Speaker 1: Welcome to the Three Stories version of the Todd Herman Shows.
Story number one, Reality has come to Washington, d C.
And the people in that separate country don't like reality.
Story number two, the Andrew Tait issue is pretty simple,
let's not complicated. Story number three Gene Hackman's life versus
Biblical fatherhood. We'll talk about this with the help of
God Almighty, Thank you Lord.
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Speaker 1: Today is the day the Lord has made in. These
are the times see which God has decided we shall live.
How were you the first time you were forced to
face financial reality. I've had to do it multiple times,
probably have to do it again. And I remember one
time in particular. I've never admitted this. I had a
car repode back when I was working in talk radio
and getting only fifty percent. No, that's not true. I
got seventy five percent of the revenue on deals I sold. No,
that's not right, sixty five percent of the deal I sold.
Thirty five percent from the deals the radio station sold
that it was we're just getting started. Those are all
my excuses. So I thought, you know, I could put
this off a little bit, not make this car payment.
It's a car I shouldn't have agreed to buy signed
on to, but I did, and I did it to
impress a girl. That's a good idea. And so I
kept talking to the lady. I remember the lady who
did collections. She's a nice lady. She had my same
last name extra. Once I asked her, did they give
you that last name to relate to me, She says, no,
it's my actual last name. Okay, well we have the
same last name. One day I walked out of the workplace.
My car was gone. What wasn't my car was the banks.
I remember walking up and down going my car's been
so and then I realized, nope, nope, it's been repode.
Turns out the guy who repoted it knew my dad,
and I knew him back in the stock car racing day.
So he got the registration. He goes, oh my gosh,
So he called my dad, and my dad decided to
bail me out of financial reality. He should have let
me stealing it and take public transportation to get to work.
But he didn't and I never missed another payment, and
praise God, I paid my dad back and I asked him, Hey, ultimately,
what could I do for you like you rescued me
from this? He said, when you're rich and famous, buy
me a corvette. So before my dad died, it wasn't
to a corvette. But he called me one day he said, hey,
remember that corvette. Yeah, Instead, I want you to buy
me this AMC javelin. Okay, I'll buy this javelin Dad.
Praise god, I got to do that. Where were you
when you first faced financial reality? So President Trump has
inserted some financial reality, and I think this was inspired
by Elon Musk's Doge team. They decided to take all
these credit cards that federal employees have and reduce their
spending limits to one dollar whoops. It's going to be
interesting to find out how much this affects the lives
of federal employees. Their lives, not the lives of government,
but the lives of the individuals. This was a series
of credit cards that facilitated around forty billion dollars in
expenditures alone. Forty billion bucks. Take a three to eight
percent instrate against that or maybe eighteen percent depending on
credit ratings. And see how much the big banks like
massive federal spending. We don't issue these credit cards from
a federal account. These are big banks taking rik on this.
A muse on Twitter points some things out for us,
and they do a great job. That account a US
service as a for service employee charge over thirty one
thousand dollars in personal luxuries like jewelry, electronics. Employees at
the Department of Housing and Urban Development a master over
twenty seven thousand dollars in taxpayer funded shopping sprees at
Macy's and JC Penny, and perhaps amuse rights. Most egregiously,
a Federal Aviation Administration employee brazionally withdrew cash at casinos
using a government card. These examples illuminate a persistent culture
of entitlement and fiscal negligence with federal bureaucracies. True, when
was the first time you face financial real And we'll
all probably face it again unless you've been a made
immune from this, and that's a danger in and of itself,
but we can talk about that in a different video.
Being made mune from financial reality can really mess you up.
I've seen it happen to people. It was responsible for
the death of a young guy who was my age,
died below the age of twenty nine. Immune from financial responsibility.
We all have responsibilities with the finances. We are told
to steward our finances. After all, this is stuff God
gave us. We are managers, not owners. So I have
a question for you in regard to your stewardship. How
do you steward the money given to you for hygiene
in your body, bodies the temple. It's meant to be
kept clean for the Holy Spirit, and that means inwardly
as well as outwardly. Jesus' focus of course on inward
cleanliness versus outward hence the whitewashed tomb thing. But we
are to maintain a clean body outwardly. So you're going
to continue to buy soap for the rest of your life.
