WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.560 --> 00:00:05.040 There is a rule in radio, and I know this 2 00:00:05.120 --> 00:00:08.560 is not radio, it's podcasting, and I know I'm on 3 00:00:08.679 --> 00:00:13.519 video and not just floating through the ether. Although it 4 00:00:13.640 --> 00:00:17.320 makes conversations like this easier honestly, just to do it 5 00:00:17.320 --> 00:00:22.000 on radio. But there's a rule that don't discuss something 6 00:00:22.039 --> 00:00:25.839 as a commentator if you can't add value. That was 7 00:00:25.879 --> 00:00:28.120 a good rule back when that rule applied. It doesn't 8 00:00:28.160 --> 00:00:32.479 apply anymore. Now. People comment on anything and everything, and 9 00:00:32.560 --> 00:00:36.399 that's part of the game. There's no way I can 10 00:00:36.439 --> 00:00:40.399 add value to the discussion around what happened in Texas. 11 00:00:40.960 --> 00:00:45.840 I can't. The only way to add value to this 12 00:00:46.799 --> 00:00:52.600 is to invoke God. That's it. Nothing else matters at 13 00:00:52.600 --> 00:00:56.439 this point. So we'll do that the best I can, 14 00:00:56.719 --> 00:00:59.479 just hoping to get out of my own way. We'll 15 00:00:59.520 --> 00:01:01.880 do this with that help A visible gobisible dot com 16 00:01:02.000 --> 00:01:06.359 ends and please with the direct aid of God Almighty. 17 00:01:08.680 --> 00:01:13.000 But Todd Herman show is one disapproved but big pharma 18 00:01:13.200 --> 00:01:21.480 technocrats in tyrants everywhere from the high mountains of Free America. 19 00:01:22.719 --> 00:01:28.359 Here's the Emerald City exile Todd Herman. 20 00:01:32.239 --> 00:01:34.959 Today is the day the Lord has made, and these 21 00:01:35.000 --> 00:01:37.760 are the times so which God has decided we shall left. 22 00:01:40.120 --> 00:01:42.799 Oh gosh, where were you? Isn't that the question we 23 00:01:42.840 --> 00:01:44.879 asked at times like these? Where were you when you 24 00:01:44.959 --> 00:01:48.120 heard about the floods? When you're read about them? And 25 00:01:48.319 --> 00:01:51.079 what are the images that are seered in your mind? 26 00:01:51.920 --> 00:01:53.439 I mean, there's so many. And we'll look at some 27 00:01:53.480 --> 00:01:56.239 of the videos today of how quickly the water rose. 28 00:01:57.439 --> 00:01:59.200 Some of the things that are seared into my mind 29 00:01:59.640 --> 00:02:09.520 are the utterly disgusting, horrible, reprehensible, reprobate comments from people 30 00:02:09.639 --> 00:02:12.360 like Jay Insley, the former dictator of the separate country 31 00:02:12.360 --> 00:02:14.840 of Washington State. And we'll show you what Insley said. 32 00:02:16.280 --> 00:02:20.960 He was among many who decided to dance upon the graves, 33 00:02:21.199 --> 00:02:25.000 not even graves. These people aren't even buried yet, and 34 00:02:25.759 --> 00:02:34.280 they've been judged. Here's the fruit of your heart. The 35 00:02:34.319 --> 00:02:38.240 fruit of your heart is as people are freezing to 36 00:02:38.360 --> 00:02:42.840 death soaked with water. Yes, I know Texas is warm, 37 00:02:42.879 --> 00:02:45.039 but you stay in a river like that for four hours? 38 00:02:45.439 --> 00:02:46.360 See how you do. 39 00:02:48.719 --> 00:02:48.800 That? 40 00:02:48.879 --> 00:02:52.199 The instinct, it's such an instinct. And no it's not. 41 00:02:52.319 --> 00:02:56.639 This isn't a lizard brain thing. This is an utterly 42 00:02:56.680 --> 00:03:02.159 cold heart who looks a thing like this knowing what 43 00:03:02.199 --> 00:03:08.560 they're saying is untrue. And comes out and blames cuts 44 00:03:08.639 --> 00:03:19.879 to the National Weather Service, National Oceanic and Noah, those 45 00:03:19.919 --> 00:03:24.000 cuts don't happen until October of twenty twenty five. That's 46 00:03:24.120 --> 00:03:30.919 not yet, or that it's climate change. When floods like 47 00:03:30.960 --> 00:03:36.479 this happen in Texas with some regularity, and that's the instinct. 