Speaker 1: Welcome to the Three Stories version of The Todd Herman Show.
Story number one Tucker and the Dictator of Iran. Story
number two, a father gives some advice on abuse proofing
your kids. Will it work? And story number three a
key difference between Christianity and Islam, at least if you
expect to believe this certain preacher of Islam. We talk
about this with the help of Bisible at gobisible dot
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Speaker 1: Today is the day the Lord has made in These
are the times to which God has decided we shall live.
And Tucker Carlson done went and did it again. If
you're one of the people who defended Tucker when he
was when he flew to Russia to interview Vladimir Putin,
I like to ask you if you've had an equal
defense of him going and interviewing the dictator of Iran.
Now there are differences, for sure. Iran is one of
the top sponsors of terrorism in the world. The Iranian
government has promised to rid the world of Jewish people
and then move on to ridding the world of Americans
the big Satan, starting with the Little Satan. They call
us the big Satan. That's at least what we're told.
And I watch Memory TV. I hope you do it
tracks Middle East media. I've seen what children in Iran
are taught and in Hamas territories are taught, and I've
seen them be taught to be terrorists, and I've seen
them being taught openly to hate Jewish people, to believe
that there are literal animals. It's very difficult to watch
and it's very real. The question I have for people
who are upset that Tucker Carlson agreed to have this
conversation is why did you not get upset that he
had it with Putin? We were told that Putin's are enemy. Well,
I don't know that he is. I was upset by
either of these because I don't see Tucker as a policymaker.
I don't see Tucker Carlson as president. I see Tucker
Carlson as an opinion journalist. And I see Tucker Carlson
with a program that has one of the biggest footprints
in so called alternative media, which is actually much more mainstream.
Now that's said, I have friends of mine who probably
probably have a real problem with this, and I should
ask him. One of my friends went to war in
the Middle East. He has employed three separate times in
the Middle East as a medic attached to the seal teams.
He fought a battle in literal Babylon. Of course, he
lost brothers there, and yeah, in a way, I think
it changed him, and in a big way, I think
it propelled him to be the man God has always
designed him to be. When he came back to America,
he was a physician's assistant. He helped his wife live
twenty years beyond where she was supposed to live while
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He's a commentating journalist. He decided to have the Dictator
of Iran on. One of the big criticisms of him
had to do with the comparison between he questioning the
Dictator of Iran and Ted Cruz, and we'll talk about that.
Tucker asked if nuclear the nuclear program is something that
Iran would be willing to give up an exchange for peace.
Speaker 3: Would you be willing to give up the nuclear program
in exchange for peace.
Speaker 4: I would like to tell you what has happened. And
it was Natania who, since nineteen eighty four has created
this false mentality that Iran seeks a nuclear bomb, and
it has insinuated that Iran is trying to develop a
nuclear bomb in the past, and it has put it
in the minds of every US president since then and
to make them believe that we would like to have
a nuclear bomb. But the truth is that we have
never been after developing a nuclear bomb, not in the past,
not presently or in the future. Because this is wrong,
and this is in contrast to the religious decree or
the fat Law, which has been issued by His Eminence,
the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, that
so it is religiously forbidden for us to go after
a nuclear bomb.
Speaker 1: Never heard that of you. Now, I've heard our Fran
and some of their operatives saying we're going to destroy
the West. I've heard them saying that they're going to
destroy the little Satan and the big Satan that's Israel.
And I don't know how you do that with conventional forces.
Maybe it's through other means. Maybe it's through means of terrorism,
but I've never heard that. So Tucker's job is to
bring us things we've never heard. And I can testify
to this not because I know Tucker. I don't, but
because I know what it's like to leave a constrain
media environment and to be unconstrained. I know the instincts
that follow. When I worked in morning radio and Seattle
and I was told, you cannot say the election was stolen.
