1 00:00:00,560 --> 00:00:03,279 Speaker 1: Welcome to the three Stories version of The Todd Hermann Show. 2 00:00:03,319 --> 00:00:05,960 And then some because there's a lot of breaking news 3 00:00:06,040 --> 00:00:09,400 we need to talk about. Story number one probably will 4 00:00:09,400 --> 00:00:11,800 touch on this. This is a lot of breaking news 5 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:14,679 to talk about. Is this an example of eating like 6 00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:20,280 white people? This is huge, huge, and viral on the tubes, etc. 7 00:00:20,679 --> 00:00:24,480 Story number two, it's easy, you cowardly Republicans vote no 8 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:28,480 on the spending orgy, and Marjorie Taylor Green voted for this. 9 00:00:29,480 --> 00:00:32,679 Mike Lie says Speaker Johnson created this with Schumer and 10 00:00:32,719 --> 00:00:36,399 Pelosi in a back room. He's not in favor of it. 11 00:00:36,600 --> 00:00:39,280 And you'll hear Marjorie Chaylor Green's reasoning as to why 12 00:00:39,320 --> 00:00:43,679 she voted for it. And story number three, the birth 13 00:00:43,719 --> 00:00:48,560 of Jesus Christ from the viewpoint of King Herod. A 14 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:50,640 friend of mine did this the other day on stage 15 00:00:50,640 --> 00:00:52,719 in the youth group, and it really impressed me because 16 00:00:52,719 --> 00:00:55,119 my question is what would the modern day herods do? 17 00:00:56,280 --> 00:00:59,039 I contend they're doing it. We'll talk about this with 18 00:00:59,079 --> 00:01:02,280 the help of our YouTube channel and with God Almighty. 19 00:01:04,480 --> 00:01:08,319 Speaker 2: But Todd Herman Show is one percent disapproved. But big 20 00:01:08,439 --> 00:01:16,200 pharma technocrats and Tyrn everywhere from the high Mountains of 21 00:01:16,319 --> 00:01:24,120 Free America. Here's the Emerald City exime Todd Herman. 22 00:01:25,319 --> 00:01:27,840 Speaker 1: Today is the day the Lord has made in These 23 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:30,120 are the times in which God has decided we shall 24 00:01:30,159 --> 00:01:33,280 live and Merry Christmas to you. And if it's not 25 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:35,840 going to be a merry Christmas, understands I know what 26 00:01:35,840 --> 00:01:38,040 that feels like. And if it's going to be a 27 00:01:38,040 --> 00:01:41,439 lonely Christmas, I also know what that feels like. So 28 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:44,319 I would let you know it's okay to admit that 29 00:01:44,359 --> 00:01:47,400 you do not have to act happy, and you don't 30 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:49,319 have to pretend to be jolly. And if you have 31 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:52,719 friends who are wanting you to be jolly, it might 32 00:01:52,760 --> 00:01:54,640 be a good time to have a real talk about 33 00:01:54,680 --> 00:01:57,719 what friendship means, means being able to meet people where 34 00:01:57,719 --> 00:02:00,959 they're at. So if this is a holiday for you, 35 00:02:01,640 --> 00:02:03,319 I know we're not here in person, but I will 36 00:02:03,319 --> 00:02:05,879 tell you I've had those. I don't know how you're feeling, 37 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:08,560 but I've had those. So however you're feeling, it's okay. 38 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:11,800 Jesus wants all of us even during Christmas. He doesn't 39 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:13,680 expect you to be jolly. If you're not feeling jolly, 40 00:02:13,719 --> 00:02:15,520 don't lie to him, because he knows the truth. Anyway, 41 00:02:15,560 --> 00:02:21,280 there's no point in lying Kamala Harris. 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She even astonishes herself with her brilliance. 83 00:04:30,439 --> 00:04:35,000 Speaker 3: The true test of our commitment is weather. 84 00:04:35,279 --> 00:04:39,800 Speaker 4: In the face of an obstacle, do we throw up 85 00:04:39,800 --> 00:04:40,959 our hands. 86 00:04:42,759 --> 00:04:44,279 Speaker 3: Or do we roll up our sleeves? 87 00:04:45,319 --> 00:04:47,360 Speaker 1: Wow? 88 00:04:47,560 --> 00:04:52,519 Speaker 3: And as we approach and I ask you here we 89 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:56,120 go to remember the context in which. 90 00:04:55,959 --> 00:04:59,000 Speaker 1: You well, do you see the body language? 91 00:04:59,279 --> 00:04:59,439 Speaker 2: Yeah? 92 00:04:59,480 --> 00:05:05,879 Speaker 5: I did that, the context of which we exist. 93 00:05:08,040 --> 00:05:11,319 Speaker 1: If you watch that, you're seeing a woman knowing she's 94 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:15,079 got got the line coming the context it which we exist. 95 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:18,560 And maybe she means I read it. I kept saying 96 00:05:18,600 --> 00:05:22,680 the context. Maybe she meant she read it properly from 97 00:05:22,680 --> 00:05:26,959 the teleprompture. But she is a proud African American woman, 98 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:32,360 recently African American right to that she was an Indian 99 00:05:32,399 --> 00:05:35,000 American at least focused on that back part of her 100 00:05:35,279 --> 00:05:39,240 ethnic background. But she does like to go out in 101 00:05:39,879 --> 00:05:44,160 speech code and code shift. It's called sociologically. Remember the 102 00:05:44,240 --> 00:05:47,800 Kamala Harris Detroit girl, I'd asking you are Italic? Remember 103 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:50,160 that with the head bopping and then the thing when 104 00:05:50,199 --> 00:05:52,920 she's down in the rural South. Now she is a 105 00:05:53,079 --> 00:05:58,519 rural black American, So what is genuine blackness? Well, maybe 106 00:05:58,519 --> 00:05:59,839 I'm not the one that gets to say that because 107 00:05:59,839 --> 00:06:03,160 I'm genuinely white. But then again, Kamala Harris was, of 108 00:06:03,199 --> 00:06:06,959 course genuinely half something. And Joe Biden famously said, if 109 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:10,240 you're not voting for me, then you ain't black. It's 110 00:06:10,279 --> 00:06:16,160 apparently not having good manners. A mother took a video 111 00:06:16,279 --> 00:06:18,560 of a way that she teaches her kids to eat 112 00:06:18,839 --> 00:06:21,920 in the continental dining style. Now, if you've ever seen 113 00:06:21,959 --> 00:06:27,040 me on my once a week pizza extravagance, ain't No 114 00:06:27,120 --> 00:06:29,279 one wants to watch me eat in a Caesar salad. 