48 00:03:37.400 --> 00:03:42.879 That image is seared into my mind. And I am 49 00:03:42.960 --> 00:03:45.759 a finite human being. I mean, where all eternal beings 50 00:03:45.800 --> 00:03:48.719 will choose to go one place or the other, but 51 00:03:48.800 --> 00:03:52.759 God's infinite wisdom. He knew people like Nzi would say this. 52 00:03:52.879 --> 00:03:55.000 He knew people like this woman who works at the 53 00:03:55.000 --> 00:03:57.319 New York Times and say what she said, a former 54 00:03:58.360 --> 00:04:02.360 MSNBC commentator, and Stephanopolis, all of them with the same lie. 55 00:04:03.840 --> 00:04:08.319 That's not really adding value. That's this good old fashioned 56 00:04:08.599 --> 00:04:14.520 talk radio outrage. Look what the other side did. It's empty. 57 00:04:14.639 --> 00:04:17.560 One of the images that seared into my mind is 58 00:04:17.600 --> 00:04:21.000 one that if I was a parent, be one of 59 00:04:21.000 --> 00:04:25.040 the happiest images of my life. A twelve year old 60 00:04:25.040 --> 00:04:28.839 girl was found by rescuers in a tree in You know, 61 00:04:29.079 --> 00:04:30.720 this does not look like she has a firm grip 62 00:04:30.720 --> 00:04:32.399 on that tree. I mean, she cannot put her arms 63 00:04:32.399 --> 00:04:35.759 all the way around the trunk. She's sitting on a 64 00:04:35.800 --> 00:04:37.560 branch as close to the tree as she can get, 65 00:04:37.600 --> 00:04:39.600 but her feet are not far from the water. And 66 00:04:39.639 --> 00:04:41.800 if the water was receding at this point, well that's 67 00:04:41.839 --> 00:04:46.040 better news. But the water was rising at that point. 68 00:04:46.439 --> 00:04:47.959 Eventually she's going to have to figure out a way 69 00:04:47.959 --> 00:04:52.959 to climb up. She's twelve, and as I look at 70 00:04:52.959 --> 00:04:55.199 the picture, I can't fathom how she got up there, 71 00:04:56.959 --> 00:04:59.120 other than perhaps the water level was that high that 72 00:04:59.160 --> 00:05:02.800 she was able to rab that tree and sits and 73 00:05:02.959 --> 00:05:09.360 praise God Almighty be found. So for the family, Mom 74 00:05:09.360 --> 00:05:10.959 and Dad, that has to be one of the greatest 75 00:05:10.959 --> 00:05:15.839 pictures they've ever seen. What about the other side of this? 76 00:05:17.279 --> 00:05:21.759 Images are incredibly powerful things. And I bet you, I 77 00:05:21.800 --> 00:05:25.120 will bet you that there are TV shows in the planning, 78 00:05:25.480 --> 00:05:28.560 Netflix series in the planning to find a way to 79 00:05:28.639 --> 00:05:31.319 wrap this all around President Trump's neck. I bet you 80 00:05:31.360 --> 00:05:35.120 that's happening. I know what's happening in the Mockingbird media. 81 00:05:35.160 --> 00:05:37.959 I know what Stephanopolis said, and I bet this is 82 00:05:37.959 --> 00:05:42.199 all being planned. On the other hand, there are these 83 00:05:42.240 --> 00:05:45.439 miraculous stories that's this rescuer saved one hundred and sixty 84 00:05:45.439 --> 00:05:47.720 five people will talk about that one guy first ever 85 00:05:47.759 --> 00:05:52.519 swim mission as a coastguard of a coast Guard, a 86 00:05:52.839 --> 00:05:58.040 Coastguard soldier member, one hundred and sixty five people, one swimmer, 87 00:05:58.639 --> 00:06:02.120 first ever engagement. I would bet there'd be a movie 88 00:06:02.120 --> 00:06:05.680 about that, except well, then Trump. Now, maybe this is 89 00:06:05.720 --> 00:06:10.560 something that Angel Studios could make because these girls, so 90 00:06:10.680 --> 00:06:13.199 many of them lost, were from this Christian camp. The 91 00:06:13.279 --> 00:06:16.399 head of that camp was lost. He was apparently fighting 92 00:06:16.439 --> 00:06:20.240 to save these girls, as you would expect. The dad 93 00:06:20.399 --> 00:06:23.560 who saved this entire family. His mom and dad, I believe, 94 00:06:23.560 --> 00:06:25.519 were there. I know his daughter was, I know his 95 00:06:25.560 --> 00:06:29.160 wife was. He punched his arm, punched his hand through 96 00:06:29.199 --> 00:06:32.040 a window and lifted them up and then bled out. 97 00:06:32.399 --> 00:06:36.160 And you'll hear from the family today. Maybe Angel Students 98 00:06:36.199 --> 00:06:38.439 can tell these stories, tell the story of God's grace 99 00:06:38.480 --> 00:06:41.439 in this. But then what about the other side, people 100 00:06:41.439 --> 00:06:43.439 who weren't saved. Angel Studios could tell this in a 101 00:06:43.519 --> 00:06:45.519 very unique way because they're not afraid of these topics. 