You cannot question the sanctity, not the sanctity. You can't
even suggest it was stolen. I got away with saying
it was rig but I'd already said I was going
to quit the second they said you can't stay stolen,
I say stolen. I resigned, and they gave me a
very dignified exit, super dignified. I have nothing disparaging to
say about them at all, but I know that once
those shackles came off, I really enjoyed being able to
say whatever I wanted to about the elections, and I
liked examining them. I know what it's like to have
the shackles taken off, and Tucker Crosson had shackles at
Fox News. There were things he wasn't supposed to talk
about and the expressions he wasn't supposed to make, so
you can kind of get excited about doing this. Tucker's
also in a position to bring us ability to think
a little bit more about this. Do you believe the
dictator of Ourran? I mean you can go look at
memory TV like I mentioned, and show yourself videos of
them promising to take out the West. You can go
look at their threats against us, and you can make
a determination. You could listen to Mark or Ruby who says, no, wait, wait, wait,
wait wait. If this is just for energy, why did
they need the uranium refined up to this point? That's
not for energy. No one needs it for energy. This
is weapons grade uranium. Why do they need weapons grade uranium?
Why did they spend money that Barack Obama gave them
to arm people to attack our troops in Syria? If
they're not interested in war with us, why were they
funding a war with us? Why did they fund Hamas?
But it allows us to have this debate. Tucker Crossing
does us a favor when he goes and asks the
dictator of Iran, Hey, would you guys, have you ever
tried to say, unlive President Trump.
Speaker 3: Has run ever backed an assassination attempt against Donald Trump.
Speaker 4: This is actually what Natania who is trying to insinuate
and to make your people or the president of your
country to believe. But this is wrong because Natanio, as
I said, has its own agenda. It wants to drag
the US into forever wars, as I said, and to
bring you more insecurity, instability, and unrest to the whole region.
Speaker 3: There are a number, some large number of Iranian nationals
living in the United States. Some have said they are
quote sleeper cells, they are terrorists who are acting at
the command of your government. Would you right now make
a statement to Iranian citizens living in the United States
not to commit acts of violence in the United States.
Speaker 1: See now, Tucker's been it's been said that Tucker didn't
ask tough questions. One of the criticisms has been comparing
Tucker Carlson talking with this guy versus talking to Ted Cruz.
So just again, I don't know Tucker, but I know
a little bit about media, and he just hangs up.
I mean, he just says lying American and hangs up.
He is good for him, so he can get his
spin and perhaps his utter lies across. That's good for him.
I hope he's not giving it's just sleeper cells. I
really hope he's not, because he might be. That's a
risk we take in a transparent society. That's a risk
we take as a people who actually believes the First
Amendment protects a journalist, even an opinion journalist like Tucker
in having interviews like this. Now, Ted Cruz isn't going
to walk out of the interview. He's not going to
hang up in Tucker his face. He can't because Ted
Cruz needs Tucker Carlson, and Tucker Carlson knows this. But
it's a great question. Are there sleeper cells in America?
Now I've been on the record. There have to be.
There have to be. The Iranians are not stupid human beings.
God gave them intelligence as well. We had an open border,
wide open for four years. We met people ice encountered
people at the border who were on the terrorist watch list.
Iran and their leaders would have to be blanketly, blanketly
stupid to not take advantage of this. So are there
Iranian sleeper cells in America?
Speaker 4: These telling me it's the first time I'm hearing them
from you or from anybody you know. The Iranians are
known for their knowledge, for their science, for their charactersy
being civilized. Have you seen otherwise from them? Any other
kind of behavior from them or any violence behavior? Has
anybody ever seen anything from them? As I said, this
is what Israel is trying to put into your minds.
They are propagating that Iranians might be capable of doing
a thing. But this is totally untruth because by nature
Iranians are pro keyth and tranquility, and they're trying to
actually make to somehow impact the minds of the decision
makers and the people of the United States and to
secure them into getting involved in a war in my region.
