Speaker 1: Welcome to the three Stories version of The Todd Herman Show.
Story number one, the great iPhone panic and a reminder
about American greatness. Story number two, Christians need to understand
why Jesus called these people hypocrites? And story number three,
how does lying about Jesus help lgb Q so called
t people. We'll talk about this with the help of
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Speaker 1: Today is the day the Lord has made, and these
are the times through which God has decided we shall live.
And at the Todd Herman Show, we refuse to fall
into the iPhone panic. What a great, great technique they're
using to try to scare people about the tariffs.
Speaker 3: iPhones are going to cost so much money. We'll get
to this.
Speaker 1: Carol Lembert responding out of the White House, I just
want to remind people about some facts about America and
things that we've done, and the fact that necessities so
often the mother of invention. But we can't talk about that, no,
just nothing we can do. Apple's stock took a pretty
big hits. They were rumored to have flown in five
planes full of iPhones to avoid US tariffs. And their
stock goes down. Their stocks should go down. It's one
of the most overvalued stocks in the country. Tim Cook
knows this. I mean this is a market correction.
Speaker 2: Guys.
Speaker 1: Tim Cook has said We're not a gross stock. Don't
treat us like a gross stock. And yet, did you
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My friend Zach Abraham, chief invest officer Bulwart Capital Management,
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So responding to market panic, after creating market panic we
had Carolyn Levitt asked about iPhone specifically, is that something
the president thinks is a kind of technology we can
move to the US?
Speaker 2: Carolyn?
Speaker 4: Thanks?
Speaker 5: Does the President endorse something that aroon let they said
on television this weekend, which was that the army of
millions and millions of human beings screwing in little screws
to make iPhones, that that kind of thing is going
to be moving to the US. Is that how the
presidentis manufacturing shifting and if so, how long would that take?
Speaker 6: Roughly, the President wants to increase manufacturing jobs here in
the United States of America, but he's also looking at
advanced technologies. He's also looking at AI and emerging fields
that are growing around the world that the United States
needs to be a leader in as well. So there's
an array of diverse jobs, more traditional manufacturing jobs as
you discussed, but also jobs in advanced technologies. The President
is looking at all of those. He wants them to
come back.
Speaker 5: Home with iPhones specifically. Is that something that he thinks
is the kind of technology that can move to the US.
Speaker 6: Absolutely, he believes we have the labor, we have the workforce,
we have the resources to do it. And as you know,
Apple has invested five hundred billion dollars here in the
United States. So if Apple didn't think the United States
could do it, they probably wouldn't have put up that
big chunk of change.
Speaker 3: And her response is a pretty good one.
Speaker 1: But let's get down to some very very basic things
about the United States of America. We are the country
that drove down the prices of computers. Originally, the iPhone
you have in your hand today would have have prior
been something that would incorporate an entire building. Part of
that is Moore's law, which is how processors double in
power over eighteen months. There's a component of that that
has to do with storage. It's the same effective thing
that it continues to double the costs associated with this,
of course, has been driven down by using what is
effectively slave labor in China to get this driven down,
and necessity being the mother of invention, has given us
all sorts of inventions that before would have been unbelievably expensive.
Let's go to the refrigerator. Yes, the refrigerator. Do you
know that you used to have to rent refrigerators. You
didn't get to buy them. You had to pay a
monthly rent. Why because there was so expensive. People couldn't
afford them. Plus they didn't want you to own them. Phones,
the phones that you have now, the little phones in
your house, the ones that used to be connected to
the wall, did you know you have to have to
rent those. You didn't just go buy a phone, You
had to rent them from the phone company forever.
Speaker 3: What was just too expensive.
Speaker 1: What happened was demand increased to a point where it
became probable enough to build these things in mass Oh,
but we can't do this because only Chinese people will
sit in these little rooms and screw these little things together. Okay, great,
So you know what the job of technology is to
destroy jobs. This is the job of technology. There are
entire divisions of Microsoft who exist to study work that
is human capital intensive, and they study it until they
get a point where software can eat into the value.
