1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:04,440 Speaker 1: I think there's scripture that should worry anybody who loves 2 00:00:04,440 --> 00:00:08,240 God and doesn't want to disappoint God. And I think 3 00:00:08,240 --> 00:00:10,720 if from time to time we're not worried by scripture, 4 00:00:10,919 --> 00:00:14,000 or it doesn't cause conflict in us, it doesn't cause 5 00:00:14,839 --> 00:00:19,280 restling match between flesh and spirit, then perhaps we're not 6 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:22,079 really in the word. I want to talk about that, 7 00:00:22,120 --> 00:00:27,800 but I also want to honor Donald John Trump for 8 00:00:28,280 --> 00:00:34,759 treating black journalists as he does every other adversarial journalist. 9 00:00:36,200 --> 00:00:38,640 And I want to do this by way of comparison 10 00:00:39,719 --> 00:00:43,200 with some friends of mine here In fact, I should 11 00:00:43,240 --> 00:00:46,799 have them on to talk about this. But every black 12 00:00:47,719 --> 00:00:53,200 professional man I got to know personal training, to black 13 00:00:53,280 --> 00:00:58,840 personal trainers, to friends in media black people, and a 14 00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:05,519 black friend tech told me what their favored form of 15 00:01:05,599 --> 00:01:09,120 racism is and it relates to how President Trunk treated 16 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:13,079 this journalist. We'll talk about that with the help of 17 00:01:13,480 --> 00:01:16,959 Bonefrogcoffee dot Com, says Todd and God Almighty, who, by 18 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:20,359 the way, made and loves all people. 19 00:01:22,959 --> 00:01:26,480 Speaker 2: The Todd Herman Show is one hundred percent disapproved by 20 00:01:26,519 --> 00:01:34,159 big pharma, technocrats and tyrants everywhere from the high mountains 21 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:40,519 of Free America. Here's the Emerald City exile, Todd Herman. 22 00:01:48,719 --> 00:01:51,000 Speaker 1: Today is a day the Lord has made in These 23 00:01:51,040 --> 00:01:53,239 are the times which God is. The Saturay shall live. 24 00:01:54,719 --> 00:01:57,719 Next week we starts a new format for one of 25 00:01:57,760 --> 00:02:00,719 the shows. The show you're listening to and or watching 26 00:02:00,760 --> 00:02:03,599 now will remain the same. It's effectively the radio show 27 00:02:03,719 --> 00:02:07,079 done on podcast. In order for me to be able 28 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:11,199 to be absolutely as timely as possible and to dig 29 00:02:11,240 --> 00:02:15,879 into cultural things, faith things, political things, one at a time, 30 00:02:16,319 --> 00:02:19,319 we're going to be doing shorter casts. You don't have 31 00:02:19,319 --> 00:02:21,479 to change anything. If you have the RSS feed, if 32 00:02:21,520 --> 00:02:23,199 you subscribe to the show, you don't have to change 33 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:27,479 a thing. Those shows will continue to download, and we 34 00:02:27,560 --> 00:02:31,199 may we're trying this, so it's subject to change. It 35 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:33,000 might be that we edit that all up into one 36 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:35,639 big show, but it's going to really be dependent upon 37 00:02:35,719 --> 00:02:38,479 how you feel about it. You, guys, matter more than 38 00:02:38,680 --> 00:02:41,840 anyone else in this equilibrium. Without you, there's no me 39 00:02:41,919 --> 00:02:43,680 in this position. As I used to say in radio, 40 00:02:43,719 --> 00:02:46,199 and I haven't said that enough to you lately. Without you, 41 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:48,599 there's no me in this position. So thank you for that. 42 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:53,879 I've always loved radio and now casts, and I don't 43 00:02:53,879 --> 00:02:56,360 always love coming in to talk about what's going on 44 00:02:56,439 --> 00:02:58,719 in the world. Because of what's going on in the world. 45 00:03:00,479 --> 00:03:04,759 Really excited to honor what President Trump did at the 46 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:08,800 National Association of Black Journalists. And I'll tell you this 47 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:13,879 favored form of racism that my friends in Seattle told 48 00:03:13,879 --> 00:03:17,000 me about, one by one, all separately, never in the 49 00:03:17,039 --> 00:03:21,560 same room. Several different instances of how this came about. 50 00:03:21,919 --> 00:03:24,759 One was in tech. Gentlemen I got to know in 51 00:03:24,840 --> 00:03:26,560 tech and black guy got to know him. I was 52 00:03:26,560 --> 00:03:29,560 working at Microsoft. He worked in Los Angeles and had 53 00:03:29,599 --> 00:03:32,560 been in the entertainment world and had made his way 54 00:03:32,599 --> 00:03:35,319 over to tech. Had a very good tech mind. And 55 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:38,520 we were in New York City and we were at 56 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:41,719 this event that Microsoft had put on and had There 57 00:03:41,800 --> 00:03:44,439 was this painter. It's one of those guys who he 58 00:03:45,439 --> 00:03:48,840 speed paints, and the trick is you don't know what 59 00:03:48,919 --> 00:03:51,199 he's painted until he turns it right side up and 60 00:03:51,240 --> 00:03:54,360 finishes it. And he was doing this to a Rolling 61 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:57,039 Stone song. We had a concert there and I don't remember, 62 00:03:57,080 --> 00:04:00,599 it's some big bands there and we'd gone out to 63 00:04:00,680 --> 00:04:03,639 dinner with a bunch of advertisers. And remember this is 64 00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:07,360 New York City and this is liberal you know, no racism. 65 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:12,879 And these are all liberals, doctrinaire democrat liberals. And we 66 00:04:12,919 --> 00:04:16,240 went out to dinner. Guy was the senior executive there, 67 00:04:16,439 --> 00:04:19,920 not me guy, and the rule of Microsoft is the 68 00:04:19,959 --> 00:04:26,800 senior executive pays. And he got out his card and 69 00:04:26,879 --> 00:04:32,680 a white woman turned to him and said, are you 70 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:34,160 going to be okay with that in your card? It's 71 00:04:34,199 --> 00:04:42,480 a lot of money. First of all, it's a Microsoft 72 00:04:42,519 --> 00:04:47,480 corporate card. Secondly, it happens that guy didn't need a 73 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:51,839 dime from anybody he worked because he loved it. He'd 74 00:04:51,879 --> 00:04:56,920 made a ton of money producing films and music and 75 00:04:57,040 --> 00:05:02,079 videos and owned a ton of intellectual p And he 76 00:05:02,120 --> 00:05:05,279 looked at her and said, I'm pretty sure if the 77 00:05:05,319 --> 00:05:10,160 Microsoft card doesn't handle it, my optimum will. He told 78 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:12,279 me later, that's the sort of racism I can't stand. 79 00:05:12,759 --> 00:05:14,240 So do you think that was racism? He goes, Did 80 00:05:14,279 --> 00:05:18,879 she turn to you and say it okay? In Seattle, 81 00:05:18,879 --> 00:05:21,160 I've told the story before about my friend Terry coming 82 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:25,000 into the radio station and everyone would stand up, Oh, Terry, Terry, 83 00:05:25,240 --> 00:05:27,319 It's always a wonderful day when you're here at him 84 00:05:27,360 --> 00:05:29,199 sitting across from me, going and I looked at him, 85 00:05:29,199 --> 00:05:30,680 I go does that ever bother you? He goes, dude, 86 00:05:30,680 --> 00:05:33,959 do they think I don't know they'll do that to you? 87 00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:35,480 Do you get that tripot when you walk in here? 88 00:05:35,759 --> 00:05:39,680 No one does. Only only black people. I know. Last 89 00:05:39,720 --> 00:05:42,879 one is probably the most pandering and cringey, as my 90 00:05:42,959 --> 00:05:47,439 daughter would say. Had a personal trainer named Steve, huge, 91 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:50,240 unbelievably strong man. I've told you the stories about how 92 00:05:50,279 --> 00:05:54,680 strong this guy was. And nicest dude, but big, strong, 93 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:57,720 athletic looking, sixty four year old black man. He was 94 00:05:57,759 --> 00:06:02,279 in a store in Liberal, the most liberal part of Seattle. 95 00:06:02,279 --> 00:06:04,560 He and his wife are down, they're shopping. She happens 96 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:06,040 to be white. See if what happens to be black. 