Speaker 1: Welcome to the three Stories version of the Todd Herban show.
The UK would destroy its economy control speech. That's story
number one. Story number two, Bill Gates continues to disagree
with God's design for humanity. I can't wait. I hope
I get to be there on Judgment Day after God
gets done, reminding me of the logs in my eye
to watch Bill Gates encounter God. And story number three,
did Jesus Christ really rip this guy off? We'll talk
about this with the help of Visible. That's gobisible dot
com and thanks to God Almighty.
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Here's the Emerald City exile Todd Herman.
Speaker 1: Today is the day the Lord has made, and these
are the times to which God has decided we shall live.
There's something that President Trump does that a lot of
people don't give him credit for, including me, And it's
occurred to me as I look through what he's doing
with the UK, what he's doing with tariffs, et cetera,
that he is willing to go places obviously other politicians won't.
And that's tactical, it's strategic. You know, he has now
pressed the UK to actually get back to free speech
and what he said is, hey, no free speech, no
free trade. Pretty simple. So why would we do that?
Why do you pick friends? I mean, when you have
friends and you determine that. Let's say that a friend's
always trying to get you to drink, if you're an
alcoholic and you're recovered, you haven't drunk for years, and
they always trying to get you to drink or to
break this or that rule, or the friend is constantly
constantly putting you down and you feel awful around them.
Eventually you end a friendship like that if you're have
self respect. Why would we do differently as nations? I
know that strategy is bigger. There's the geopolitical aspect of this.
We might need their help in war, but Britain can't
really help us in war. And if our economic might
means anything, it's that we can help countries who are
in trouble. But it also means that we can call
them out. And Britain is in trouble.
Speaker 3: UK.
Speaker 1: They've done this to themselves. They're destroying free speech, they're
jailing people for praying silently with their backs turned to
abortion clinics, praying silently, hiding behind a tree, and cops
can arrest you for that, and they have and they do.
So this is something that President Trump does. And you
can look at it as political. Okay, it's political, it's
also cultural. President Trump has been given by God a
superpower of changing culture. Suddenly free speech is once again importance. Now,
this happened in the Ued States that young people actually
gave up on free speech. Did you know that there
was a fascinating pole and God rests the Maha rush Limbaugh.
He used to go from time to time to this
pole to remind us that free speech doesn't matter to
young people, that they're okay with censorship. Because, of course,
in the cultural attack against the minds of kids, they'd
been taught that free speech is a bad thing, it's
a dangerous thing. We need, you know, safe zones. This
was back in the days of you hurt my feelings,
therefore I get to go, you know, suck my thumb
in a safe room. Well that was all on purpose.
It was to create a generation of fragile people, but
also fragile people who believe that they're hurt means they
get to shut you up. The UK is so advanced
in this sickness that they're literally willing to say, Okay,
no economic partnership with the United States, no ability to
have any of our goods over there, no help economically.
If we can't censor people, fine, that's how far down
they're lost. But President Trump's culture change is something more
significant as well. He is willing to do things that hurt.
I don't know any other president who's been willing to
do things that hurt, knowing they're going to hurt, and
then warning people about there how they're going to hurt.
For instance, when Barack Hussein Obama God Bless rushing them
BA again. But when Barack Obama did that with Obamacare,
he came out knowing they all knew they were going
to cancel a bunch of people's insurance plans, health insurance
plans that people liked. He knew every time he said,
if you like your plan, you can keep it. Every
time he spoke those words, he knew he was lying,
and he spoke them about like two hundred times. That
hurt a bunch of people. People's rates went up, their
premiums went up, their deductibles went up. They all knew
this was going to happen, but then they pretended it hadn't.
President Trump didn't do this. When he started to make
wholesale changes to the economy, he was actually also making
wholesale changes to culture. Because we had the President say
this is going to cause short term pain, but stick
with me. And when you're honest, short term pain is
often the way God delivers a great game, because God
is in the business of taking bad and turning it
to good. I think of the short term pain of
my friend John, short term pain when they learned that
their son Alan was not going to be neurotypical, that
he was going to have challenges, huge challenges throughout life.