So if you were to sit before the Lord Jesus
on an ipparently small thing like soap, and Jesus we
to say to you, hey, by the way, why did
you buy soap from a company that backed abortion? And
why are you buying soap from a company that was
using slave labor in China? Now I'm not trying to
elevate Alan Soaps to some big spiritual decision, right That
would be wrong. But I am asking you to think
about stewardship. So Allen's has grown into a company that's
getting close to being really, really, really self sustaining. It's
never going to be a high profit business. It's not
meant to be. It's designed to be a place for
people like Alan work. Alan is nonverbal. Effectively, he's fourteen,
He's been through about eighteen operations, and the rest of
the world would judge him is not worthy of employment,
and yet here he is inventing soaps made in America
by a family of three generations of soap making expertise
all natural soaps. His brother Ian now joins him at work.
He's also impacted by autism and amy with late onset autism.
It's not a big profit business. It's not designed to be.
It's meant to profit the souls of the people who
work there, because we're designed to toil in hounoriable ways,
and I think it's a way for us to steward
our funds. It's not a charity. John had an opportunity
to turn it into a charity with Amazon dot Com
and John said no, So I want to just ask
you to do this. Steward your money and try the soap.
If the soap is not what you like, don't buy
it anymore. I'm not asking you to do something like lie.
But if the soap is as great as I think
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Com slash Todd. When was the first time that you
faced fiscal reality or the need to work like you
actually have to work? Then when was the last time
you actually would do anything for work? I remember digging ditches,
and to begin with, I hated it, and then I
actually took a sense of pride in it. I remember
looking back at a ditchwell Doug and I needed to
do that. I remember taking pride when we went through
a period of time after I left Washington, DC, wondering
what I was going to do. Because I had worked
at the Republican National Committee and been very vocal about
my views, I wasn't welcome back into high tech circles
at that time, right and we were on the process
of founding our company and getting it turned around. So
it was like six months without work and a friend
of mine came to me with a consulting opportunity and
I earned good money at it. I remember during that
period of time seeing my little girl laying in her
bed safe and the house is paid forth, insurance provided,
and I felt that in a sense intense sense of gratitude.
When was the last time you were faced with rally?
This is the first time DC's been based face with ROWDI.
This is the first time one dollar spending limits on
their credit cards. Welcome to financial reality. We're not going
to purchase your jewelry for you. Welcome to financial reality.
You're not going to go for casinos and take out
tax payer money and gamble with it. That's done. Welcome
to reality. Sometimes reality sucks. Wasn't there a movie based
on that? That was the tide of a movie? Wasn't it?
Reality sucks? So this is a federal employee and she
made a video because she has experiencing a sense of
utter outrage. The music is hers. She posted it on TikTok.
Our federal government employees were returning to the office five
days a week after one year decisions, get off work
in time to be with their kids. He used to
be a to work out at home in his lunch break,
and now he has to go into work. I've handled
all the mentoring and the morning of our kids. We've
made these changes our families. And what she's bemoaning in
the fact is father her husband has to go to work,
and she's going through all the things that were nice
to have her husband at home. Yes, I'm sure that
was very nice. Perhaps your husband should seek a work
from home job because the boss has decided you have
to come in. Look, I was told in radio like
you got to come back in. You got to move
back from Idaho to Seattle, and I said, I'm not moving. Well,
that was one of the reasons I left, primarily speech codes.
I'm going to say what I want to say. Number two,
i want to put God at the center of the work.