97 00:06:07,759 --> 00:06:12,160 He is a nutrition nut. So he had two separate 98 00:06:12,199 --> 00:06:14,439 products he was looking at and he was comparing the 99 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:18,519 macros and the ingredients, and a liberal white woman and 100 00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:20,800 I kid you not his story, not mine, in a 101 00:06:20,839 --> 00:06:24,360 Hilary Clinton shirt, came up to him. She said, they 102 00:06:24,360 --> 00:06:26,879 can make those products really confusing. I'm a nurse. Let 103 00:06:26,879 --> 00:06:35,120 me know if I can help a nurse. They each 104 00:06:35,199 --> 00:06:40,040 said they prefer all of them, all of my black friends. 105 00:06:40,040 --> 00:06:43,480 And Settle said, we prefer the old fashioned KKK style racism. 106 00:06:44,319 --> 00:06:48,199 We would rather see a Dixie flag and a kick 107 00:06:48,240 --> 00:06:52,040 the Blacks Out T shirt than that form of racism. 108 00:06:53,240 --> 00:06:54,680 So I'll tell you why I'm talking about this in 109 00:06:54,720 --> 00:06:56,680 a second. I'll just show you what President Trump did, 110 00:06:56,720 --> 00:07:01,279 and I truly I can tell you with I'm proud 111 00:07:01,879 --> 00:07:04,560 of Donald John Trump and how he treated this. He 112 00:07:04,680 --> 00:07:08,000 confronted this, and he showed absolute respect for the black 113 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:10,879 community by not lying to them. 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This is just a sample, 153 00:09:06,120 --> 00:09:08,440 and we'll get more deep into this tomorrow, more deeply 154 00:09:08,440 --> 00:09:12,120 into this tomorrow. President Trump being President Trump in the 155 00:09:12,240 --> 00:09:18,360 face of aggressive questioning, and President Trump acting with complete, utter, 156 00:09:18,840 --> 00:09:22,720 unmitigated respect for black people by not pandering. 157 00:09:22,799 --> 00:09:25,679 Speaker 3: It's not true. You have told four congressmen women of 158 00:09:25,720 --> 00:09:28,360 color who are American citizens, to go back to where 159 00:09:28,360 --> 00:09:31,720 they came from. You have used words like animal and 160 00:09:31,879 --> 00:09:36,120 rabbit to describe black district attorneys. You've attacked black journalists, 161 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:38,960 calling them a loser, saying the questions that they ask 162 00:09:39,080 --> 00:09:42,159 are quote stupid and racist. You've had dinner with the 163 00:09:42,200 --> 00:09:46,159 white supremacists at your marologue resort. So my question, sir, 164 00:09:46,799 --> 00:09:49,759 now that you are asking black supporters to vote for you, 165 00:09:50,519 --> 00:09:53,679 why should black voters trust you after you have used 166 00:09:53,759 --> 00:09:54,720 language like that. 167 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:57,919 Speaker 4: Well, first of all, I don't think i've ever been 168 00:09:58,159 --> 00:10:03,360 asked a question, so in such a horrible manner. First question, 169 00:10:04,240 --> 00:10:07,600 you don't even say, hello, how are you? Are you 170 00:10:07,679 --> 00:10:10,679 with ABC? Because I think they're a fake news network, 171 00:10:10,720 --> 00:10:16,120 a terrible net work, And I think it's disgraceful that 172 00:10:16,600 --> 00:10:20,799 I came here in good spirit. I love the black 173 00:10:20,879 --> 00:10:23,720 population of this country. I've done so much for the 174 00:10:23,720 --> 00:10:31,679 black population of this country, including employment, including Opportunity Zones 175 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:34,879 with Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina, which is one 176 00:10:34,919 --> 00:10:40,000 of the greatest programs ever for black workers and black entrepreneurs. 177 00:10:40,399 --> 00:10:44,840 I've done so much. And you know, and I say this, Historically, 178 00:10:44,879 --> 00:10:48,360 black colleges and universities were out of money. They were 179 00:10:48,399 --> 00:10:51,679 stone call broke, and I saved them and I gave 180 00:10:51,759 --> 00:10:55,039 them long term financing and nobody else was doing it. 181 00:10:55,320 --> 00:10:58,360 I think it's a very rude introduction. I don't know 182 00:10:58,919 --> 00:11:01,840 exactly why you would do something like that. And let 183 00:11:01,840 --> 00:11:04,679 me go a step further. I was invited here, and 184 00:11:04,759 --> 00:11:08,320 I was told my opponent, whether it was Biden or Kamala, 185 00:11:09,080 --> 00:11:11,320 I was told my opponent was going to be here. 186 00:11:11,759 --> 00:11:14,639 It turned out my opponent isn't here. You invited me 187 00:11:14,720 --> 00:11:17,799 under false pretense, and then you said you can't do 188 00:11:17,919 --> 00:11:21,519 it with zoom, Well you know where's zoom. She's going 189 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:23,759 to do it with zoom, and she's not coming, And 190 00:11:23,799 --> 00:11:26,039 then you were half an hourl A. Just so we understand, 191 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:27,960 I have too much respect for you to be late. 192 00:11:28,200 --> 00:11:29,080 Speaker 1: They couldn't get their. 193 00:11:28,960 --> 00:11:30,320 Speaker 4: Equipment working or something. 194 00:11:31,039 --> 00:11:34,399 Speaker 1: I would think it's a very nasty question. I have 195 00:11:34,519 --> 00:11:36,080 answered the question. 196 00:11:36,159 --> 00:11:40,240 Speaker 4: I have been the best president for the black population 197 00:11:40,799 --> 00:11:43,440 since Abraham Lincoln. 198 00:11:44,080 --> 00:11:45,960 Speaker 3: President Johnson, I'm the building right back. 199 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:49,240 Speaker 4: You to start off a question and answer period, especially 200 00:11:49,240 --> 00:11:51,799 when you're thirty five minutes late because you couldn't get 201 00:11:51,799 --> 00:11:54,559 your equipment to work. In such a hostile manner, I 202 00:11:54,639 --> 00:11:55,919 think it's a disgrace. 203 00:11:56,039 --> 00:11:59,720 Speaker 1: I really it's not that he was polite, it's that 204 00:11:59,799 --> 00:12:02,840 she wasn't he matched her tone. He would do this 205 00:12:02,919 --> 00:12:06,720 to a white journalist. If that was Mitten's romney, he 206 00:12:07,200 --> 00:12:11,639 would have ducked and covered. If it was Hilary Clinton, 207 00:12:11,679 --> 00:12:14,759 she would have pulled out her hot sauce and put 208 00:12:14,799 --> 00:12:19,360 on some wop, stood up and danced for the people 209 00:12:19,799 --> 00:12:30,639 because she's down with the struggle. That's complete respect. I'm 210 00:12:30,639 --> 00:12:32,480 proud of the president for doing that. We'll spend more 211 00:12:32,519 --> 00:12:35,320 time on it tomorrow. On the other side of the 212 00:12:35,360 --> 00:12:40,039 spectrum is a guy named Ed Stetzer. I don't know Ed. 213 00:12:40,240 --> 00:12:44,360 I've never met Ed. I don't know Ed's heart. I 214 00:12:44,399 --> 00:12:46,480 know that Ed has some political views, and I know 215 00:12:46,519 --> 00:12:48,639 he's an evangelical Christian, and I know he's got a 216 00:12:48,840 --> 00:12:51,919 huge amount of respect. In fact, I have listened to 217 00:12:52,120 --> 00:12:55,480 and quite enjoyed his program very much. This would be 218 00:12:55,480 --> 00:12:58,639 an area on which he and I disagree. He was 219 00:12:58,679 --> 00:13:04,360 talking about how to deprogram the deplorables during a book launch. 220 00:13:04,639 --> 00:13:07,759 Speaker 5: Next question from Paul Washa Kakar, who's at the United 221 00:13:07,759 --> 00:13:11,120 States Institute of Peace. I'm interested in hearing more about 222 00:13:11,159 --> 00:13:14,279 Pastor Ed's work with evangelical pastors. How do you help 223 00:13:14,360 --> 00:13:18,200 them identify and work on de radicalization. Do you build 224 00:13:18,200 --> 00:13:23,240 on the internationals cbe countering violent extremism work in this area, 225 00:13:23,320 --> 00:13:25,279 or how does it differ in your understanding? 226 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:29,639 Speaker 6: First, we don't call it de radicalization, That's the first thing, 227 00:13:29,679 --> 00:13:31,799 but because nobody sees themselves as that. But I get 228 00:13:31,840 --> 00:13:34,440 exactly what you're saying, and I appreciate the work of deradicalization, 229 00:13:35,399 --> 00:13:38,080 the language I use at the beginning and the way 230 00:13:38,120 --> 00:13:41,200 because I've written a lot to try to persuade evangelicals 231 00:13:41,240 --> 00:13:43,960 on some of these issues, and I actually have. It 232 00:13:44,080 --> 00:13:45,799 was very easy for us to sit back and say, oh, 233 00:13:45,879 --> 00:13:49,240 those Quan honors, well, I actually have friends in the 234 00:13:50,679 --> 00:13:54,720 who are self identified Qan honors in the evangelical community. 