115 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:33,040 But I can pull up knife and fork and sit 116 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:35,680 upright and do the right thing. And I think everyone 117 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:38,040 should be able to do this in a fine dining situation. 118 00:06:38,480 --> 00:06:40,279 You're a white tablecloth piece. You don't want to be 119 00:06:40,360 --> 00:06:43,600 shoving pieces of lettuce up your hole? What guy do 120 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:48,040 when I'm down at the beloved pizza place. The pushback 121 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:51,720 on this, it's a bunch of people saying to this lady, 122 00:06:51,879 --> 00:06:54,680 why you want to try so hard to be white folk? 123 00:06:55,519 --> 00:06:59,160 Who the hell eat like that? Modern day slavery. These 124 00:06:59,160 --> 00:07:01,920 are among some of the comments for this woman teaching 125 00:07:01,959 --> 00:07:09,040 her children how to eat with proper manners. It's like 126 00:07:09,079 --> 00:07:10,079 a hotel you. 127 00:07:11,439 --> 00:07:12,519 Speaker 4: With your mouth closed. 128 00:07:13,040 --> 00:07:17,560 Speaker 1: Good job, the kids look so good. A look at 129 00:07:17,600 --> 00:07:18,680 the tie and the dude. 130 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:23,759 Speaker 6: Take your time to first before you cut again, take 131 00:07:23,759 --> 00:07:27,399 your take your time, okay, Now, pull your chair up 132 00:07:27,439 --> 00:07:30,439 a bit, center yourself to the to the plates. 133 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:33,920 Speaker 1: She's a little bit urgent in her demands. 134 00:07:34,480 --> 00:07:37,319 Speaker 4: Take your time. I need to handle in the palm 135 00:07:37,360 --> 00:07:43,120 of your hands. That's too big. I need you to 136 00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:43,800 cut that again. 137 00:07:44,920 --> 00:07:45,680 Speaker 2: What's going to happen. 138 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:48,519 Speaker 4: It's going to be bulging out the sides of your mouth. 139 00:07:48,560 --> 00:07:50,399 And that's not eating gracefully. 140 00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:53,120 Speaker 1: That's me at the pizza place. Salad. 141 00:07:53,959 --> 00:07:57,079 Speaker 4: Good job, Yes, that's what I'm talking about. 142 00:07:57,160 --> 00:08:01,160 Speaker 1: I'll see that's good, solid price. Here's the young lady. 143 00:08:01,839 --> 00:08:02,680 Speaker 4: Excellent job. 144 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:04,879 Speaker 1: She is doing well. That's a very small piece of me. 145 00:08:05,879 --> 00:08:08,079 But wait, how come he gets to get away without 146 00:08:08,120 --> 00:08:11,920 the with the dress up style. Maybe it was a 147 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:14,519 victory to get he's the older team. Probably a victory 148 00:08:14,560 --> 00:08:15,160 to get him there. 149 00:08:15,600 --> 00:08:16,800 Speaker 4: That's too big, too big. 150 00:08:16,920 --> 00:08:27,920 Speaker 3: Let's cut beautiful, beautiful, But. 151 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:32,320 Speaker 1: He's an older teen. He's dressed so nicely. So the 152 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:37,039 commentary on This is the soft bigotry of low expectations. 153 00:08:37,519 --> 00:08:41,679 It's black on black rhetorical violence. There's nothing wrong with 154 00:08:41,720 --> 00:08:45,600 the able being able to be very, very polite, and 155 00:08:45,639 --> 00:08:48,440 there's something that comes with that, and it's self respect. 156 00:08:49,399 --> 00:08:52,600 It means is I can enter any situation and I 157 00:08:52,639 --> 00:08:55,279 can find a way to relate to this situation and 158 00:08:55,360 --> 00:08:58,399 be okay. You know, I've been to places where rich 159 00:08:58,440 --> 00:09:00,799 people eat like rich people, and it's good to be 160 00:09:00,840 --> 00:09:03,799 able to disappear into that. But it's also good to 161 00:09:03,960 --> 00:09:07,559 just be able to recognize this that's not a black thing, 162 00:09:07,799 --> 00:09:11,720 it's not a white thing. It's a style thing. It's 163 00:09:11,720 --> 00:09:15,840 a respect thing. And if you extend this into what 164 00:09:15,879 --> 00:09:19,159 has happened in black society, it's being pushed down really 165 00:09:19,159 --> 00:09:21,840 by people at the top of the Democrat party. You 166 00:09:21,879 --> 00:09:25,039 can't expect the black kids to eat that way. You 167 00:09:25,080 --> 00:09:28,200 can't expect them to get into the extra credit classes, 168 00:09:28,879 --> 00:09:32,440 the high end classes, you can't expect them to behave 169 00:09:32,480 --> 00:09:35,360 well at school. Therefore, they have to have a different 170 00:09:35,399 --> 00:09:40,039 discipline track, as they've done within the Seattle public school system. 171 00:09:40,399 --> 00:09:42,559 They have a different discipline track. They can do things 172 00:09:42,559 --> 00:09:44,879 thirteen to fifteen times that white kids can't do because 173 00:09:44,919 --> 00:09:47,480 you can't expect the blacks to you know, and voter 174 00:09:47,600 --> 00:09:51,039 ID mean, the blacks, they can't go out and figure 175 00:09:51,039 --> 00:09:53,120 out where to get an ID. It's just the blacks 176 00:09:53,159 --> 00:09:55,799 can't do that, just like the blacks can't properly use 177 00:09:56,159 --> 00:10:00,440 knife and fork. The conning of the American mind, particularly 178 00:10:00,440 --> 00:10:05,000 the African American mind, it is a very cynical, very 179 00:10:05,039 --> 00:10:09,679 hard edged attempt to keep people manageable. Because if you 180 00:10:09,799 --> 00:10:12,519 tell a population of people that you can't even be 181 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:14,600 trusted to go out and find an ID to vote 182 00:10:14,639 --> 00:10:17,080 or to properly use a knife and fork, how could 183 00:10:17,120 --> 00:10:21,600 you possibly succeed without the great, great help of Nancy 184 00:10:21,600 --> 00:10:26,360 Pelosi and the party. So yeah, from dining all the 185 00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:30,279 way up to managing ourselves. And I look at that situation, 186 00:10:30,440 --> 00:10:33,720 and I see the Last Supper. Now, look, there were 187 00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:37,320 conventions at the Last Supper. There were dining conventions. If 188 00:10:37,360 --> 00:10:39,919 you've ever examined some of the paintings that depict that 189 00:10:40,039 --> 00:10:41,919 the people who sit to the left and the right 190 00:10:41,960 --> 00:10:44,679 of Jesus, why were things laid out that way? Why 191 00:10:44,759 --> 00:10:47,320 was Jesus sitting like he was sitting. Why was Jesus 192 00:10:47,320 --> 00:10:49,600 the person to break bread and to hand it out. 193 00:10:49,679 --> 00:10:52,679 And incidentally, this has lost a lot of times, particularly 194 00:10:52,759 --> 00:10:57,440 evangelical churches. What did Jesus do before he broke bread? 