Speaker 1: All of us are broken. All of us are broken
by sin problems. I don't think I don't think most
of us are innately peace seeking because we're broken. We're
given the falling into discord and disagreements and arguments. I
don't think of're rating people any different. But to answer
that man's questions, yeah, I've watched the early morning dawn
un a livings of women because they stepped outside their
houses without without men or boys following them. That doesn't
seem horribly peaceful to me. So Tucker Carlson made a decision,
and I think it was a good one. He went
and had the conversation. He asks, what would happen if
war broke out with Iran? Would they receive help from
Russia and China?
Speaker 4: We have always put our trust in God, and in
God we trust, and we are capable enough to defend
ourselves into assents on our own two feet, and to
defend our country, our territorial so effectively.
Speaker 1: It's a non answer. If you defended Arker Karlson for
having a conversation with Vladimir Putin, why would you not
defend them for having this conversation. We live in an
era where we've learned there's very little we can trust
that comes out of the mouths of many, many government
leaders in the United States. Is it different with the
dictators of Iran? Is it different? We can judge them
by their fruits, and this is what we should do.
What are the fruits of Iran since the Islamic takeover?
What did Iran look like before? What was the state
of human rights? What were the state of women's rights?
What were the state of the economy, the balance of power,
the balance of assets. What's happening in our states. Let's
use God's wisdom mat our own. Let's judge them by
their fruits. Story number two. A father gave some advice.
He contends, will abuse prove your children? Do you believe that?
Do you believe it's our job to abuse po for kids,
to make them unable to be abused? I think it's
our job to give them the mental tools to protect themselves.
But more importantly, the physical tools are probably the spiritual tools. YEP.
I want my daughter to be able to look out
and see physical threats. In fact, when she was getting
ready to go to college, I talked her into letting
me take her on an op SEC test run or two.
We went to downtown and I walked her through first
on her own. What do you see? And then we
would continue to walk and I said, here's what I see.
Look into that alley. Why are those people all stacked
up into that alley? There's nothing back there, there's no doors,
there's no food. What are they doing? Why are they there? Oh?
I didn't notice that, I did. Why do you think
they're there? I don't know. Why are they congregating? There
isn't there a place around the corner where they give
out needles. Oh, that's right, that's where they give people
the heroin needles. Right, are those people who want to
spend time with no walking down the street. I said,
there's a man coming up behind us. I'm with you
right now, so I don't think he's going to do anything,
And maybe he's just an ordinary man. If you were
by yourself, how could you protect yourself from being taken
by behind? From behind? And I showed her here's a
lamp post. It's a great, big, tall, thick lamp post.
He can't come at you, but he could reach around you,
grab your neck. What about putting your back up against
that wall? Well that's not very well lit. What this
but this one?
Speaker 4: Though?
Speaker 1: So I took her through that physical run, because we're
to do that with our kids. A parent decided. A
father decided that he wanted to give some advice on
how to abuse proof your children. I'll play this for
you in new seconds and respond, and I'd be curious
to see what you think about this. We also have
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five two. Here's a father with some advice on how
to abuse proof kids. Not retirement accounts, but kids number one.
Speaker 5: And I cannot stress how important this one is. I
have raised him to not be blindly obedient to me.
I do something he doesn't like, he tells me. I
still don't listen to him.
Speaker 1: He tells my.
Speaker 5: Wife if there is a boundary put in place for
his well being or safety. When he asked me why
that is in place, I explained it to him. I
do not say because I said so, because I'm the adult,
because you have to listen to me.
Speaker 1: None of that.
Speaker 5: Kids who are trained to not question authority are easy targets.
Thing two. We do not punish. We do not shame
for misbehavior or mistakes. Research is clear on this punishment
is ineffective discipline to begin with, and threat of you
know your parents are going to be mad at you,
They're going to get you in trouble are one of
the tools that abusers use to keep kids quiet. When
my kids teachers threatened to call home, He's like, please do.