235 00:13:55,320 --> 00:13:59,080 Speaker 1: I kind of just pause this, Sorry, Nana, with all 236 00:13:59,320 --> 00:14:03,759 due respect, and he's earned respect. At Stetzer, I am 237 00:14:03,879 --> 00:14:07,399 pretty thick into conservative politics. I live in a very 238 00:14:07,440 --> 00:14:14,200 conservative region. I have mostly conservative friends, and I am 239 00:14:14,240 --> 00:14:18,799 blessed to get hundreds of emails a day. I've met 240 00:14:18,840 --> 00:14:23,039 one person who asked me to look into q Andon period, 241 00:14:23,919 --> 00:14:27,600 so I would be fascinated to learn how you ended 242 00:14:27,639 --> 00:14:30,879 up with a lot of friends who identifies q Andon. 243 00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:34,519 When I've met one person who said, would you look 244 00:14:34,559 --> 00:14:37,279 into this? And my response was no, because it's nothing 245 00:14:37,279 --> 00:14:39,279 I can determine to be true or false. 246 00:14:39,639 --> 00:14:41,879 Speaker 6: Who actually text me when I'm being discussed on q 247 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:44,360 andon message boards and they say they defend me on 248 00:14:44,360 --> 00:14:46,720 those message boards. But that's another story for another day. 249 00:14:47,759 --> 00:14:49,759 So for me, I try to frame in such a 250 00:14:49,759 --> 00:14:52,960 way that people can receive the message. And again, for us, 251 00:14:52,960 --> 00:14:55,919 that often comes around in terms of discipleship. I talked 252 00:14:55,919 --> 00:14:59,600 about this on NPR's morning edition, and the host asked me, 253 00:14:59,639 --> 00:15:02,399 and kind of I struggle because it's like it's insider 254 00:15:02,399 --> 00:15:05,000 baseball language. I said, So there are things I explained 255 00:15:05,480 --> 00:15:08,759 that as Christians we want to disciple in and things 256 00:15:08,759 --> 00:15:11,320 that as Christians we want to disciple out. So what 257 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:14,120 needs to be discipled in in twenty twenty one, Well, 258 00:15:14,440 --> 00:15:16,799 it might be seeing yourself as a world Christian, seeing 259 00:15:17,240 --> 00:15:19,320 that men and women from every tongue tribe of nation 260 00:15:19,600 --> 00:15:24,279 are that's frequent language in the pages of the scriptures. 261 00:15:24,559 --> 00:15:26,679 It might be helping people to see that. And the 262 00:15:26,759 --> 00:15:29,000 language I often use is that we should not be 263 00:15:29,080 --> 00:15:30,399 among the gullible. 264 00:15:32,159 --> 00:15:36,200 Speaker 1: Pause. Nothing wrong with what ed sets is saying. The 265 00:15:36,279 --> 00:15:38,399 Lord of the universe is the Lord of the universe. 266 00:15:38,519 --> 00:15:41,919 Jesus is not the Jesus of the United States. And 267 00:15:43,200 --> 00:15:48,320 the question was about deprogramming deplorables. I just showed Donald 268 00:15:48,399 --> 00:15:56,360 John Trump sit on stage and act with absolute consistency 269 00:15:56,399 --> 00:16:00,519 with a black journalist calling him a racist, without saying 270 00:16:00,559 --> 00:16:06,480 it and without pandering. I can show you Cammie Harris, 271 00:16:06,879 --> 00:16:10,120 who has identified as Indian her most of her life. 272 00:16:10,879 --> 00:16:14,639 I can show you her concept of black people as 273 00:16:14,679 --> 00:16:18,080 to get on stage after megan the Stallion with one 274 00:16:18,120 --> 00:16:23,360 of the most perverse and dishonoring of women quote songs 275 00:16:23,399 --> 00:16:30,399 in history. That that's blackness. Bailing out criminals who destroyed 276 00:16:30,919 --> 00:16:36,399 often black neighborhoods, that's blackness. So to Ed Stetzer, I 277 00:16:36,480 --> 00:16:42,159 would say, again, with all respect ed, there's many forms 278 00:16:42,159 --> 00:16:45,720 of racism, and I regard what's being inserted into the 279 00:16:45,759 --> 00:16:50,279 minds of leftists as a very, very poisonous form of racism, 280 00:16:50,440 --> 00:16:55,799 far more radical than whatever you've invented as racism from 281 00:16:55,840 --> 00:16:59,320 President Trump or the deplorables, which seems to me to 282 00:16:59,360 --> 00:17:02,960 be Paulss based. It is not racist to say we 283 00:17:03,120 --> 00:17:05,319 have to be able to have some control of our borders, 284 00:17:05,640 --> 00:17:11,039 goes to Romans thirteen. We have border laws or we don't, 285 00:17:12,039 --> 00:17:14,759 sojourners have to follow our laws or they don't. What 286 00:17:14,799 --> 00:17:16,039 does Roman thirteen say? 287 00:17:16,240 --> 00:17:18,079 Speaker 6: And I actually would point out, you know, I mean, 288 00:17:18,480 --> 00:17:19,359 I do, just so we're clear. 289 00:17:19,400 --> 00:17:19,960 Speaker 1: I do believe. 290 00:17:20,480 --> 00:17:22,279 Speaker 6: I've bet my whole life on the fact that there 291 00:17:22,319 --> 00:17:24,160 was a person who was dead on Friday and on 292 00:17:24,200 --> 00:17:27,119 Sunday was back from the dead, and everything I believe 293 00:17:27,279 --> 00:17:30,200 and is framed and shaped around that reality. But I 294 00:17:30,240 --> 00:17:33,960 do point out how as our Christian witness is impacted. 295 00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:35,599 The last slide that I didn't get to because I 296 00:17:35,599 --> 00:17:37,599 went too long in the first session actually talks about 297 00:17:37,599 --> 00:17:40,160 the danger to our Christian witness. I lead the Wheaton 298 00:17:40,160 --> 00:17:42,920 College Billy Graham Center, so I care deeply about our 299 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:46,119 Christian witness. And I pointed out somebody who kept posting 300 00:17:46,160 --> 00:17:48,680 about this q Andon conspiracy and this QAnon conspiracy in 301 00:17:48,720 --> 00:17:50,759 this one and then it came to Easter and they said, oh, 302 00:17:50,759 --> 00:17:51,960 and Jesus rose from the dead. 303 00:17:53,160 --> 00:17:56,799 Speaker 1: Nothing wrong, nothing wrong with saying don't make the idle 304 00:17:56,839 --> 00:17:59,720 of politics, nothing wrong with that, But to even you 305 00:18:00,200 --> 00:18:03,839 phrases like deplorables, to even take a question like that 306 00:18:03,920 --> 00:18:08,759 and say, can I reframe that. Jesus tells us not 307 00:18:09,039 --> 00:18:12,920 to call people fools. We're not to make that judgment. 308 00:18:13,039 --> 00:18:16,799 That's God's judgment to make. And the phrase deplorables in 309 00:18:16,839 --> 00:18:21,200 of itself devalues some of God's beings. I think there's 310 00:18:21,240 --> 00:18:25,400 this temptation, and particularly it's an emotional temptation to look 311 00:18:25,400 --> 00:18:29,759 at President Trump and a direct way of speaking and 312 00:18:29,799 --> 00:18:33,519 point to that as as aggressive or racist. That black 313 00:18:33,559 --> 00:18:35,319 journalist who was interviewing him and forgive me for not 314 00:18:35,319 --> 00:18:39,440 knowing her name. She made these accusations of racism, saying 315 00:18:39,720 --> 00:18:42,640 you told women of color who are United States citizens 316 00:18:42,640 --> 00:18:45,960 to go home. Yeah, some of who moved here, who 317 00:18:45,960 --> 00:18:49,480 were rescued and hate this country and are doing everything 318 00:18:49,680 --> 00:18:54,400 policy wise to destroy this country. Those aren't question marks. 319 00:18:54,440 --> 00:18:57,160 Those are facts. You destroy a country by setting up 320 00:18:57,200 --> 00:19:02,119 neighborhoods that are of one race. That's a division tactic, 321 00:19:02,119 --> 00:19:04,880 and everybody knows it, everyone who's willing to admit it. 322 00:19:06,799 --> 00:19:09,160 There's some scripture that I think, and maybe ed set 323 00:19:09,240 --> 00:19:11,720 you would agree with this, that I think every Christian 324 00:19:11,799 --> 00:19:14,000 should be concerned by. I'm going to start with some 325 00:19:14,079 --> 00:19:18,319 scripture that concerns me. And if you're involved in politics 326 00:19:18,440 --> 00:19:23,720 or posting online or arguing with people online, let's talk 327 00:19:23,759 --> 00:19:26,400 with someone the other night who made the point that 328 00:19:26,440 --> 00:19:31,039 she got into an argument online and ended poorly. She 329 00:19:31,160 --> 00:19:32,079 was repenting of it. 330 00:19:33,039 --> 00:19:33,160 Speaker 2: There. 331 00:19:33,160 --> 00:19:35,440 Speaker 1: It's happened to all of us. I think some of 332 00:19:35,440 --> 00:19:38,240 the scripture should concern us. I'm going to work into 333 00:19:38,319 --> 00:19:40,920 this something from the chosen because I think it can 334 00:19:40,960 --> 00:19:45,440 give us some relief. I really do relief from what well, 335 00:19:45,519 --> 00:19:48,240 relief from judging ourselves harshly because we don't get certain 336 00:19:48,279 --> 00:19:51,359 things in scripture. There's things that are challenging. It's the 337 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:54,799 word of God. It's going to be challenging. There's also though, 338 00:19:54,839 --> 00:19:57,319 sometimes you need relief for your body, particularly if you've 339 00:19:57,319 --> 00:19:59,599 been through a hard period of time. I know people 340 00:19:59,599 --> 00:20:07,920 who've been and through trauma, real profound, frightening, potentially life ending 341 00:20:08,079 --> 00:20:13,359 trauma of family members, and they've found themselves feeling like, man, 342 00:20:13,960 --> 00:20:17,039 this has changed me. And you might be in that position. 