195 00:10:59,240 --> 00:11:03,879 He gave facts, He was and is God, and he 196 00:11:03,960 --> 00:11:08,679 was giving thanks. That's also a convention that's lost. It's 197 00:11:08,759 --> 00:11:12,279 funny to live in a place like North Idaho where 198 00:11:12,279 --> 00:11:14,279 people know what to do when they approach a table 199 00:11:14,279 --> 00:11:16,919 and you're praying, a server knows what to do. Here 200 00:11:17,919 --> 00:11:21,399 in other cities, particularly the fallen countries San Francisco or 201 00:11:21,480 --> 00:11:24,279 Los Angeles, if you're at a table and you're praying 202 00:11:24,360 --> 00:11:28,240 before you eat, the servers will come and interrupt you. 203 00:11:29,240 --> 00:11:33,279 And they're not trying to be rude. They simply don't 204 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:35,559 understand what you're doing. They think you're looking at your phones. 205 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:40,320 Here in a place where people attend church regularly, the 206 00:11:40,360 --> 00:11:42,960 servers will approach the table and notice that you're praying, 207 00:11:44,399 --> 00:11:46,480 and they'll sometimes pause and say, I'm sorry what you've 208 00:11:46,519 --> 00:11:50,080 done praying. But you know what I really like is 209 00:11:50,120 --> 00:11:53,559 when you invite the server to pray with you. And 210 00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:56,039 there are people who do that here and they'll stop 211 00:11:56,080 --> 00:12:00,360 and pray with you. That's also convention, but can venture 212 00:12:00,399 --> 00:12:03,639 with a purpose just like eating in a proper way 213 00:12:03,759 --> 00:12:10,879 is story number two. The unfolding drama of the continued 214 00:12:10,919 --> 00:12:14,000 Resolution is many many things. Well, first of all, it's predictable, 215 00:12:14,679 --> 00:12:19,919 and they've known for ninety days that they needed to 216 00:12:19,960 --> 00:12:23,960 have this continued resolution done. They could have begun the 217 00:12:23,960 --> 00:12:27,399 debate eighty five days ago. They knew that they were 218 00:12:27,399 --> 00:12:29,519 going to pack this into a fifteen hundred page bill. 219 00:12:30,360 --> 00:12:33,120 They knew that the American people who voted for Donald Trump, 220 00:12:33,159 --> 00:12:35,519 the percentage of us who did do not want more 221 00:12:35,559 --> 00:12:38,799 fifteen hundred page bills. I don't know that President Trump 222 00:12:38,840 --> 00:12:42,120 knows that. I don't know that President Trump knows that. 223 00:12:42,840 --> 00:12:45,960 I'll explain that in just seconds. So they tried to 224 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:48,159 decided to do what they always do, which just to 225 00:12:48,159 --> 00:12:50,879 create this Christmas rush. This, oh my gosh, the government's 226 00:12:50,879 --> 00:12:53,080 going to shut down. And now there's this effort to 227 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:55,519 raise the debt ceiling, to not have a debt ceiling. 228 00:12:55,519 --> 00:12:57,919 We don't have one now, but there's an effort to 229 00:12:57,960 --> 00:12:59,039 erase it all together. 230 00:13:00,159 --> 00:13:00,320 Speaker 2: Now. 231 00:13:00,360 --> 00:13:02,720 Speaker 1: President Trump has a different view of debt than I 232 00:13:02,879 --> 00:13:04,879 do and maybe you do, which is he doesn't think 233 00:13:04,919 --> 00:13:07,960 it's a problem because of course he has used leverage 234 00:13:08,320 --> 00:13:11,440 in the real estate business to his advantage. President Trump 235 00:13:11,519 --> 00:13:14,799 knows how to manage debt. But our country is not 236 00:13:14,960 --> 00:13:17,480 thirty trillion in debt. It's three hundred and thirty trillion 237 00:13:17,480 --> 00:13:21,879 in debt. We are structurally bankrupt. And yes, Elon Musk 238 00:13:21,919 --> 00:13:26,440 and Vivic Ramaswami can do something to attack that, and 239 00:13:26,559 --> 00:13:29,200 they have some great ideas on that, but they're going 240 00:13:29,240 --> 00:13:31,000 to be facing a Congress that doesn't want them to 241 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:34,759 have anything to do with this. They don't want this responsibility. 242 00:13:34,879 --> 00:13:38,399 There are people like Representative Wesley Hunt who refuse to 243 00:13:38,519 --> 00:13:41,120 vote yes on this Continuing Resolution and the other ones 244 00:13:41,320 --> 00:13:44,559 true conservatism. But I want you to hear from Mike 245 00:13:44,639 --> 00:13:48,200 Lee and then a statement from Marjorie Taylor Green, because 246 00:13:48,240 --> 00:13:52,120 they're looking at just the spending portions of this. 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Go to my pillow dot 287 00:15:56,919 --> 00:16:02,279 com slash Todd. Mike Lee says that Speaker Johnson was 288 00:16:02,360 --> 00:16:06,399 involved in the behind the scenes negotiations to land us 289 00:16:06,759 --> 00:16:11,720 with these absurd, offensive continuing resolution items. So you're saying, 290 00:16:11,759 --> 00:16:12,559 hold on, just back up. 291 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:17,360 Speaker 7: So you're saying these four people, you're saying, Jeffries, John McDonnell. 292 00:16:17,039 --> 00:16:21,840 Speaker 5: Johnsconnel, the firm. They look this, okay, McConnell and Schumer guy. 293 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:24,879 Speaker 7: They cooked this up for the last eighty five days 294 00:16:24,879 --> 00:16:28,960 in secret, dropped it on everybody Wednesday, and this is 295 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:29,399 where we. 296 00:16:29,399 --> 00:16:33,320 Speaker 5: Are, yes, and it has failed. It's failed miserably because 297 00:16:33,320 --> 00:16:35,600 the American people were awake. They have access to X, 298 00:16:35,799 --> 00:16:38,759 they have access to waters World, they have access to 299 00:16:38,840 --> 00:16:41,919 information and to apps that will help them quickly digest 300 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:42,639 this information. 