They'll help us navigate the situation because he's not afraid
of us. He is not afraid of us finding out
about anything that happens to him. Think number three, we
talk about bodies. Bodies are not taboo. You want to
tell us something about your body, we are not going
to make you feel weird about that. Now if you
find yourself saying right now, like I thought, these tips
are going to be like don't let my kids be
alone with adults, and don't let them go to sleepovers
and all this other stuff, and what you've just provided us,
John is just general parenting advice. Yes, the greatest shield
against abuse is the way that you parent them every day.
And I just wish more parents knew that.
Speaker 1: So it start at the very very beginning here he
teaches his kid to question him and his wife separately,
to separate them. That's a great way to give your
kid borderline personality disorder by splitting the parents. It's one
of the things his kid develop as a technique of control. Wow,
if I don't like something my dad did, I can
go to my mom and maybe she'll change it. And
the kid gets in the position that they're running the household.
And guess what does that does to them? It helps
them feel uneasy Because kids require mentally and spiritually a
strong father and a support of a nurturing mother. So
great advice. If you want to split your kid up
borderline personality like you and your wife need to be
a unit. And if your kid tries this splitting, your
wife would say no. If dad said it, that's the rule.
If mom said it, that's the rule. And then later
you and her in private can have a convererce about this. Okay. Secondly,
sometimes it's healthy to say to your child because I
am the parent. And one of the ways you can
do this is say, look, I respond to God. I
take my orders from God Almighty. I don't question God.
This is what it says in the Bible. I am
your parent. My job is to raise you in a
godly way. I'm going to do that. We love you,
we know you. We're here for your concerns, and if
anyone ever tells you to keep a secret from us,
they don't have your best interest at heart. If anyone
ever touches you in a way that makes you feel uncomfortable,
you will never be in trouble for telling us. In fact,
you'll be brave. If an adult is threatening you are
taking you aside and whispering secrets in your ears, you
come and tell us because we are the ones who
God has entrusted to care for you. I think that
is a whole better series of ways to keep your
kids from being abused. Story number three. Is there anything
in the way you live that would indicate to people
that you belong to Jesus Christ. That's a really good question.
Is there anything in the way you live that would
cause someone who observes you to say you belong to
Jesus Christ. Let's look at this from a maybe simpler,
more worldly perspective. Let's let's start here. Is there anything
in your daily behaviors that it would indicate to people
that you speak English? I mean, if you go somewhere
and you're walking around and you're silent, no one's going
to know that you speak English. They can guess looks
like an American to me, maybe Canadian. And then you
open your mouth and you speak English, and people say
that person speaks English. Maybe you have a second or
third language. Is there anything that indicates that. I know
that there are people who will say, man, I just
I want to look like a workout, Well do you?
I mean one way to look like you work out?
Does it actually work out. In that case, people might
look at you and say, hey, I bet that dude
works out. Is there anything in your life that would
cause people to say, yeah, this person blocks of Jesus. Okay,
maybe it's this. Maybe there is a bumper strip on
your car that is the cross of Christ, or maybe
it's up in the windshield, because I've seen these. I've
seen these crosses of Christ in the windshields of trucks
in North Idaho. And then from time to time I
see in the middle of it a picture of a
boy urinating on Joe Biden's face, and then next to
that I see a sign that says after feelings. So
I'm left to wonder our weight Are you a Christian?
Because I see the cross, But then I see those
two other things, And now I'm left wondering, maybe you
go to church. Maybe you bought the truck and then
you put the cross. Maybe didn't. Is there anything in
your life that would indicate that you are a follower
of Jesus Christ. This isn't my question. I'm simply looking
at it from a spirit perspective. Fruits of the Spirit.
A guy named Paul Washer looked at this and asked
some questions. So let's talk about some ways that we
can tell are people walking with Christ. Let's look at
some ways we can measure ourselves. Are we walking? We
might think we are, but sometimes we can get off track.