When they get to a point where software becomes less
expensive than hiring a person, they begin to move that
technology into the field.
Speaker 3: Look at all the kiosks that exist.
Speaker 1: I went to a drug store in Mississippi to pick
up a lint roller because I forgot that I have
dogs and cats. I come in MISSISSIPI go bring your
dog and cat to your hotel room.
Speaker 3: So I go buy a lint roller.
Speaker 1: There's no one in the in the drug store. There's
literally no one there. I would call it help, help,
help this thing stuck. I'm using a kiosk because it
was cheaper than labor, so I had to finally figure
out how to get the thing to work and leave.
You could apply the same thing to making phones. There
are going to be us entrepreneurs who look at the
phone market and say, Okay, how do we get rid
of the tiny little screws.
Speaker 3: How can we use more three D printing for this?
How can we automate this.
Speaker 1: They're not going to sit there and say, well, I
guess phones cost one hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 3: No one's going to do that.
Speaker 1: They're people studying this situation now who are prepared to
make these changes now. But we have to keep people
in this constant state of outrage. Gustave Lebon in The
Crowd wrote, the masses have never thirsted after truth. They
turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste,
preferring to deify error. If error seduce them, whoever can
supply them with illusions easily ease their master. Whoever attempts
to destroy their illusions is always their victim.
Speaker 3: President Trump is destroying.
Speaker 1: An illusion, the illusion that America can't do great things anymore.
Story number two. Christians need to understand why Jesus Christ
called people hypocrites. And even if you're not a Christian,
you need to understand this because this speaks to a
level of cultural literacy. Jesus was the first person in
history to take that word hypocrite and apply it to
public figures.
Speaker 3: Did Jesus not know what it meant? Now? What did
it mean? At the time? It meant something very very specific.
Speaker 1: I have a great book called Jesus the Evidence, and
it's a book of photography, and yes it has scripture
in it. Clearly, you can't discuss Jesus without discussing scripture
and the gospels. But the photographs are incredible. They helped
tell a story of a young man who grew up
with a dad who was a carpenter. And one of
the things that was built where Jesus grew up was
a theater. And one of the things Jesus may have
done has been involved in helping to build the theater.
Speaker 3: It was a huge project.
Speaker 1: It probably employed a lot of carpenters, and Joseph may
have been one of those carpenters. It's impossible to believe
that Jesus didn't know about the theater being built there
and didn't as a little boy said, what did they
do in theaters?
Speaker 3: But they have actors? What the actors do? Actors play roles?
Speaker 1: So you can see young Jesus asking me this question,
because he was fully god and fully human and fully
at that point little boy, fully deedy, but also a
little boy curious.
Speaker 3: He didn see his mom Mary and his father Joseph.
Speaker 1: Maybe they took him to place, maybe he got to
see people on stage, and that word stuck with him, hypocrite.
So Jesus began to use it in his ministry. When
he was using it, he was using it very specifically,
and it was a great turn of phrase, but very
unique at the time. So who was he discussing. He
was discussing the religious tectocratic class of the time. They're actors.
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 1: Think of how insulting that was, but also how specific
it was and how descriptive. Jesus described these people also
as whitewashed tombs. Why because in the outside they looked
like they were all clean and gracious and washed, but
inside they were filthy. They were filthy from a sin
perspective and a judgment perspective. They were filthy in how
they were using the word of God to empower themselves
and make themselves the special creatures of the time.
Speaker 3: Make way, make way, they.