301 00:16:42,799 --> 00:16:43,919 Speaker 1: This does not work. 302 00:16:44,240 --> 00:16:47,840 Speaker 5: It's an historic moment. It's fallen apart and as a result, 303 00:16:48,240 --> 00:16:50,000 somebody's going to have to lose their job over this. 304 00:16:50,159 --> 00:16:53,000 I don't think the speaker is going to remain in power. 305 00:16:53,080 --> 00:16:55,720 That's my prediction. I'm not in the House if I'm 306 00:16:55,759 --> 00:16:58,360 correct in that, and I think I am. We need 307 00:16:58,399 --> 00:17:01,600 bold new leadership out side leadership, and I think it 308 00:17:01,639 --> 00:17:04,119 needs to be a Doge speaker. It needs to be 309 00:17:04,400 --> 00:17:07,359 either vivic Ramaswami or it needs to be Elon Musk. Look, 310 00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:09,519 I was over here a couple of weeks ago House 311 00:17:09,519 --> 00:17:13,279 of Senate Republicans for a Doge caucus meeting. I've never 312 00:17:13,440 --> 00:17:16,480 seen we're like, you know, hurting cats Republicans on Capitol Hill. 313 00:17:16,839 --> 00:17:20,920 Never seen so much attention, so much respect for two 314 00:17:20,960 --> 00:17:24,599 people in our entire caucus. In the Senate end of 315 00:17:24,640 --> 00:17:24,920 the House. 316 00:17:24,960 --> 00:17:28,880 Speaker 7: So you're officially nominating right here on Jesse Waters Prime Time, 317 00:17:28,920 --> 00:17:32,079 either Vivek or Elon to be House Speaker. Doesn't have 318 00:17:32,119 --> 00:17:35,079 to be a politician, could be anyone can be speaker. 319 00:17:35,440 --> 00:17:38,880 Speaker 1: Do they want that job? I don't know. Look, it 320 00:17:38,880 --> 00:17:41,920 would be an amazing thing to have a non congressional 321 00:17:41,960 --> 00:17:45,279 member have that job. I Vivic Ramaswami. No, sorry, I'm 322 00:17:45,279 --> 00:17:47,839 not in. He's far too embedded with Pharma. I don't 323 00:17:47,839 --> 00:17:50,000 trust the guy as far as I can throw several 324 00:17:50,039 --> 00:17:58,640 of them. Elon Musk he's a transhumanist. He's smart, he's 325 00:17:58,680 --> 00:18:01,079 playing it behind the scenes game. He knows he's positioning 326 00:18:01,160 --> 00:18:03,200 his company for great things. But then there's also this. 327 00:18:04,359 --> 00:18:08,359 He's the target of DOJ investigations and SEC investigations. They're 328 00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:11,759 coming at him. They wanted to take Twitter from him, 329 00:18:12,079 --> 00:18:13,920 to destroy it. There was a plan that one of 330 00:18:13,920 --> 00:18:16,640 the British operative organizations brought over here to tell the 331 00:18:16,720 --> 00:18:19,680 Democrats job number one is to destroy Elon Musk's Twitter. 332 00:18:20,200 --> 00:18:23,799 He's been willing to take hits. That means to me 333 00:18:23,880 --> 00:18:28,039 he actually believes in the cause above and beyond the 334 00:18:28,079 --> 00:18:30,640 business stuff. Because Musk could sell one business and never 335 00:18:30,759 --> 00:18:34,400 need money again. Ramaswami is not at that level, and 336 00:18:34,400 --> 00:18:36,559 he may not get to that level unless, of course, 337 00:18:36,599 --> 00:18:39,119 he invents himself in government, but it would be a 338 00:18:39,119 --> 00:18:43,119 fascinating thing to see. Speaker Johnson is a guy who 339 00:18:43,160 --> 00:18:47,200 believes in Jesus, serves Jesus, but doesn't trust him. This 340 00:18:47,319 --> 00:18:51,680 is very, very evident in his decision to sacrifice some 341 00:18:51,799 --> 00:18:54,200 of the promises he made in order to keep the 342 00:18:54,240 --> 00:18:56,599 money flowing to Ukraine in a war we cannot win. 343 00:18:57,119 --> 00:18:59,599 But he also made the decision to continue to allow 344 00:18:59,640 --> 00:19:03,279 the train of kids which God cannot smile upon that 345 00:19:03,480 --> 00:19:08,720 he can't Marjorie Taylor Green voted for the continuing Resolution. 346 00:19:08,799 --> 00:19:11,119 Here's what she wrote on Twitter. I'm one of the 347 00:19:11,119 --> 00:19:13,759 most conservative members of Congress, and last night I voted 348 00:19:13,759 --> 00:19:16,640 for a bill that ordinarily I would never vote for. However, 349 00:19:16,720 --> 00:19:18,319 the man that took a bullet to the face and 350 00:19:18,319 --> 00:19:20,880 won the presidential election with griddard and twelve Electoral College 351 00:19:20,920 --> 00:19:24,119 votes and the most votes of any Republican presidential candidate 352 00:19:24,119 --> 00:19:26,200 in history, asked me to vote for it, so I 353 00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:29,920 did gladly. After Johnson completely failed us by not including 354 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:32,160 us in the planning of this year's this year ends 355 00:19:32,200 --> 00:19:35,200 government funding and then dumped a fifteen hundred page CR 356 00:19:35,240 --> 00:19:37,799 omnibus on his Tuesday night with little to no time 357 00:19:37,839 --> 00:19:40,400 to read it, and got caught in his scheme. Was Schumer, McConnell, 358 00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:42,759 and akeem by all the great American people here in 359 00:19:42,799 --> 00:19:45,680 Exelong with Elon Musk and Vivic Gramswami. It was President 360 00:19:45,720 --> 00:19:48,920 Trump's team, our incoming Vice President Jade Vance, and President 361 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:52,519 himself himself. Are President Trump himself who dove in in 362 00:19:52,559 --> 00:19:54,359 the midnight hour and came up with a CR that 363 00:19:54,440 --> 00:19:57,200 solves the debt sailing problem for President Trump and even 364 00:19:57,200 --> 00:20:00,200 more importantly, helped hurricane victims, farmers and would CA keep 365 00:20:00,240 --> 00:20:02,559 the government open. They shouldn't have had to do that, 366 00:20:02,599 --> 00:20:04,920 but they did. After that CR failed last night, I 367 00:20:04,920 --> 00:20:07,960 consure you nothing good is coming behind it. But what's worse, 368 00:20:08,039 --> 00:20:09,640 in my opinion, is that we gave up a critical 369 00:20:09,680 --> 00:20:12,880 opportunity unite and pass our own CR, sending you to 370 00:20:12,960 --> 00:20:14,880 the Senate with a powerful message to Schumer and the 371 00:20:14,920 --> 00:20:17,079 Dems that come hell or high water, we're going to 372 00:20:17,119 --> 00:20:19,279 deliver for President Trump and the people who elected him. 373 00:20:19,680 --> 00:20:22,839 After this let it shut down. I'll only vote to 374 00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:25,640 pay a military border patrol and key federal law enforcement, 375 00:20:25,680 --> 00:20:27,880 and the very basics to keep things going until January 376 00:20:27,920 --> 00:20:30,920 twenty twenty twenty five, House Republicans. We better figure out 377 00:20:30,920 --> 00:20:34,119 how to get this done next year. After that, we 378 00:20:34,319 --> 00:20:37,880 require change. We do require change, and I think you 379 00:20:37,960 --> 00:20:41,000 just did President Trump a great favor. I'm not going 380 00:20:41,039 --> 00:20:45,000 to sit in this chair and back President Trump on everything. 