I'll show you this video of Paul Washer in just
a second, because he phrases this in a way I
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and that to heads, and his dad is kind of
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And as he learns about Jesus through his father, who
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It's Angel dot com slash Todd. Here's Paul Washer asking
a very important question about us and people being able
to tell we belong to Jesus.
Speaker 6: What a horrible thing it would be to see him
one day as he is, and to realize that in
your life you sold him so cheap that you traded
him for so many things, like children playing marbles with diamonds.
Many of you here would say Jesus Christ is Lord,
but you live it though he's not.
Speaker 1: Who would watch your.
Speaker 7: Life and say, who would watch your life? Think about it,
young person, who would watch your life and say Jesus
is Lord of that one that one believes that Christ
is everything, that one believes that Christ is life itself.
Speaker 6: He says, there's none who understand. There's none who seek
for God. They have turned aside together they have become useless.
Let me ask you a question.
Speaker 1: How useful are you to God?
Speaker 6: How do you serve Him? What is it you actually do?
Speaker 1: Great great question by Paul Washer, who is an evangelist.
You're probably know him with his work on Heart cry
Missionary Society. Great question, what do you do? Now? See,
this is not about earning redemption. You can't because we
don't deserve it. That's a free gift given us through
the blood of Jesus Christ, offered to us for free
we simply have to accept it and meaningfully accept it.
And then, in other words, in the heart, Jesus, I
repent of my sins. I've sinned against you. It saddens me.
I want you to be my savior. I know you
the savior of mankind. Except you, as my personal Lord
and savior, I choose to follow you. Please, Jesus, come
into my life. Please give me the Holy Spirit, the
special helper to help me abide with you and to
become safe, which means to become wholly over time, more
and more like Jesus. So that's not about that. That's
the change that's accepting. It's how do people know? And frankly,
why is it important that they know? I'll give you
another kind of earthly kind of metaphor and we'll get
into the Bible. So back in the day when I
worked at Microsoft and the iPod had come out, which
was the precursor to the phone, right, it was just
a music device, and people were walking around New York
City and they had these white headphones because they weren't
yet earbuds. I mean, they weren't the big headphones like
I'm wearing now. The cans as we say in broadcasting
that they were just tiny little things in your ears.
But they were always white, brilliant, utterly brilliant. Why because
that had never been done, those little earbuds. Apple didn't
invent those. The existed for years, but they were always black.
Why because people don't want some big white cords sticking
around them. It's too Apple looked at that said, oh, no,
we're going to have everybody with a white headphone or
earbud cord because none of them record. This is at
the point that's an advertisement for a music device that's
hidden in their pocket. You knew they were listening to
an Apple iPod because of the headphones or earbuds. When
I worked at Microsoft and they brought me a device
that was the wrong color, I said, guys, you don't
get it. Yet, you don't get it. So what is
it in our lives that would indicate to people that
we follow the Lord Jesus? Well, this is what we're
shooting for. This is from Galatians chapter five, Verses twenty
two and twenty three. But the fruit of the spirit
is love, joy, peace for barns, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness,
and self control. Against such things, there is no law
so we want people to observe in us love, How well,
how do you love? You are patient, You don't keep
lists of grievances, You forgive. You're neither angry nor proud.
Sometimes people get angry, sometimes people fall into pride, but
you are not those things. Those are things you can
display to others. Patience can be displayed for barents can
be displayed. Forgiveness can be acted upon, both formally at
the cross asking God to forgive you or in my case,
my inequities and asking God to forgive others, or taking
your grievance against others because we're going to have them,
because we'll have troubles of these life to God and saying,
please lift this from me, Please help me forgive this person.
You could do that as you hate a person you're
experiencing hate. Lord, I hate this person. I'm not to hate.
I'm to love my enemy. Lord, Please lift from me
this hate, Please take it from me. Please give me patience, Lord,
I don't have it in my flesh. Please give me yours.