343 00:20:17,279 --> 00:20:20,319 Or like a friend of mine who is now planning 344 00:20:20,319 --> 00:20:22,279 there having a baby, it's going to be as first 345 00:20:22,279 --> 00:20:24,880 time as a dad. He had to relocate his business 346 00:20:25,559 --> 00:20:27,279 and I saw him the other day and he was 347 00:20:27,279 --> 00:20:30,279 telling me, Dude, I am way backwards on my fitness. 348 00:20:30,319 --> 00:20:32,920 I'm starting to gain weight again. This could be happening 349 00:20:32,920 --> 00:20:35,480 to you for years. Another friend I'm thinking of, he's 350 00:20:35,519 --> 00:20:38,319 got horrible things going on with his back and he's 351 00:20:38,319 --> 00:20:40,119 looked into stem cells and it's going to have to 352 00:20:40,119 --> 00:20:42,119 be surgery for now. It's just going to have to be. 353 00:20:43,079 --> 00:20:46,359 And I look at his body and he bemoans a fact, Look, 354 00:20:46,440 --> 00:20:48,720 I can't go hunting. I can't do the things that 355 00:20:48,759 --> 00:20:52,799 will help me drop fat. If you're in that circumstance, 356 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:55,960 you're probably like one hundred million other Americans and have 357 00:20:56,039 --> 00:20:59,200 fatty liver. 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And 384 00:22:21,039 --> 00:22:22,640 I'm going to bring you to this that chosen in 385 00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:24,359 just a second, or a clip from it just a bit. 386 00:22:24,640 --> 00:22:27,160 But let me start with a scripture that challenges me. 387 00:22:27,559 --> 00:22:29,960 It's the one we've been pinning on Cami Harris because 388 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:34,039 I truly believe Proverbs chapter six, verses sixteen through nineteen. 389 00:22:34,359 --> 00:22:37,839 I truly believe it describes Cami Harris, and I believe 390 00:22:37,839 --> 00:22:40,119 it describes a lot of people in politics, but particularly 391 00:22:40,279 --> 00:22:43,920 Cami Harris. There are six things the Lord hates, seven 392 00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:46,480 that are attestable to him. Haughty eyes, which is another 393 00:22:46,519 --> 00:22:50,240 way of saying prideful self centered, a lying tongue, hands 394 00:22:50,240 --> 00:22:53,200 that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises whipid schemes, 395 00:22:53,480 --> 00:22:55,559 feet that are quick to rush into evil, a false 396 00:22:55,599 --> 00:22:57,680 witness who pours out lies, and a person who stirs 397 00:22:57,759 --> 00:23:00,720 up conflict in the community. My version of this that 398 00:23:00,759 --> 00:23:03,079 I'm looking at, that phrase, a person who steers up 399 00:23:03,079 --> 00:23:08,920 conflict in the community is highlighted when we are engaged 400 00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:12,440 in politics. It is our job to have this scripture 401 00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:20,160 hurt our hearts. We have to invite this pain because 402 00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:24,240 that pain can help us modulate how we speak. There 403 00:23:24,319 --> 00:23:26,480 was a time, and maybe you know this, where I 404 00:23:26,559 --> 00:23:30,000 was absolutely addicted to Twitter, and I loved burning people. 405 00:23:30,079 --> 00:23:32,680 I loved burning them down, and it was a dopamine 406 00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:35,599 hit and it was pleasurable. And sometimes people will still 407 00:23:35,599 --> 00:23:37,960 give into that. I don't argue on Twitter. In fact, 408 00:23:38,079 --> 00:23:40,359 I've gone down and I don't lock my Twitter down. 409 00:23:40,599 --> 00:23:42,319 But I've gone through everything I can to make sure 410 00:23:42,319 --> 00:23:45,319 I only see notifications from people I follow, because I 411 00:23:45,359 --> 00:23:48,400 know myself, I know how easily drawn into something. I'll 412 00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:51,240 give you another example. There's a way I can drive home, 413 00:23:51,440 --> 00:23:56,000 which is you, which is about i'd say sixty sixty 414 00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:59,319 five percent of the time faster. But the thirty five 415 00:23:59,359 --> 00:24:01,359 percent of the time I hit a train, there I 416 00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:07,000 become a flat out satanic lunatic because I can't stand 417 00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:09,920 not knowing when I'm gonna get home. I would rather 418 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:12,440 have the predictable trick home, a trip home which is 419 00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:16,319 slower but predictable. Very rarely do I get a train 420 00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:18,759 than stopping at those moments because I have to just 421 00:24:19,039 --> 00:24:22,079 deal with Wait, you're turning left. No, no, wait, wait, 422 00:24:22,119 --> 00:24:24,359 you're not going to try to beat the train. Do 423 00:24:24,559 --> 00:24:27,160 people see what's going on? Wait? You can go around 424 00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:29,880 that guy. There's another And I become this insane lunatic. 425 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:32,880 Same thing in social media used to happen to me. 426 00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:35,880 You may have the same thing where you own the libs. 427 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:42,240 We have a responsibility to learn how to speak into 428 00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:45,039 these circumstances in a way that Jesus might knowing that 429 00:24:45,079 --> 00:24:48,279 we don't get to go overturn the tables in the temple. 430 00:24:48,359 --> 00:24:50,680 He got to do that because he is and was God. 431 00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:54,079 That's a challenge, and it goes back to me to 432 00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:59,440 that faring and careness methodong. A firing, fairness and caring methodology. 433 00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:02,480 This is how moderates and people who are persuadable to 434 00:25:02,599 --> 00:25:07,119 see things. Is it caring and fair when we communicate 435 00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:12,200 through that lens, we win more arguments. So in the 436 00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:15,640 case of let's say deplorables, Hey, can I ask you 437 00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:21,119 a question? Since you've not met everybody who identifies as Trump, 438 00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:27,440 is it really fair to just say deplorables? I mean, 439 00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:29,920 there's some people who really care about their country and 440 00:25:30,119 --> 00:25:32,400 you disagree on policy. But can I ask, for the 441 00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:35,640 purposes of this discussion, can we not use that phrase. 442 00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:38,039 I don't want to deplore people. I don't want to 443 00:25:38,039 --> 00:25:40,920 deplore you. I'd rather not be deplored, and I'd rather 444 00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:44,240 find ways to care for you. We may disagree on politics, 445 00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:46,319 but I would genuinely like to find some ways to 446 00:25:46,359 --> 00:25:48,400 care for you. In fact, I'd like to be able 447 00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:51,279 to share some things about me that maybe you could 448 00:25:51,279 --> 00:25:53,559 have some caring for me, and maybe we could treat 449 00:25:53,599 --> 00:25:56,960 each other in a more fair way. So, if I 450 00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,319 was involved in the conversation with Ed Stetzer, wouldn't that 451 00:25:59,319 --> 00:26:02,039 be a wiser way to deal with it? It would 452 00:26:02,079 --> 00:26:04,079 be a scriptural way to deal with it, because it's 453 00:26:04,119 --> 00:26:07,200 not about stirring up conflict in the community. Now that's 454 00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:09,599 not to say that Jesus was the soft soap Jesus. 455 00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:12,960 This is what C. S. Lewis talked about, the soft 456 00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:16,720 soap Jesus, the Jesus who is everybody's buddy. He's only 457 00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:20,079 always cheerful and happy, and all things are good, and 458 00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:22,039 he knows how things are going to turn out, so 459 00:26:22,119 --> 00:26:24,559 he has optously, not even an optimistic point of view. 460 00:26:24,599 --> 00:26:27,400 He knows how things end. It's not optimism, it's knowledge. 