381 00:20:45,279 --> 00:20:48,000 I do not want to see us go further into debt. 382 00:20:48,920 --> 00:20:51,680 I do not want to see us raise or do 383 00:20:51,799 --> 00:20:55,000 away with the debt ceiling. Just the opposite. I want 384 00:20:55,039 --> 00:20:59,240 to cut, cut, cut, and these omnibus things have to die. 385 00:21:00,079 --> 00:21:04,720 We want single topic bills. There are single topic contracts 386 00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:07,480 on big issues. For instance, when you buy a house, 387 00:21:07,839 --> 00:21:10,079 you're signing a contract to purchase a house, or to 388 00:21:10,119 --> 00:21:13,079 borrow money to purchase a house. They usually don't roll 389 00:21:13,119 --> 00:21:17,200 into that your college debt, business debts. Hey, while we're 390 00:21:17,240 --> 00:21:19,640 at it, let's do some contracts based upon your usage 391 00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:23,200 of land, and hey, how about those bank accounts. We 392 00:21:23,279 --> 00:21:26,640 want single topic bills. When that happens, I'm going to 393 00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:29,400 know that there's some seriousness to this. I just don't 394 00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:32,720 know how much faith I have in that happening story. 395 00:21:32,799 --> 00:21:37,000 Number three. I've been thinking a lot because of a 396 00:21:37,079 --> 00:21:41,400 presentation my friend Dirk did a church about the point 397 00:21:41,480 --> 00:21:46,599 of view of King Herod when Jesus was born versus 398 00:21:46,640 --> 00:21:49,400 that of Mary and Joseph. And I think this is 399 00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:52,160 a meaningful aspect of the Christmas story that we should 400 00:21:52,160 --> 00:21:54,920 spend some more time examining, because I think it goes 401 00:21:54,960 --> 00:21:57,440 to the heart of what God wants us to know. 402 00:21:58,079 --> 00:22:00,240 I've also been puzzling about what would the modern day 403 00:22:00,319 --> 00:22:04,480 king herods do if they knew Jesus was coming back. Well, 404 00:22:04,680 --> 00:22:07,000 many of the modern day king herods do know Jesus 405 00:22:07,079 --> 00:22:11,480 is coming back, and they're doing it. They're putting his 406 00:22:11,599 --> 00:22:15,880 followers in jail cells for praying at abortion clinics in 407 00:22:15,920 --> 00:22:20,240 the UK. They're putting people in jail cells for praying 408 00:22:20,440 --> 00:22:23,960 within sight of an abortion clinic, even though they're praying 409 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:29,359 silently in their heads for their son who was aborted 410 00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:33,400 against their will. At being the gentleman leaning against a 411 00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:37,680 tree facing away from the abortion clinic so that no 412 00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:41,319 one there could see him praying, the modern day king 413 00:22:41,359 --> 00:22:45,359 herods are putting him in jail. The modern day king 414 00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:51,920 herods are making children unable to have children through the 415 00:22:51,960 --> 00:22:56,319 transing of kids, be fruitful of multiplied. It's difficult to 416 00:22:56,319 --> 00:22:59,640 do when you can't have kids. That means fewer people 417 00:22:59,799 --> 00:23:03,240 to help bring the light to people. They're doing it. 418 00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:09,480 They've banned real discussion of God from within the government schools, 419 00:23:09,920 --> 00:23:12,359 even in things that comparative religion classes. We can't go 420 00:23:12,359 --> 00:23:15,519 around comparing the religions. The modern day king herods see 421 00:23:15,519 --> 00:23:22,519 what's coming. They've floated ideas, like in Massachusetts, they floated 422 00:23:22,519 --> 00:23:24,559 the idea that the state government should be able to 423 00:23:24,559 --> 00:23:28,720 take over the funding for churches that sure you tithe 424 00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:31,160 that the use of those funds are put up in 425 00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:34,160 front of a civilian review board of people who do 426 00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:36,640 not belong to the church. They floated the idea that 427 00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:39,200 Catholics should not be allowed to serve on the Supreme Court. 428 00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:44,039 They're doing it the modern day herods. They know exactly 429 00:23:44,039 --> 00:23:49,920 what they're doing, aboarding children, making us libel for that 430 00:23:50,039 --> 00:23:53,319 crime by our tax dollars being involved in this. That's 431 00:23:53,319 --> 00:23:55,000 going to be a heck of a discussion on judgment 432 00:23:55,039 --> 00:23:57,079 day that all of us are going to face. I 433 00:23:57,119 --> 00:23:59,640 don't know that we're continued we should continue to pay taxes. 434 00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:02,880 I err on the side of I do this because 435 00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:06,039 Jesus said, render under Caesar's that which is his. That's 436 00:24:06,039 --> 00:24:09,759 the only reason I do it. But I wonder maybe 437 00:24:09,759 --> 00:24:13,000 we should be looking harder at this. When Peter and 438 00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:16,440 John were told to stop speaking God's word, they refused 439 00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:19,240 eve though it was government telling him. They said, no, 440 00:24:19,319 --> 00:24:22,319 there is a higher authority. So in all those ways, 441 00:24:22,359 --> 00:24:24,559 I think the modern day king herods are doing what 442 00:24:24,599 --> 00:24:29,039 they're going to do. But what about this view, this 443 00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:34,960 difference in experience between King Herod's view versus that of 444 00:24:35,039 --> 00:24:38,680 Mary and Joseph. Talk about that in a second Family 445 00:24:38,799 --> 00:24:42,799 changes you. 