Speaker 1: Welcome to the Three Stories version of the Todd Hermer Show.
Story number one, a clump of cells went out and
won the Heisman Trophy. Congratulation Plump of Cells. Story number two,
Pete Hegseeth hates diversity, he does in a certain setting.
And story number three for a pastor who praised the
most evil king in biblical history. He had one motivation
to do that, diversity. We'll talk about this with the
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Speaker 2: Thank you, Lord, But Todd.
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was the Emerald City, exime God to her Man.
Speaker 1: Today is today the Lord has made, and these are
the times to which.
Speaker 2: God has decided we shall live.
Speaker 1: Dear friend of mine, friends since I think best friends
since eighth grades, and not kind of a brother, I
mean as much of a blood brother as I can
ever have. He's a very strict Catholic, and he made
a mistake. He and his girlfriends dash fiancee. They had
sexual relations before they got married, and man, it shocked
me because this is a guy who didn't do that
through all of high school.
Speaker 2: And it wasn't like he didn't have opportunities. He was
very popular with girls.
Speaker 1: And it wasn't like I didn't go on double dates
with him out to Lake Cabin is where we had
overnight to do that, you know, each with her own girlfriend,
and he didn't do it. So I remember when they
found out his girlfriend desh Fiance was pregnant, and it
just crushed.
Speaker 2: My friend. And he called me and I remember him
weeping of the phone.
Speaker 1: My life is over and I've screwed up my girlfriend
desh Fiance's life. I've just it's over. And if you
look at him today and ask him, what is what
is your role? What has God given you? And he
would say the unspeakable gift of seven children. And at
that time, my friend's obsession was being a world renowned
pop star, dash recording star. We used to write songs together,
and he can't relate to that person anymore. He looks
at his old CDs that he put out and the
tours he was on. He looks at pictures of himself
warming up for these big bands and these huge recording
studios in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: And why.
Speaker 1: Why did I ever take even an hour to focus
on this rather than focusing on my family. Now he
still plays, he writes symphonies. He's a brilliant musician, but
he writes them all in service of the church. He's
a Catholic, and he's had a lot of his work
played in churches, never with his name.
Speaker 2: Doesn't care. But God took this mistake and turned it
to good.
Speaker 1: Now he would be the first to tell you, and
he would tell you he's paid a cost. Right, there's greatness,
great family, Still married to his wife, fruitfully so. But
he'd be the first to tell you. You can choose
your sin, but not your accountability, and he's he's paid.
We all do when we sin, might not be right away.
Speaker 2: Sometimes the sin.
Speaker 1: Is struggled, extra struggle that you should not have or
would not have had.
Speaker 2: In the case of.
Speaker 1: King David in the Bible, when he sinned with Bathsheba,
not that he wasn't sinning before with a concubine, but
when he sinned with Bathsheba in such an open and
defiant way, it destroyed his household forever. There was never
again peace in King David's home. His own sons sought
his death, attempted to steal his kingdom. One of his
sons was so angry, so defiant, so filled with hatred, that,
having kicked his father out of the castle, he then
had sex with his father's wife on a rooftop for
all of the city to see.
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clump of cells wentz In won a Heisman Trophy. Travis
Hunter's mother spoke about a mistake she made and what
the world told her about this mistake. It's very similar.
It's a mistake my dear friend made. Although his kids
did not go when a Heisman trophy.
Speaker 4: He's still not serious.
Speaker 5: So it's like, I love the person that he is,
but I'm also grateful that because what they said was
my biggest mistake.
Speaker 4: Turned out be the biggest blessing. So there that just
goes to show you.
Speaker 5: You can have you can make mistakes, but that does
not define who you are.
Speaker 4: And I'm so excited for.
Speaker 5: Him, but I'm also so excited for all the people
that's him, all the people that look up to him
and see that he is just.
Speaker 4: You can do it. It doesn't matter if you fall
get back up. You only fail when you stop, and
he didn't. I look at him.
Speaker 5: Well, I just want to say this is for the
strong moms out there, because you have just spoken.