Speaker 1: Would say, through the crowds of Pharisees approaching, make way
for the Pharisee. Jesus saw all this, but also observe
their sin. They were doing things like avoiding taking care
of their parents, and this was a little trick that
they would use. Taxation wise, there was this trick. Jewish
people were to take care of their parents financially unless
they'd given that money to the Temple, so you'd have
these pharisees say, well, mom, Dad, I mean, I know
it's not comfortable sleeping in the backyard. I know you
should have a house. But I gave all that money
to the temple so that I could be noticed, so
that I could gain more power, so that I could
get on the committee that decided which wines we use
in the temple because I have a vineyard or my
friend has a vineyard. Jesus saw the corruption, so he
began to use the phrase actor. If you observe our
politics at all, it becomes very very clear that we
are ruled by actors, people who would play a role
at any given time, at any given moment, it can
change think of your greatest favorite actor. They can be
just absorbed into a role. We went through this period
we were watching Gene Hackman. You know, after Gene Hackman died.
He late in his career sort of had this kind
of type cast, kind of tough guy thing.
Speaker 3: But learning in his career he played a whole series
of roles.
Speaker 1: We saw him in the Wes Anderson movie where he
was this really really weird dad, and in.
Speaker 3: This weird dad role, he was funny.
Speaker 1: He wasn't the least bit tough, And it was Gene
Hackman hacking acting, disappearing into a role. When great actors
do this, you forget who they are. Think of Val Kimer,
who just passed. Val Kimer was Batman, but he also
defined himself. I think as Doc Holliday. He disappeared in
these roles. So when you think of actor, you think
of them hiding themselves. Bernie Sanders is an actor. Many
of these people are actors, and I'm going to go
through this and prove this in just a second. They're
actors putting on a roll. They're actors putting on a skin.
We ourselves put on a roll through life, but we
also have skin that we need to care for. We
have our body that we need to care for as
a temple. My body is something that I began to
take seriously about twenty years ago. I saw myself getting
out of a cab. I weighed about four hundred pounds.
I was looking at a video of myself. I said,
dear God, I'm a huge fat whale.
Speaker 3: What am I going to do?
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Speaker 3: So Jesus was a teacher, he was a rabbi. He
was fully God, he was fully human.
Speaker 1: He used words very very specifically, very very purposely, and
he was alerting to people at the time that the
bosses of the world, the Pharisees, are acting.
Speaker 3: They're whitewashed tombs.
Speaker 1: This is a clip of Bernie Sanders in twenty fifteen.
Let's watch him act.
Speaker 8: In open Borders Open That's a Coke Brothers proposal, the idea,
of course. I mean, that's a right wing proposal which says, essentially,
there is no United States, but wo anybody.
Speaker 3: It would make it the global poor Richard, wouldn't it, and.
Speaker 8: Make everybody in an American port. Then you're doing away with
the concept of a nation state. And I don't think
there's any country in the world which believes in that.
If you believe in a nation state, or in a
country called the United States or UK or Denmark er
any other country, you have an obligation, in my view,
to do everything we can to help poor people. What
right wing people in this country would love is an
open border policy. Bring in all kinds of people who
work with two or three dollars an hour. That would
be great for them. I don't believe in that. I
think we have to raise wages in this country. I
think we have to do everything that we can to
create the millions of jobs. You know what youth unemployment
in the United States of America today. If you a
white kid high school graduate thirty three percent, a Hispanic
thirty six percent, African American fifty one percent, do you
think we should open the waters and bring in a
lot of low wage workers. What do you think maybe
we should try to get jobs for those kids. So
I think from a mortal responsibility, we've got to work
with the rest of the industrialized world UH to address
the problems of international poverty. But you don't do that
by making people in this country.
Speaker 1: Even twenty fifteen, twenty nineteen, he was an open border
zealate because the movie changed Bernie Sanders' role at the
time is to speak that way. Bernie Sanders' role later
on was to speak a different way because the play changed,
because the target audience changed.
Speaker 3: It's just like.
Speaker 1: Gene Hackman changing roles or Val Kilmer changing roles. Jesus
used words very very specifically, very intentionally, dude is talking
about do you think that the spirits of control has changed?
Do you think that desire to lord your power over
others has changed? Do you think that human sin problem
has changed? Do you think that people no longer have
this desire to see themselves as greater?