And my radio company never said don't do that. They're
always very supportive of that. And number three, No, we've
been over her during the lockdown. I'm not moving. That
was scary. I'm sure that's very scary for her, but
this is reality. Bosses decide where you work. Bosses also
decide when you leave, and sometimes it's really painful. Sometimes
the leaving is not good. Sometimes it's a flat feels
like an insult. But this is the first time DC
residents have felt this. In Washington, DC. If your guy
loses in Congress, you walk across the hall and you
get another job, or you go to a think tank,
you go to a campaign. So many people there have
three separate jobs because the grift is always on. So
this is the first time a lot of these people
have faced reality, and it's painful for them. Some USAID
employees were not a fan of how they were Let go.
Speaker 2: And go here, right.
Speaker 3: They give us a long list. Don't bring in weapons,
don't bring in firearms. You've been working in this office
for decades. Right, of course we know what to do.
But they have a whole bunch of additional security setup.
Then they enforce no photos, no videos. My first wife
passed away. She's honored on the memorial Wall. She was
a Foreign Service officer herself, so I wanted to take
another photo to send her mother. Gotten into an argument
with the customers in border patrol security guard who said
no photos.
Speaker 1: What did you do?
Speaker 3: I explained my story to him. And he said, no,
we have instructions. You were not allowed no photos, no.
Speaker 2: Videos, so you weren't able to get a photograph.
Speaker 4: I was not on the memorial I was not.
Speaker 1: Now, did this will make you feeling? Gosh? What a question?
How did this all make you feel? They're standing there
in beautiful Georgetown. I don't know if you're If you
see in the background the star skin Hutch taxi. Did
you see that actually got a star skin Hutch Taxi.
That's some good brandy. Look. Did you hear what he said? Importantly?
I wanted you take another photo, That's what he said.
I wanted to take another photo of my wife's name
on the memorial wall, meaning I already have one. He
wanted a performative moment. Are they really going to stop
me from taking a picture of my wife's name on
the memorial wall? Another one. It's a good thing to
see reality hitting Washington, d C. It's not revenge. Revenge
is the purview of the Lord and the Lord only. Secondly,
I don't feel the need for revenge against this man.
I don't know anything about this man. I know usaid
was utterly corrupt, but I don't know that he is.
Reality is an important thing for Washington, DC to experience
because they have built a reality for other people. They're
not living in the reality they created for others. When
corruption reigns and everybody's playing it it, times are good, man,
because the money keeps coming. DC has had a great
business model. When they want more money, they take it.
When it's not enough, they take more. You don't investigate
our guys, We won't investigate yours. You don't put our
guys in jail. We won't put you in jail. You
don't question our corruption, we won't question question yours. Okay,
that curtain's been torn down. Maybe the next time these
people get government work, if that ever happens, and things
come up like, well, it's only a trillion dollars, maybe
they might have enough empathy to say, do you know
how many Americans we could hire with a trillion dollars?
Do you know how much we could do the con
Do you know what would happen to taxpayers if we
put that back into the kitty, back into their bank accounts?
Do you know what that would mean? Story number two.
This is not a complicated issue to me, the Andrew
Tate issue. And I'm aware that it's supposedly turning conservatism apart,
but I don't care because some things transcend politics, like
truth and morality. So I want to speak into this.
If not met Andrew Tate, I wouldn't like to meet him.
I would interview him in five seconds, but it might
not be the interview that he'd want to have because
my questions might be different from the questions other people
have had. A Saychantus always interviewed him the other day,
and she's smart to do it. He's a big name.
But it's a very very simple issue. Some things seem
really complex on the front of it. Other times it's
super super simple. The complexity of our bodies can make
things seem really really really hard to explain sometimes, so
I'm going to do my very very best to explain
a single stem cell. So if you take a stem
cell that's in your body, how old is that stem cell? Well,
if that stem cell was made when you're born, that
stem cell is however old you are. Stem Cells get
building roles assigned to them, so where they appear in
the body or at the time of gestation, at the
body development, they're assigned a role. So a stem cell
might build a heart a stem cell might build figurernails.
Once the stem cells assigned a role, that's its role.
So before being assigned a role, they're packed with building capability,
but they haven't been told what to build. So if
you look at forty two million of them, they're sitting
there freaking out, like, we're just ready to build stuff.