Speaker 4: Truth to all of us. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: He looks like his mom. Look at this young man.
This is a handsome young man, this beautiful woman. So
she recognizes this mistake, she made it. It has become
this blessing for her. That guys, God is in this business.
This is his I don't want to say it's his
favorite thing. But you can look through the Bible time
and again and look at how he takes bad and
he makes it for good. Sometimes the bad is for
our good. Sometimes God is the storm, Sometimes he is
the water leak. Sometimes God is, in fact the crash
of a flying plane.
Speaker 2: You get an.
Speaker 1: Opportunity to see a little boy, a former clump of
cells himself. There was an airplane crash and shrapnel came
flying in and a little boy named Trey Howard loves
his friends and in this case his little sister, enough
to give his life. No greater love has man than
to lay down his life for his brother, in this case,
his sister. This is from ABC seven. The family of
a tenure old boy injured when the jet crashed down
near their car is sharing their experience. My baby's in there.
It's hard seeing him like that, said the boy's mother,
Lashawan Hamiel. Trey Howard is one of the survivors, despite
being seriously injured by flying Deprie. Felt like it was
a movie, like a horror movie, said Trey's dad, Andre
Howard Junior. Andrew says he was picking up don't to
three of his kids, ages four, seven, and ten, when
the jet came crashing down. Sounded like a missile was
firing bullets metal at my car, everyone else's car. Under
he recalled, you see a car on fire? A man
walking on fire? Was just crazy. He immediately backed up
his car while his son, Trey, covered his little sister,
protecting her.
Speaker 2: A little boy did that.
Speaker 1: I turned around and he has metal coming out of
his head, under described.
Speaker 2: He said.
Speaker 1: He used socks in another man's shirt to try to
stop the bleeding. A police officer rushed them to the hospital,
where Trey had emergency brain surgery that night. Andre says
the family was told it was a strong chance he
might not survive. Miraculously this ABC seven note that means,
in other words, because of an act of God, he's
now awakened, recovering and even talking. They did an a
plus job on my son, Praise God. They did a
great job, Andrew said. Andre told ABC News that his
first his son's first real words.
Speaker 2: Were about the super.
Speaker 1: He asked me a daddy, was today Monday? Okay, wait,
we don't play. We didn't play yesterday?
Speaker 6: Did we?
Speaker 1: No, you didn't miss a Super Bowl. Next thing he asked, Daddy,
did ha saved my sister? He did, a clump of
cells went out and saved another clump of cells, and
then two far older clumps of cells could celebrate their
clumps of cells. God knit you together in your mother's womb,
and he's counted every hair in your head, and he
has very specific plans for you. And those plans are
something you can act upon when you decide to follow
the Lord Jesus and allow him to take the bad
in your life and turn.
Speaker 2: It for good. Praise God.
Speaker 1: Story number two, Pete Hegseeth came out and said it.
I mean, he's giving the left exactly what they want.
He hates diversity, just loves it.
Speaker 2: Now. Personally, I love me some diversity. I used to love.
Speaker 1: One of the things I miss about living in big
cities was the opportunity to go immerse yourself, even temporarily,
into different culture in the separate country of Seattle, within
the separate country of Washington, there's a really vibrant place
that everyone in the world calls Chinatown, although the tyrannical
authorities are very very insistent that we start to call
it the International District.
Speaker 2: But it's not an international district. It's Chinatown.
Speaker 1: And I used to love to go there because you
could eat Chinese food that you couldn't identify. My friend Matthew,
dear dear brother of mine, he is fascinated with Chinese culture.
He has been the China multiple times as a tech
executive and even speaks a little bit of the language.
So he would take me to these places where no
one spoke English. There are no white people, and man,
you get the stink eye, the corner eye when you
walk in there, because what are you doing in here?
There are the sort of americanized places. No place down
there is really really Americanized, but this is the corner
of the wall sort of places. And when Matthew would
come in and speak a little bit of Mandarin and
asking the menus, everything changed. We was sitting down and
I had food I'd never had before. It's fungus soup
and it's it's preparations of ducks. There is a place
down there called, Oh Gosh, you never forget the name
of it, that they make a Bardi green noodle. You
want to eat about four hundred billion grams of carbs
in a setting and love it.