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So Herod was one of 489 00:27:02,839 --> 00:27:06,880 the world's most brutal politicians. He was half Jewish like 490 00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:11,160 Kamala Harris. Basically he was half Jewish, but being half Jewish, 491 00:27:11,279 --> 00:27:14,160 he was allowed to be a ruler. He was placed 492 00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:17,799 there by Rome, he was appointed. Hey, that sounds like Kamola. 493 00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:21,039 She almost got to be president. It sounds like figurehead Biden, 494 00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:23,640 who we know from the Wall Street journal piece was 495 00:27:23,799 --> 00:27:26,279 never really president, and how long have we been saying 496 00:27:26,279 --> 00:27:29,440 that here? So Herod was made the king of the Jews, 497 00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:32,519 but he served Rome. So he was given earthly power 498 00:27:32,599 --> 00:27:35,960 by people who were given earthly power, and they didn't understand. Hey, 499 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:39,279 God's letting you do these things for now, but eventually 500 00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:41,519 you're going to pay for the things you did. Eventually 501 00:27:41,759 --> 00:27:43,480 God's going to want to talk with you about how 502 00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:47,400 you stewarded this great privilege he gave you of leading 503 00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:52,079 this region of the world. Herod was also a deeply 504 00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:55,400 brutal man. He was willing to do anything to maintain power, 505 00:27:55,839 --> 00:28:00,960 things like killing his favorite wife. He did that, tradition 506 00:28:01,039 --> 00:28:04,440 tells us with a dagger. He ended the lives of 507 00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:08,200 his sons because they might be people who could rise 508 00:28:08,279 --> 00:28:12,440 up against him. These are things that are detailed about Herod. 509 00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:15,640 Herod had no problem ending the lives of other people 510 00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:18,880 because it was a way to instill fear. Oh, he 511 00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:22,920 had carrots to the populace. He built some great buildings. 512 00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:26,200 He even gave money to the temple well, so long 513 00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:29,400 as they would decorate it Herod's style. And remember who 514 00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:32,960 the true man God was, it was him. Well, serving 515 00:28:33,039 --> 00:28:35,319 for Caesar, and then he would make those mouth noises 516 00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:39,200 that Caesar was the one and true God. So imagine 517 00:28:39,279 --> 00:28:42,359 when Herod began to hear rumors, and we know that 518 00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:44,599 the wise men in the Bible came to him and 519 00:28:44,599 --> 00:28:47,240 eventually told him, Hey, there's a Messiah being born. But 520 00:28:47,279 --> 00:28:49,839 they weren't the only ones who knew that. They just 521 00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:53,279 happened to be the academics of the time. People had 522 00:28:53,279 --> 00:28:55,839 been looking for Messiah for a long time, the Jewish people, 523 00:28:56,319 --> 00:28:58,200 and the rumors had begun to swirl that this is 524 00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:01,759 the age of the Messiah. When the wise man came though, 525 00:29:02,599 --> 00:29:04,880 and they'd been studying this, and there's no doubt they 526 00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:07,480 came to him with maybe Isaiah fifty three, which is 527 00:29:07,519 --> 00:29:09,960 what we call it in the Bible. This is one 528 00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:14,400 of the key key chapters of the Bible that foresees 529 00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:17,720 the coming of Jesus. Jesus in his life and his 530 00:29:17,799 --> 00:29:23,519 birth fulfilled up six hundred prophecies, many of them created 531 00:29:23,559 --> 00:29:27,079 thousands of years before Jesus walked the earth. So the 532 00:29:27,119 --> 00:29:29,240 wise men show up, they knock on the door, they 533 00:29:29,279 --> 00:29:31,160 walk in and they see Herod and there's three of them, 534 00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:35,119 and they say, there's a star. It's never appeared in 535 00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:38,960 the sky before. It's in the north. We're going there 536 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:42,000 because it's from there that the Messiah will be born. 537 00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:44,279 This is what the prophecy tells us the king of 538 00:29:44,279 --> 00:29:48,039 the Jews. Now, Herod was a guy who didn't have 539 00:29:48,079 --> 00:29:52,640 a big reason to fear. He had unlimited power. You know, 540 00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:55,839 if you think about our country right now, we're working 541 00:29:55,839 --> 00:29:58,359 into a time of unlimited power. The people who run 542 00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:01,519 Joe Biden decided that they can spy on you, that 543 00:30:01,599 --> 00:30:03,599 they can have your words taken off of social media, 544 00:30:03,599 --> 00:30:07,079 that they can force you to ingest poison into your 545 00:30:07,079 --> 00:30:10,680 bodies if they tell you to. They decided that they 546 00:30:10,759 --> 00:30:17,599 have purview over death and life. So they are hedging 547 00:30:18,559 --> 00:30:21,559 right on that point of having truly unlimited power. I mean, 548 00:30:21,599 --> 00:30:23,799 we're already at a point where our kings, pardon me, 549 00:30:23,799 --> 00:30:27,200 I mean our presidents don't have to declare war even 550 00:30:27,279 --> 00:30:29,559 when they go decide to fund both sides of a 551 00:30:29,599 --> 00:30:33,279 war between Israel and Hamas, which takes us back to 552 00:30:33,319 --> 00:30:36,960 the Holy Land. So Herod, a guy who had absolutely 553 00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:40,200 no reason to fear. He was surrounded by soldiers, soldiers 554 00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:42,519 who had already proven they would go out and end 555 00:30:42,559 --> 00:30:46,279 