Speaker 1: Welcome to the Three Stories version of the Todd Hermer Show.
Story number one idolators can buy Sydney Sweeney's bathwater, but
that's just one idol. Story number two Why Trump wins
hearts and minds? And story number three Jesus Christ can
save all who run to him? Can Will people allow that?
We'll talk about this with the help of Bulwark Capital, Maagement,
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Speaker 1: Today is the day the Lord has made, and these
are the times to which God is decided where shall live.
I didn't bother to look to see who Sidney Sweeney is.
I'll be frank and honest with you, because I truly
don't care. I did learn because I happened to see
this come up on a Facebook page that she's from
my former hometown, spoken Washington. I guess I wasn't born there,
but that's where I grew up. So I know that
I know that she's super famous because I know there
are people who are willing to buy soap that's made
with drops of her bathwater, and I guess people consider
her very attractive. Now, NBC Chicago has this quote here.
It's weird in the best way. It's not. There's no,
it can't be. There's no good, there's no. And incidentally,
is there one woman one well, let me say this,
one opposite sex attract No. No, I don't even think
same sex attracted women would say yeah, yeah, I need
some soap made with the bathwater of another woman. Then again,
there are people who are buying shoes with the blood
of celebrities embedded in the heel. So what is idolatry.
Idolatry is anything that separates us from God, that replaces
in our heart's, minds and souls worship for God. I mean,
that's the biblical form of idolatry. Obviously, people can idolize
someone like this to the degree that it gets super creepy.
And if you're buying this soap, you have arrived at creepy.
You're at creepy level one hundred and creepy level one
oh one is where you show up at Sydney Sweeney's
apartment and say, I bought your soap. I love you.
But there's another form of idolatry that's a little bit
closer to my heart because it has to do with
someone I support. It has to do with someone for
whom I voted. And there is a line, man, there's
a real line, because it's not just the adoration, it's
the idolatry around President Trump, expressed in one headline from
a super well meaning writer. Super well meaning, but dang it,
this really drove me into a state of concern for
our souls. I'll explain that a second president Trump is
supported for many, many reasons. He spoke the words that
aren't to be spoken. I'm going to build a wall.
It's going to be beautiful. That was prior to first term.
He continues to speak words that shouldn't be spoken in
this society of speech codes. Mexico isn't sending their best
and brightest, sending their criminals. He continues to speak this
that America is getting ripped off for the joke of
the world. Financially, we're paying all the bills, getting very
little bit of the benefits. He's trying things economically that
are vitally important, and he's being told by rogue judges. Nope,
you can't do it. So in the middle of all
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one seven. This is a song by Natasha Owens, a
country singer, and it's a beautiful song. I love the song,
and it's describing President Trump in a certain way.
Speaker 3: I am the children.
Speaker 2: Chosen.
Speaker 4: Somebody had to do it.
Speaker 1: All leaders are chosen by God or at least allowed
to be there. Joe Biden was allowed to be in
the White House because God allowed it. I do believe
that President Trump is in act being far more godly
policies and trying to I think President Trump is trying
to push Pam Bond to do the right things about
what's going on in California in so called female sports.
I do believe that on the topic of unaliving babies,
I do believe President Trump has been far more godly
on many things. He's been far more godly. The chosen one.
We are all chosen. If you've accepted the Lord Jesus
and agreed to be changed by him and to abide
with him, you've been chosen, and you have very important
tasks as well. That it begins in your home starts
with abiding with Christ and then being a leader in
your home depending on your gender, and how you lead,
to come under and lift up your spouse. To love
your wife as Christ loved the Church, to respond to
your husband's spiritual direction, and the way that you respond
to Jesus. So long as your husband is following Jesus.
To bring your kids up this way, that's being chosen too.
You have a you have a ministry where you're at.
If you're a Christian, wherever you're at is a ministry.
Your job and how you're seen is in ministry. So
President Trump has been allowed to be in a role.
And I do believe God protected him. I don't think
for five seconds that he survived those two things without
God's help. The chosen One, there's only one true chosen one.
That's Jesus Christ. He's the chosen one. Through him, all
of the things are made. Without him, nothing was made.
He is the way, the truth in the life, and
no one gets to the Father but through Jesus Christ,
that's the chosen one. JD. Hall is a very smart writer,
and he writes a substack that is well worth reading,
and in fact it's something to which you subscribe. He
wrote a headline that really really got me concerned. The
data is in Trump is a unifying force in the church.
Speaker 2: Love.
Speaker 1: What have you believed? Churches are divided? Do not believe them?
