Speaker 1: Welcome to the Three Stories version of The Todd Herman Show.
Story number one, do we really want our same sex
attracted loved ones being purposely given HIV I don't? Story
number two, the Department of Government Deficiency Panic smells.
Speaker 2: Like that is going to say, sattle spirit, No smells
like justice coming to me? Story number three. If your
pastor doesn't.
Speaker 1: Occasionally offend you or worry you, he's probably not in
the Bible.
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Speaker 2: And thank you to God Almighty.
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Speaker 4: Many, Today is the day the Lord has made, and
these are the times to which God has decided to
show life.
Speaker 2: This might be difficult for people, but let's put ourselves
in the.
Speaker 1: Headspace of a parent who is of the mind that
homosexuality is natural and this is the way people were made.
Speaker 2: And truly, there are people who.
Speaker 1: Were born I think people who are born same sex attracted,
and there are people who are born with a lot
of sexual appetites. A lot of us have them ourselves.
I personally can't imagine how unbelievably difficult it would be
to deny yourself sexual union your whole life. I I
don't know that's a heck of across to carry, so
let's not pretend it's not. But put your self in
the mind of a parent.
Speaker 2: Or a brother sister.
Speaker 1: Whose kids or brother or sister is same sex attracted.
You want the best for them, right, even if you're affirming,
and especially if you're affirming, you love your family members.
You want what's right, what's good for them. And incidentally,
when I use that phrase same sex attracted, there are
people who feel like that's a slur. I use that
because I believe putting on yourself a primary identity other
than made in God's image, or if you're not a believer,
a son, a daughter, a creator, an artist, a thinker,
a friend, those are I think firm, real identities.
Speaker 2: I think the firmis identity is child of God.
Speaker 1: I think shrill identities like I'm a black man, I'm
a gay man, I think those are really thin identities
that are easy, easy to have.
Speaker 2: People use this tools of manipulation. That's why I use
the phrase same sex attracted.
Speaker 1: So do you want same sex attracted friends to have
the best right? And I think of parents whose kids
are same sex attracted, who are affirming and if they're
looking at let's say sex said in the schools, that
is really extreme. They're getting very descriptive and pushing those
activities at a young age. I don't know any personally, parents
or family memberses same sex attracted people say yeah, yeah, yeah,
I get started young. I mean, I know there are
people who have that view. I've never met them, but
there's a guy who got a little bit of fame.
He was in a Shopper's drug Mark beauty ad and
he was wearing makeup, and he has a distinct view
on what his responsibility is as someone who apparently enjoys
having sexual relations with people he doesn't know well or
just getting.
Speaker 2: To know well.
Speaker 1: I'll share this with you in just a second, because
my question is do we really want this going on
with and around our same sex attracted loved ones. I
don't think so, because it's so bad for their body,
but it's bad for something else. I mean, it's bad
for their soul. Explain this in just a second.
Speaker 2: Body and soul, you could say, are one.
Speaker 1: Our bodies are designed as a place to store the
Holy Spirit. When we give ourselves to Jesus, they become
a tabernacle, a temple for the Holy Spirit, or to
for them and tosteward them. To remember that they're made
in God's image, so therefore dear to him his masterpiece.
The outward manifestations of that, you know, like, look I
gave in I went tanning for seal fit. No, I'm
addicted to tanning is an ego thing. Probably I like
the way I look better tan sue me. But there's
also the inward manifestations that you don't see, but sometimes
you feel if you're walking around constantly bloated, it can
be embarrassing. You probably know what I mean. If you're
constantly bloated because there's you know, noises and such. Just
trying to be clear, you know what that happening. You
also have the discomfort weight these pants used to fit,
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Speaker 2: So this is this.
Speaker 1: Man who got featured in this shopper's drug mart ad
and he was wearing makeup and this is his view
on sexual relations and his responsibility as a fellow human being.
Speaker 5: But HIV positive on my like on my profiles, people
don't want to touch you. And remember being on a
date with someone, so I brought him back to my place,
was like, okay, like I need to tell you something,
like I'm HIV positive, and I remember he looked at me.
It was like him. I was like I thought he
was going to be of me. He was like I
can't believe you wouldn't tell me, and like you gave
me HIV and like was just like wow, losing his mind.
And I'm like, no, that's not possible. Even if I
bled on you like an open wound, like that wouldn't happen.