And yeah, there's still pain there. Alan's fourteen, He's been
through like eighteen operations. He's effectively nonverbal, and yet he
works every day at their soap company. He invents soaps,
he does packaging, he does quality control. Now it's not
just him, it's his brother Ian, who's also impacted by autism.
This young woman Amy, who got autism late in life.
That happens. Can you imagine how hurtful that would be?
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you're doing. You're changing culture. President Trump spoke about tariffs,
he spoke about nineteen thirteen, but he's doing this in
a way that is also I think getting down to
this superpower God gave him of changing culture.
Speaker 4: Seventeen eighty nine to nineteen thirteen, we were a tariff
back nation in the United States was proportionately the wealthiest
it has ever been. So wealthy, in fact, that in
the eighteen eighties they established a commission to decide what
they were going to do with the vast sums of
money they were collecting. We were collecting so much money
so fast, we didn't know what to do with it.
Isn't that a nice problem to have. What do you think,
Marco goodbroad problem. Marco would love that problem. But we
don't have that problem anymore. But we're not going to
have it very much longer. I will tell you. But
they collected so much money they actually formed a commission
to determine what they were going to do with the money,
who they were going to give it to, and how much.
Then in nineteen thirteen, for reasons unknown to mankind, they
established the income tax so that citizens, rather than foreign countries,
would start paying the money necessary to run our government.
Speaker 1: Now you can disagree, and factually someone's going to pay
the tariffs and it's going to be at the end
sale point. You could make that argument, and that's true.
But he also introduced something else to culture. Or you
can come here and make your products, or American companies
can return manufacturing here. That's also a culture shift, and
it's a massive culture shift. I remember when I started
to give myself the equivalent of a college education. I
set out. I got a book from Princeton, and one
from Harvard's and one from oh, gosh, I can't remember
the other university. But there were these books that sort
of measured where you were at in education. You did
these tests, you'd send them in and then they would
send you back a greade, and you paid a little
bit of money. So each of these schools said, okay, effectively,
you should be in graduate school. And that can sound very,
very prideful. And I've been warned recently that I've become
prideful again. I learned hard ways through great mentors who
poured into me. It wasn't my doing. God put great
mentors in front of me. So I was the recipient
of this, not the creator of it. But as I
was reading some of the materials to catch myself up
to a graduate level education, one of the books that
came across talked about how America was going to become
a service economy, how good this globalism was for us
because Americans would no longer be doing the hard job
of manufacturing and the hard job of digging ditches. And oh,
praise God. Everybody's what they say God because they were secular.
But everyone's going to be coding, everyone's going to be
an engineer, everyone's going to be in the service business,
and America will sit atop the economic strata as every
other country makes our hardware and our shovels and does
our ditch digging, et cetera. And that didn't happen because
other countries are led by people who have sent shiet brains.
God gave them, you know, intelligence. No, we're not going
to be your makers of things. We're going to also
crawl up the economic strata. Secondly, there are people who
are designed to manufacture, and that's a gift. One of
the biggest things that the left has done in culture
is they've taken jobs like manufacturing and construction and they've
made them oh poor people in them working with their hands.
Look at the dumb tool users learn like chimpanzees. It's
the Michael Bloomberg thing. Anyone can be a farmer, dig
a hole in the grounds, drop some seeds in it,
spit it and covering dirt and boom, you're a farmer.