102 00:06:47.040 --> 00:06:49.160 I want you to join me in becoming an Angel 103 00:06:49.240 --> 00:06:53.120 Studio Premium Guild member. And here's why we get to 104 00:06:53.199 --> 00:06:56.600 change culture. Finally, finally, finally get to go into Hollywood. 105 00:06:56.639 --> 00:06:59.519 Our votes are with the side which movies they put out. 106 00:07:00.000 --> 00:07:01.800 They've got movies in the pipeline, but they're gonna let 107 00:07:01.879 --> 00:07:05.519 us decide which ones they produce and distribute and promote. 108 00:07:05.959 --> 00:07:07.680 So it can be another sound of Freedom. It could 109 00:07:07.720 --> 00:07:10.040 be a story about this and about God's grace and 110 00:07:10.160 --> 00:07:13.800 image instances like this. It could be another animated feature 111 00:07:13.800 --> 00:07:16.600 about Jesus, such as King of Kings. But it will 112 00:07:16.639 --> 00:07:19.600 not be. It will not be. It will not be 113 00:07:20.319 --> 00:07:27.399 dei trash, it will not be sexualized, it will not 114 00:07:27.480 --> 00:07:33.639 attack American culture. It may critique it, and it will 115 00:07:33.639 --> 00:07:37.959 honor family and honor God. So join me in this. 116 00:07:38.040 --> 00:07:40.680 Go to angel dot com slash todd. Not only will 117 00:07:40.680 --> 00:07:42.800 you get to vote on the movies that they release 118 00:07:42.839 --> 00:07:44.879 and promote, you'll get two free tickets to every one 119 00:07:44.879 --> 00:07:47.399 of the THEATRIC releases. You get to stream all their 120 00:07:47.439 --> 00:07:50.639 fan creative shows immediately, including King of Kings, this great 121 00:07:50.680 --> 00:07:53.040 animated feature about the life of Jesus. It's Angel dot 122 00:07:53.040 --> 00:07:56.160 com slash todd. If you go back and look at 123 00:07:56.160 --> 00:07:59.560 this image and you look at this from the other perspective, 124 00:08:00.240 --> 00:08:02.439 saying that parents who lost their kids in this are 125 00:08:02.439 --> 00:08:04.519 gonna say, oh, I wish she was lost. No, far 126 00:08:04.560 --> 00:08:06.639 from it. They will be able to praise God. Praise God. 127 00:08:06.920 --> 00:08:13.720 She was found, But what about mine? Why did my 128 00:08:13.800 --> 00:08:19.959 daughter not love Jesus enough? Did we not pray enough? 129 00:08:24.040 --> 00:08:32.600 I've seen already. I've seen people on social media say, oh, 130 00:08:32.679 --> 00:08:38.320 you're Jesus sure loved that Christian camp, didn't he. I've 131 00:08:38.320 --> 00:08:43.399 seen replies a gentleman lost his girl, his beautiful, beautiful daughter. 132 00:08:43.559 --> 00:08:51.000 Oh Lord, God, hold on h later this week. I 133 00:08:51.039 --> 00:08:52.480 think I hope it's not today, because if it is, 134 00:08:52.480 --> 00:08:55.879 I'm gonna break down. This dad posted a video of 135 00:08:55.919 --> 00:09:01.200 his little girl singing she was honored to give a 136 00:09:01.240 --> 00:09:07.240 solo and he just asked for prayers for her because 137 00:09:10.159 --> 00:09:14.000 he doesn't get to see her right now. But she 138 00:09:14.080 --> 00:09:20.559 knew Jesus. She's in his arms and she could never 139 00:09:20.600 --> 00:09:28.000 be disappointed and betrayed. She's in his arms. And if 140 00:09:28.000 --> 00:09:29.840 I think about that, I think about them no prize. 141 00:09:30.480 --> 00:09:32.799 There were people who answered prayers, and there was the 142 00:09:33.000 --> 00:09:38.639 oh thoughts on prayers lol, or there was this one 143 00:09:39.480 --> 00:09:45.000 no prayers for the other kids. There was one that 144 00:09:45.039 --> 00:09:49.440 came out and said, man, that Jesus sure loved your girl. Lol. 145 00:09:52.240 --> 00:10:00.440 The fruits they're right there they're right there. So what 146 00:10:00.519 --> 00:10:09.240 to say? Well, number one, we were not designed for this. 147 00:10:10.679 --> 00:10:14.879 We are broken. So when you talk about the problem 148 00:10:14.960 --> 00:10:18.679 pain and people say, but why why does God allow 149 00:10:18.840 --> 00:10:24.639 