Speaker 2: It's just this fresh barley in this.
Speaker 1: Green form that they make. You could watch them do
this and it tastes like you're eating butter. And I
used to love it when I lived in Washington, d c.
Because it could take a quick train ride down to
New York and you could go from the orthodox Jewish
section of town, you could go to an Hispanic section
of town. You could go through the downtown, the business
corridor that you could just experience all these cultures. I
missed that, But Pete Haigseth hates diversity, and he even
admitted it.
Speaker 7: A single missed phrase in military history is our diversity
is our strength. I think our strength is our unity,
Our strength is our shared purpose, regardless of our background,
regardless of how we grew up, regardless of our gender,
regardless of our race. In this department, we will treat
everyone equally. We will treat everyone with fairness, We will
treat everyone with respect. And we will judge you as
an individual by your marriag and by your commitment to
the team and the mission. That's how it has been,
that's how it will be. Any inference otherwise is meant
to divide or create complications that otherwise should not and
do not exist.
Speaker 1: He's talking, of course, about what military units need to
be able to be to be a unit. Now, I've
never served, I don't know that I've ever had the
capacity to serve. In the tiny, little, small, minuscule joke
like sample, I got of this if my twelve hours
seal fit before my kidneys gave out, I noticed well
dressed the same. No one had a first name, and
you always had a swim buddy with you. And if
you failed to take your swim buddy with you to
the bathroom to get something to eat on a penalty run,
that was one of the worst things you could ever
ever do, and you would pay a huge cost if
you were ever alone. Regardless, this is the reason, because
they were making us a unit. Story number two. Pete
Hegseth came out and said it. I mean, he's giving
the left exactly what they want. He hates diversity, just
loves it. Now personally, I love me some diversity. I
used to love. One of the things I miss about
living in big cities was the opportunity to go immerse yourself,
even temporarily, in a different culture. In the separate country
of Seattle, within the separate country of Washington, there's a
really vibrant place that everyone in the world calls Chinatown,
although the tyrannical authorities are very, very very insistent that
we start to call it the International District.
Speaker 2: But it's not an international district. It's Chinatown.
Speaker 1: And I used to love to go there because you
could eat Chinese food that you couldn't identify. My friend Matthew,
dear dear brother of mine, he is fascinated with Chinese culture,
has been the China multiple times as a tech executive,
and even speaks a little bit of the language.
Speaker 2: So he would take me to these places.
Speaker 1: Where no one spoke English, there are no white people,
and man, you get the stink eye, the corner eye
when you walk in there.
Speaker 2: Because what are you doing in here?
Speaker 1: There are the sort of americanized places. No place down
there is really really Americanized, but this is the corner
of the wall sort of places. And when Matthew would
come in and speak a little bit of Mandarin and
asking the menus. Everything changed. We was sitting down and
I had food I'd never had before. It's fungus soup,
and it's it's preparations of ducks. There is a place
down there called, Oh Gosh, you never forget the name
of it, that.
Speaker 2: They make a Bardi green noodle.
Speaker 1: I mean, you want to eat about four hundred billion
grams of carbs in a setting and love it.
Speaker 2: It's just this fresh barley in this green form that
they make. You could watch them do this and it takes.
Speaker 1: Like you're eating butter. And I used to love it
when I lived in Washington, d C. Because it could
take a quick train ride down to New York and
you could go from the Orthodox Jewish section of town,
you could go to an Hispanic section of town. You
could go through the downtown the business corridor that you
could just experience all these cultures.
Speaker 2: I missed that. But Pete Hegseth hates diversity, and he
even admitted it.
Speaker 7: A single missed phrase in military history is our diversity
is our strength. I think our strength is our unity.