Any farm will tell you it doesn't work like that. So
the culture change of recognizing the importance of having our
manufacturing here and that it can be done is a
huge culture change. So we've got the speech in England
and President Trump is threatening the UK. Hey, no free speech,
no free trade. That's a culture change. He's raising a
generation of people who say, wow, free speech really is
important that it can be regained. On the economic front,
he's saying there are ways other than the income tax
to raise money. And by the way, it has benefits
ancillary ancillary to just you know, supposedly shifting who's going
to pay it, because we'll pay at the point of
retail and tell companies say, wait, wait, wait, wait wait,
we could be lower priced no tariff if we invest
in America. That's a culture change. He's also created a
culture change by having outsiders look at the brokenness of Washington,
DC and look at the structural bankruptcy we have. And
I can't impress upon us enough to think about structural
bankruptcy like we think about building a building in Spectra
comes to your home, God forbid, your home has been
damaged in a storm or a fire. They're going to
look around, They're gonna look at the load bearing elements
of your home, and they may come back and say
your home is structurally unsound. That means it's a teardown.
Our economy is structurally bankrupt right now, meaning bankruptcies built
into it. So getting people like privates, CEOs of hedge funds,
so look at our system, how is it that they
discover things that all the important insiders could. Now that's
a draw dropping number. Where'd all those people come from?
Speaker 5: Well, it's it made my draw drop too, and I
saw it.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 5: We were in so security looking for fraud, wasting abuse,
and to do that, we actually looked at the enumeration system,
the system by which people get numbers in America, and
we found that there were just about five plus million
of them that came to the country as illegals we're
giving various forms of parole or allowed in the country,
and they got through an automatic system so security numbers,
so they get into our benefit systems, and we tracked
that through and found that they were on the programs,
and just because we were curious, we then looked to
see if they were on the voter rolls, and we
found in a handful of cooperative states that they were
thousands on the voter rolls and that many of them
had voted.
Speaker 1: Antonio Garcias Aggracias, who worked with Elon Musk, an outsider.
That's a massive culture change that's not created. There's this
guy at Brown University, alex I can't remember his last name.
He sent a doge like email out to the administrators there,
like thirty eight hundred administrators, huge top heavy organization charging
him about one hundred grand per year for a tuition,
and they want to investigate him. That's a culture change
from President Trump. He's created an accidental culture change within
the mockingbird media. They cannot get out of their way.
Here's Jake Tapper defending George Soros and the Pritzker's truly
truly evil people.
Speaker 6: What's interesting about it is you heard anytime anybody brings
this up, a Republican will say, well, what about JB. Pritzker,
and what about George Soros?
Speaker 2: And what about this? What about that?
Speaker 6: And I guess the answer is you don't see George.
First of all, they don't see that out there talking.
Yeah right, I mean they might.
Speaker 7: Be giving money to organizations I don't want, but the
idea that like, oh no, I am going to tell
these voters forget like hiring Scott Walker to do it
or somebody on the Milwaukee Bucks.
Speaker 1: I'm going to tell them, right. Jake Tapper prefers his
grift behind the scenes. He prefers that his billionaires operate
in the dark. He prefers that his billionaires use ten
million of their money to lobby Washington, d C. To
get a billion of our own against our will to
give to foreign entities. And with the Pritzkers, he preferred
that they went behind the scenes to human rights commissions
to separate families using the lies based upon kids' views
of their bodies. That's how he prefers it. President Trump
has changed culture. God has given that superpower, and it's
not often enough that we give the president the credit
he deserves for that. So I hope we've done that.
Story number two, So just full disclosure, just because I
feel like I owe it to be an honest person
to tell you. We're going to talk about the fact
that Bill Gates continues to disagree with God's design for humanity.
That's the topic. But I have to tell you because
I think I owe you this. Yes, I worked at Microsoft. Yes,
I remain deeply, deeply thankful for that time. I was
blessed economically. I was a full on bloomin idiot to
leave when I left, because I left a bunch of
money on the table and probably a bunch of personal growth,
and no doubt if I'd open my mind and heart
to God at that point. I was a Christian, but
I was basically just watching church and giving money. I
wasn't walking with the Lord. Had I'd done that, I
would have realized, oh my gosh, this money. I could
turn this into a massive ministry. I didn't do that.