And the Holy Spirit can do that if we ask
for it. And this manifests for people faithfulness, the faithfulness
of a friend. You have a friend that goes way, way,
way off track. Maybe they get into drugs and alcohol
and looking at terrible stuff on their phones at night,
and you know this and they're confessing it, and maybe
you have to say, you know what, I can't hang
with you right now. I can't go out with you,
but I want to talk with you in the phone.
I do not honor this contact with you while you're
in this state. I can't be around it, but I
want to be able to provide counsel and talk with you.
Maybe you have an arms link arrangement and relationship for
a while, and that relationship is what brings them back
to Christ, and they'll remember your faithfulness and others will
as well. Maybe you've gone through a situation in a
marriage where your faithfulness is going to propel other people
to be faithful, and that commitment the forbearance, which is
another the way of saying long suffering. When people observe
these things, they can begin to know that you follow
Jesus Christ. There's some ways to know people do not
follow Jesus Christ. In the wake of the disasters in
the flood in Texas, there were people who wrote things
like this, Chris Tina get it Chris Blank Tina, may
all visitors, children, non mega voters, and pets be safe
and dry. Prayer hands. Keer County mega voters voted to
gut FEMA, they deny climate change. May they get what
they voted for? Bless their hearts. Doctor Lynn Flynn Jirella
points this out. This is the sort of pediatric clinician
employed at Bluefish MD in Houston, Texas. The ethics, humanity,
and empathy illustrated here is unfathomable. Then Mary Tanley Bowden
leans in, she's a doctor. This is Christina Propst who
encourage members of the public to report me to the
Texas Medical Board. Doctor Bowden took a different view of
infectious disease and she acted upon it, and the data
indicates she saved patients lives. You can look at this
and say number one, Christina is definitely not in the spirit.
You can look at Mary Taylor Bowen and say it
is deeply unfair. What happened to you? And are you
keeping a list of grievances? Have you forgiven her? Now
that's hard to do. Someone has taken something dear from you.
It's so difficult to do. Sometimes people aren't ready. But
God can help make you ready. Here's another example, and
this one comes from the right. I am someone who
does not like the government coming out and banning fireworks.
I grew up with rockets and firecrackers and an occasional
half sick at d item. Hey, I grew up nearer north,
idho forgive me Now. I'm at an age where I
don't like hearing him. I'm at an age where I
get up at four thirty in the morning, so I
don't like being up all night. I have a dog
that doesn't need this stuff, and when they go off,
I try to be understanding. We did it too, but
I don't take this attitude. It's a very famous meme,
and it's a great one, and I would so love
to meet the guy in the cameo hat. Did you
do this on purpose? Were you throwing shade at figurehead Biden?
They're standing here in a restaurant and Biden's pretending to visit,
and it's indeed in there, at least in body form.
There's cameras everywhere, and there's this guy sitting at a
table with his head in his hands, looking forward, not
paying attention to figurehead Biden at all. Who's looking at him.
I'm right here, I should understand you're my son bo Parton,
I mean to look like I drove an eighteen wheeler.
And the meme says under Biden my neighbor's Facebook post
about her dog's anxiety, and then me and the guy
is sitting there at a table with a whole bunch
of fireworks in front of himself. See this goes back
to blank your feelings. It goes back to that terrible
bumper strip I see on Christian cars and trucks, the
Cross of Christ with blank your feelings. The two things
do not go together. Now. I'm not saying we should
take away your rights to fireworks. I'm also not saying
that you shouldn't go to a neighbor who has severe
anxiety or her dog has severe anxiety, and go to
her and say, hey, listen, could I pay for some
CBD stuff for your dog?
Speaker 3: Hey?
Speaker 1: Could I get your dog a nice doggy hotel for
the night. We really enjoy fireworks with the family. I
know there's this deep anxiety. Hey, you know what, you're
a neighbor. Could we pay for a place for you
and your husband could take your dog for a day
and night? Maybe it's our lake. Well I'm not lake
cabin because they're gonna get that there. But do things
to mitigate this, right, isn't that what we're to do?