Our strength is our shared purpose, regardless of our background,
regardless of how we grew up, regardless of our gender,
regardless of our race. In this department, we will treat
everyone equally. We will treat everyone with fairness, We will
treat everyone with respect, and we will judge you as
an individual by your merit and by your commitment to
the team and the mission. That's how how it has been,
That's how it will be. Any inference otherwise is meant
to divide or create complications that otherwise should not and
do not exist.
Speaker 1: He's talking, of course, about what military units need to
be able to be to be a unit. Now, I've
never served, I don't know that I've ever had the
capacity to serve. In the tiny, little, small, minuscule joke
like sample I got of this of my twelve hours
at seal Fit before my kidneys gave out, I noticed
well dressed the same, no one had a first name,
and you always had a swim buddy with you. And
if you failed to take your swim budy with you
to the bathroom to get something to eat on a
penalty run, that was one of the worst things you
could ever ever do, and you would pay a huge
cost if you were ever alone regardless of the reason,
because they were making us a units. The first part
of seal Fit was to make us focus on ourselves
and forget the fact that we're a team, and they
were doing everything they could to divide us. And there
were even guys who'd been through Sealfit before saying, guys, remember,
they're trying to divide us. It wasn't until we jeled
as a team where things started to work. So you're
going to see in Pete Hegseth the difference. He's already
proving the difference. You had Lloyd Austin dress up in
that ridiculous veil with his ridiculous black suit to march
ridiculously around with our enemies, separating himself economically and from
a perspective of power and lording his power for others.
General white rage.
Speaker 2: The same thing.
Speaker 1: All the metals on the chest, guys who've never won
a war, people who are metals on their chest. For
diversity and employing diversity to hr Pete Haigseth showed he
is the man who absolutely means we're going to treat
everybody the same.
Speaker 2: And he did it in a really, really important way
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who couldn't do it. Unlike General Austin, who couldn't do
it because they stopped being military men and became fat politicians,
Pete Hegseth decided to go work out with the.
Speaker 7: Troops A point to do KT and tenth through this
morning on very lowly.
Speaker 4: Why was it so important for you to do this?
And tell us about the work out.
Speaker 7: I did do PT with the troops this morning, so
it's not that long ago that I was right there
with them. I probably no offense general. I probably connect
more with those guys than I do with four star generals.
But now I get the chance of working with four
stars and others who are committed to the troops. But
when I can get down do pushups and dead lifts,
with the troops and just hear from them what's working,
what is it? How do you see your mission set?
I love that, so there was never a doubt, even
though we got in it too in the morning, that
we were getting up a couple hours later.
Speaker 2: To go deep DoPT.
Speaker 7: It's a reminder that you guys the press in Washington
might think I'm young, but in military terms, I'm old.
And that showed this morning with these young guys who
ran circles.
Speaker 2: Around me in that parking lot.
Speaker 1: If you lose touch of the people you're commanding, and
you no longer hear their voices or see their faces
or have them have an opportunity to speak in to you,
you're losing touch with the battlefield. You're losing touch. Then
with the enemy, you lose in touch with the engagement.
You are entering into the world of theory. You're no
longer impacted by this because you don't see the faces
of the men and women who are iimpacted by it,
the ones who have to actually carry out the orders.
That's an important part of diversity. He's the sec death
and he subjects himself to early morning workouts without a
lot of sleep, and by the way, I don't think
the military is making sure that everybody gets good, solid
eight hours of sleep.
Speaker 2: I don't think that's the lifestyle.
Speaker 1: If you lose that form of diversity, you're losing any
of the capability to relate in a diversified way. So
haig Seth considered a table with forestar generals and say,
that's a great theory, but I've.
Speaker 2: Talked to the troops. That doesn't work.
Speaker 1: By the way, this is hag Seth recovering from the workout,
shaking hands. It's a cool facility, and you know, I
know that's meaningful to those guys that the boss of bosses.
Speaker 2: Came in and killed it with them.
Speaker 1: Imagine how foot it is for them to murder him
in a workout euphemistically speaking.
Speaker 2: And a guy who enjoys that and gets a kick
out of it.