terrible things happen to good people? Because we're broken. You know, 150 00:10:24.720 --> 00:10:26.960 this is a simple and in a brutally simple and 151 00:10:27.000 --> 00:10:31.240 maybe banal and silly and hopefully not offensive metaphor. But 152 00:10:31.480 --> 00:10:34.559 I once made the mistake of buying a Jaguar used 153 00:10:34.559 --> 00:10:36.639 for my dear friend. And it was a fine car. 154 00:10:36.720 --> 00:10:38.519 It just got to a point where it wasn't a 155 00:10:38.559 --> 00:10:41.799 fine car. So what have these strange things happened? Like 156 00:10:42.200 --> 00:10:44.639 the driver's side door wouldn't work. So here's this Jaguar 157 00:10:44.840 --> 00:10:47.799 and I'm crawling over the center council and getting out 158 00:10:47.799 --> 00:10:52.440 the side door, and people found that very strange. Gosh, 159 00:10:52.440 --> 00:10:56.919 that's a Jaguar. Why why Well, because it's broken. Wasn't 160 00:10:56.960 --> 00:11:00.759 designed this way. It's broken, see but now most offensive, 161 00:11:01.279 --> 00:11:07.200 but it's emotional insulation. We were not designed for this. 162 00:11:08.320 --> 00:11:14.519 We chose brokenness. And that man that opens up a 163 00:11:14.639 --> 00:11:21.399 whole theological thing. Well wait, you say, you have this omnipotent, omniscience, 164 00:11:21.440 --> 00:11:25.519 all knowing, all seeing, ever present, God, all powerful, So 165 00:11:25.759 --> 00:11:29.720 why why this plan I don't know, but I know 166 00:11:29.840 --> 00:11:34.080 this because the plan very evidently sets up the fact 167 00:11:34.080 --> 00:11:36.000 that the new Heaven and the New Earth will contain 168 00:11:36.039 --> 00:11:42.120 no pain, will contain no regret, will contain no disagreement, 169 00:11:42.159 --> 00:11:47.120 no argument, no death, and no one in the New 170 00:11:47.120 --> 00:11:52.360 Heaven and the New Earth will be questioning God. And 171 00:11:52.399 --> 00:11:55.559 so perhaps what God needed us to do is to 172 00:11:55.600 --> 00:11:59.559 spend a good long time making a decision for him, 173 00:12:00.279 --> 00:12:02.919 because He could have designed Garden of Eden. He knew 174 00:12:03.200 --> 00:12:06.799 what the devil as acting as the Serpent, was going 175 00:12:06.840 --> 00:12:08.759 to happen. He could have said, you know now, I'm 176 00:12:08.759 --> 00:12:11.639 not gonna let him do that, in which case we 177 00:12:11.759 --> 00:12:13.679 never would have known pain, We never would have known 178 00:12:13.679 --> 00:12:16.399 the alternative. We never would have had an opportunity to 179 00:12:16.440 --> 00:12:18.679 experience our own free will. And man, I don't know 180 00:12:18.720 --> 00:12:21.360 about you. If your own free will has ever driven 181 00:12:21.399 --> 00:12:27.840 you into dissent? Has it and you've had to be 182 00:12:28.000 --> 00:12:32.080 rescued by someone who God works through to literally save 183 00:12:32.159 --> 00:12:39.639 your spiritual existence? Has that ever happened to you? So 184 00:12:39.679 --> 00:12:41.639 God has a new Heaven and a new Earth, and 185 00:12:41.799 --> 00:12:44.240 the people who know the Lord Jesus are going there 186 00:12:44.840 --> 00:12:46.799 know him rather and accept him and agree to be 187 00:12:46.840 --> 00:12:48.679 changed by him and accept them as their Lord and savior. 188 00:12:48.919 --> 00:12:54.519 They're going there. So the problem with pain, bad things 189 00:12:54.559 --> 00:12:58.519 happening to good people. It's a broken world. We broke it. 190 00:13:01.919 --> 00:13:04.480 So this image, this girl in the tree saved, and 191 00:13:04.519 --> 00:13:06.559 there were two other girls found that a separate tree saved. 192 00:13:06.559 --> 00:13:08.960 And are the images for that? I've got the headline, 193 00:13:09.159 --> 00:13:11.399 Rescuers find two girls in tree thirty few but up 194 00:13:11.399 --> 00:13:14.519 in near comfort. Dramatic rescue occurred closer to Comfort, which 195 00:13:14.559 --> 00:13:17.960 is in Kendall County. Witnesses said the girls were found 196 00:13:18.000 --> 00:13:20.440 in the tree during an ongoing search operations for victims 197 00:13:20.440 --> 00:13:22.919 on Friday's catastrophic flooding that has killed fifty nine people 198 00:13:22.919 --> 00:13:25.080 across county of Because know that number is updated to 199 00:13:25.320 --> 00:13:31.159 eighty and it will probably sadly go up. So the 200 00:13:31.159 --> 00:13:35.120 people that knew Jesus agreed to serve him, accept him 201 00:13:35.159 --> 00:13:38.799 as Lord and savior. They're in a state that they 202 00:13:38.799 --> 00:13:43.919 can never face disappointments or hunger, or disagreements or attacks. Nothing. 