Just tell us what to build. What are we supposed
to build? If they've already been assigned that role, they
have some things they can do for you, like reducing inflammation.
In the United States of America, if you get stem
cell treatment, in all likelihood, what you're getting is your
own stem cells taken out of your bone marrow and
employed to say a wound, maybe in a rotator cuff
surgery or a back surgery, and it does a decent
job of reducing information. My surgeon has done this for
me twice. The stem cells from placentic chords and an umbilica,
umbilical cords and pulsentis on the o their hands. They're
packed with building capabilities, they don't have a role assigned.
So that single stem cell inserted into your shoulder or
your back or your wrist, you've got carpal tunnel or
your hands where you have debilitating arthritis. First thing it
does is clean up the building site. So forty two
million of them in my right shoulder cleaned up the
building site. That is, it just destroyed the information. Once
the inflammation was destroyed and the building site was cleared out,
it got to building forty two million cells, rebuilding tendon
and muscle in my shoulder, and in short order I
had my push up some pulps back in eight weeks
versus forty eight with my left shoulder, and my left
shoulder still ain't good. Same surgery, far different outcome. So
I'm actually gonna go get stem cells in my left shoulder,
this now almost three years after that initial surgery to
finally get the full healing I should have gotten. It's
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Pierce Morgan was talking to Alina habab or Haba. She's
one of the counselors to President Trump. She was one
of his lawyers. She actually did a great job for him.
She's a smart spokeswoman. And they talked about Andrew Tate.
Let's watch he Hello, Alena.
Speaker 5: Hey, nice to meet you.
Speaker 4: I'm a big fan. Well, nice to meet you. I'm
a fan.
Speaker 1: You're the one saving Trump. You're doing more important work than.
Speaker 5: Me America America, not just Trump. And I agree with
everything you just said. And I think that your anger
is the same that President Trump has for our country,
and the time is now for us to stop being whimps.
Speaker 6: I think saying there is not actually true about Andrew Tait.
He is not of the same ilk as President Trump.
Find me the person and I'll find you at the crime.
That is true President Trump. That is not particularly true
of Andrew Tate.
Speaker 1: Well still responds to abandon. Shapiro said that.
Speaker 4: I appreciate all walks of life.
Speaker 7: I do not condone trafficking or some of the comments
that Andrew Tate has made. Listen, he is a social
media presence. There are a lot of people that watch them.
There are a lot of comments that aren't controversial, so
to go to Ben Shapiro's comment, I don't.
Speaker 4: Think it's conflating.
Speaker 7: I think you can parse things out if you look
at the claims, some of them that they've made against
President Trump, which were completely nonsense. And I don't know
about the Tape Brothers' cases, that's not my concern.
Speaker 4: That does not mean they're true. That also does not
mean they're not true.
Speaker 7: You don't know, but in my case, I have sat
through this where I know enough to know you do
not post judgment on somebody until they have had a
fair trial.
Speaker 4: You do not do that.
Speaker 7: And more importantly, if anybody wants to deny the fact
that they have a very strong social media presence, then
feel free to attack me. But I don't really care, frankly,
because there is something called free speech, and I can
tell you single handedly that as much hate and anger
as people had, I think.
Speaker 4: They're conflating issues.
Speaker 7: I don't condone some of the things that he has
been told. You know that he's currently under investigation for.
I don't condone them, but I also recognize fully that
we have broken systems in many countries, and I also
condone the fact that you are allowed to speak for
yourself you are allowed to speak freely, and that's what
I stand for, and I stand with that.
Speaker 1: With President Trumps, no one says he doesn't have a
social media presence. It's a really ridiculously disappointing thing to see,
as spoke well, a spokesperson, but a counselor to President Trump,
refused to answer the question she respects all walks of life?
I don't. I don't respect a walk of life that
involves trafficking people at all for any reason. I don't
respect all walks of life, and nor do you. You
don't respect the walk of life of a cartel head.
You fought to put a guy in office who promised
to end that, and he is. You don't respect all
walks of life. You don't respect malcombird media members who lie.
