim being
a physician's assistant, and he was a medic when he
was with the Sales Seal Teams, did three deployments on
Our Behalf as a medica attached to the seal teams.
He spent the last twenty years of his life keeping
Liz alive longer than the doctors ever thought could happen.
I think that's very masculine. I also think it's a
masculine thing to start a company against all odds. Tim
didn't understand coffee. He just knew it saved his life
when he was out there getting shot at and blowed up.
So he came back and he started bone Frog Coffee.
And I think it's very masculine that he chose the
name bone Frog and the insignium bone Frog because it
stands for fallen Navy Seals, because Tim lost brothers obviously
in war. And I think the coffee itself is masculine.
It's masculine in the bag and God Country team on it.
But the funny thing, my wife loves the coffee, my
daughter loves the coffee. I've yet to meet someone who
doesn't love the coffee. That's because Tim did something else
that I think is masculine. He brought on a mentor,
Dave Stewart started Seattle's Best Coffee. He mentors Team Tim
and in fact make some of the roast himself. Go
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com slash todd. This is from Moscow, Idaho and her
friends at protest. You notice this. It's people singing a psalm,
a psalm sing in Moscow, closing with the doxology. Now
before you say, hey, that's Idaho. Not fair, Sure, it's Idaho.
It also happens to be two college towns next door
to each other, Pullman and Moscow, two college towns with
the intendant liberalism.
Speaker 2: There.
Speaker 1: It's structure, its structured worship. When young men are growing
up in a world that's being made more and more
chaotic now with the open bathrooms. See the connection. What
happened to structure, what happened to order, what happened to predictability.
It makes all the sense in the world to me
that young men are leaving some traditional churches and what
the media says is they've found a more masculine alternative,
is hamhanded way of describing what's gone on sin some
traditional churches. That's an interesting way to put it, because,
of course Orthodoxy is traditional. This is from Yahoo News,
taking this from the DBC. A twenty twenty three survey
by the Orthodox Studies Institute of Orthodox Clergy in twenty
parishes across fifteen states found there'd been an eighty percent
increase in the number of converts to the Orthodox Church
in twenty twenty two compared with the pre pandemic levels
of twenty nineteen, and by that they mean the pre
lockdown levels. The flu had nothing to do with it,
it was just the lockdowns. Of these, sixty percent were men,
compared with fifty four percent in twenty nineteen. Many of
them have been drawn to the quote masculine nature of church,
which puts emphasis on denial and pushing yourself physically. Worshippers
must stand for long services, which can last upward of
five hours. They must fast two sometimes for up to
forty days. Indeed, it's very masculine to fast. Ain't no
women fasting. I don't know no check who can stand
up that long? Masculine right. Ben Christensen was raised Anglican
church every Sunday, a religious school in Christian camp every summer,
but Christiansen twenty seven at Fairfax, Virginia always found himself
longing for a more traditional faith. Now get ready for
the poll quote. Here, get ready for the poll quote.
Remember this is all about masculinity and standing for five
hours at a time. The hard thing about growing up
in my church is that there was a lot of change,
even in my lifetime, he told the Post. I realized
there was really no way to stop the change. He
watched his traditions went by the wayside. The robe choir
was swapped out for a worship band, lines were burred
on female ordination, and long held stances on LGB so
called t issues shifted. All that stuff was basically fungible,
which gave me a message that the theological commitments are
kind of fungible too, he said, because the Word of
God is fungible. Now, I'm not saying that the Word
of God calls for robed people in churches and robed leaders.
I don't think it does. I can't find anything in
the Bible that would indicate that you need to wear
a robe or dressed like a priest. I can't find it.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: If you know of it, let me know, because I'd
love to know it's there. I just don't find it that.
He's not describing masculinity. He's describing order. He's describing a
need for predictability, a need for order. He's describing a
need for solidity. If you're attending a church that this
week says marriage is between one man and one woman
and that marriage bond is breakable only in the case
of repeated sexual perversions or adultery on repentant and then
the next week they say, plus a dude like you
can marry a dude and a woman. Where does that
leave any sense of order? There's a reason in youth
groups that our youth groups start at a certain time.
There's a reason that we meet in a certain place.
There's a reason that we begin our meetings usually by
repeating the rules of the group. Remember what we talk
about in the group stays in the group unless it
involves eminent self harm to yourself or another, or you
disclosed to something we think your parents need to know,
at which point we'll tell you, Hey, we're going to
chat with your parents about this. There's no crosstalk. If
one person's talking, you don't get to talk. Use humor responsibly.
We're not here to make fun of people. Use eye statements.
Don't say well you did this, or you're rebating this way.
I feel emotionally impacted by what you're saying in this way.