In this way people can know your Christians. Here's another example,
another meme, and this is a pretty famous meme. It's
a guy setting up a series of blocks. So it's
the Dominoes experience, but it's taken to it an absurd degree.
Starts with dominoes and then these white blocks that get
up to be about four feet tall, and of course
the little block knocks over a slightly bigger block, and
a slightly bigger block, until they'reknocking over these huge blocks.
And on the little block side is the guy's placing it.
It says the Babylon Bee calls Rachel Levin a man.
Rachel Levin was the man who pretended to be a
woman who helped run Health and Human Services into the ground.
The big domino that's about to tip over is a
UFC fight on the White House lawn. YEP, a outrageous thing.
A man pretending to be a woman running Health and
Human Services launched a whole series of outrages that put
President Trump back into office and now we're going to
celebrate this by having a sport where men beat each
other or bloody on the steps or the lawn of
the White House. I don't care for UFC. I don't
care for what it does to bodies. I wrestled in
high school, should have wrestled in college. I'm not here
to say that you shouldn't do it. I'm not here
to say you shouldn't watch it. I'm here to say,
is it truly what we want on our white house lawn?
Is that truly what we want to celebrate? It seems
a lot like Bread and Circuses. To me, it seems
a lot like Roman theater. It seems a lot like
projecting a brand of masculinity that may not be the
brand of masculinity that Jesus Christ would have us transmit
as men. Jesus was the strongest man who ever lived.
You may think you can put up with that stuff
that happened to him prior to the cross and afterwards.
I'm here to tell you you could not. I'm here
to tell you you could not stand the cups of
wrath that God Almighty poured out upon Jesus's head. It
would have melted you and it would melt me. So
what's in our lives show that we follow Jesus is
things we've talked about, These are some of the things
that indicate we do not. This is an Islamic preacher
displaying a key difference between Christianity and Islam, at least
if you believe his interpretation.
Speaker 8: How about the murderer, About the one who commits adultries
in it? What about the one who writes a child?
What about the one who drinks alcohol, go to bed?
This person one person that com meets all of these scenes.
He com meets all of these scenes on a daily basis.
But he prays. It's better in the eyes of the
law than the one that doesn't can mean any of
these scenes.
Speaker 1: But doesn't pray. Now, if you believe this interpretation, and
I'm not educated enough about Islam to know if I do,
it's a massive difference.
Speaker 2: Here.
Speaker 1: He describes some horrible harms people do to people, and
then continue to pray. The God of the universe, the
Triune God, the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, they know everything,
they know your motives, they know things whispered in the dark.
They're not fooled by praying and then going back and
sinning and praying, and sinning and praying, and sinning and
praying and sinning, as if to get good at it,
practicing sin like you're practicing a sport to get better
at it. They're not fooled by that. In fact, in
the Christian faith, we are told, we are warned that
there will be people on judgment Day who say, to
Jesus Christ, but wait, wait, wait, Lord Lord, Wait, stop, wait,
don't kick me out? Wait well, Lord Lord, and you're
bowing and you're scraping. Lord. Didn't we perform miracles in
your name?
Speaker 5: Wait?
Speaker 1: Wait? Didn't we cast out demons? Lord? Wait? And Jesus says,
I never knew you. Go away from the evildoers. Boom,
you made your decision. God's not fooled by false prayer.
And we shouldn't fool ourselves into believing in checking a
box for pardon the language hell insurance. What we should
do is check ourselves on a daily basis. Are we
walking in the spirit these are the fruits of the spirit,
Or are we in the fruit of the flesh, the
rotten flute of the fresh flesh? Are we treating each
other with God's definition of love? Are we keeping lists
of grievances. Are we being patient?
Speaker 4: Kind?
Speaker 1: Are we given to anger and pride and outbursts of either?
Because falling off the map that way can sometimes be temporary,
other times it can end up all too permanent. This
is the Todd Hermannshaw. Please go, be well, be strong,
be kind, and please make every effort to walk in
the light of Christ.