Speaker 3: Then that's exactly what Washington, DC is. It's what the
media is.
Speaker 1: Do you remember the greatest moment I think in media
history that I'm never going to get over was JD.
Vance talking to Martha Raddich When Martha Radgers said, but
Senator Vance, this is a small number of apartments in
a small number of gangmen.
Speaker 3: The Jdvans said that incredible thing.
Speaker 1: Of do you hear yourself, You're saying, it's not a
big deal that only a small number of apartment buildings
were taken over by Venezuelan street gangs in America.
Speaker 3: It's not a big deal now, watch this.
Speaker 1: This is CBS News six months ago, pretending there were
no illegal immigrants taking over buildings in Aurora, Colorado, and
then at CBS News today, let's watch this.
Speaker 9: This now shut down apartment complex was one of the
most dangerous areas in.
Speaker 10: Aurora, Colorado. Dozens of people have.
Speaker 9: Been arrested and deemed or relabeled as members of Frendrava,
an international criminal organization, a dangerous gang that has was
formed in Venezuela and has had criminal activities in countries
throughout the region and here in the US. The crackdown
that happened here seems to have significantly reduced crime in
the area.
Speaker 10: That doesn't mean that every gang member was taken in.
That doesn't mean that TDA is not active here or elsewhere.
They're still working on that, but they've been adamant about saying, look,
the city is not out of control, but yes, the
city has been impacted by this image of a crime
infested town. President Trump called Aurora, Colorado, where we are
a war zone of TDA activity. The DA leadership has
called this place ground zero for some of the most
violent criminals in the United States. We are here to
get a reality check from the ground of who this
gang was threatening and how far did their crimes reach.
Somewhat we've heard today, while right along with law enforcement,
was that the primary victims were also immigrants, were people
who were vulnerable, who were afraid to call the police,
and that although they were committing the friend that I
were members very serious, very dangerous, violent crimes. The way
that their activity was depicted or has been shown in
media reports and in messaging from the administration as something
that took over the entire city of Aurora, or Denver,
or even the state of Colorado is an unfair description.
Speaker 1: No one said, no one said it took over the
state of Colorado. No one said it took over the
entire city. They talked about the apartment buildings in Aurora, Colorado,
because the scope matters. And guess what the number of
gangs we should allow in the United States of America
to take over any building is zero. But they were
acting six months ago that what Aurora, Colorado gangs taken
off apartment buildings. They literally ran pieces trying to debunk this.
They had police chiefs coming, oh no, there's no gang
activity and everything's fine and it's perfectly normal.
Speaker 3: You had the FBI.
Speaker 1: You had the Department of Home Owned Security saying no, no,
this is right wing disinformation, and they were acting. Now
CBS's role has changed, the target audience has changed, so
they come back and now the script change is just
a little bit. Jesus called people actors because they were dependent.
They were pretending to be good, godly people. They were
pretending to care for the masses. They were pretending to
be the doorway to God, when Jesus Christ was the
only doorway to God.
Speaker 3: And he knew this, so it was deeply offensive to him.
Speaker 1: Secretary of may Orcus the former now and impeached, but
sadly never convicted. The HS secretary acted at he was
a guy who's just trying to do his best work,
just trying to secure that border.
Speaker 3: Do you remember when he played the role of a
guy he didn't have enough money.
Speaker 1: That was a good role for him, where he came
out and said, well, we'd like to secure the border,
we just don't have enough money. Then Republicans are shutting
us out of the money. And do you remember when
DHS all of a sudden found money to relocate illegal
immigrants and he played that role of well Senator I'm
unaware of that, and I have no specific recollection. That
was another role he played where he couldn't remember anything.
And do you remember that role he played where he
was spying on the American people and censoring the American
people through Twitter, And yet he sat there and testified that, well,
I have no specific recollection of that, And Senator, do
you have no idea what you're talking about? That was
a great role for him. He played a great role
in all that stuff. But then he got caught when
there was a massive emergency in the country, massive floods,
massive storms, massive ruin. He got caught walking around by
an expensive underwear. That was a role he didn't want
to play, but it was real that was not acting.