Allow white space. If someone's thinking and they're not having that,
having trouble finishing their point, allow that white space to
be there. And don't rescue. We're not here to rescue.
Someone's having a problem and it's very serious and they're
very worried. We're not going to step in this. They
let us fix. We can step in and say we
love you, we're praying for you. How can God come
into this? But we let God do the fixing here.
There's a reason we do that. And by the way,
there's been times where we've forgotten to do that. Guess
what happens. One of the young men will raise their
hands and say, hey, are we going to state the
group rules. There's also this one week I decided to
test things just to see what would happen. So guys
came in, we stated the rules, well, we prayed, we
state the rules and then they just started to get
into the text of the sermon. Hey, what did you
take away? And the faces and I'm talking about junior
high boys this year, just now, this year, heading into
tenth grade, I'm talking to faces. They would look at
each other and finally someone raised their hands say, yeah,
this going on. Well what about his and lows? Oh
did you guys want to do highs and lows? We
always do highs and lows. Well, you can't start the
group without highs and lows. And it was a big test.
I remember saying to the guys, look, I'm glad that's
meaningful to you. And I was just curious. It's not
some hero thing, I says, I Did they care? They cared.
They cared because it's order and predictability. So the Orthodox
Church is orderly and it's predictable. And if you want
to call that masculine, great, then you're saying that femininity
is chaotic and irrational. Oh, interesting cliche. This is a
picture of this. Christians and they were talking about so
Christians to began exploring other denominations in College and Lanta
and perhaps the most traditional of Orthodox Christianity. In twenty
twenty two, at the age of forty five, he converted.
It seems to me like the masculine denominations are hemorrhaging people,
or probably the mainline denominations are hemorrhaging people. He said,
if you are still serious about being a Christian now
that there isn't really as much social status tied up
in it, and you want something that has more hef
to it. There's an awareness of orthodoxy that there used
to be, and orthodoxy is what it's order. We believe
in God, the Father, creative of heaven and earth, and
his son Jesus Christ, who came to earth for our salvation,
the gotten not made, one God from true God, from
true God. We believe in the Holy Spirit. We believe
in the Holy Catholic Apostolic Church, Catholic Small Sea Apostolic Church.
We believe in one baptism for the forgiveness of sins.
We believe in life everlasting, in Jesus Christ. We believe
in the Community of the Saints. It's orthodoxy our Father
Heart in Heaven. How be thy name, that Kingdom come,
that will be done on earth as in Heaven. Give
us this day our daily bread, forgive us our trespasses.
So I who forgive those who trespass against us. Lead
us not an invitation, but deliver us from evil, for
yours is the kingdom and the power in the glory
forever and ever. Amen. It's predictability. Compared this to the
chaos of Hey, guess what. Pastors got together this weekend
executive pastor team, and we've come along and we've come
up with a new prayer. Our creator wart and Hevin,
how lood be its name? Wait, what happened to our father? Yeah,
we felt that was a little gendered, and eventually to
our heavenly mother who dwells within us. How LOLd be
your many many images. It continues to change. Where's the predictability,
where's the solidity? And more importantly, what's right and what's wrong?
The gangs, the rules? Hey wait, you're with the crypt
side of the thing and I'm with the blood side
of the thing, and you're dating a crypt girl. That's wrong? Why?
Because someone said so? In the case of God Almighty,
it's the maker of the universe, the creator of all things,
all the rules that governess who created these rules? And
Orthodoxy recognizes this. And perhaps you could say, if you're
not a fan of Orthodoxy, that it's overboard. Okay, fair enough,
call it overboard, but it's overt If you doubt the
power of structure, look into a prison. This is self
imposed structure. I don't want to go to prison. I
don't want you to go to prison, but there is
a structure there. This is the group of white nationalists,
white supremacists. Here's the group of black supremacists. These are
the Muslims. Here are the Hispanic gangs over here. This
is the gang of same sex attracted people. These twenty
guys here over they're major predators. Don't ever owe them
a favor. You're going to be in their nancy forever.
This no, I'm telling you, this is prison life.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: If someone steps to you, you have to fight. Well,
I'm half their body weights. I don't know how to fight. Okay,
Then make a decision to be someone's plaything for the
rest of your time in prison. You'll be owned. If
you fight, other people will join and they'll fight with
you because at least you thought there's this order. This
is what young men are seeking. It's not masculinity, it's structure.
And in a world that is so so desirous to
destroy all structure, praise God that it's not just young
men who are seeking structure, it's families. Why do I
say this because every week at our church, which is Evangelical,
not Orthodox, we see families come to church for the
first time want to know why because they see things
like something's wrong in the world and maybe you can
help us figure it out. Because it doesn't seem to
be just taxation in government. We think it's something much
more serious. We feel like the world's become very, very sick.