203 00:13:45.120 --> 00:13:48.879 It doesn't make it easier for the family. What about 204 00:13:48.879 --> 00:13:53.399 the people who were saved. I think it's the counts 205 00:13:53.399 --> 00:13:59.080 about eight hundred. Now, what about them? Have you heard 206 00:13:59.120 --> 00:14:05.919 of a survivor's guilt, So what about them? And we'll 207 00:14:05.919 --> 00:14:09.000 get to some of the disgusting things that were said. 208 00:14:09.159 --> 00:14:12.840 And I want to do a comparison. And I don't 209 00:14:12.840 --> 00:14:15.000 want to be the guy who's using this for politics. 210 00:14:16.000 --> 00:14:17.360 I want to be a guy who's looking at this 211 00:14:17.399 --> 00:14:20.720 from a perspective of culture and what we're told about 212 00:14:20.799 --> 00:14:23.320 President Trump versus what is the reality of President Trump. 213 00:14:24.000 --> 00:14:27.320 I want us to take a look back at some comparisons. 214 00:14:28.480 --> 00:14:31.399 So we'll do that in a second, But in a moment, 215 00:14:31.440 --> 00:14:35.000 I want to show you how this all changed so very, 216 00:14:35.080 --> 00:14:38.080 very quickly. And yes, there were warnings. There were twelve 217 00:14:38.120 --> 00:14:40.440 hour warnings, there's going to be floods, there were alarms 218 00:14:40.480 --> 00:14:41.960 that went off. I just want to make sure that 219 00:14:41.960 --> 00:14:44.919 we all understand that. But the way the water rose 220 00:14:44.960 --> 00:14:51.360 here is so utterly dramatic. It's important to see I've 221 00:14:51.360 --> 00:14:54.519 made this metaphor before, or use this if you are, Oh, 222 00:14:54.559 --> 00:14:56.799 I should just say this. Actually, wait now, I'm going 223 00:14:56.840 --> 00:14:58.639 to get in trouble because there's a regular view to 224 00:14:58.720 --> 00:15:00.320 the show who says, you know it's on. I don't 225 00:15:00.320 --> 00:15:03.759 believe that you know when you're talking about a partner 226 00:15:03.799 --> 00:15:05.279 that you had a thing happened the day before. To 227 00:15:05.320 --> 00:15:06.840 remind you, I just still believe I think you're making 228 00:15:06.879 --> 00:15:09.120 it up. Okay, well maybe I should have got We 229 00:15:09.159 --> 00:15:11.480 didn't take pictures, but I will tell you. My wife 230 00:15:11.519 --> 00:15:16.840 and I went kayaking on the morning of July fourth, 231 00:15:17.000 --> 00:15:23.000 Independence Day, very early, and on our lake. It's our lake, 232 00:15:24.080 --> 00:15:28.279 and we went out to this lake and we were 233 00:15:28.320 --> 00:15:30.399 out there for about an hour and a half. Now, 234 00:15:30.519 --> 00:15:32.960 neither of us are training crackers, so we kind of 235 00:15:33.000 --> 00:15:36.480 got for me sort of a baby kayak and a 236 00:15:36.480 --> 00:15:38.679 full disclosure, my wife beat me, first time she's ever 237 00:15:38.759 --> 00:15:40.559 kayak beat me in a race. But here's the thing, 238 00:15:40.720 --> 00:15:43.000 we both know we're not ready for the rapids, or 239 00:15:43.039 --> 00:15:45.360 like class one rapids. And I even said maybe we 240 00:15:45.360 --> 00:15:47.559 should And I started to say, she said, what try 241 00:15:47.600 --> 00:15:49.200 the river, And I thought, no, not even that. I 242 00:15:49.200 --> 00:15:50.960 don't even know how to do the slow flowing river. 243 00:15:51.279 --> 00:15:53.759 So no, let's not. Let's let's go back out to 244 00:15:53.759 --> 00:15:57.360 your lake and practice. To me, that's putting money in 245 00:15:57.399 --> 00:16:02.799 a savings account. Let's pop it over to savings account. Now, 246 00:16:02.799 --> 00:16:05.120 maybe you do a few things, like you know, maybe 247 00:16:05.120 --> 00:16:07.639 I'll choose a stock here there and do something different 248 00:16:07.639 --> 00:16:08.960 with my four h three B or for my four 249 00:16:09.120 --> 00:16:11.840 one K and maybe I'll dabble a bit in bitcoin. 