And full disclosure, I met Bill Gates a couple times
in a couple meetings with him. I don't know him.
He wouldn't remember me at all. And he premiered one
of my companies that are one of my products that
I helped lead in Vegas. So there's that. So there's
the disclaimer that was before he was a psychopath. He
always had strange affectations, but he was a he as
I think demonstrated to be a psychopath. I'm saying it
quietly because they don't want him to hear it, because
he's probably listening to me talking about it. Make it.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 1: Bill Gates said something that again conflicts with how God
views us, and I want to take what he's doing
and saying and what he's planning and compare it to
what working people who actually are doing one of the
duties that God glorifies, and it ain't code and what's
happened to these people who do the job that God
glorifies to actually help the temple. So we'll go through
both of this in just a second. We're going to
wait for a moment while I remind you of something
about Bill. He paid a ton of money to become
the world's experts on vaccines, and even the Columbia Journalism
Review wrote a great article about this called Bills Media
Gates Keepers, and they talked about how much money Gates
spent so he could, in my opinion, pump and dump
the Pfizer stock and the so called vaccines. So as
he was doing that, then of course came the pressure
campaign stay inside, don't get vitamin D you know, put
that mask in your face and breathe bacteria all day,
and don't you dare think about hydroxy chloroquin ivermexin or antibiotics.
Don't do it. Well, this is that was going on.
There was a small pharmacy back east called All Family Pharmacy,
run by two brothers who were kind enough to take
their mother on to do the book. She's probably does
more than that. Maybe the guys are being a little
bit humble on behalf of her mom their mom, And
they challenged that no we're going to provide hydroxychloroquin ivermaxin
and antibiotics to people when doctors prescribe it. Were not
going to give it into the pressure campaign. Well, along
came some big, big media companies, conservative leaning. They noticed
trends like this, so they created some websites that are
just lead gathering websites. They don't do the same thing.
They're not a pharmacy. They just do markup upon markup,
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in the investment of protecting your family. Here is Bill
Gates talking about how God did not design us, and
I think this will probably it won't come as news
to God. He knew that Bill Gates was this way
and would be this way, and he knew Bill Gates
would say this thing. But think about the Garden of Eden.
If you're biblically literate or I've spent time at the
Bible kind a way to say it. Remember that we
were in the garden of Eden in heaven effectively in perfection.
Guess what we were doing. We were tending the garden.
Speaker 3: We weren't born to do jobs. Jobs are an artifact
of the shortage that oh, gosh, you know, somebody better
be a farmer. Okay, somebody better farmer drive those trucks around.
All of that is based on, you know, creating the
human intelligence to provide a broad range of services.
Speaker 1: And so that man is sitting on a chair a
human being made, wearing a suit that human beings made,
talking to a human being, not a robot speaking words
coming out of his throat, a throat that Bill Gates
did not speak and did not code, lecturing us on
how God did not design us to have jobs. Us
a people that's in perfec. We're tending the garden. I'm
sorry for interrupting Bill Gates. I'm sure that there'll be
a penalty to be paid, probably a fast.
Speaker 3: One, if you get away from that being a necessary thing.
You get a lot more leisure time, and it'll be
people who've grown up in that world of no shortage
who will have to think through I think it's hard
for anybody. You know, in my case, spent seventy years
in the world of you know, shortages. It's hard to
reprogram your brain to you know this this change.
Speaker 1: Bill Gates for all the evil that's done through him
and he allows to be done through him. This isn't
a job. I mean, I know he's got all the
money in the world, so he doesn't need the income,
but he's still getting it. He made a massive killing
on the Pfizer shots before he publicly said oh they
don't work, massive money and then for fun maybe he
made money in the back end because he's at the
back end. That's a job. He continues to actually invest.