Every week we see families coming and saying this. I'll
show you an example of someone who lived as a
so called trans woman coming to understand the structure that
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observable in how God set things up our DNA. We
just talked about his invention of stem cells, all sorts
of order, and God made us in his image, male
and female. He made us mesa powers. Spent years as
a so called transgender woman, in other words, a man
pretending to be a woman before transitioning about six months ago.
Speaker 3: Come with me for a men's Bible study. Ten years
ago when I lived as in a call, this is
the last thing I would have seen myself doing. Here
I am at a men's Bible study. Let's find some
fellowship among other Christian men.
Speaker 1: Encourage one another, we help each other.
Speaker 3: That went so much better than I ever thought it
could go. Some of the guys were battling things that
I have not experienced as a man before. They talked
about different urges that I haven't had with women and
things like that, and I had a hard time relating
that way. Even though I'm with a woman now, I
still feel like there's a little disconnect. But the more
that I continue to fellowship with other men and just
be around my Christian family, the more christ Like I'll become.
Speaker 1: And that's all I want price God. Such honesty is
trouble relating to this, such honesty and still wearing the
long hair. Maybe one day he cuts that, maybe he's
going to be a dude with long air. Can you
imagine the humility it takes to say, I was so
far gone, I took a bunch of estrogen, which is
why I have this female like voice. And to answer
your question, no, he can't get it back. No, yeah,
the vocal surgeries don't work. They work the other way around. No, truly,
if a woman has taken ten thousand times as much
as actually two thousand times the amount of testosterone under
a body that would ever exist naturally, what they do
in the vocal cords become that smoky, weird teeny voice
that's lower but smoking weird. What they do with women
is they stretch their vocal cords. They go in and
it's a very very painful surgery. So they cut your
vocal cords, they reconnect them, and then they stretch them
to refeminize the voice. But it never comes back. But
can you imagine the humility it takes to walk into
that room with that voice and to speak to these
men about what you've been through and to not be
able to relate to these lust issues. Apparently that's what
he's referring to, but to hear other men talking of them. See,
it's structure, it's order. You know, this morning, our pastor
was not able to come to his Wednesday group, And candidly,
if if I knew Jim wasn't going to be there,
I probably would have taken the morning off and hung
out with my wife. And I'm in a way, in
a way, I think Jim does this sometimes to give
us opportunities to just lead and tell us at the
last minute not going to be there. So guess what happens.
One of the guys decided to jump in. No one
really cares who leads, but it has to be led
in the right way. Wait, where's our prayer? We have
to begin with the prayer. What's our topic for the day. Now,
we may not police it as hardcore as Jim does.
After all, he is the shepherd of that group. But
Jim says to us, I need you to shepherd me. Guys.
Sometimes I need your leadership. Sometimes I need you to
come to me and say, hey, Jim, you've been off
track lately. Hey Jim, I don't think I cared for
the interaction you just had in the hallway what's going
on with you that he's given us license to speak
into this because we're co leading. That's humility. These young
men who are choosing the Orthodox Church, they may be
going to quote an extreme. I don't necessarily think it's
an extreme. Fasting for forty days seems extreme to me.
And yet people done this throughout the biblical history, standing
for four or five hours. That sucks. But I've done
it and you've done it too. But it's the evident structure.
The cross goes here. This is the stations of the cross.
This is what priests wear. That has to that way.
Where's your necklace? You forgot your necklace. These are the
cups from which we take communion, and it's taken in
this way. It's structure. And in the Evangelical Church we
have our own structures. We have our own doctrinal statements,
and we hope that they align with Sheianity as a whole,
that there's these unifying effects. But we're seeing things like this,
this young man coming back to understand God made us
in his image, male and female. He made us. It's
reinstalled structure. We're also watching something else. We're watching the
rising of people having heart changes. For people who are
say in abortionists, we're seeing abolitionists rising as it were.
Speaker 4: Listen, you were a human and you lived inside of
your mother's womb, yes right, yesself. No, no, no, I
don't count that now, you didn't. You didn't become a
human when you were born, trust me all reason. But
you believe that because you want to support abortion.
Speaker 1: But the next day than speech, Yeah, punished the rapists,
protect the child.
Speaker 4: He's just traveling around. Okay, we talked to yesterday. Did
you change your mind? I seriously reconsidered my values.
Speaker 1: Fist bump. Oh yeah, we're sure.
Speaker 3: Say yeah for giving me enlightenment to your opinion, because
I didn't think about it as much movement now I
really thought was about that.
Speaker 1: Well, praise God.