There weren't supposed to be cameras there. Now you see,
this is what Jesus was talking about with the hypocrite comment,
who are they really? Because your father in Heaven doesn't
see the act. I mean, he sees you doing it,
he sees you putting it on for others. But he's
never mocked and he's never fooled. You can't con him.
He sees the act for what it is, and Jesus
saw it for what it was. There's an investigative reporter,
Julio Rosas, who had an opportunity to catch up with
the former DHS secretary to ask him about President Trump
securing the border.
Speaker 3: And here's their conversation. Lays media, Oh pleasure.
Speaker 7: I just wanted to ask you how it feels to
see that the United States has a secure border now
that President Trump is an office as opposed to when
you were Secretary of Homeland Security. He doesn't seem exciting
facilitating an open border, sir. Water crossings are down.
Speaker 11: In nine security announcement.
Speaker 3: Do you regret allowing to round out?
Speaker 7: I'll go out to gig a football in the United States, sir.
Speaker 3: He doesn't want to talk. Don't have anything to say, sir.
Speaker 7: By your time as Homeland Security secretary facilitating an open border.
Speaker 1: Somehow the man has absolutely nothing to say, and I
wonder why that is.
Speaker 3: And he just keeps walking so we can cut the glut.
It was a big issue, sir. That's one of the
reasons why President Trump won an election. You don't have
anything to say about it. Let it go. He doesn't
want to talk.
Speaker 1: Gene Hackman change for the Royal Tanne bombs that was
the Wes Anderson movie. There's a great scene where his
son calls him out dead, you stole eighty thousand dollars
from my trust fund when I was sixteen, and Gene
Hackens' response is This guy's response is silence. I saw
Val Kilmer interviewed once after I just fall in love
with what he did in Doc Holiday. Was so disappointed
he wasn't Doc Halliday. In fact, he wasn't that interesting.
God rusted him great actor, not an interesting man, at
least in interviews because he was acting. Jesus chose his
words very, very carefully. The Pharisees, the religious technocrats at
the time, were acting, but God knew them. God knows
the heart of the technocratic state. He knows that Bertie
Sanders is an actor. He knows that Aoc is an actor.
The Christian is for us. Are we actors or do
we actually take our Martian orders from God Almighty?
Speaker 3: Story Number three.
Speaker 1: Of all the issues I talk about, this one is
the hardest for me because it's caused me to lose friends.
It's because of things I've said on the show.
Speaker 3: It has hurt people's hearts.
Speaker 1: And I regret that it's not something I can change
because it's not my opinion, it's opinion of God.
Speaker 3: The question I.
Speaker 1: Have for people who love people who are same sex attracted,
which is a phrase I use purposely.
Speaker 3: It's not a slur. There are people who hear me say, well,
why don't you just say gay?
Speaker 1: I'll explain it because gay is an identity. Attraction is
a feeling. Seeing same sex attracted is a feeling. It
is an aspect of who people are, just like being
opposite sex attracted is an aspect of who we are,
or so called straight. The reason I use these phraseologies
is because identity matters. The broader your identity, the more
of a base of your identity you have, the harder
you are to knock over. From a perspective of mental
health or confidence. For instance, if all you are is
CEO and you lose your job, you're likely to go
into a great, big mental spiral. You might go into
mass depression. You could be a candidate for suicide because
who you are is gone. If you have an identity
as mother, that's it. Nothing outside the home, you are mother.
When your kids leave and you're left with that's gone.