They lie? Well, yeah, the media does lie. The left
does lie. And what we're seeing in this is statements
like this. I let a chapel this morning at Saint Brendan's.
This is Brian Suave writing on Twitter. At Saint Brendan's.
We usually begin with a call and response Welcome to
another day at Saint Bendan's, to which the students respond
a gift from the Lord. Before I could get to that,
the students began to chant Trump Trump, Trump. Absolutely sent
me smiley face. Then they sang Palm Psalm two with
more gusto than I've heard in some time. Scott Barbera
retweeted this and add, yeah, this is a church in blasphemy.
Uh yep. The name above all names is what name?
Jesus is the name above all names. And the point
that he makes in this article JD. Hall, is that
in fact, President Trump is very popular with evenge There
were some so called evangelicals said I can't stomach voting
for Trump, I won't vote. I refuse to vote for
Trump because he says rough things, and he has rough tweets,
and sometimes he says things that are horrible about women
or even two women, and I can't and I won't,
And they're the people who refuse to remember what Cammy
Harris was doing. Her closing argument to American males was,
you need to have access to these videos that you
don't tell people you look at, but you do it
nights on your phones. That was her closing argument. One
of them. So President Trump, it can be a unifying
force for the political beliefs of evangelicals. But in the church,
there is only one name around which Christians rally in
a church, and that is the name of Jesus Christ.
And if you find yourself rallying around the name of
any other person in a church, you are not in
a Christian church. There was a church we talked about
some time ago where they had put out a coloring
book and it said that we unite around our leader,
and the leader was not Jesus, it was their visionary pastor. Guys,
that's not a Christian church. Jesus said, it is upon
this rock I will build my church speaking of Peter's
confession that Jesus is the Messiah. It is upon this
rock I will build my church, and the gates of
Hades will not prevail against it. He didn't say churches
or I'm going to go out and build a series
of let's say micro churches and different flavors of churches
and franchises. And my church and his church has a definition.
It is his name above all other names. Please keep
that in mind. Idols are anything that separates you from gods.
And if you are idolizing any politician and chanting his
or her name and church, you have an idle issue.
Story number two, why President Trump wins Hearts and hands.
There's a saying in the evangelical world that we are
the hearts and hands of Jesus. We can also be
his eyes and ears. And this is all coming from
the apostle Paul. But we get to be the hearts
of Jesus to care for his people. Let him care
for his people through us his hands in building things
for the kingdom and building the Kingdom of God. I
love the saying heart, minds, in hands, and we look
at this in our task and the things that we
carry out today. And President Trump is winning hearts and
hands together. This is something he does for which he
does not get enough credit. I truly believe that President
Trump has somewhere in his heart a massive desire to
rebuild American manufacturing. It makes sense because what did God
give him as a love of doing. President Trump loves
to build. He also loves deal making, he loves being
the financial guy. Those two aspects are winning hearts and hands,
and it doesn't get enough attention, even as much as
President Trump dominates media because you know, he owns the media.
And President Trump and some of his allies have opened
the door to Hollywood in a way that has never
been done in our history. Angel Studios when they made
Sound of Freedom, this faced massive opposition, and once it
got into theaters. Do you remember the response of the
left when people who align with President Trump were saying,
finally a movie about the trafficking of God's children in
that great line, and that God's kids are not for sale.
They started to say, this doesn't happen, None of this
ever occurred, and they attacked the guy who was featured
in the film, whom the film was based. They tried
to take him down. Angel Studios created that movie. They're
out now with another film that just got done with
the theatrical release, so you can't see it, except I'm
going to give you a way to get to it.
This is a great film to sit through with the family,
the kids and their grandkids. It's called The King of
Kings and it's a story told through the eyes of
Charles Dickens. In this animated feature, Charles Dickens takes his
little boy aside and one on one in the study
late at night, he reads from an actual work that
Dickens created called The Life of Our Lord, on which
this is inspired, and that little boy's life changes on
that spot. He goes from being obsessed with King Arthur
and the slicing off of people's noggins to a kid
who cannot wait to burst from that room and go
share the Gospel with his sleeping older siblings. It's a
fantastic tale that made me want to be involved in it,
just like the little boy became involved with the Life
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walk through the open door that they've given us to Hollywood.
That's Angel dot com slash Todd. This is a report
from someone who is facing a brand new future. The
Pennsylvania steel companies and the workers there felt like they
were going to be extinct. I got emails from people
saying I voted for President Trump, I supported President Trump.