I don't either. This is a very simple thing. What
are the things that Andrew Tate has said? This is
a very simple matter. Forget the trial. I don't know
enough about the justice system in Turkey to know if
anything was fair. Well, let's go through some things that
we can know. This is a great piece from the
Free Press, written from an actual conservative perspective. So here's
some things that Andrew Tate has apparently done. He is
apparently bragged about trafficking women. He apparently called his sex
business a total scam that he got away with. He
apparently described how he used the lover boy method to
get women into a point psychologically conned where they were
willing to become prostitutes on camera, and he took a
break on that. He apparently bragged about beating women up
and about using violence to get what he wants against women,
and I think the evidence is against girls. In the
Free Press piece, which I think is very fairly written,
they write this when the private jet carrying the Tates
his brother came with him first leted in Fort Lauderdale
from Romania last Thursday, they received probably a Romanian justice
department at Turkey c I said they didn't know enough.
They received news that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis denounced the
Tate brothers and said they weren't welcome in the state.
Desantus added that Florida Attorney General was examining whether the
state has jurisdiction to prosecute Tate. This made Tate furious.
He said that the state of Florida is a communist state.
Do you believe the state of Florida is a communist state. No,
no one does. He also went after Megan Kelly because
Megan Kelly had said that she is not a fan
of Tate doing a speech on Twitter Dash acts to
a young Republican group. And here's some of the things
that Tate said in the conservative world and accusations the
same as a can. Tate said that people who criticize
him sound like a girl. It's gay. That's a very
grown up statement. Then he went on to say this
about American conservatives. And he was on a podcast with
a guy. I've not seen his podcast. I'm sure it's
very good podcast, Patrick bet David's podcast. So he got
a big, get good job. He talked about American conservatives.
They're pastor, they live in Nebraska, they married their first love,
they have a white picket fence, and they go to
church every Sunday. Great, good for you. Guess what, most
men in the world don't care what you say, because
there's no light without darkness. And I have enough dark
to bring the light. Wow, you have enough dark to
bring the light? No, you don't. God is light and
in him there's no darkness at all. You don't have
any power to bring God. There is a being who
is masquerading as an angel of light, and sometimes he's
brought false light. Oh but there is this. Andrew Tate
also recently became a Muslim. Interesting a faith where it's
okay to rape women and to beat women. Does it
strike you at all as megelam maniacal to say I
have enough dark to bring the light. This is a
guy who's apparently bragged about beating women. This is a
guy who, very evidently, looking at his business model, it
was sex trafficking. It's a very simple thing. Andrew Tait
allows great evil to be done through him. He's unrepentant.
He practice is a false faith. They satanic faith. It
seems to me to be something that is convenient for him,
a place to hide, as it were. And then he
uses ridiculous tropes like all conservatives are just living in Nebraska.
They married their first love all of a way of
creating a false duality, the false, unreachable, perfect nature of
the Nebraska pastor versus the perfect darkness of Andrew Tate,
who's been imbued with an incredible power that he, Andrew
Chate himself, can bring the light. You will know them
by their fruits violence, sexual exploitation, unrepentant pride, turning to
a false faith. Are these the fruits of someone who
belongs anywhere near the levers of power? One of the
big questions has been, since he's apparently a very good
friend of Donald Trump Junior, did President Trump have anything
to do with lifting his travel brand to come into
the United States? Hope not. I said earlier, I'd have
tate on in five seconds, and I would, and I'd
start with who were you to beat women? You know
that some of those women were probably daughters of the Lord,
adopted into the family of the Lord Jesus, and you
were beating God's daughters? Who are you to do that?
And incidentally, Andrew, tell me about your repentance. And incidentally,
while we're on the topic, why did you choose Islam
over Christianity? Because I've got a theory in that I
don't think you'd fit in Christianity. After all, you just
said you have enough darkness to bring a light, And
I would tell you, God, who is light, would absolutely disagree.
It's pretty simple. He doesn't belong anywhere near the levels
of power. And tell you allows or stops allowing evil?