I'm no longer mother. I mean, it's axiomatic in society
that women go through these great periods of depression. Who
am I? I was mother and now I'm nothing. This
is most obvious when people have had a taste of
fame and then the fame is gone, because they're defined
by adoration. People seeing them in airports and they want
their picture and they want to adore them and tell them, oh,
I love your work and I love what you do,
and oh you've touched me in this movie. And suddenly
those things are gone, so you no longer get that
dopamine hit, so you seek it out with drugs, you
seek it out with other activities. You got the money,
but not the fame because the identity was I'm the
special one. So when I use the phrase same sex attracted,
I'm not doing it as a slur. I'm doing it
because they deeply want people who are same sex attracted
to First of all, understand that this is biblically a sin,
just as unmarried sexual activity among so called straight people
or opposite sex attracted people is also a sin. I
want people to understand this because my overall fear for
them is the fear for their eternity. I want them
to be in Heaven. I want them to walk in
the new Heaven and the New Earth, particularly the people
I know and dearly love. So it's not something I
can stop talking about. We're confronted with a whole series
of false teachers who are doing everything they can to
lie about Jesus because they think it helps LGBQ and
so called T people, and it's savage. It looks like friendliness,
it looks like help, but it's a lie about Jesus,
demonstrably provable by simply consulting the Bible. I don't believe
you can lie someone into love. I mean, if you
conned someone into loving you, they don't really love you,
they love the con So we're going to look at
two clips that I think really show this way of
lying to lgb Q and so called T people and
talk about how we can overcome some of these things,
because it's vital that we work on the health of
the body of Christ, and there's whole lots of efforts
to change the Body of Christ into something that doesn't
match Christ at all. Are bodies, of course, created by
God in his image as a masterpiece. He's referred to
human beings as a masterpiece. Our bodies are filled with code.
It's just majestic. DNA is absolutely the cleanest, most beautiful
code ever written. God invented software that writes software, and
hardware that builds hardware, and he left behind some hints
for us on how we can heal ourselves. I am
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And now we talk about the body of Christ or
people who are being told they've joined the body of Christ.
There's a whole series of pastors who lie to LGBQ
so called t people about Jesus. This pastor compares God
coming out as Jesus and Messiah to same sex attracted
people coming out as same sex attracted.
Speaker 4: Let's watch, oh God, if you have modeled for us
time and time again, what it looks like to come out.
Since the beginning, you have been revealing your true self
to us in different forms, but we always struggle to understand.
In Jesus, you took on the flesh of an infant,
made yourself vulnerable, risk everything, all in hopes of deepening
your relationship with us. Like our ancestors who responded to
your coming out with violence and rejection, we acknowledge we
too turn away from you revelation and unexpected people in
places today, by your spirit, make us the kind of
community where those who come out as queer trends are
in any vulnerable way, can find home and family and embrace.
Let's stay in and sing our opening song together, True Colors.
Speaker 3: Beautiful song. I don't know that to belonged to church,
Cyndey Lauper are true colors.
Speaker 1: We have to stop that because trademark copyrights and stop
the music.
Speaker 3: So let's take it from the very very very most
heretical thing he's saying.
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ became full of God and fully human, and
it was revealed to Peter that he was the Messiah.
Remember he didn't say to Peter, hey, I'm the Messiah.
He said, who do you say I am? Peter said, well,
you're the Messiah. You're the Son of God. And the
Lord spoke and said, truly, I tell you, it was
not me that revealed this to you, but my Father
in Heaven. And it's upon this rock I build my church.
He was talking about an actual identity, the Son of God,
not a feeling. It wasn't talking about a struggle. He
wasn't talking about an emotion or tingling love or hate.
He was talking about a firm, unavoidable, permanent identity, always was,
always will be. It was an announcement of the thing
to come, the person to come, the God to come,
or the form of God to come.
Speaker 3: It is not coming out with a feeling.
Speaker 1: All of us, I think, if we've ever taken a
risk of life, have come out with a feeling there's
that great moment Seinfeld where George says to a girl,
I love you, and she goes.
Speaker 7: I know.
Speaker 3: That's a big one to have hanging out there. I
know you do. But it's a feeling, it's not an identity.
How does it help LGBQ so called t people to
lie to.