the lives of people brutally, sometimes intimately, sometimes in mass 556 00:30:46,319 --> 00:30:52,559 on his behalf and a little baby. When he made 557 00:30:52,599 --> 00:30:56,559 the decision, as is detailed in the Bible, to go 558 00:30:56,720 --> 00:31:01,920 and forcibly in the lives of little babies aged two 559 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:05,559 and below who were male and Hebrew, he thought he 560 00:31:05,759 --> 00:31:09,920 was making it impossible for the Messiah to survive that. 561 00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:16,960 Think about Satan's plan today. The more babies he can kill, 562 00:31:18,759 --> 00:31:23,839 the fewer will make it in to the world, the 563 00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:28,920 fewer Christians there will be. Think about that perspective. So 564 00:31:29,119 --> 00:31:33,720 Herod creates the order you're to go end the lives 565 00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:38,279 of all children were Hebrew and male below the age 566 00:31:38,319 --> 00:31:42,599 of two, and that's going to make him safe. Oh 567 00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:46,640 he found out later he missed. He missed because he 568 00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:50,000 couldn't have hit. But what caused him to take that step, 569 00:31:51,039 --> 00:31:53,519 You know what? I think it was the wise men 570 00:31:53,519 --> 00:31:57,839 didn't come back. He told them, Hey, after you go 571 00:31:58,039 --> 00:32:01,079 check on this baby, come back and tell me what 572 00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:04,319 you found. Now I start in the Bible. I don't 573 00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:07,119 know this to be the case, but I think the 574 00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:09,279 fact that the wiseman did not come back and give 575 00:32:09,359 --> 00:32:12,559 him a report, that I think is what tipped him 576 00:32:12,599 --> 00:32:16,079 over because these were men who knew he had massive 577 00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:19,519 military power, but instead of going after him or them, 578 00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:23,160 he decided to go after this baby. So let's take 579 00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:28,319 at this from a different perspective. When Mary and Joseph 580 00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:32,880 became the mother, and in the case of Joseph the 581 00:32:33,039 --> 00:32:39,119 earthly father, the adoptive father of Jesus, they were given 582 00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:45,559 not just a massive well honor, but think about the responsibility. 583 00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:47,319 Speaker 2: Now. 584 00:32:47,359 --> 00:32:49,599 Speaker 1: When I was a young father, and I mean young 585 00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:53,119 as in the second day of my daughter being with us, 586 00:32:53,839 --> 00:32:55,759 we were taking her out of the hospital, and I'll 587 00:32:55,799 --> 00:32:58,440 never forget looking at this, like walking out and looking 588 00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:01,759 at the doctors and nurses going full idiots. You're letting 589 00:33:01,839 --> 00:33:05,440 us leave. You didn't know how scared we are. Sure 590 00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:07,359 I gave the baby a bath, and yeah, I was 591 00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:09,720 raised around kids. I was babysitting from the time I 592 00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:13,039 was like an eight or nine. But this is a baby. 593 00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:16,279 You people are nuts. So we go out to the hospital. 594 00:33:16,319 --> 00:33:18,000 My wife's in the wheelchair. They made her do that, 595 00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:20,279 and I had my car pulled up in this little 596 00:33:20,319 --> 00:33:22,920 section for installing car seats and up there and I'm 597 00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:24,920 installing the car seat, and I'm stressed, and I keep 598 00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:27,880 looking around. My wife's like, can we go? And a 599 00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:29,759 very kind state patrolman came up to me. He goes, 600 00:33:29,799 --> 00:33:33,920 first time. Yeah, So this police officer came over, he goes, 601 00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:35,400 let me take a look, and he jumped into the 602 00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:37,400 car and he shook the seat around and changed. If 603 00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:39,720 you thinks because you're solid, you're good. Okay, thank you 604 00:33:39,759 --> 00:33:42,720 so much, still thinking you fools are letting us leave, 605 00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:48,319 driving home with her in the back seat. Joseph and 606 00:33:48,359 --> 00:33:54,319 Mary were to steward the Son of God, the Messiah. 607 00:33:54,559 --> 00:33:57,079 So I wonder if that was ever a burden. I 608 00:33:57,079 --> 00:34:00,039 wonder if it was ever an extra burden, because I 609 00:34:00,079 --> 00:34:03,640 remember when I lost my daughter for a little while 610 00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:06,680 in Seattle Center. She was in a bubble house. It 611 00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:08,400 was one of those jumpy houses, and it turned out 612 00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:10,199 there was a hole in the bottom of the house 613 00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:12,639 and she'd fallen through and didn't know how to get out. 614 00:34:12,679 --> 00:34:15,119 She was in there crying and I couldn't hear her, 615 00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:17,519 and only this kind little boy said, are you looking 616 00:34:17,559 --> 00:34:20,599 for a little blonde girl? Oh, she's below the jumpy house. 