These tariffs are killing me. We got multiple emails like this,
please please, please don't support the tariff's thought. My response was, look,
if we don't do something, our economy is going to
crash and burn, and it will be on our kids
and grandkids. I'd rather live through it than them. Listen
to this in regards to winning hearts through hands, for one.
Speaker 3: And a half long years, US steel workers have held
their breaths, unsure of what their future held.
Speaker 1: How I feel is I could take a breath today.
It seemed like through this whole sale that was pending,
it was. It just gave you stress.
Speaker 3: Now third generation steel worker Andrew Macy has the deal
he's pushed hard for all just months before he retires.
Speaker 1: It's just wonderful.
Speaker 4: It's like early Christmas man here in the mont Valley
and he's protecting at least eleven thousand jobs for Pennsylvanians.
Speaker 3: North Braddock Mayor Cleaneslee was one of a group of
Mond Valley leaders who came together in recent months to
push leaders in Washington to approve a deal that led
to invest in the Man Valley. Reacting to this news,
they all feel similar.
Speaker 1: They all should feel similar. This is their livelihood and
it's beyond that. It's something they were given the power
to do with their hands. I stand in awe of
that form of work because I can't do it, but
I benefit from it, and so does everyone else. President
Trump wins hearts through hands. He also wins hearts by
having a heart for our own money. To who much
is given, much is expected. The Bible talks a lot
about money. Jesus talks a lot about money. He talks
a lot about stewarding it. Sometimes it's metaphorical for how
we steward what we've been given in terms of the
gift of redemption. Hey, you've been redeemed? Are you willing
to share it with others? Because you remember the Bible
where Jesus said, Hey, if you feel like it, you've
got some extra time on the weekend, would you think
about maybe once in a while telling people about me,
but not too hard. Don't thump the Bible. Actually it
was the command go and make disciples of all nations.
Remember that because we've been given much. Well, our country's
been given much in terms of resources, our location, our
relative safety, the relative difficulty of attacking us, a constitution
written by men who observed how God gave us rights
and unalienable. So President Trump is also winning hearts and minds,
and winning hearts through having a heart for our money.
Rick Grinnell announced something incredible ish about the Kennedy Center.
I say incredible ish because through Elon Musk's efforts. We
have learned that we've had a system in Washington, DC
custom designed for fraudsters to take advantage.
Speaker 4: Here's Rick Renard, our great new CFO went through the
twenty four and twenty five budgets of the Kennedy Center
and found twenty six million dollars in phantom revenue, fake revenue.
It's criminal. We're going to refer this to the US
Attorney's Office here. We're lucky enough to have the Attorney
General on the board of the Kennedy Center who.
Speaker 1: Heard all the details today.
Speaker 4: She heard the details, and this is unacceptable in America
to have a fake revenue of twenty six million dollars,
fraud on previous donors.
Speaker 1: It's unacceptable. And he's going to take it right over
to Pam Bondy. Well, she'll talk a lot about it
on the Fox News. The willingness to uncover a system
that has been set up to encourage frauds, to enable
it to nurture it is winning hearts because we've all
had a sense of this. President Trump has been unafraid
to show us in vivid detail. Here is the fraud,
Here are the systems that create fraud. So he's winning hearts,
he's winning minds, he's winning with her hands and hearts. Meanwhile,
the Republicans are arguing about nine billion dollars cutting nine
billion dollars. The Republicans who are unwilling to cut NPR,
they're not winning hearts and minds because everybody knows Washington
d C. Has been given much and much is expected.
So their tactic is, hey, you need to give us
much more. Story number three. Jesus can save all who
run to him. And some would say that Jesus saves
all who run to him. Now, I believe there are
people who run to Jesus to be saved, and they
want very much to walk with him, but the cost
is too high. You think of the rich young ruler
who went to Jesus and said, Rabbi, Rabbi, Rabbi, how
do I inherit the Kingdom of God? How do I
do this? And Jesus said, well, follow all the commandments.
And the rich young ruler said, I have. I've done
this my whole life. I followed the commandments. And then
the God of the universe always existed, always will exist,
said to him, then sell all your possessions and come
and follow me, and the rich young ruler went away
sad because the cost was too high. It wasn't the
fact that Jesus was telling everybody give up everything to
follow me. He had his apostles who did that, and
he showed them through ways various that he could provide,
that God would provide, that they wouldn't need things, they
would be taken care of. They grew to trust him
and to need him. But he didn't go to every
single person to say, Okay, sell everything, all your five thousand,
come with me. Don't do business, don't provide for your families,
just come with me. In the case of the rich
young ruler, he knew what was going to happen.
Speaker 2: Here.