I'm undetectable and you know, but he just like didn't
want to hear it now, like the way the law goes,
like being undetectable, like I really don't have to like
just close my status anythink about it, like anyone that
you meet on your first date or if like you're
hooking app like are you like I have diabetes, I
have high blood pressure. You're not telling them any of
this HIV is now, Like, if you are undetectable, like,
you don't necessarily, like have to disclose that. I don't
think you're putting anyone at any risk that you have
to like necessarily go through that. But it's because of
the stigma and shame that I feel like I have
to disclose. People would look at that as betrayal.
Speaker 1: Yes, people would look at that as betrayal. I mean,
if you had a cold or a flu, and I'm
gonna guess I'm just guessing here that you might have
been on the side of the political spectrum that said
stay home, stay safe.
Speaker 2: I'm guessing.
Speaker 1: It is your moral obligation to disclose something like that.
That there are people who have herpes, and if they
don't have a breakout, they probably can't give you herpes.
But what if the breakouts just beginning and they don't know. See,
in the worlds of same sex attraction, there are some
physical realities, particularly with men, where if you're not disclosing,
I think you have intent, at least a passive intent.
Speaker 2: To pass this on.
Speaker 1: I don't want this for people. I don't want that
man's soul further damaged by passing on a communicable disease,
And somehow, in the world of what you might call
queer politics, speaking for limits here.
Speaker 2: Or saying no, you.
Speaker 1: Do morally owe that to people, somehow can be construed
as oh, oh, so you hate same sex attracted people.
Speaker 2: By wanting notification. No.
Speaker 1: No, it's much more about thinking again, of affirming parents
or loved ones, brothers and sisters. How can you be
okay with a man taking that position? I truly and
for real don't understand it. Story number two. So there
is a ton of panic about the Department of Government efficiency,
and to me this smells a lot like justice is
coming and justice has to come. They're busting in protesters
to defend USAID, which has been absolutely, in my judgment,
proven to be a CIA passed through that's causing color
revolutions in other countries and even here. But there are
a series of statements and happenings around this that indicate
to me they're circling not just the wagons, they're circling
our wagons against us. And all that's happened so far
is we have been given potential power. Because people will
say that information is power. That's one of the biggest
scams in the world. Information most certainly is not power.
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Toddarmer Show we look at some of the patterns in life.
Speaker 2: Pattern recognition has been a big.
Speaker 1: Thing for us, and it's so cool for me to
start seeing other people talk about how pattern recognition is
our friend in an era where we don't know who
to trust. I mean, through patterns we can figure out
who to trust. When the Department of Government Deficiency came
along and it had vivid Ramaswami in it, I didn't
like it. Powder recognition with me and vivic guy used
to be a liberal until about five minutes ago. He
was pro lockdown until about five minutes ago. He was
big pharma until about five minutes ago. So I didn't
trust him when he was moved out by Elon Musk.
I think, very, very wisely, I can have a better
level of trust with Elon Musk because Elon Musk has
been an iconoclass. He's been a changer of things, he's
been attacker of systems. He's been pretty apolitical, he's been
pretty good on free speech. He has used a ton
of government money to build his companies, and he hasn't
always paid us back. He's been consistent in that, and
I think that he had a huge stake in the game.
Given what happened to his son in regard to woke
medical politics, I think that really put his focus on
changing the world. These are patterns I can recognize with Elon.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: On the other side of this, he's a transhumanist who
wants to put a computer chip in my mind and
I'm not in so far that's not being.
Speaker 2: Forced upon us.
Speaker 1: So there's reasons to be cautious about him. But what
is he really doing at the Department of Government Efficiency.
If you look at the way the media is hitting
him on the Apartment of Government Efficiency right now. They're
going after some of his employees because they're young. No,
just say that they're young. No, there's no other attacks
they're young. It happens that they are legitimate geniuses. One
of these guys used a computer algorithm he created to
crack a two thousand year old scroll written in code
that no one had been able to figure out. He
did this just after he graduated high school. But they're young, well,
and they sleep in the office place. Elon Musk has
announced that these guys are going to be sleeping in
the office place so they can work through the night.
He said that in regard the government, working at night
is a superpower because no one else does. Working on
weekends is a superpower because no one else does. He's
in a race against a bureaucracy that doesn't want him
to see. Think about this from a perspective of pattern recognition.
Every time you walk into the front room and your
husband's on his cell phone, he sees you coming and
puts it.