Speaker 1: And is going to go in knowing he doesn't train
three times a day like these guys, he's going to
get his head handed to him. Is a guy who
has some humility. This is a different sect death. So
he doesn't hate diversity. It doesn't belong in a team setting. Now,
we all have different gifts and different skills, but in
a team setting like this in the military sometimes you
have to do their dirty job. And there's pastors who
use this example. They're all given gifts by God. And
I'm talking about spiritual gifts because that's divisive, and there's
people who think that spiritual gifts no longer exist and
spiritual gifting doesn't happen. But you could say, for instance,
pastors will tell this story like, you know, hey, pastor,
I want to serve in the church.
Speaker 2: I'm coming here for a while.
Speaker 1: I realize they don't serve. So what's a place I
could serve? I really, you know, whatever it is, I
want to do it all right. You know what, we
are really short on people to uh, to shovel snow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's not my gifting.
Speaker 1: I you know, I'm I'm really gifted at leadership and
at you know, at leading, I'm gifted at you know,
beat a boss. And so that's not and I want
to do something that that is aligned with my gifting.
Oh like when Jesus refused to wash feet because he
was gifted. Interesting view of serving, interesting view of diversity,
isn't it.
Speaker 2: Jesus, with all.
Speaker 1: Those skills, chose to do the least popular job. Oh
and on the topic of diversity. We're told that skin
color decides everything, but apparently it doesn't. There's some people
who are willing to look at the performance of someone
and then make a judgment, such as this lady talking
about her Kamala regrets and understand farmers working at a
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Speaker 8: Listen, let me be one of the first black women
that was a part of the ninety two or the
ninety three percent that voted for Kamala to come out
and just say it. I regret voting for Kamala.
Speaker 2: I really do.
Speaker 4: I regret voting for her.
Speaker 8: Already into Trump's presidency, not even a full month, and
this man is already secured borders, He's already signing bills
that are taking place that are uplifting this country. Me
not doing my history and really, you know, being investigative
and seeing all the things that has done and now
having an eye opener and really looking at this man
and seeing exactly how this man works has really put
something on my heart. And I don't know what I
was thinking going in there voting for Kamala in the
first place. I'm glad.
Speaker 4: I'm glad of the results.
Speaker 8: Don't get me wrong, I'm glad that I'm saying that
I'm glad that Trump is in there, but me being
so lost and participating into the whole Kamala run and
now taking a step back looking at how this president
here is really running things and it hasn't even been
a whole month.
Speaker 4: It's something that I do think about.
Speaker 8: So, you know, I advise people that are on the
Democratic that are in the Democratic Party myself.
Speaker 4: To do your research.
Speaker 8: Really do your research, Okay, because I can definitely say
that as a black woman, a part of the ninety
three percent I made era, I can admit that I
can take accountability and admit.
Speaker 1: That that's almost like washing feet. Humility is hard and
admitting something like that is hard. And diversity, actual diversity, Man,
it's cool some settings where it has to be unity
above that. Story number three. So there's this guy who's
an adventist pastor and cool name. How come I can't
have the name Delbert. My name is a sound, it's
an utterance. You can you can say my name by mistake.
You hit your knew top. Yeah, I'm grateful for no,
I'm not. I was gonna say I'm grateful for my name.
Speaker 2: I'm not.
Speaker 1: I wish my parents would name me something else. I
tried to rename myself a bunch of times, and it
never stuck. Delbert Snell was thinking through the reason that
Babylon became the most powerful nation in Biblical times, and
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Speaker 2: It took some thinking. Cap time.
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the pastor talking about Babylon. The Babylonian Empire was. They
went throughout the regions, they took people captive.
Speaker 2: They built up their nation this way.
Speaker 1: Very famously in the Bible, they went and took captive
some young Jewish boys, among them Daniel and his friends.
The Book of Daniel came from him. He was giving
prophetic powers by God.
Speaker 2: He ended up being one.
Speaker 1: Of the guys who advised the king. But there some
things he never did, and I don't think the pastor
addresses this well.
Speaker 9: The different medals represent the strength of the different kingdoms,
so that the goal the kingdom would be the best
one and each one would.