Speaker 1: He was being given an opportunity to be a thirteenth
apostle was too high. He went to be saved, observed
the costs and said, I don't want it. Sometimes people
have to be at the bottom of their life to
finally put a hand up and accept Jesus. I don't
think it gets to a closer bottom of life below
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David Berkowitz was called the son of Sam and he
went about unliving people in New York. Said he'd been
inspired by the barking of a dog who told him
to do this. He's in prison, and at that bottom
he went running to Jesus. We'll share with you his
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the son of Sam. He was known as a person
who went and unlived people in and around New York
because a barking dog told him to do it. Here's
where he's at today.
Speaker 5: I had a lot of, you know, mental health issues.
I really was losing my mind. I've become schizophrenic, and
I believe that was a result of the demons that
were really inside to be working. And I opened myself
up to and ten years into my prison sentences, I'm struggling,
you know, to survive day by day. Along comes this
fellow and he said, listen, I know I know about
your case and everything, but I would like to just
tell you that Jesus Christ loves you and he's got
a plan of purpose for your life. And I say, okay,
I've heard that before, but there's no way God could
love me. I've done too many things that are bad.
There's no way God could forgive me. He says, no, David, run,
God wants to forgive you, and he sent me here
to tell you that. And suddenly, once again, it was
around midnight, in the darkness of my cell, I got
down on my knees on the concrete floor, and I
just began to pour my heart out to the Lord.
The Bible says, whosoever shall call upon the name of
the Lord shall be saved. He promises that every man
and woman throughout the ages of time, whoever puts their
trust into the Lord Jesus Christ, not only are they
going to be received forgiveness of sins, but they're going
to start a whole new life. One day I see
the Lord Jesus Christ face to face, I'm.
Speaker 1: Going to look into his eyes.
Speaker 5: Thank you, Jesus, Thank you so much for saving a
wretch like me. And then my message has always been
that if he can do it for someone like me,
who is one of the chief of sinners, he can
do it for anybody who just put their trust in him.
Speaker 1: That's from Holy Bible believer on Instagram. Put that up.
Does it bother you that the Son of Sam having
accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as this Lord and savior,
he is apparently attempting to bide with him, is absolutely
trying to make disciples. That's a disciple making video. He's
doing is he was commanded to go and make disciples.
Does it bother you that he will be in heaven
with you? If you're a non Christian, do you look
at that and say, see, that's the hypocrisy, that's the hypocrisy.
I have friends who are good people, they've never harmed anybody.
They just don't believe in God, and so God would
strike them down, he would send them to hell. Does
that bother you? That's a very common worry, and I
can see why I bother you, and I would ask
you this question, Do you want heaven to be a
carbon copy of Earth? Do you want pain for eternity?
Do you want arguments for eternity? In thieving for eternity
and cheating for eternity and violence for eternity? The Lord
will not have that. The new Heaven and the new
Earth is a return to the design of the garden.
And where did the garden fall apart? For humanity? You
could say it wasn't a big deal. All Adam and
Eve did was eat from the tree of the knowledge
of good and evil? Right, That's all they did.
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 1: Nope, what they did was disobey the God who loved
them and who walk with them on a daily basis.
They looked him in the eye, They had a very
personal relationship walking around with each other. He told them
in person, you can eat from all of the plants
here as you tend the garden, just not that one
that's the tree of the knowledge of good and evil
that belongs to me. Do not eat it. So number
one they stole. Number two. They tried to make of
themselves gods because that's what Satan promised them. But above
all of this was they said to God, now we're
going to go our own way. That was the opening
of the doorway to sin, and it's what eventually led
to their being unalived spiritually and us. So, yes, I
have friends and family who are great people. They're good people,
and they don't believe. Therefore they disobey God on many issues.
And it's very popular to say, well, but they're not
harming anybody. They're harming themselves. God's not going to have
the New Heaven and the New Earth filled with people
who dissent. There's going to be no descent, there's going
to be no disagreement. There's going to be no defying
God in the New Heaven and New Earth. And part
of our task here on earth is to allow the
Holy Spirit to change us, to sanctify us, to make
us more holy, more and more and more. So we
want more of God, more of Jesus, so that we
want to have the New Heaven in the earth. We
want that relationship, we want that closeness grave, the looking
in his eyes. That's what he's seeking. He's not seeking
people who say, well, neat story, bro. So Jesus Christ
can save all who run to him. And if you
run to him with pureness of heart. He'll know that
and in that case you will be saved. This is
the Todd Herman Shaw. Please go, be well, be strong,
be kind, and please make every effort to walk in
the light of Christ.