Speaker 2: Down every time.
Speaker 1: Every time, did we get curious about why is it
every time I come in the room. You do that,
I would be powder recognition. Every time you walk into
your teenager's room. Let's see, your teenager lives upstairs, and
your footsteps start upstairs, you hear shuffling around, and then
walk up and there's air freshener sprade all over the place.
Every time powdered recognition. What are you trying to cover up?
Powder recognition? They don't want to have this information. So
as they started to look at where USAID spending is going,
and oh, look, it's going here to help the Taliban
grow poppies. For Mike Benz has credit for this too.
Mike has been looking in this for years. Oh it's
going here to create a color revolution in this country. Oh,
it's being spent in the United States of America to
elect DA's district attorneys who will not file criminal charges
against criminals pro criminal das.
Speaker 2: They put twice as much money into this.
Speaker 1: Your tax dollars through USAID that George Soros himself did.
As these numbers begin to add up, or for instance,
the trillion dollars trillion dollars that Elon Musk's team is
found being spent on.
Speaker 2: DEI Office's one trillion bucks.
Speaker 1: When we already have the Ecomployment Opportunity Act, you don't
get to discriminate against people because of the race. But
as we know, DEI is not about that. It's about
racial preference hiring. As they uncover that, you have people panicking,
you have people quitting their jobs, their careers, their careerists,
and you have people like Margaret Brennan. So, Margaret Brennan
is one of those so called journalists who think she
is so very smart. She's the lady who said that
to jd Vance, the Vice President. She said to him
with this self satisfied smirk on her face. Well, America
is a very neignation. It's a country of immigrants.
Speaker 2: Smirk smirk. And Jadvance hamster so.
Speaker 1: Well, she recently was talking about waste, government waste, and
she was talking with representative Masts.
Speaker 2: She asked a question about government waste.
Speaker 6: Herging of people throughout the State Department, other agencies where
we're freezing aid. These are all very important and user
steps to make sure that we secure America. We're going
to support that.
Speaker 7: I'm sorry, can I follow up on what you just
said there? You want to authorize purging of State Department personnel.
What does that mean exactly?
Speaker 6: Well, if you want to take a look at the
State Department where DEI has been a priority over let's say, diplomacy,
in many accounts, I can give you hundreds of examples
of where they were. Sure, let's list them off. Half
a million dollars to expand atheism in Nepal, fifty thousand
dollars to do let's see a transgender opera in Colombia,
forty seven thousand dollars to do an LGBTQ trans comic
book in Peru, twenty thousand dollars a pop to do
drag shows in Ecuador? Shall I continue with more examples
of where.
Speaker 7: It certainly seems like there could be a review of things.
Four and eight, as you know, is less than one
percent of the entire federal budget. So we're talking small
amounts of money by comparison's still.
Speaker 1: Talking, Well, no, Margaret Brenden, we're not talking small amounts
of money. Foreign aid on an official base, an official
basis is one percent. When it's laundered, we don't know
what it is. Foreign aid laundered through USAID has been
relatively invisible because it's just usaid. Foreign aid through State
Department programs that aren't listed as foreign aid.
Speaker 2: We don't get to audit that in and of itself.
Ukraine is foreign aid. We don't get to audit the
Federal Reserve. Guys, If what we're.
Speaker 1: Finding in usaid is impressive in regard to fraud and waste,
imagine what can be hidden in.
Speaker 2: The Federal Reserve.
Speaker 1: There's a reason that senior diplomats are quitting rather than
have people see what they're doing. A senior guy with
the US Treasury, guy named David Lebrick announced his retirement,
and he did this because the Department of Government Efficiency
had sought to get some information from the payment systems
and what Elon Musk's team figured out. These young guys,
who are you know, young, they're truly Wired Magazine wrote
a hit piece on these three guys. Legitimately because they're young,
the criticism stopped. Well, they work for Elon Musk and
they've never been government employees before, so they can't do math.
Speaker 2: All they're doing.
Speaker 1: Is writing scripts and codes to more quickly assess where
moneys are going.
Speaker 2: That's what they're doing.
Speaker 1: They're giving Elon and the team quick visibility into massive
amounts of data. And they're doing it quickly and visibly.
That's all they're doing. What they've identified, according to Musk,
is that the Treasury has never denied a payment, even
when it's been going to known terrorist organizations or fraudulent organizations,
They've never denied a payment.