That's a job. He likes to actively invest. He still
has his little contests with Warren Buffetts, you know, who
could break this or that economy or create this or
that market thing. He has a job, Bill Gates, He's
got the Gates Foundation. That's a job. It's a job
he thinks is worthy of human intelligence, particularly his very
very important brain that I don't know if you know this.
But Bill Gates created himself in a lab, coded himself,
grew himself, continues to provide his own power. He doesn't
neat food. In fact, he just provides his own strength.
A little bit more for Bill Gates. And then did
he mention farmers? I think he did.
Speaker 3: Society will be able to have a level of output,
you know, food, medical advice won't require everybody to work
like they do today.
Speaker 1: We'll have a choice.
Speaker 3: I mean, we can say that the machine shouldn't help
with certain things. We can confine them to certain areas
if we choose to. But the reason you think about
jobs is because of the shortages that even that training
of how you think about the world won't really be
the way to think about it.
Speaker 1: Bill Gates, Oh, dear Lord, you made a mistake. I mean,
Bill Gates has called you out. Lord. I wonder if
God sees this, because gosh, you know, he's right. I
shouldn't have had people work in the garden. I wonder
if he's up there in heaven and Adams are like
see see see I told you, I told you we
shouldn't be tending the garden. Why do you think God
wants us to work. Do you think it has anything
to do with humility? Do you think it has anything
to do with him seeing experiencing the joy of us
using the talents he gave us. He gave you natural talents,
And think of it this way, think of your kids.
You know, my daughter is an unbelievably brilliant artists, creator
of things. She is an unbelievably skilled baker and cook.
I mean she can look at her at a thing
and a baker and go, okay, I can make that,
and she does. It's vegan style because she's a vegan
and I'm not, but I respect her decision. Do you
know what joy gives me when I see her using
these gifts God gave her and stewarding them. Doesn't that
give you joy?
Speaker 2: See?
Speaker 1: God is not some machine that Bill Gates would like
to think of him as. He's a not a person,
but he's an entity. He sometimes described as a jealous gods.
He is happy and sad when we do the right
thing the wrong thing, and when he sees us using
his talents, the talents he gives us to steward well
that build the kingdom first of all, gives him great
joy when we build the kingdom. But secondly, when we're
doing things like oh, I don't know, providing for the temple,
the bodies we have that are the storage place for
the Holy spirit that makes God happy, or he wouldn't
have created the need for work. Now you can say
that post garden posts sin. Yeah, things got harder and God,
God said, you have sinned. You decided to do your thing,
not mine. So now, yep, childbirth, that's going to be harder.
There's gonna be strife between man and woman. There's going
to be thorn bushes, and tending the ground is going
to be harder. You're still gonna be able to do it.
But you thought you thought tending the garden of eating
was hard. You're gonna have to weed. And I could
see Adam Neave going weeds. What are weeds? So oh,
you'll find out. Let's find out what thornbushes are. And
in the New Heaven and the New Earth, people tend
to think we're just gonna sit around. God did not
design us to sit around. I don't think the New
Heaven and New Earth are going to be that way.
And we might not need to eat with our glorified bodies.
But eating is also a pleasure, and it's also something
that God saw fit to have us in a garden.
At the very beginning, there's a site called Unworn and
Right named Kielee Covello, who has came across a story
of a mother of a South Dakota rancher who's facing
prison over a nineteen fifties fence and is asking for
President Trump to step in and help. Heather and Charles
Maud each face ten years in prison and two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars in fines over an inherited fence
built before nineteen fifty a fence. And there's a link
to this in the show notes, And if you don't
have the show notes, you can get them at the
Todd Herman Show dot substack dot com. You can also
check out our YouTube channel YouTube dot com, slash at
Todd Herman Show. So President Trump keeps saying I'm standing
in the way. They're really going after you, It says
Randy Hamilton. The words keep going around in my head.
These are just ordinary people trying to make a living.