250 00:16:11.879 --> 00:16:13.720 But let me ask you this question, do you honestly 251 00:16:13.799 --> 00:16:17.639 think that you're ready for the rapids of what's happening 252 00:16:17.679 --> 00:16:20.960 in this economy? The big beautiful Bill is law. We're 253 00:16:21.000 --> 00:16:23.600 going to talk about this has changed some economic incentives 254 00:16:23.639 --> 00:16:25.919 and I read a brilliant analysis of this that it 255 00:16:25.919 --> 00:16:28.240 can be great news for a country, but you better 256 00:16:28.240 --> 00:16:30.399 believe the forces are going to fight back. We're halfway 257 00:16:30.399 --> 00:16:33.840 through this year. Zach Abraham is going to look at 258 00:16:33.840 --> 00:16:35.759 this halfway through this year. How are we doing on 259 00:16:35.799 --> 00:16:38.639 this river together? How is your account doing? How's your 260 00:16:38.679 --> 00:16:41.879 financial manager you're doing, or maybe your fiduciary. So he's 261 00:16:41.879 --> 00:16:46.120 putting on his free halftime webinarm Thursday, July twenty fourth. 262 00:16:46.720 --> 00:16:49.360 It's free, but you have to register to attend. 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Truck twenty five Dash 273 00:17:19.519 --> 00:17:22.839 two five to two. Man, this happened quickly. If you've 274 00:17:22.839 --> 00:17:25.480 ever been in a circumstance like this, say around something 275 00:17:25.599 --> 00:17:29.640 like a forest fire, and how quickly they move, This 276 00:17:29.720 --> 00:17:32.599 is the beginning of the flood. This it starts and 277 00:17:32.680 --> 00:17:36.000 from a perspective seemingly high up on a bridge and 278 00:17:36.400 --> 00:17:38.279 the water just it's all of a sudden, it's a wave. 279 00:17:38.519 --> 00:17:40.480 I mean it's almost like a dry creek bed in 280 00:17:40.519 --> 00:17:43.839 comparison to what flows down. And this is just the 281 00:17:44.000 --> 00:17:47.400 very very beginning of this. And as I looked at this, 282 00:17:47.480 --> 00:17:49.279 I thought, Oh, there had to be a levee that bursts, 283 00:17:49.279 --> 00:17:52.160 there had to be a dam that burst. And we're 284 00:17:52.200 --> 00:17:54.720 being told it was just a massive, massive storm that 285 00:17:54.759 --> 00:17:58.599 happened occasionally in Texas and pour rainwaters down. I've seen 286 00:17:58.640 --> 00:18:01.039 people saying, Okay, this is cloud out seating. Do you 287 00:18:01.039 --> 00:18:06.079 blame them? Given what's been obviously going on. I don't 288 00:18:06.119 --> 00:18:09.400 blame them for that. I think there's a rational explanation 289 00:18:09.480 --> 00:18:12.799 for this. It doesn't involve that. So the video there, 290 00:18:12.920 --> 00:18:15.079 the water is way down below the bridge. It just 291 00:18:15.119 --> 00:18:18.000 began almost like it just a little kind of a 292 00:18:18.039 --> 00:18:19.880 pond of a river. All of a sudden it hits 293 00:18:19.920 --> 00:18:25.200 this wave. And then fifteen minutes later, now the water 294 00:18:25.440 --> 00:18:29.000 looks like it's going to overtake the bridge. And now 295 00:18:29.039 --> 00:18:32.240 you can hear the branches breaking as they hit the 296 00:18:32.799 --> 00:18:37.599 bridge embankment. You can see the trees somehow still continue 297 00:18:37.599 --> 00:18:41.920 to take route, although one is getting pulled Underwaterue a 298 00:18:42.000 --> 00:18:46.400 tree is uprooted and dragged underwater. Imagine what that can 299 00:18:46.440 --> 00:18:51.720 do to a human body. That just emphasizes the amazing 300 00:18:51.759 --> 00:18:55.119 miracles of the people who were saved. It also also 301 00:18:55.960 --> 00:19:03.960 emphasizes the unmatchable strength of God's design. We are nothing, 302 00:19:05.440 --> 00:19:10.759 And if you think of this spiritually, without Jesus Christ, 303 00:19:12.240 --> 00:19:16.200 without us being connected to the vine, that's what can 304 00:19:16.200 --> 00:19:18.720 happen to us spiritually, And it just all of a sudden, 305 00:19:19.200 --> 00:19:23.279 except it's not. There was the first rain drop, then 306 00:19:23.279 --> 00:19:27.039 the second, then the millionth, and eventually things are pulled 307 00:19:27.079 --> 00:19:31.359 under water. This is twenty five minutes later, there is 308 00:19:31.400 --> 00:19:35.799 now no space between the bridge and the river. The 309 00:19:35.880 --> 00:19:40.240 river now looks to be a couple miles wide versus 310 00:19:40.279 --> 00:19:42.680 being a very small river. Now you can see the 311 00:19:42.720 --> 00:19:45.480 water beginning to break over the side of the bridge. 