Speaker 2: This is why the panic exists. If the payment is.
Speaker 1: Going to a non governmental organization located in the United
States of America that is providing services across the globe,
that's foreign aid. But that's not the way it's recorded.
It's recorded as domestic money to a domestic organization. So
Margaret Brennan's assertion that foreign aid is less less than
one percent of our budget, it doesn't stand up to scrutiny.
Speaker 2: So this guy quit.
Speaker 1: Instead of allowing must to have visibility into this. Chuck Schumer,
and we're gonna skip a lead ahead here just a second.
Speaker 2: Chuck Schumer.
Speaker 1: He went to give a press conference on this. Chuck Schumer,
who participated in kicking Joe Biden out of the presidential
candidacy and was certainly almost certainly part of the conversation
around the twenty fifth Amendment that apparently they had with
Barack Hussein Obama, calling the figure out Biden and saying, Hey,
if you don't step down for running in the race,
we're going to kick you out of the presidency using
the twenty fifth Amendment. Chuck Schumer almost a certainly part
of that, certainly part of hey no no National Guard.
On Jen six, Chuck Schumer both clown and leftist activists
in an undeeply ungodly man deeply ungodly Chuck Schumer called
a press conference to issue a whole bunch of hyperventilating
alarms about information. People getting information can't stop anything. The
Department of Government Efficiency can't cancel usaid, they can't cancel
the spending. They can call the spending out, and then
President Trump, as he has done, one can freeze this spending.
Now you can have a constitutional discussion about that.
Speaker 2: It's a good one.
Speaker 1: Congress is the one that meants money. But when this
money's go to bureaucratic organizations, those bureaucrats work for President Trump.
Stands to logic to me that the chief executive of
the bureaucracy can say to the bureaucracy, remember that money
Congress gave us, don't spend it. This stands the reason
to me, here's Chuck Schumer before our.
Speaker 8: Very eyes, an elect sorry, before our very eyes, and
unelected shadow government is conducting a hostile takeover the federal government.
Last Friday, Doge forcefully gained access to the Treasury Department's
payment systems and to the most sensitive information of virtually
every US citizen. Donald Trump basically handed Doge the social
security data of virtually every American citizen Donald Trump. He
gave Donald Trump gave Doge access to America's personal tax
refund data. He gave dosee access to people's Medicare and
Medicaid benefits, disability payment data, veteran benefit data. Worst of all,
we don't know what Doge intends to do. If you
want to know how an unelected shadow government operates, look
no further than does.
Speaker 1: This is one of the clowns who allowed unelected State
Department sponsored groups to get information to your social media accounts,
your handles and shut you down. This is one of
the clowns who has no problem with the intelligence services
bypassing the need for a warrant, by going out and
doing massive spending deals with ad tech companies to be
able to identify you where every walk in the country
by your device idea or device proximities. They can in
very short order track you given your phone or your watch.
And he's deeply, deeply concerned about a non government entity. Well,
first of all, it is a government entity. Secondly, here's
what they're doing. They're taking data and displaying it so
that we have the potential power, the power to cut
a trillion dollars in spending. Are trillion dollars related to
racial preference hiring, which is in fact racism and which
is in fact illegal. What they're concerned about, of course,
is their ability to say to donors, oh, no, we
can get you the money. We don't want to get caught.
No one gets caught. Everybody does it this way. We
will funnel this through USAID, who will funnel through NGOs.
There's two steps of separation. New ones ever gonna know,
we gave it to you, the same USAID who is
apparently paying to have relationships with the Chinese communist parties.
Biolabs imagine that. Speaking of biolabs, this is all related.
The fight to save USAID is a fight to save
unelected a bureaucracy, is a fight to save money laundering,
is a fight to save big companies. Who've used marketing
power through lobbying to destroy America's health RFK Junior in
a discussion with Bernie Sanders, who somehow, let's give us
some credit. Let's give Bernie credit. Somehow he succeeded in
not talking about a onesie.
Speaker 9: I'm going to make America healthier than other countries in
the world.
Speaker 10: Right now, you're guaranteed do what every other major country.
It's a simple question.
Speaker 9: And by the way, Bernie, you know the problem of
corruption is not just in the federal agents, is in
hungress to almost all the members of this panel are accepting,
including yourself, are accepting millions of dollars from the pharmaceutical
and protecting their interests.