Randy and Tom Hamilton are asking the Trump administration to
intervene in their daughter and son in law's case with
the Forest Service, which goes to trial next month. Heather
and Charles Maud each face up to a decade in
prison and two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in fines
over the placement of an inherited boundary fence before nineteen fifty.
I know Trump and his team have a lot going on,
Randy says, but the government is on steroids to make
people's lives miserable, socially, financially, emotionally, in every regard. It's
beyond my comprehension that anyone would do this. So here's
what happened. Is supposedly a hunter noticed defence and defence
wasn't supposed to be there, and contacted the Forest Service
and they began this investigation. Now, oddly, there's no proof
of the hunter. There's no picture, no identity he or
she hasn't been brought forth. But there was just this hunter.
I think it was probably a Force Service person. That's
my belief. The couple after this, after they were notified
about the fence and hey, a hunter said, there's this thing.
Back to the article, the couple then met with District
Ranger Julie Wheeler for a Service Special Agent Travis Lunders
was also present. The MAD sought a solutions, suggesting a
special use permit or a land exchange under the Small
Tract Act. They were told the Forest Service would first
need to survey the landman property lines. The Mods agreed.
They were told this would occur at some point in
the next year. Instead, Lunders and a survey team arrived
at Mod's ranch, the Mod Ranch five days later. Lunders
surveyed defence is a so called hunter disputed without permission,
Randy says. Lunders then crossed the rectangular piece of private
property the mod's own in the middle of the United
States Forest Service land to examine their fences on the
opposite side. The Mods have a pivots irrigation system, and theyay,
they talk about what's there. Lunders came back to the
ranch on June twenty fourth in full tactical gear with indictments.
So a for service employee shows up in full tactical gear,
rolling heavy like he's a Special Forces operative. A bit
that was fun for him. How did this happen so fast?
Randy says, who gave the okay? This was so extreme?
The Force Services refusing all resolution under the Small Track
dec They can exchange land, switch it out, buy it out.
Charles and Heather presented all of this to Julie Weird
Wheeler US for service. Didn't answer. Next thing, you know,
they're indicted. Just eighty seven days passed between the mystery
Hunter's alleged complaint and federal indictments on the young couple.
Like the original complaint filed by the unnamed hunter, the
survey has also been withheld. Does that sound familiar. Oh,
we're not going to let you see the soul called
hunter who supposedly had a problem. We're not going to
let you see the survey of your land. It may
or may not exist, but you don't have the power
to compel us to give it to you. But we
do have the power to toss you in jail and steal
a quarter million dollars from you because of a fence dispute.
And what were these people doing? Farming as God designed
us to do. That's their punishment. What did Bill Gates do?
What does he continue to do? Use his power of
a non job, he says, to compel us to make
our bodies sick. God is watching. There will be a
day when Bill Gates bows his knee and his head
and confesses Jesus' Lord. That's going to be judgment day.
Story number three. There's a guy who made a YouTube video. Well,
I don't know there was YouTube. I think it originally
went on TikTok and it's a very sad video and
it's a challenge to confront and I think it's a
challenge to do this something that we should take him on.
He talks about a life following Jesus that born no
fruit for him and as he talks about this, it's
difficult if you are not a Christian to have a
response to this. And look, if this truly happened to
this man, it's deeply sad, it's heartbreaking in fact. And
I said, if it really happened, because I don't know
this man's heart. I don't know him, but I'm just
asking the question. There are people who troll Christians all
the time with stuff like this, and the desire and
the goal is to move people apart from Jesus. The
desire is to convince them that their faith is not
worth anything. And this guy goes on to say that
basically Jesus Christ ripped him off, that Jesus owed him
some stuff and Jesus didn't give him that stuff. Therefore,
Jesus is a thief. So I want to show this
to you. And then I want to share an email
from another perspective, and it's about spiritual warfare and I
think world's based warfare. From a longtime supporter of all
my programs, radio, podcasting, video Dan. We'll get to this
in a second.