461 00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:31,319 But Jesus himself said, I did not come to night 462 00:26:31,359 --> 00:26:35,319 but to divide. So we need to be able to divide, 463 00:26:35,599 --> 00:26:38,319 but do it with love. That's such a difficult thing. 464 00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:44,640 I've shared with you family members who have same sex 465 00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:48,519 attracted kids and friends of same sex attracted kids, that 466 00:26:48,559 --> 00:26:50,759 one's going to come for you. You are going to 467 00:26:50,839 --> 00:26:53,319 deal with this, And the better you get at it 468 00:26:53,359 --> 00:26:56,319 now from a perspective of faring and caring in fairness, 469 00:26:56,559 --> 00:26:58,759 the better we cannot stir up conflict in our community. 470 00:26:59,119 --> 00:27:02,559 Maybe it's something you deal with an advance, Maybe it's 471 00:27:02,599 --> 00:27:04,759 something you deal with by now saying, Hey, how would 472 00:27:04,799 --> 00:27:08,000 you want me to respond if one of your kids 473 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:10,680 decided to go have a wedding ceremony? What would you 474 00:27:10,759 --> 00:27:13,279 want me to do. Maybe it's dealing with it now 475 00:27:13,279 --> 00:27:16,000 in advance. Maybe it's saying to them, hey, can I 476 00:27:16,039 --> 00:27:17,799 share with you why that would be a real challenge 477 00:27:17,799 --> 00:27:20,359 for me. May I share with you that I love 478 00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:23,079 you so much and your kids so much that I 479 00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:27,839 cannot pretend I love them without regard to how they 480 00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:30,559 decide to live this way. I love them without regard 481 00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:32,759 to sexual habits, like I love you without regard to 482 00:27:32,799 --> 00:27:37,200 your sexual habits, and I can't endorse them if they're 483 00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:39,920 non biblical. Is it fair for me to tell you 484 00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:42,079 that in advance? Is there some way we could deal 485 00:27:42,079 --> 00:27:45,319 with this in advance, because we're all going to be 486 00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:47,400 called at some point. This is going to come for 487 00:27:47,559 --> 00:27:50,359 all of us. So let's be scripture about it. Let's 488 00:27:50,359 --> 00:27:53,440 not stir up conflict in the community. Let's not stir 489 00:27:53,519 --> 00:27:57,200 up conflict in families. Let's deal with it ahead of time. 490 00:27:58,160 --> 00:28:01,759 Scripture can be super challenging, and there is a fact 491 00:28:01,839 --> 00:28:03,920 of the Bible that I think proves this point that 492 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:07,559 even really really brilliant learners or knowers of the law 493 00:28:08,519 --> 00:28:11,200 are very, very challenged by some of the things Jesus said. 494 00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:14,799 I'll show you this in a second Our bodies are 495 00:28:14,799 --> 00:28:18,680 designed to need God. Our bodies, our minds, our souls 496 00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:20,599 are designed to need God, to need that connection with 497 00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:23,000 the God. I don't know about you, but sometimes I 498 00:28:23,039 --> 00:28:26,920 have woken from sleep and felt utterly connected to God. 499 00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:29,480 In fact, I'll tell you a story about that. Sometime 500 00:28:29,519 --> 00:28:33,200 waking and feeling absolutely at rest. This is after I 501 00:28:33,279 --> 00:28:36,119 decided to quit the radio show and on short notice, 502 00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:39,119 the Seattle radio show, and I woke with complete rest 503 00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:41,559 in the hand of the Father. This is a scene 504 00:28:41,559 --> 00:28:43,680 from The Chosen. It's one of two we're going to 505 00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:45,599 play today. We'll get back to some scriptures I think 506 00:28:45,599 --> 00:28:49,799 should challenge all Christians. This is a meeting between Nicodemus, 507 00:28:50,559 --> 00:28:54,279 who was a big time teacher of the law. He 508 00:28:54,359 --> 00:28:56,480 was well respected in his community, thought of as a 509 00:28:56,519 --> 00:29:01,079 big time academic, a teacher of teachers. He sought out 510 00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:04,880 Jesus for a private meeting because Nicodemus was afraid to 511 00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:08,720 be seen with him in public. In the scene, Nicodemus 512 00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:13,079 properly refers to Jesus's rabbi. He's an older man talking 513 00:29:13,119 --> 00:29:16,039 to a younger man, and the older man is confused. 514 00:29:27,079 --> 00:29:32,799 Speaker 7: The eastern slums, many wandering preachers have succeeded in gathering crowds, 515 00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:37,160 but their rhetoric and fiery tone. 516 00:29:37,319 --> 00:29:39,519 Speaker 8: I've heard a few of them over the years myself, 517 00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:40,839 so you know the type. 518 00:29:41,839 --> 00:29:45,160 Speaker 7: But I have never heard anyone tell the paralytic to 519 00:29:45,279 --> 00:29:51,559 get up and walk, much less it actually happened. So 520 00:29:51,640 --> 00:30:01,119 what is your conclusion? I believe you are not acting alone. 521 00:30:02,279 --> 00:30:05,119 No one can do these signs you do without having 522 00:30:06,319 --> 00:30:12,440 God in him, only someone who has come from God. 523 00:30:13,519 --> 00:30:15,680 Speaker 8: And how is that belief going over in the synagogue? 524 00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:22,799 Which is why we are here at this hour? 525 00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:31,039 Speaker 7: What else? What have you come here to show us? 526 00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:38,240 A kingdom that is what our rulers are worried about. 527 00:30:38,519 --> 00:30:43,400 Speaker 8: No, not that kind? Then, what a sort of kingdom 528 00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:46,960 that a person cannot see unless he is born again? 529 00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:56,759 Speaker 7: Born again? Yes, you mean a new creature or conversion 530 00:30:56,759 --> 00:30:59,960 from Gentile to Jewish. No, that's not what I'm talking about. 531 00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:04,400 And what is born again? I hope you don't mean 532 00:31:04,599 --> 00:31:06,799 return to the womb, because that would be a problem 533 00:31:06,839 --> 00:31:09,839 for me. My mother and she rest in peace, is dead. 534 00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:17,079 Speaker 8: Truly, I say to you, unless one is born of 535 00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:21,759 water and the spirit, he cannot enter the Kingdom of God. 536 00:31:23,039 --> 00:31:27,680 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and 537 00:31:27,759 --> 00:31:30,920 that which is born of the spirit, his spirit, that 538 00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:34,400 part of you, that is what must be reborn to 539 00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:35,039 a new life. 540 00:31:39,759 --> 00:31:40,799 Speaker 1: How can these things be? 541 00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:46,119 Speaker 8: Ah, My teacher is Rayel, and yet you do not 542 00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:47,119 understand things. 543 00:31:48,759 --> 00:31:50,960 Speaker 1: I love the scene. I love the acting, and I 544 00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:54,799 know there's some controversy about the chosen, and I understand 545 00:31:54,799 --> 00:31:58,079 it's not scripture. That's a very scriptural scene done with 546 00:31:58,079 --> 00:32:01,279 great respect. Sond dem is his teacher of the law. 547 00:32:01,839 --> 00:32:03,839 We've heard born again so often we think we know 548 00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:08,880 what it means. He doesn't, and he's honest, will continue 549 00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:10,480 to get into some of the chosen. Just one more 550 00:32:10,519 --> 00:32:12,200 clip on this, but I'm going to go to Matthew 551 00:32:12,279 --> 00:32:15,720 chapter seven, verses twenty one through twenty three. This one 552 00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:20,960 should freak Christians out. Not everyone who says to me, 553 00:32:21,039 --> 00:32:23,559 Lord will enter the Kingdom of Heaven, but the one 554 00:32:23,599 --> 00:32:25,960 who does the will of my Father, who is in heaven. 