Speaker 10: Oh I thought that that would no.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 10: I ran for president like you. I got millions, millions
of contributions. They did not come from the executives, not
one nickel of pack money from the pharmaceuticals, and they came.
Speaker 9: To work twenty twenty eight. In twenty twenty you were
the single largest because I receiver pharmaceuticalmonations.
Speaker 10: From workers all over this country.
Speaker 3: Workers.
Speaker 2: You were this, not a nickel from corporate You was the.
Speaker 9: Single largest pharmaceutical.
Speaker 10: Dollars from workers in five million, Yeah, out of two
hundred millions.
Speaker 2: All right, but you have not answered that.
Speaker 1: The panic in the muppets face. You know, they're so
good with the muppets. They're so lifelike, aren't they. It's
almost like he's really alive. The panic in Birdie said, no, no, no,
no form of money from executives or packs.
Speaker 2: What about the junior executives and the companies?
Speaker 11: Why aren't.
Speaker 1: The panic around the Department of Government efficiency doze or
dough Those sounds cooler.
Speaker 2: It smells like justice coming.
Speaker 1: And by the way, if someone seeing how you spend
your money causes you a conniption fit, you should probably
think about how you're stewarding God's funds. If panic about
how you're spending other people's money happens, you should probably
think about the phrase you shall not steal. Story number three.
If your pastor. If you go to a church and
you have never left a sermon feeling uncomfortable, you are
probably in a church where your pastor is not in
the Bible. The Bible should cause us discomfort from time
to time. I mean, it's a great source of comfort.
God is our hope and our ultimate stronghold. He is
our anecdote to spiritual warfare against us. It is the
source of knowledge that is eternal. The fear of the
Lord is the beginning of wisdom. We're told to take
the words to the Bible, write them on our minds
and our foreheads, to teach our kids daily, to use
teaching opportunities to show the word of God, to repeat
the word of God. Often we're told in times of
great despair to praise God. It's crazy, crazy advice, isn't it.
You're in ultimate despair and you're finding ways to praise
God because, first of all, gratitude is a great anecdote
to despair. Secondly, because God likes his word. He created
it for us. He wants us to share a shit
And from time to time, if your pastor doesn't make
you uncomfortable, he is not. In the Bible, think of
the number of times that the Lord Jesus made his
apostles uncomfortable. The Last Supper. Peter said, but Lord, I
would die for you, And the Lord Jesus said, Peter, truly,
I tell you, before the cock crows three times tonight,
you will deny me three times. And you know Peter
heard that in this gut twisted. You know that his
face probably got red. He was probably angry, like, how
dare you? I've given up everything for you, right? I
left my profession of fishing for perhaps a business I owned.
Peter was the sole disciple we know to have been married,
and tradition tells us that his wife often went on
these trips with him. She was in fact killed before
he was. She was crucified. As she was being crucified,
Peter said, think of the Lord, but in that moment,
Jesus made him really uncomfortable. And then think of how
uncomfortable he was when Peter did deny the Lord three times.
And in one of the Gospels, on that third time,
Peter's talking to a teenage girl.
Speaker 2: Ah, Jesus Nazareth? Is that a place?
Speaker 1: On that third time? Listen, girl, I'm telling you I
don't know this man. He looks over and there's Jesus
looking at him. Now, for you or me, we'd be
reading her with their hands behind her back. Peter going, dude,
See told you, I bet Jesus just looked at him
sadly because he knew what would happen. And of course
later Jesus forgave Peter evidently forgave him by asking him
an uncomfortable question. And do you know the question he
asked him that made him so uncomfortable. I'll tell you
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Speaker 1: So after forgiving Peter, obviously bringing him back into the fold,
after the Lord Jesus was resurrected, he said to Peter,
do you love me? And what the Lord Jesus was
saying in the type of love he was talking about
was a type of love that can never die, unreservedly,
without any hesitation, willing to do anything for me. Do
you love me that way? And Peter said, Lord, you
know I.
Speaker 2: Love you as a brother, Then feed my sheep.
Speaker 1: Peter, do you love me in a way that will
never change? It's unreserved we do anything for me. Lord,
you know I love you as a brother, Then feed
my sheep. And the Lord asked him a third time,
three times. It's very very important in the Bible. Peter
did something really important. He didn't make a promise he
couldn't keep, and then he went and kept it the
one he couldn't make.