Speaker 2: This this theft.
Speaker 1: This guy feels that Jesus has done to him. He
thinks it's corrupt, apparently thinks it's a lie. Well, we
live in a corrupt and fallen world and we are
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our financial system and those lies are being revealed. Give
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Truck twenty five Dash one three seven. Here's this man
explaining something very sad that he says happened to him,
and he feels ripped off by Jesus.
Speaker 8: No health prayers answered, no career prayers answered, no spousal
prayers answer, no children prayers answered. No residential home buying
prayers answer, not a single prayer answer in sixty years
following Jesus, Christ, Christianity in the Bible. And now I
have cancer and no help retire and thanks to tithing.
This is what following Jesus is all about. What a
freaking joke and a mistake they recommend it startbreaking.
Speaker 1: I don't know this man, I don't know his walk.
But here's what I heard. I I I I I asked,
I asked, I asked, I asked. There's a hard way
to say this. If you were to walk up to
a stranger in the street and say, you know what,
my dad is dying and I don't know how to
deal with this, and man, I mean you know, I
didn't know it's that the best relationship with my dad
and now I just see him he'see in the hospital
and hold on wait wait wait wait, let me tell you.
And my mom, my mom is she thinks it's somehow
wait wait wait wait wait, and I want my kid.
Where are you going? You have someone going crazy, dude,
I mean, best case scenario is you have someone who
is walking with Christ. Best case scenario walking with Christ
and they say, oh gosh, this is a mission opportunity.
I'm going to minister to this man. I'm going to
listen because Jesus would listen. World case scenario. You don't
know someone, uh tm, I over sharing. I mean they
might be polite, but oh man, that sucks. I've been
through that. Say I'll be praying for you, or hey,
thoughts and prayers or you know, I'll be thinking of you,
and give me out. I don't think this guy sought
a relationship with Jesus. When we take the position of submission,
Jesus Christ is our Lord and savior. He has come
to rescue us from something for something. When we say
to him, Lord, we want to serve you, We want
to walk with you, We want to know you. Change us, Lord,
change us, live within us, Bring in the Holy Spirit,
change me, sanctify me, Lord, make me more like you.
Help me die to myself. Jesus is going to give you, then,
opportunities to get to know him. That's what he wants.
We are warned about people who cast out demons in
his name and did miracles in his name. And we're warned.
Jesus said, but wait, I didn't know you get away
from me, evil doers. I didn't know you. Jesus wants
to know us. I mean, he is the most magnificent
power period. And yet when he was on earth, fully
god fully human, he could have just come with his
magnificent power and showed up on the beach where the
guys are fishing. And he could have come and said, hey, guys,
I'm the Messiah. My name is you know they call
me Jesus Christ. Here's what you need to do. Come
over here, let me teach this to you. And and
here's here's the new way. And okay, all right, so
thank you and go spread that around. Thanks, now, have
a good day. He didn't do that. He developed relationships
with them. Jesus said, and I'll call you friend. I'll
call you friend. And this is after they saw him
raise the dead, calm the storms. I call you friend.
I feared that this guy had a transactional approach here,
so you go through his troubles. You prayed for a spouse,
Which one the one your flesh wanted? Maybe that was right,
Maybe God had a better plan. God can take anything
evil and make it good. You prayed for a job,
Which one the one your flesh wanted or the one
that God had put in front of you you prayed
for relationships? Which ones the one you have are the
one that your flush speaks of? Which one? When we
follow our design, we are in catastrophe. Eventually, and sadly,
this man appears to be in catastrophe. When we follow
God's design, we get to know him. I thank God
for him allowing me to get to know him in
some hard ways. I thank God that He's let me
experience catastrophe. I hate the fact that my catastrophe hurts
other people. I don't hear that in this guy. I
just hear concern fro himself and man, I've been there
because I have been an unbelievably selfish jackass.
Speaker 2: Often.