To be done through him. I don't think he belongs
anywhere near light society. I think it's a story number three.
Gene Hackman. Of course, given these incredible gifts by God,
incredible gifts of timing and comedic timing and dramatic acting,
he could do the range. But he's also a guy
who's human. Was I mean he was? I guess he's
not human anymore because he's died.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: I hope he went to the Lord. I hope everybody
goes to the Lord. He did an appearance on The
Actress Dutio with James Lipton. What an incredible thing. There's
a place I think it's called Pace University in New
York City, and they have this program where people like
Gene Hackman, that level of success in the industry go
back and spend a week with film and drama students.
Can you imagine walking into a room where Gene Hackman
is going to sit with you and watch your short
film or comment on your script. Just an incredible opportunity
to get someone who knows that business cold and I
guess just seemed to be a decent man. I guess
I believe that because he didn't sick his nose into politics.
He did his work to produced some really good films,
some truly awful ones. I made the terrible mistake of
watching the French Connection of the Night. What utter garbage
and that thing won two awards. No, it's a garbage film,
total garbage. So he made some bad films too, but
he made some great ones. But he said something during
the Actor's studio which really struck me as unbelievably sad
and James Lipton man great great interviewers. Watch this. How
old were you when your father left? Well, my dad left.
Speaker 2: Us when.
Speaker 1: I was about thirteen. I guess was it easy? No,
it's tough, tough. I've read that there was a sort
of casual wave goodbye.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I was down the street playing with some guys and.
Speaker 3: He drove by and had kind of waved, and.
Speaker 2: That was it.
Speaker 1: But you saw them occasionally, presumably you see his eyes
missing up. Will you close to your mother?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Excuse me?
Speaker 1: You see this, This man is crying. Did life change?
Speaker 3: Rather, it's only been sixty five years or so, you know.
Speaker 1: You see that? Hear that? I bet you. In his
family he was a peacemaker and he wasn't feeling peaceful there,
but he decided to lighten the room, and he did
it with this great skill. God gave him the perfect
timing from crying to the joke. But do you think
it was a joke to him? There is great truth
in great comedy. Great comedians take great tuurs and they
use them comedically, and Gene Hackman did that. They're given
this incredible gift by God. So thank God that Gene
Hackman didn't repeat the sins of his father. Except Gene
Hackman repeated the sins of his father. I'll tell you
about that in just a second. Also talk about redemption
and biblical fatherhood. Part of being a biblical father or
being a spiritual father to someone is to help them
along with their maturity through sharing them with them mistakes
you've made in your life and being open and transparent
in that regard. I made some mistakes early on physically
that got me to the point where I weighed nearly
four hundred pounds, And sometimes it's difficult for people to believe.
I mentioned this guy. I was having lunch the other day.
This guy bought me lunch a few weeks ago, and
I saw him in this place. I decided to return
the favor and he's seeking health. And I mentioned during
the conversation I used to weigh about four hundred pounds
and he found that difficult to believe what he weighed
to day told him, as of this morning, weigh about
two hundred and nine pounds, and how did you do it?
So we get into this conversation. One of the things
I didn't do was look at all all the things
I was doing that contributed to that, that were outside food.
For instance. I will go through periods of time and
I've been in one recently where I get addicted to
diet colas and I conned myself constantly. No I do.
I mean you see, I conned myself constantly. This time
it'll be different with me and diet coke. No, it's not.
It goes from a can to well it's two and
then at the end of the day, Wow, I had
six die cokes today. You know what that does. It
packs on fat. It creates inflammation in your body. I
didn't look at other things I did, like treating inflammation
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Gene Hackman actually repeated some of the mistakes his father made.