555 00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:28,400 On that day, many will say to me, Lord Lord, 556 00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:30,559 did we not prophesy in your name and cast out 557 00:32:30,559 --> 00:32:33,200 demons your name? And do many mighty works in your name? 558 00:32:33,279 --> 00:32:35,119 And then I will declare to them, I never knew you. 559 00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:39,000 Depart from me. You workers of wawlessness. I never knew you. 560 00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:44,440 In that scene, Nicodemus sits across from God Almighty in 561 00:32:44,559 --> 00:32:47,519 human form, part of the Holy Trinity, and he's trying 562 00:32:47,559 --> 00:32:51,039 to get to know him. And in Nicodemus's hearts, Nicodemus knows. 563 00:32:51,079 --> 00:32:54,599 He said, you're from God. But Nicodemus was challenged with 564 00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:57,359 departing the world, and we read into this. It's not 565 00:32:57,519 --> 00:32:59,839 said this way, but we read into it departing his 566 00:33:00,839 --> 00:33:04,000 and imagine you'd be leaving your whole life behind. Ultimately, 567 00:33:04,079 --> 00:33:08,119 Nicodemus does come around and arrange for a proper barrower 568 00:33:08,119 --> 00:33:11,119 for the Lord Jesus, and tradition tells us that he converted. 569 00:33:11,559 --> 00:33:15,200 That's what tradition would tell us. That's not biblical, that phrase, 570 00:33:15,319 --> 00:33:21,119 I never knew you? What does that mean. There's plenty 571 00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:25,119 of people you can be around and not know. You 572 00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:29,839 can chitchat, you can make small talk, but you don't 573 00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:33,000 know them. You begin to know people when you've had 574 00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:36,759 a conflict, when you have worked together, when you have 575 00:33:36,839 --> 00:33:39,920 solved the problem together, when you've seen them through seasons 576 00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:42,960 of plenty and little, when you've seen them in times 577 00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:46,319 of great peace and conflict, when you have talked with 578 00:33:46,359 --> 00:33:49,319 them of important things, and when you feel comfortable sharing 579 00:33:49,359 --> 00:33:52,440 with them, and when you really know a person, you 580 00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:56,839 know their voice or even their footsteps. I've made this 581 00:33:57,000 --> 00:34:02,079 comparison before at home. I can tell who's walking within 582 00:34:02,119 --> 00:34:05,799 three footsteps? Is it my wife? Is my daughter? In fact, 583 00:34:05,839 --> 00:34:08,559 through repetition, I can actually tell which cat is walking. 584 00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:10,360 Is it the white cat or the orange cat? I 585 00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:13,440 can tell by the way they walk. We learn to 586 00:34:13,559 --> 00:34:17,360 know the Father's voice how by being in the word 587 00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:21,920 and then applying it to our daily life, and by arguing. 588 00:34:24,079 --> 00:34:27,239 David's in the Psalms. This part of that is his 589 00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:31,880 prayer journal. Sometimes in it he's expressing frustration with God 590 00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:35,760 and listening for the answer. God's voice may not be 591 00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:37,800 audible to you. In fact, someone wrote me an email 592 00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:39,440 and respond to you next week and wait, can you 593 00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:41,559 teach me how to hear God's voice? No, I can't, 594 00:34:41,559 --> 00:34:43,639 because you're going to have it in a unique way 595 00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:45,480 that I do. But I can hear you. I can 596 00:34:45,519 --> 00:34:49,360 tell you how to recognize his word. Knowing the Lord 597 00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:52,760 is inviting him in. Knowing the Lord is even asking 598 00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:54,599 maybe for things that you know you're not going to get. 599 00:34:54,880 --> 00:34:59,719 That God cannot bless them, and it's asking it knowing. Hey, 600 00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:02,239 I know can't bless this, but I'm gonna ask anyway. 601 00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:04,920 We do that with people, I'm gonna ask you a 602 00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:06,639 big favorite. Oh gosh, you know I could do that. 603 00:35:06,679 --> 00:35:08,480 I really can't. We do it with bosses. Hey, can 604 00:35:08,519 --> 00:35:11,559 I have a month's paycheck in advance? I reach? Gosh, No, 605 00:35:11,639 --> 00:35:12,960 I can't, But I can give you like a week 606 00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:17,840 in advance. Getting to know God so that we never 607 00:35:17,880 --> 00:35:21,199 face that day of I never knew you means that 608 00:35:21,239 --> 00:35:24,559 we have interactions with God outside of just getting down 609 00:35:24,559 --> 00:35:27,760 on our knees and praying. How we interact with this people. 610 00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:31,480 We allow ourselves to be discipled by people who are 611 00:35:31,519 --> 00:35:34,719 more spiritually mature than us. We disciple people who are 612 00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:38,440 less mature than us. In the faith, we spend time 613 00:35:38,639 --> 00:35:41,639 with the Body. If you're not spending time with the 614 00:35:41,639 --> 00:35:45,239 body of Christ, how do you know the Lord? If 615 00:35:45,239 --> 00:35:47,960 you have rendered yourself separate from the Body of Christ, 616 00:35:48,119 --> 00:35:51,679 how do you know the Lord? There's been many many 617 00:35:51,679 --> 00:35:54,880 people have said to me, I don't need church, right, 618 00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:57,079 it's just me and the Bible. In Jesus, is that 619 00:35:57,119 --> 00:36:00,960 what Jesus said, did Jesus say people don't need a church. 620 00:36:02,599 --> 00:36:08,159 God never does anything unintentionally. When the Lord Jesus set 621 00:36:08,239 --> 00:36:10,639 up a church, he intended for us to be part 622 00:36:10,639 --> 00:36:13,320 of it as a way of meeting the body together. 623 00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:17,480 That scripture should challenge people, do you know the Lord? 624 00:36:17,559 --> 00:36:22,920 Do I? Matthew Chapter thirteen, verses thirty through thirty two. 625 00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:25,920 Whoever is not with me is against me. And whoever 626 00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:30,320 does not gather with me scatters. Whoever does not gather 627 00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:35,320 with me scatters. Therefore, I tell you every sin and 628 00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:38,800 blasphemacy with blasphemy will be forgiven people, but the blasphemy 629 00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:41,760 against the Spirit will not be forgiven. Whoever speaks a 630 00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:43,840 word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but 631 00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:46,440 whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, 632 00:36:46,679 --> 00:36:48,559 either in this age or in the age to come. 633 00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:52,400 I cannot tell you that I understand what that means. 