Speaker 1: I don't know that that's this case with this man,
but it doesn't seem to me. He knows the Lord,
and to anyone who have been an unbelievable jackass, I apologize,
and I'm so glad that God can change us. Here's
a counterpoint to this man's view. Jeff Durbin posted this
on Twitter. It's a beautiful picture of a man holding
a little girl and they're carrying a political sign. See
her take a really good look, a long look. I
met her yesterday. Her mother's a thirteen year old girl
who was raped. See him, he's the Christian man who's
convinced the girl, who convinced her to let the girl live,
then he adopted her. Take a good look, pro bors.
This is how you redeem an evil situation. That woman's
flesh was hurt, she'd chosen a direction. I'm going to
end the life of the child. I'm going to unlive
the child. And this man steps in and convinces her
with the holy spirits. No, don't, don't do that thing.
Your flesh once, no, no, no, take the baby to
term and all adopt the baby. And there's a little
there's a little girl. This man, this man with this
great I don't want to say he hates Jesus, it
sounds like he does. How did you ask God to
use you? Was it just trying to No, just give
me these things? But what about God? Help me change?
What do I need to do to change? And use me?
And so that's one way to view this. Here's another.
This comes from a guy named Dan. He's been with
me a long time since afternoon radio morning radio in Seattle.
And he wrote to me about spiritual warfare. And I
was talking about this case in Kansas, where the Satanist
went in to have the black mass, and a Christian
well intended went and stole this guy's paper, so he
was he had things written down, black mass garbage and
he stole it. And what I said is, hey, that's
that's not the way to fight this, because our war
is not against flesh and blood, but spirits and dark
spirits in the heavenly realms. So we need to fight
this in a spiritual basis. You can't win a physical
battle with Satan because it's not where it's fought. So
Dan wrote back to me and he said, hey, Todd,
totally agree. We see more oft what we see more
often our Christians who just sit back and have And
some have said that since God is in control, my
getting involved will usher not getting involved will usher in
Jesus sooner. I totally disagree, as God's timing is not ours,
and we must reach out and touch others for Jesus
and we can in his power. While if debated with
a close friend who stays out of the fray, even
though I've told them that putting on the armor of
God isn't for sitting on the bench looking good. It's
for battle, even if we don't see positive results from actions.
What's your take on those who keep their armor all
shined up, waiting upon the Lord. Best regards Dan, Well,
I guess Dan, and thanks for the years of support.
We were given a spirit part of the armor as
a spear and a shield. Those things go together. If
you're going to play defense against Satan your whole life,
you're not honoring God. We have victory. God wins. Revelation
shows us God wins those of us who have a
relationship with Him, and he knows us because that's what
we're warned. He wants to know us. But Lord, I
wore the armor, I fought the battle. I never knew you.
Go away from me, evildoer. Shield and sword go together.
We're in a war, the spiritual war. We don't have
the luxury of sitting by because if we constantly play defense,
we're not helping to stand in victory. And when we're
given a spear, it's to be used. God didn't give
it to us so we can put it in their
ground and go, hey, look a spear. A decision to
not fight is a decision to let others do it
for you. It's a decision to not know God. Talk
to a team guy someday, someone who worked in special ops, seal,
whatever ranger. Talk to them. They know their friends better
than anybody else. My friend Tim Krukshank from Bone Frog Coffee,
his closest friends are the guys with whom he fought
Why because they got to know each other in ways
that they couldn't ever Some of my closest friends people
I don't ever see, but when I do, there is
no distance. Time has not gone by. Are people with
whom I wrestled or played football because we've forged a
special relationship. God wants to know us, and sometimes you
get to know someone by being in battle. Thank God,
my wife gave God gave me a wife who stued
with me in the most important battle of our life
on behalf of our daughter. This is the Todd Hermanshaw.
Please go be well, be strong, be kind, Please make
every effort to walk in the light of Christ.