Speaker 1: Them that Jesus was coming out as a feeling versus
coming out as who he is and was of a deep, deep, deep,
deep hurt. Talking about this, I feel the deep burden
talking about this. And there's another example. This is an
Episcopal preacher who's going through what he refers to as
a so called transaffirming story, and once again, Jesus Christ
is now at this point coming out, but because he's
deeply confused about who he is.
Speaker 3: Let's watch this. Nsty is hard.
Speaker 11: Jesus in the gospel reading we heard this evening, is
struggling with how he's being perceived. He can feel that
it's somehow not right, so he asks those closest to him.
Speaker 3: And he's not wrong the people.
Speaker 11: No, he's somehow more than just the carpenter Joseph's son,
but they don't quite get it. He's neither Elijah nor Jeremiah,
he's not his cousin, and while he absolutely has a
prophetic voice, one of the prophets doesn't really fit. So
Jesus turns from asking society at large to asking the
closest friends.
Speaker 3: Peter is bang on, you are.
Speaker 11: The Messiah, the son of a phi living God. And
while two thousand years later that might seem intuitive to us,
we absolutely see Jesus as Messiah. A first century Jewish
understanding of what a messiah should be was so much
more different than what we see.
Speaker 3: Of Jesus in scripture.
Speaker 11: Jesus was not, to anyone's understanding of the term, a
conquering king, set to liberate Judea from the Roman rule
his kingdom. As he could say, the.
Speaker 3: Gospel of John was of another world.
Speaker 4: He was set.
Speaker 11: He was sent to bring about a kingdom that has
no need of kings. He was sent to liberate weapons
but with love. The Jesus we see in this gospel
pass which is very vulnerable.
Speaker 3: Jesus is vulnerable.
Speaker 1: Really, the Jesus who calmed to see, the Jesus who
cured lepers, the Jesus who cast out demons with a
mere word, is the same Jesus who was there at
the beginning, always was, always will be, who created heaven
and earth in concert with the other members of the
triune Godhead, who knew in a battle with Satan that
he'd already defeated him, even as Satan tried every rhetorical
trick in the world. Jesus was vulnerable. He didn't know
who he was. He said, follow me. He showed up
and met Peter in the guy's fishing and he said,
follow me. That's not a vulnerable man. He's an honest man.
He was and is honest. But he wasn't asking because
he didn't know. He was asking them to reveal what
they knew in their hearts would have been revealed to them.
The first person to speak that to confess that Jesus
Christ was Messiah, the Son of God, was Peter. And
the Lord said, it's upon this confession that I build
my church. That's again, not a vulnerable man. He was
making an announcement by way of Socratic inquiry, because this
is how often how he worked. We're told in scripture
that even if we've never encountered Jesus Christ, even if
we never read the law, we still have what is
right and wrong encoded in our bodies.
Speaker 3: He was helping to draw that out.
Speaker 1: The constant obsession with tying Jesus Christ into the personage
of a confused person or rebellious person, or a scared person,
or a person who's coming out with this or that
sexual feeling. It's a lie, disproven by a even light
review of the Gospels and the Acts, passages, all of
it a clear lie. So how does it help LGBQ
so called t people to lie about Jesus.
Speaker 3: It helps them with this. They're saved ish, saved dish.
Speaker 1: They can go home saying I'm saved Dish and therefore
feel better. This is a horrible thing to say, but
when you put people in hospice and so they feel better,
it's not going to save their lives.
Speaker 3: You can be saved or not. There's no being saved
Dish if you've given.
Speaker 1: Your heart to a fake Jesus. The real Jesus is
not fooled. The people who are leading these folks astray,
in my judgment, they'll face the harshest possible judgment because
they're using the words of Jesus Christ to argue against
Jesus Christ. And it's my duty to say Dear Lord,
please forgive them.
Speaker 3: They know not what they do. This is the Todd Hermannshaw.
Speaker 1: Please go, be well, be strong, be kind, and please
make every effort to walk in the light of Christ.