634 00:36:53,039 --> 00:36:56,960 Do you? I guess to blasphem the Holy Spirit is 635 00:36:57,000 --> 00:36:59,519 to have a Holy Spirit to tell you show you 636 00:36:59,519 --> 00:37:01,280 you are not to do this, and you to say 637 00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:05,639 I don't care. I don't care what you say. Holy spirits, 638 00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:10,320 I don't want you. You're an evil spirit. Would that 639 00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:15,039 be it? It should concern us when there are statements 640 00:37:15,079 --> 00:37:17,880 like that that we don't understand. Next time I have 641 00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:19,880 my pastor and friend Jim up and on, I'll ask 642 00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:21,880 him about this and if you know the answer, share 643 00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:24,679 it with me. That one should concern us because it's 644 00:37:24,719 --> 00:37:28,079 an unforgivable sin. When I was at the youth camp 645 00:37:28,159 --> 00:37:30,760 this past this past month or no, was got like 646 00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:33,760 three weeks ago, this came up and one of the 647 00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:36,599 colders said, no, there's no unforgivable sins. Say no, it's 648 00:37:36,719 --> 00:37:41,199 in scripture Matthew thirteen thirty through thirty two. The blasphemen 649 00:37:41,239 --> 00:37:44,719 of ce Blasphemy are the unforgivable sin of blaspheming the 650 00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:47,880 Holy Spirit. That should concern us. It concerns me because 651 00:37:47,920 --> 00:37:51,320 I don't think I understand it well. And the chosen 652 00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:54,400 Nicodemus tried to get more of an understanding of what 653 00:37:54,519 --> 00:37:57,840 Jesus meant by being born again, and it went. 654 00:37:57,760 --> 00:38:00,400 Speaker 7: Like this, I'm sorry I could disappoint. 655 00:38:01,639 --> 00:38:03,800 Speaker 8: And I did not come to deliver the people from 656 00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:13,360 Rome than from wart from sin, from spiritual death. God 657 00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:17,840 loves the world in this way that he gave his 658 00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:22,519 only son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish, 659 00:38:23,559 --> 00:38:25,920 but have eternal life. 660 00:38:26,639 --> 00:38:30,719 Speaker 7: So this has nothing to do with wrong. It all 661 00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:32,639 about sin. 662 00:38:32,880 --> 00:38:34,840 Speaker 8: God did not send his son into the world to 663 00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:40,280 condemn it Nicotimus. He sent him to save it through him. 664 00:38:40,559 --> 00:38:45,159 It's as simple as Moses's serpent on the pole. Whoever 665 00:38:45,239 --> 00:38:49,199 believes in him will not be condemned, but whoever does 666 00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:51,039 not believe stands condemned. 667 00:38:51,079 --> 00:38:55,239 Speaker 1: Already in the Old Testaments, Moses was told to create 668 00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:58,920 a serpent on a pole. The people them being snake bits, 669 00:38:59,079 --> 00:39:02,599 and it was their accountability for turning from God. And 670 00:39:02,639 --> 00:39:04,880 Moses was told to make this and have the people 671 00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:07,079 look upon it. Why are we looking at a serpent 672 00:39:08,239 --> 00:39:11,599 because I told you to, because the very thing that's 673 00:39:11,599 --> 00:39:13,400 been striking you dead, I'm going to have you look 674 00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:15,519 upon it, because it's an act of faith, because God 675 00:39:15,599 --> 00:39:19,280 said to. When the Lord Jesus was raised upon the cross, 676 00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:21,360 it was a sign of that him, not the serpent, 677 00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:24,280 of course, him, the savior of mankind. People looked upon 678 00:39:24,360 --> 00:39:28,000 him and believed. They chose to believe, looking upon the servant, 679 00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:29,440 that God's going to do what he says he's going 680 00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:32,639 to do. This is a challenging, challenging thought and was 681 00:39:32,719 --> 00:39:35,440 very challenging for Nicodemus, who did not. He had an 682 00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:39,239 opportunity to be a disciple, a man of God, clearly 683 00:39:39,360 --> 00:39:41,840 clearly seeking God, had an opportunity to be with him, 684 00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:46,440 but couldn't or wouldn't because he couldn't give something up. 685 00:39:48,119 --> 00:39:53,440 Two of the hardest pieces of scripture. One, particularly for conservatives. 686 00:39:54,119 --> 00:39:58,719 Talk about next. Yeah, it's Romans thirteen. It is difficult 687 00:39:58,719 --> 00:40:02,199 sometimes to I find new ways to talk about products 688 00:40:02,199 --> 00:40:05,079 I've told you about before, But I have one. It's 689 00:40:05,320 --> 00:40:06,599 Eden Pier's oxy leaf. 690 00:40:06,639 --> 00:40:06,840 Speaker 7: Two. 691 00:40:08,119 --> 00:40:10,199 Speaker 1: When I've talked to you about my friend and his 692 00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:14,239 bear sausage rotting in his car and his wife's car 693 00:40:14,360 --> 00:40:16,519 with a catpuke in it, and I've talked to you 694 00:40:16,519 --> 00:40:18,679 about my friend there's a taxi Germy business. Did I 695 00:40:18,719 --> 00:40:21,119 mention that a friend of mine's a taxi Germany business. 696 00:40:21,159 --> 00:40:22,719 He sent me a note and said, hey, we do 697 00:40:22,719 --> 00:40:25,280 do this. We put this in our workplace because we 698 00:40:25,280 --> 00:40:27,239 don't want anyone to smell any of the chemicals or 699 00:40:27,280 --> 00:40:29,599 any of the things that we use. Anything that's aging. That's 700 00:40:29,639 --> 00:40:32,360 how we use it. And if you're at a home 701 00:40:32,360 --> 00:40:35,719 where you have cats and dogs or this and this 702 00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:38,480 is kind of the uncomfortable one and truly it's uncomfortable. 703 00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:40,800 I got a note from a woman who's a home 704 00:40:40,960 --> 00:40:44,559 healthcare nurse and she's doing this right now for loved ones, 705 00:40:44,639 --> 00:40:48,119 and she mentioned there actually is a smell of old 706 00:40:48,159 --> 00:40:51,800 people smell people laying in bed. He goes, I don't 707 00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:53,559 want that to be the case when our grandkids come 708 00:40:53,559 --> 00:40:55,760 over and the family comes over. So I bought this 709 00:40:55,800 --> 00:40:59,119 to put in the room with my great aunt. And 710 00:40:59,159 --> 00:41:01,639 that helps clear the air. And it doesn't do it loud. 711 00:41:01,679 --> 00:41:03,360 That lady doesn't want to hear a loud air filter. 712 00:41:03,639 --> 00:41:06,760 She's in bed, it's in the highlight, the nighttime of 713 00:41:06,760 --> 00:41:08,840 her life, the twilight of her life. She doesn't want 714 00:41:08,840 --> 00:41:11,800 a big air filter buzzing away. Air filters are expensive. 715 00:41:11,880 --> 00:41:13,880 You have to replace the filters a couple unter bucks 716 00:41:13,880 --> 00:41:17,440 every year. This is an air purifier Auxually. Two operate 717 00:41:17,480 --> 00:41:21,880 silently in the background, producing ozone. That ozone. The three 718 00:41:21,880 --> 00:41:25,719 molecules bond to the molecules that produce the bad smell, 719 00:41:26,039 --> 00:41:29,840 and they toss them. And in case you haven't noticed, 720 00:41:29,840 --> 00:41:32,400 there are places in your house, like your laundry room. 721 00:41:32,679 --> 00:41:36,320 Maybe the laundry stacks up like certain areas of the garage. 722 00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:40,199 Maybe your home gym. They could use this right now. 723 00:41:40,280 --> 00:41:44,320 You can get buy one, get one that's the new special. 