312 00:19:46.960 --> 00:19:49.160 And man, I don't know about you. I would not 313 00:19:49.200 --> 00:19:51.480 trust driving across that bridge. Maybe there's nowhere else to go. 314 00:19:51.519 --> 00:19:54.119 But there are cars driving across that bridge. And then 315 00:19:54.200 --> 00:19:57.400 we get to the thirty minute later point and it's 316 00:19:57.440 --> 00:19:59.680 not even apparently safety be on that bridge. So the 317 00:19:59.720 --> 00:20:07.640 person off this bridge and here comes a house that 318 00:20:11.119 --> 00:20:13.200 I don't see the cats. I'm hoping the cat is 319 00:20:13.240 --> 00:20:19.000 on the house. Small wants but the house slams up 320 00:20:19.000 --> 00:20:29.559 against the bank of the river. Full size house. So 321 00:20:29.599 --> 00:20:35.680 why does God allow bad things to happen to good people? Well, 322 00:20:36.319 --> 00:20:45.000 because we're broken. So why does he save something? Because 323 00:20:45.039 --> 00:20:50.480 you're being saved for something. The people who were saved 324 00:20:51.039 --> 00:20:57.640 have been saved from something for something. So what is 325 00:20:57.680 --> 00:21:03.480 it again? If you look at this from an internal perspective, 326 00:21:04.279 --> 00:21:06.799 not from an elimination is perspective. That is, people who 327 00:21:06.839 --> 00:21:10.240 believe we're here, we live, then we disappear, death is 328 00:21:10.279 --> 00:21:16.160 the end. People who believe that if you are not 329 00:21:16.200 --> 00:21:20.480 an eliminationist, and you believe in an all power for God, 330 00:21:21.160 --> 00:21:22.960 and you've done the analysis, and you looked at this 331 00:21:23.039 --> 00:21:26.000 and said, let's see, Pagans believe there's a whole bunch 332 00:21:26.039 --> 00:21:29.880 of different gods fighting for control. That's not the way 333 00:21:29.920 --> 00:21:32.680 the world works. There aren't places in the world where 334 00:21:32.680 --> 00:21:35.400 there's no gravity. There aren't places in the world where 335 00:21:35.400 --> 00:21:40.039 lie and speak and play guitars. Okay, there's one world. 336 00:21:41.200 --> 00:21:45.680 There's a very understandable code base, DNA, et cetera, very 337 00:21:45.720 --> 00:21:49.039 very understandable things are in order, our universes in order. 338 00:21:49.160 --> 00:21:51.839 There aren't some places on our planet where comets are 339 00:21:51.880 --> 00:21:55.480 continually raining down every day. These aren't gods. There is 340 00:21:55.519 --> 00:22:01.799 one God. And if you've examined the let's say, abramacfaith, 341 00:22:03.680 --> 00:22:06.759 and you've looked at Islam and said, do we truly 342 00:22:07.079 --> 00:22:15.359 believe that God wants us to commit horrible acts against 343 00:22:15.359 --> 00:22:19.960 people because of their faith? Do we truly believe that 344 00:22:20.039 --> 00:22:26.240 women are so disgusting that they must be wrapped up 345 00:22:26.480 --> 00:22:28.920 only to be seen by their husbands, that otherwise the 346 00:22:28.960 --> 00:22:32.880 women will just simply go around and they're just all 347 00:22:32.920 --> 00:22:36.519 of them are just temptresses and they're also just uncontrollable. 348 00:22:36.519 --> 00:22:39.799 They need to be watched less they're fooled into sexual activity. 349 00:22:39.839 --> 00:22:45.480 Do you really believe that as you read the writings 350 00:22:45.519 --> 00:22:47.759 of Muhammad and understand he didn't have even the near 351 00:22:47.880 --> 00:22:51.920 timeline of Jesus even close, or do we really believe that? 352 00:22:55.640 --> 00:22:58.599 And there's far, far, far more in Islam? Observe the fruits? 