The Daily Mail report this and it didn't make me
happy to read, although there is sort of a happy ending,
But when you compare it against biblical fatherhoods, there's a
far greater message exposed. Wounds behind the tragic whiff between
Gene Hackman and his children. That meant he lay dead
for weeks. That's a stretch. Just because he wasn't in
constant contact with his kids, it doesn't mean they're responsible
for him laying dead for weeks. Here's the article, or
part of it. Although he was a legend on the
silver screen, Gene Hackman's commitment to the glamorous Hollywood scene
caused a rift in his family life. His marriage ended
in divorce, and Hackman became somewhat absentee while the Trio
were growing up, Trio being his kids. He lost touch
with Christopher, openly admitting he was gone so much. While
his son was at an age where he needed support
and guidance. He similarly maintained contact with Leslie and Elizabeth,
who were both spotted on occasion accompanying him to film
screenings in Hollywood events. But Hackman has acknowledged his children
had a difficult upbringing and struggled with his success always
hanging over his head or their heads. It wasn't until
he married his second wife in nineteen ninety one that
the family began to heal. Our Kaba was keen on
helping Hackman reconcile with his children and encourage him to
invite them and their grandchildren over to their Santa Fe home.
At the end of his life, Hackman was reportably close
with his children and their kids, but it's still gone
through months without seeing Leslie, the one family member who'd
had the most contact with both him and our Kabwa
to believed that he lay dead for weeks. Hackman repeated
a pattern, and the pattern was something else was more
important than his family. There's only one single thing that
should always be more important than your family, and there
is something. But we're told in the Bible that he
who will not care for his family is worse than
an unbeliever. Why when you participate in childbirth, allowing God
to create a child through you. You're getting as close
as you will ever be to being Godlike. Your wife's
womb becomes a garden of Eden. In effect, there is
no one in there trying to kill the baby. Well
less the world breaks in, it's warm and quiet. Sounds
are muted, lights are muted. The provider is never away
from you because you live within the provider. Every need
is taken care of, no need for water or food.
It simply comes to you. I mean, in the garden
of Eden, we had to work. Babies don't have to
work in the womb other than growing and stretching and
yawning and learning to open and close their hands, touch
their face with their fingers, scratch an itch, so they're
doing fetus work. Born. You and your spouse have been
given the ultimate act of stewardship, a human life. God
is handing you someone he knit together. I mean, it's
miraculous what women's bodies do. That it's driven by God's process.
Who's doing the knitting and the constructing. And God is
handing you this baby saying, okay, I'm going to give
you a baby. And I used to be a baby,
and I know these babies need care. So I'm going
to hand you this baby, and you're going to steward
this baby. And here's some ways you're going to steward it. Fathers,
do not anger your children. Do not drive them to
anger or bring them up in what is right. Husbands,
love your wife as Christ love the church. Women submit
to your husbands as Christ as you would submit to Christ.
That's hard right for women, but there is one thing
that should always come before families, and that's God that
takes us back to the man. Yes, women, submit to
your husbands who is submitting to Christ Jesus. And when
your husband is truly submitting to Christ Jesus, it will
be easy to submit because your husband is becoming like Jesus.
We ourselves cannot become love. Jesus is love. We ourselves
cannot become light. Jesus is light. But we can further
and further in our walk with Christ. Have the Holy
Spirit amplify in ourselves that the Ultimate Father lives within us.
When the Ultimate Father lives within us, we're more easily
called to emotional accounts, or, as we say, as evangelical Christians, convicted,
we start to walk away from God's design. It is
not God's design that fathers say, Hey, I have a
career in Hollywood, so it's more important than my kids.
Gene Hackman did admit that he allowed this deduction of
success to draw him away from his family. To his
credit and to the credit of his ex wife, they
appeared to reconcile. And God, of course can raise all things.
He can take dead, dry bones and turn them to life.
So if you're a father who walked away from your kids,
go back ask for forgiveness. If your mother who walked
away from her kids, go back, ask for forgiveness. Pray
that the Lord will guide your actions, apologize and change.
But you can't change yourself in this way. You're going
to need to help with the Holy Spirit. I wonder
how life would have been different if Gene Hackman had
been fully discipled or even new Christ with all that talent.
Can you imagine what he could have done? This is
a todd hermannshew. Please go be well, be strong, be kind,
and please make every effort to walk in the light
of Christ.