Speaker 4: That's awesome. Keep thinking, keep growing, Yeah, and have a
lovely day.
Speaker 1: Yeah, good for you. Oh my goodness. It's incorrectly attributed
to Charles Spurgeon's and I can't remember who actually said it.
Share the Gospel with everyone you meet, and when necessary,
use words. Now obviously he was using words, but he
wasn't using the Gospel words, just talking about how love
she was structure, right, a clump of cells. No, clumps
of cells would just be clumps. They wouldn't have an
instruction kit within them on how to build a baby.
That requires structure and forethought and planning in genius and design.
That's not a clump. That's an instruction kit. It's self
extracting software and self building hardware, and it takes a
genius level intelligence to create that. That then multiplies regenerative
forever until the being who created us decides that process
is over. There's going to be no new bodies created.
We're all going to have ultimate structure. Eternally. You will
have ultimate structure. Your structure will be the new Heaven
and the new Earth with Christ Jesus as the Son
of God and the literal son. The source of light,
the new Heaven and the new Earth is Jesus Christ. Structure.
The things that are absent, division, hatred, strife, covening, lust, anger, pride, God.
What's there, fruits of the spirit? Structure will we have?
We're told we will tending the garden again, and we'll
have eternity to get it done. The other side's going
to have structure too. The compounding negative interest of walking
into or arriving in Hell on day one and Satan
would be very honest if he said to you, you
think you hate it, now wait a trillion years, when
every resentment has compounded in its intensity for one trillion years,
every bit of anger and strife and negativity and division
and covening and lust that can never be fulfilled or
acted upon, resentments that can never be healed, pains that
can never go away, compounding, And on day one of
a trillion years, Satan Cansadia. You think you hate it,
now wait until one hundred trillion years and it's all compounded.
I want out, Oh no, can do structure. Young men
are seeking structure. It's not masculinity. They're seeking its structure.
And there's more great news. There are more and more
men who are speaking into the lives of young men.
An NFL Hall of Fame inductee just did this and
it was a beautiful thing and will wrap up the
show with this. It's important that you see this structure.
Alan soaps may well be losing its leader, not Alan,
Praise God. Alan is fourteen. He's been through about eighteen operations.
He's nonverbal because of his placement on the autism spectrum
or that communicates his nonverbal status. He's also the inventor
of most of the fragrances. At Alan Soaps, he works
every single day in quality control and packaging, and his
brother Ian also works there, also impacted by autism, although
differently not with the same structural challenges that Alan has.
John has been leading this company. He invented the company
to give his kids a place to work. John is
a digital marketing genius. He did not know how to
make soap, so he recruited a family with three generations
of soap making expertise to make sure that the soap
is all natural, made in America, and absolutely, absolutely as
gentle as soap can be. It appears that the Lord
is calling John home. He's told us that he shared
with us that he has apparently cancer that's going to
take his life. So I am yes, combining my ask
that you pray for the family and pray for healing.
God made well decide to heal John. God Almighty could
do that, and if he doesn't, the company's going to
be led by his wife. So my request of you
is a sincere one. I'm asking you to try the
soap because I want you to convert to being an
Allen's user and customer. But this request stands. If the
soap is not equal to or better than the soap
you have now, don't continue to buy it. If it is.
Subscribe so that as this family deals with this transition,
we at least know that Alan Soaps is going to
stick around and Alan's mom, John's wife will have an
easier time coming in to running the company. It's Alan
Soaps dot com slash todd. That's Alan Soaps dot com
slash todd. This is an NFL Hall of Fame inductee
named Jared Allen, and he's speaking obviously in the lives
of men as a whole, but young men because he's
an older dude who can lead in humility and instructure.
Speaker 5: Listen to this, well, I'm here to tell you too,
you are my greatest accomplishments. When I get called home
to have them one day, if all they talk about
is this gold jacket my career, then I failed miserably
as a father, a husband, and a friend. You too,
are my legacy. You were both so talented and I
cannot wait to see what you decided you and to
conquer this world. So always put Christ first, find your why,
dream big dreams, and always pursue greatness in whatever you do.
Speaker 1: What did he start with? Abide structure? We abide with Christ.
As we abide with Christ, he gives us the Holy
Spirit to lead in our homes, to be part of
our church in the building. But being part of the
body of Christ. He gives us then the capacity to
share within the world. Our work is our ministry. And
he gives us an understanding of the spiritual war we're
all in. And if you don't think that spiritual war
is structured, read the Book of Revelation. This is the
Todd Hermershew. Please go, be well, be strong, be kind,
and please accept that you are going to have structure
in eternity. Choose what structure you have. Cebright for me
is I get to go home later and hang out
with my beloved wife.