617 00:34:21,199 --> 00:34:23,199 So I got in there and got her out. But man, 618 00:34:23,239 --> 00:34:25,320 I had already looked at my watch. I like, okay, we're 619 00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:28,119 going to triangulate if someone's taken her, they can only 620 00:34:28,159 --> 00:34:30,079 be ten minutes away. I was that ready to go 621 00:34:30,119 --> 00:34:32,639 to nine to one one. Yeah, I was concealed, carrying 622 00:34:32,639 --> 00:34:35,920 and all that. But can you imagine when Joseph and 623 00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:39,119 Mary lost Jesus for those few days. It's not just 624 00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:42,920 their beloved son, but imagine having to go to judgment 625 00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:45,519 day in front of God Almighty to say, so, how'd 626 00:34:45,559 --> 00:34:48,760 that go? When I gave you the privilege of raising 627 00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:51,639 the Messiah? I was fine until he was seven, then 628 00:34:51,639 --> 00:34:55,280 we lost him. I wonder if that was ever a burden. 629 00:34:56,320 --> 00:35:00,880 But now think about their Christmas experience. Prior to knowing 630 00:35:01,039 --> 00:35:03,480 Herod's had decided to go end the lives of all 631 00:35:03,519 --> 00:35:08,320 these children. These were simple people who show up in 632 00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:13,079 town and no room at the end. That's a thing 633 00:35:13,119 --> 00:35:15,159 known even for people who don't follow the Bible. They 634 00:35:15,199 --> 00:35:18,519 know that portion of the fact of Jesus's birth. But 635 00:35:18,559 --> 00:35:20,480 do you think when Joseph went to Mary and said, hey, 636 00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:24,920 by the way, I did find a barn, you think Mary, 637 00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:27,639 blessed among women, said oh, blessed be you for finding 638 00:35:27,639 --> 00:35:32,000 a barn. Or do you think she said you blank 639 00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:36,719 a barn? And in the back of their minds, the 640 00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:42,079 son of got in a barn. Now, they weren't perfect people. 641 00:35:42,119 --> 00:35:44,239 And I wonder if when Joseph went to a house 642 00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:46,119 and said, I know you have a room. I can 643 00:35:46,199 --> 00:35:49,639 see it. You think they ever lost their temper or 644 00:35:49,679 --> 00:35:51,920 were they just so blessed that they couldn't possibly lose 645 00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:56,639 their temper. And when Mary was giving birth, I mean, 646 00:35:56,719 --> 00:35:59,000 it might be that God decided to make her immune 647 00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:00,920 from pain, but I don't think so, because God doesn't 648 00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:04,679 argue with himself. He said, childbirth is going to be painful. 649 00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:07,719 He said that when we as a species decided that 650 00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:11,559 we prefer our own way, we had paradise with God, 651 00:36:11,639 --> 00:36:13,760 walking with God. All we needed. We did a little 652 00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:16,519 bit of work. Just don't eat the fruit from that tree. 653 00:36:16,519 --> 00:36:17,960 And we said, no, we want to eat the fruit 654 00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:22,039 from that tree because the snake said it's good. So 655 00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:26,119 Mary was probably in pain and Joseph had to witness 656 00:36:26,159 --> 00:36:27,880 this in a barn in a mager, would you feel 657 00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:30,519 like a loser. You would feel like a loser. I 658 00:36:30,559 --> 00:36:33,079 would feel like a loser. Any reasonable man would feel 659 00:36:33,079 --> 00:36:37,400 like a loser. But when people started to show up 660 00:36:39,079 --> 00:36:43,199 to worship the baby, do you think that Joseph's instincts 661 00:36:43,239 --> 00:36:46,360 as a father stood up in his heart. What are 662 00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:48,920 you doing there, my kid, We're all these people coming here. 663 00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:53,400 Wouldn't you feel concerned? Wouldn't marry about as vulnerable as 664 00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:57,320 a woman can be weak and it's not fully clothed. 665 00:36:57,679 --> 00:36:59,199 I mean, I know she was covered, I know her 666 00:36:59,239 --> 00:37:01,239 naked body was not seen. But still that's a point 667 00:37:01,280 --> 00:37:06,280 of vulnerability. So we do well to look at their 668 00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:10,239 experience and to look at it this way. God didn't 669 00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:13,440 need to have his son born that way. He could 670 00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:18,239 have been born in the cleanest, safest castle, with hundreds 671 00:37:18,239 --> 00:37:24,480 of midwives and expert physicians. But he didn't. I think 672 00:37:24,519 --> 00:37:29,800 for multiple reasons. One is because Jesus came for us, 673 00:37:31,039 --> 00:37:35,320 not for the select, not for the elites. Oh they're included, 674 00:37:36,599 --> 00:37:39,320 but he came for everybody. But I think he also 675 00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:44,760 gave Jesus a gift, Jesus the person, fully god fully human. 676 00:37:45,519 --> 00:37:52,639 He gave Jesus the gift of human intimacy, the ability 677 00:37:52,679 --> 00:37:56,360 to have empathy, to be able to say, I know 678 00:37:56,400 --> 00:37:58,960 what it is to be hungry, and I know what 679 00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:01,920 it is to have my father apologize to me, son, 680 00:38:01,960 --> 00:38:04,679 I'm sorry you were born in a barn and lay 681 00:38:04,679 --> 00:38:08,639 in a manger. And of course, when King Herod made 682 00:38:08,679 --> 00:38:12,199 that decision to go wipe out those babies, the Angel 683 00:38:12,559 --> 00:38:17,519 warns Joseph and Mary and they had to remember God 684 00:38:17,599 --> 00:38:21,639 really is with us, the modern day King Herod's they're 685 00:38:21,639 --> 00:38:25,320 doing what the modern day King Herods do. They're trying 686 00:38:25,679 --> 00:38:29,119 to once again make it impossible for the Messiah to 687 00:38:29,159 --> 00:38:33,360 do his job. Merry Christmas to you, and in this 688 00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:36,800 beautiful Christmas season, may God continue to be with you. 689 00:38:38,360 --> 00:38:41,880 This is the Todd Herman Show. Please goill, be well, 690 00:38:42,679 --> 00:38:46,840 be strong, be kind, and please make every effort to 691 00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:48,800 walk in the light of Christ.