724 00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:48,199 Buy one, get one go to eatinpreer deeals dot com. 725 00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:51,639 Enter code todd three. Buy one, get one that's a 726 00:41:51,679 --> 00:41:55,679 major discount. Eatinpreer deeals dot com. Enter code todd three, 727 00:41:55,760 --> 00:42:00,800 buy one, get one. Romans thirteen is the most challenging 728 00:42:01,079 --> 00:42:08,320 of the scriptures for conservatives. Submission to governing authorities. Let 729 00:42:08,360 --> 00:42:11,199 everyone be subject to governing authorities. For there's no authority 730 00:42:11,280 --> 00:42:14,320 except that which God has established. The authorities that exist 731 00:42:14,360 --> 00:42:17,719 have been established by God. Consequently, whoever rebels against the 732 00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:21,360 authorities rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who 733 00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:25,039 do so, will bring judgment upon themselves. For rulers hold 734 00:42:25,119 --> 00:42:27,440 no terror or for those who do right, but for 735 00:42:27,440 --> 00:42:29,519 those who do wrong. Do you want to be free 736 00:42:29,559 --> 00:42:32,199 from fear, from the fear from the word is authority, 737 00:42:32,199 --> 00:42:33,880 then do what is right and you will be commended, 738 00:42:35,079 --> 00:42:37,519 for the one in authority is in God's servant for 739 00:42:37,559 --> 00:42:39,960 your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for 740 00:42:40,039 --> 00:42:42,519 rulers do not bear the sword for no reason. They 741 00:42:42,559 --> 00:42:46,079 are God's servants, agents of wrath to bring punishment to 742 00:42:46,119 --> 00:42:48,679 the wrong doer. Therefore, it is necessary to submit to 743 00:42:48,679 --> 00:42:51,800 the authorities, not only because of possible punishment, but also 744 00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:54,280 as a matter of conscience. This is also why you 745 00:42:54,320 --> 00:42:57,239 pay taxes. For The authorities are God's servants who give 746 00:42:57,239 --> 00:43:00,519 their full time governing. Give to everyone what you owe them. 747 00:43:00,559 --> 00:43:03,159 If you owe taxes, pay taxes. If revenue, then revenue, 748 00:43:03,199 --> 00:43:07,559 if respect and respect, if honor, then honor. Mostly we 749 00:43:07,679 --> 00:43:12,280 do this. You mostly follow the law. I bet you 750 00:43:12,360 --> 00:43:14,880 aren't outrunning stop signs. I bet you aren't out going 751 00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:17,239 thirty miles an hour with the speed limit a regular basis. 752 00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:19,920 I bet you do pay your taxes. I bet you 753 00:43:19,960 --> 00:43:23,280 don't steal. I bet you follow the authorities for the 754 00:43:23,280 --> 00:43:26,360 most part. Here's where the conflict's coming from, I think 755 00:43:27,360 --> 00:43:33,920 is our authorities have become ungodly. God sometimes lets un 756 00:43:34,119 --> 00:43:37,880 goodly rulers stay in place like the figurehead, like God 757 00:43:37,920 --> 00:43:42,360 forbid Caammie Harris. He does that for his own ends, 758 00:43:42,400 --> 00:43:45,400 which are always for our own good. And we have 759 00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:49,960 an example here. The again, back to knowing the Lord. 760 00:43:51,119 --> 00:43:55,320 There is an accept to this. It's not in the text. 761 00:43:56,320 --> 00:43:59,840 It's in the behaviors of Peter in the early and 762 00:44:00,079 --> 00:44:05,239 the apostles. They were told, you will not preach the 763 00:44:05,239 --> 00:44:08,559 word of Jesus, you will not practice your faith, And 764 00:44:08,599 --> 00:44:12,039 they said, we will not stop. So the point of 765 00:44:12,039 --> 00:44:18,199 being crucified, beaten, boiled in oil, having been torn apart, stabbed, stoned, 766 00:44:18,800 --> 00:44:22,360 we will not stop when it comes to violating the 767 00:44:22,400 --> 00:44:26,400 word of God that goes against the ultimate authority. When 768 00:44:26,400 --> 00:44:28,760 we're told to lie, Hey, that man is a woman, 769 00:44:28,960 --> 00:44:31,280 I'm not going to do that. When we're told to 770 00:44:31,360 --> 00:44:33,679 hate someone because of their race, I'm not going to 771 00:44:33,679 --> 00:44:35,559 do that. We're to love our neighbor as we love ourselves. 772 00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:40,079 When we're told to steal reparations, taking money from people 773 00:44:40,119 --> 00:44:43,480 who never held slaves to give to people who weren't 774 00:44:43,519 --> 00:44:47,880 ever slaves, that's theft. We can fight against that. We 775 00:44:47,920 --> 00:44:50,960 can argue against that, because it's ungodly to cause us 776 00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:53,559 to steal or to be stolen from. 777 00:44:53,960 --> 00:44:54,039 Speaker 2: Now. 778 00:44:54,079 --> 00:44:56,440 Speaker 1: Of course, scripture says, when someone comes to take your cloak, 779 00:44:56,480 --> 00:44:59,400 offer them as well your shirt. It's a difficult thing. 780 00:45:00,119 --> 00:45:02,960 It should be difficult. But if it's not difficult, it 781 00:45:03,039 --> 00:45:06,079 might mean you are not in the word. If it's 782 00:45:06,079 --> 00:45:09,719 not difficult to follow a perfect God as an imperfect 783 00:45:09,760 --> 00:45:13,119 human being you're probably not trying to follow the word. 784 00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:16,559 You ever had to work out with someone who is 785 00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:21,960 flawless at something, it's very very frustrating. You can stay 786 00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:23,400 with them for a little while, but after a while 787 00:45:23,400 --> 00:45:26,400 they're just going to overtake you. I've made the mistake 788 00:45:26,480 --> 00:45:29,960 a few times being in a workout around people who 789 00:45:29,960 --> 00:45:34,480 are great swimmers, and I don't swim. I plow through water. 790 00:45:35,559 --> 00:45:37,840 And the more fat I've lost, the more that's true. 791 00:45:37,880 --> 00:45:41,320 I don't float. It's very very difficult, and it's super 792 00:45:41,320 --> 00:45:44,880 super hard, and it's beautiful to watch a real swimmer 793 00:45:44,920 --> 00:45:47,880 who actually floats upon the water and propels themselves through 794 00:45:47,880 --> 00:45:50,239 the water just like they're floating. As I have said, 795 00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:53,639 it's very difficult to match that perfection, and I probably 796 00:45:53,679 --> 00:45:55,800 will never get there. We'll never get to the perfection 797 00:45:55,920 --> 00:45:58,719 of God. But if that doesn't cause a conflict in 798 00:45:58,760 --> 00:46:00,639 you as you try to live to the world, then 799 00:46:00,639 --> 00:46:03,199 maybe you're not really seeking perfection. Maybe I'm not. When 800 00:46:03,199 --> 00:46:07,360 I say you, I mean us, by the way. But 801 00:46:07,519 --> 00:46:12,480 Romans thirteen doesn't end there. That's Romans thirteen one through seven, 802 00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:20,800 Romans thirteen eight through ten. Love fulfills the law. Let 803 00:46:20,840 --> 00:46:24,440 no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love 804 00:46:24,440 --> 00:46:28,719 one another. For whosoever loves others has fulfilled the law. 805 00:46:29,079 --> 00:46:32,360 The commandments you should not commit adultery, you should not murder, 806 00:46:32,440 --> 00:46:35,440 you should not steal, you should not come it, and 807 00:46:34,800 --> 00:46:38,800 whatever other command there may be are summed up in 808 00:46:38,880 --> 00:46:43,039 this one command. Love your neighbor as yourself. Love does 809 00:46:43,079 --> 00:46:47,280 no harm to a neighbor. Therefore, love is the fulfillment 810 00:46:47,320 --> 00:46:50,360 of the law. If we take this right back up 811 00:46:50,360 --> 00:46:52,920 to the top, we take it right back up to 812 00:46:53,000 --> 00:46:56,519 President Trump. We take it to a man who has 813 00:46:56,719 --> 00:46:59,480 either enough love for himself, and let's admit President Trump 814 00:46:59,519 --> 00:47:03,320 loves himself of a plenty. If he were a man 815 00:47:03,440 --> 00:47:06,679 driven by racial animis and hatred, he would have treated 816 00:47:06,719 --> 00:47:09,360 that black journalists in a completely different way. I think 817 00:47:09,400 --> 00:47:12,280 she was baiting him. I think she hates him. I 818 00:47:12,320 --> 00:47:14,920 think that was clear. I think she wanted him to 819 00:47:14,960 --> 00:47:19,760 react really, really harshly. Instead, he was calm and measured, 820 00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:23,559 the way he is with other adversarial journalists. It was 821 00:47:23,599 --> 00:47:28,599 a masterclass and it was respectful. Just because we love 822 00:47:28,880 --> 00:47:32,679 doesn't mean we agree, And just because we agree with 823 00:47:32,760 --> 00:47:35,679 God's word doesn't mean we're living it out. If there's 824 00:47:35,719 --> 00:47:38,199 not a conflict from time to time in your heart 825 00:47:38,800 --> 00:47:42,000 in relation to your behavior and scripture, then maybe you're 826 00:47:42,039 --> 00:47:45,239 not seriously in the word. A wrestling match with God 827 00:47:45,280 --> 00:47:47,880 can be a blessing because it can show you are 828 00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:53,320 maturing spiritually. And the Bible is full of moments or 829 00:47:53,360 --> 00:47:56,880 people have had to take a step back and even 830 00:47:56,920 --> 00:47:59,119 the great of the Bible and say, my gosh, what 831 00:47:59,199 --> 00:48:02,480 have I done? God? Thank you for making your word 832 00:48:02,639 --> 00:48:06,000 a tool always good for rebuke and teaching and instruction. 833 00:48:06,519 --> 00:48:09,559 Thank you for providing us a model of perfection we 834 00:48:09,599 --> 00:48:12,679 can never reach, but we can pursue. This is a 835 00:48:12,719 --> 00:48:15,559 Todd Hermannshaw. Please go, be well, be strong, be kind, 836 00:48:15,559 --> 00:48:17,800 and please make every effort to walk in the light 837 00:48:17,880 --> 00:48:18,320 of Christ.