353 00:23:01.200 --> 00:23:05.480 Does it appear godly? And we could do a whole 354 00:23:05.519 --> 00:23:09.720 show on this and get much more exact. People talk 355 00:23:09.759 --> 00:23:16.119 about Judeo Christian aspects of life. Judeo Christian. Okay, if 356 00:23:16.160 --> 00:23:18.880 you have not read Isaiah forty three, and if you've 357 00:23:18.920 --> 00:23:23.119 not looked at the absolute nailing of the predictions in 358 00:23:23.200 --> 00:23:27.359 the Old Testament that Jesus Christ fulfilled, if you haven't 359 00:23:27.400 --> 00:23:31.440 done a study of this, then you cannot rest assured 360 00:23:31.519 --> 00:23:34.480 that Jesus Christ had fulfilled all of them. There's a 361 00:23:34.519 --> 00:23:36.759 few there yet to be fulfilled, but he fulfilled all 362 00:23:36.799 --> 00:23:39.319 of the older ones. He is the only one to 363 00:23:39.480 --> 00:23:42.200 conquer death. He's the only one to have been seen 364 00:23:42.319 --> 00:23:44.920 ultimately by about five thousand people in total. He was 365 00:23:44.920 --> 00:23:48.759 seen by five hundred at one time. Even people who 366 00:23:48.799 --> 00:23:52.200 are detractors of Jesus and Christians said, these people will 367 00:23:52.240 --> 00:23:56.599 not they will not retract this. You went from people 368 00:23:56.680 --> 00:23:59.720 hiding in an upper room afraid of the Jewish religious 369 00:23:59.720 --> 00:24:02.440 authority and the Romans. They were hiding in an upper 370 00:24:02.519 --> 00:24:04.880 room cowering, and all of a sudden they gave a 371 00:24:05.079 --> 00:24:08.039 sermon in front of five thousand men, which is easily 372 00:24:08.079 --> 00:24:12.880 ten thousand women or ten thousand total people. And in 373 00:24:12.960 --> 00:24:16.400 it he accused the Romans. This Jesus whom you crucified, 374 00:24:16.480 --> 00:24:21.319 was the son of God. He accused the Jewish religious authorities, 375 00:24:21.319 --> 00:24:23.359 who at that point could have said crucify him too. 376 00:24:23.880 --> 00:24:29.799 All the so I land on Jesus Christ is the way, 377 00:24:29.839 --> 00:24:31.160 the truth, and the life. No one gets to the 378 00:24:31.160 --> 00:24:34.319 Father but throw him. And that was just a stupid 379 00:24:34.480 --> 00:24:40.240 minor analysis of these three faith. So if you do that, 380 00:24:41.799 --> 00:24:45.160 and then you believe in a god, and that God 381 00:24:45.200 --> 00:24:48.920 is the God of the Bible, why do good things 382 00:24:48.920 --> 00:24:53.000 happen to bad people? Why do bad things happen to 383 00:24:53.000 --> 00:24:57.519 good people because we're broken? What about the people who 384 00:24:57.559 --> 00:25:01.000 were saved? Okay, looking at this from a Christian perspective, 385 00:25:01.440 --> 00:25:06.039 you were saved from something for something. Matthew was saved 386 00:25:06.079 --> 00:25:10.160 from being a turncoats to his people as a tax 387 00:25:10.160 --> 00:25:14.599 collector for the corrupt Roman authorities. He was saved from 388 00:25:14.640 --> 00:25:18.200 a belief that he didn't need Messiah, that he was 389 00:25:18.240 --> 00:25:21.039 the chosen people. Therefore he was already in with God. 390 00:25:21.400 --> 00:25:25.440 He was saved from that for the purpose of writing 391 00:25:25.480 --> 00:25:27.920 down the Gospels. Tradition tells us Matthew was the first 392 00:25:27.920 --> 00:25:32.839 to begin to write. Saul was saved from a life 393 00:25:32.839 --> 00:25:34.720 as someone who went out to end the lives of 394 00:25:34.799 --> 00:25:40.119 Christians into someone who was the most traveled of all 395 00:25:40.160 --> 00:25:44.960 the apostles. He was saved from something for something. If 396 00:25:44.960 --> 00:25:47.599 you have been spiritually saved, there's a reason. It wasn't 397 00:25:47.640 --> 00:25:50.039 so hey, hey, let's get you back on track. Okay, good, 398 00:25:50.079 --> 00:25:52.279 you look better now. No, it was to get you 399 00:25:52.319 --> 00:25:56.119 back on track because you have a mission. So the 400 00:25:56.200 --> 00:25:59.519 people who were survivors in this were saved from something 401 00:25:59.559 --> 00:26:07.480