Speaker 6: Be inferior to it.
Speaker 9: And what God is telling Daniel is that Babylon, the
head of Gold, would be the most powerful nation in
the succession. So then the question should be what would
make Babylon so great?
Speaker 6: I'm glad you asked.
Speaker 9: You just read it there in Daniel chapter one. Do
you realize that for all of Nepukanezar's eccentricities, he had one.
Speaker 6: Good civil practice.
Speaker 9: What made Babylon stand out was they instituted a diversity,
equity and inclusion program.
Speaker 1: Okay, can we pause please? Nebukenezer wasn't eccentric. He was Satanic.
He worshiped false gods, he burned people to death, he
forced people to poison themselves, he built temples for sex ceremonies.
And no, he did not practice diversity. Only in the
case of Daniels and his friends, do we see that
when the king tried to force them to deny their diversity.
They were Jewish Men, and they refused to turn their
back on the God of the Bible. They refused to
engage in diversity. They wouldn't even eat the king's foods.
They were told, you have to eat the king's foods.
They said, we can't, and we won't. This is not
a Dei program. Secondly, they were captives who, by the
way tradition tells us, they were also frustrated.
Speaker 6: Yeah, y'all, y'all too slow with me today? Did you notice?
It was there?
Speaker 9: And Daniel chapter one, so that what a Babylon did
was every captured nation they would take individuals from that group,
and they would train them in the science and literature
of Babylon and put them to work in the king's service.
Speaker 1: And they would take their names away from them, and
they would rename them, and they would steal their face,
and they would be forced to kneel before.
Speaker 2: The king to treat him as a god.
Speaker 1: And Daniel and his friends said, no, we will not
worship you. We worship the God of the Bible only. No,
we will not eat your foods. We'll learn your science,
we'll learn your language. We'll even let you call these
made up names, but we will not become part of
your diversity program that forces us to kneel to you. Amazing,
this man can take this view, and I actually wonder
if he really takes this view.
Speaker 2: First paid to take this view.
Speaker 9: And some believe that Neptia Kaneszar learned from his father,
Nabo Palaisa, that any kingdom that has a homogeneous cabinet
is going to have a lead in its prosperity. In
other words, nephtiw Kanneszer knew that if your cabinet is homogeneous,
if your military looks the same, if all of those
in leadership think the saying, guess what, your blind spots are.
Speaker 6: Going to be permanent.
Speaker 9: And the only way to get a three hundred and
sixty degree view of wisdom is to have people from
every nation represented in the leadership of government.
Speaker 1: Nebukanezer went nuts. He thought he was a cow, and
Daniel was given the gift of understanding the king's dreams.
None of his advisers understood him. The king was putting
people to death because they couldn't explain his dreams. Daniel
could explain them, and Daniel made cleared them. No, no, it's
not me, it's my God. I'm not doing this. You
tried to kill us in a lion's den. That didn't work.
You tried to burnish to death, that didn't work. Our
God is protecting us. God took the evil of captivity
and used it for Daniel.
Speaker 2: To witness to Nebeconezer, that was his wisdom for periods
of time.
Speaker 1: Nebucanzer said, you know what, no one criticized the God
of Daniel. That great wisdom this guy's talking about. He
went through crawling through the fields on his hands and knees,
eating grass because he thought he was a cow, just
like Daniel said he would. God took people who had
been taken captive and preserved his word and in fact
witness to people who never would have believed him had
they simply been talking about conquered territories. The story of
Daniel and the fact that they couldn't kill him spread
throughout the kingdoms. There were people who inadvertently went and
evangelized the God of the Bible.
Speaker 6: That's not diversity.
Speaker 1: That's God taking evil and making it good, using it
for good. My goodness, gracious, I want to pray for
that pastor and the people who are taken by these
false teachers. Bible was so very clear about the penalty
for false teachers. Man, pastor, polease repent. This is a
Todd Hermann Shaw. Please go, be well, be strong, be
kind to please make every effort to walk in the
light of Christ.