Speaker 2: When he was facing crucifixion.
Speaker 1: Tradition tells us that after his wife was killed in
front of him, he asked to be crucified upside down
because he was not worthy to die as.
Speaker 2: The Lord died.
Speaker 1: So, if your pastor doesn't make you uncomfortable, sometimes he's
probably not in the Bible. This is a United Methodist pastor,
and he's explaining that during his Christmas Eve sermon, he
did not preach about Jesus Christ, you know, Christmas, because
he didn't want to offend anyone.
Speaker 12: And so we got the idea that a bunch of
us from the church could come here for Kabalat Shabbat's service,
and then a group from the church end the synagogue
could go next door to the parson where Charlene and
I could feed everybody for dinner, and then finally come
back in here and share Christmas Eve services. It was
kind of a Friday night marathon. The relationship was still new,
and I was feeling sensitive and maybe overly eager not
to offend anybody. So I decided to preach my Christmas
Eve sermon about angels. What could be less offensive than angels?
That was okay, But afterwards one of the members of
the synagogue came up to me and said, your sermon
was nice, but I expected to hear something about Jesus.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 12: In my defense, as you may have noticed, the whole
Christmas story we've just heard read so beautifully, Jesus is
never mentioned. All twenty Versus, Jesus is never mentioned by name,
since he doesn't even get a name till eight years
eight days later, Caesar Augustus, the Roman emperor gets mentioned
by name. Even Quairrinius, the governor of Syria, gets named.
Mary and Joseph, of course, are named but even in retrospect,
looking back and telling the story, Jesus.
Speaker 2: Is not named.
Speaker 12: Angels, on the other hand, receive four very honorable mentions.
Angels are all over the Christmas story.
Speaker 1: Angels presaging the coming of the Messiah are mentioned. Jesus
Christ is mentioned and alluded to from the very beginning
of the Bible. Throughout he is predicted, he is presaged,
He's prophesied about throughout the entire Bible through many of
the names that he still holds. But yet, don't offend people.
If your pasture doesn't occasionally cause you to feel convicted,
he's probably not in the Bible. Which brings me back
to my major concern about what's called the gay gospel.
I don't know why it's on my heart, I can guess,
but I really want the American Church to do a
far better job of welcoming same sex attracted people. And
I think the way to do that is to confess
all of us have sexual sin, we've been tempted by,
we've given into, and no person who is opposite sex attracted,
no person who is opposite sex attracted, can possibly understand
the difficulty in what we ask of same sex attracted people.
If these are feelings you cannot conquer, do not give
into the activity, do not have sexual relations. We got
to start admitting we're asking them to carry across most
of us refuse to carry. You got to get this
otherwise we end up with more circumstances. Likes churches having
a separate Christmas set apart for LGB so called t members.
They call it a Queer Christmas.
Speaker 11: And welcome to our fourth annual Queer Christmas Service. This
is my favorite queer worship of the year because our
ministry here at Trinity United began with Queer Christmas four
years ago, and so it's a really special time for
our community.
Speaker 13: And please join me in the call to worship. Blessed
be the non conforming One, God who took took on flesh,
the theopress of an immigrant, of an infant whose family
and birth was anything but traditional. This Holy One won't
be hindered by social norms. She defies our expectations, She
challenges our conditions. She awakened to new possibilities. Praise be
to God, the queerest of us. All come, let us
walk in this good way. Let us belong to one another,
just as we belong to God.
Speaker 1: At no time in the Bible is God referred to
with a feminine pronoun. You're offending God in a worship
service on Christmas because the truth of what the Bible
says about human sexual activity is difficult for unmarried, same
sex attracted people, well, I mean unmarried.
Speaker 2: Opposite sex attracted.
Speaker 1: It is impossibly difficult for many same sex attracted people.
You are looking at them in the eye and say,
never have sexual relations Never have that relationship. It is
difficult for married people who have sometimes been in really
difficult marriage is or have felt unseen on, heard, uncared for,
and have ended up choosing to commit adultery and later
feeling tremendous guilt about this. But the Bible is clear
on these things. I don't believe you can love and
lie consistently. I mean we all fall short, but I
do not think you can lovingly lie your loved ones
away from God.
Speaker 2: I don't think that's love. This is the Todd Hermann Shaw.
Speaker 1: Please go, be well, be strong, be kind, and please
make every effort to walk in the light of Christ.