Speaker 1: Welcome to the Three Stories version of the Todd Hermer Show.
Story number one, God speaks directly to young men, and
I'm going to bring a young man on. Story number two.
San Francisco sues junk food makers, but it's not for
health reasons. Story number three, Abiding with Christ is mental wellness.
We'll talk about this all with the help of God Almighty.
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Speaker 1: Today is the day the Lord has made in These
are the times to which God has decided who shall live.
And for story number one, God speaks directly to young men.
I'm going to have a young man on. He's going
to magically appear here right now. This is the first
time you've been on set with me.
Speaker 3: A second, is that you had me talk about Angel
Studios movie The Chosen. Yeah, yeah, but it's good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's good to have you back. So God does
speak directly to young men. Tewod Timothy, Chapter two, Verse
twenty two. So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness. Faith, love,
and peace along with those who call on the Lord
from pure hearts. And I know that you're a Christian man.
You've given your you've given your life back to Christ
because He gave it to you. But do you find
solves and stuff like this?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 3: Always? I mean scripture never returns void. Yeah, and two
Timothy is full of wisdom like that. And I need
to remind myself that specific verse flee from youthful passions,
I mean all the time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think even old men sometimes have to
do that. And there is there are other people want
to speak to young men. Nick Fuentes, I was reading
an analysis the other day of his work and how
much of it appears to be bought driven. And this
isn't handwaving. This is a pretty specific analysis that there's
a whole bunch of bot accounts that seem to boom.
They're just there to retweet him and leave these comments.
And there's an estimation that it might be up to
three quarters of his audiences bot driven. And his influence
and so the mockingbird media wants him to be a
spokesperson for the right because he says things like Hitler
is cool, et cetera. So there's a lot of people
try and explain this. You brought this to my attention.
This is a video guy by a guy named Gates Garcia,
and he has this message to sport. Now, I'm not
saying you're a funt Days follower a supporter, but he's
coming after guys your age. Yeah, okay, so let's listen
to this.
Speaker 4: Watch this, Dear Nick Fuintes followers, I want to provide
you with some perspective. There's a line you've heard hard
times create strong men. Strong men create good times, good
times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.
But there's a difference between knowing that line and living
the truth behind it. Is right now, you're part of
the generation born in the good times, blessed with comfort, convenience,
and endless possibility. And in that comfort, many of you
have grown soft, not because you're bad, not because you're doomed,
but because comfort is a thief. So this message is
a warning, a challenge, a chance to flip the script.
But before we go further, you need to hear something.
Life has always been hard for every generation, for every man,
across all of human history. And here's the truth that
no one is telling your generation. Hard is your advantage,
Hard is your opportunity. Hard is the doorway to everything
you want. Purpose, confidence, fulfillment, pride, identity, because when you
never endure the grind, you start believing you don't need it.
When life hands you everything, you start believing you deserve it.
When you've never earned a victim, you don't value one.
That's how good times create weak men, and that's why
so many young men today feel empty because meaning isn't
found in comfort, It's found in earning.
Speaker 1: Now, I know our high view that as an old man,
until I saw a video recently by a former Green
Beret who was confronted by people who follow Nick Fonte.
So how do you see it?
Speaker 3: Well, I don't know who Gates Garcia is, and frankly
I don't care based on his words, only in what
he said to me. Who I'm not. I'm not a
Nick Fointes follower, but I I I can relate to
people who listen to Nick Fointes. I know that he
speaks in such a way. He speaks to the anger
that a lot of young men who have been demonized
their whole life, their whole youth growing up, have been demonized.
I understand the anger that they have. Now I play
my faith in Jesus and he is my piece, and
he can bring me that piece that I think a
lot of Nick Fointees followers don't have. And Gates Garcia,
the guy who just spoke, I don't think he understands
Nick Fointees followers, and I don't even think he understands
the true purpose of meaning. While he speaks truth, there
is a lot of meaning that can come from hard things.
I don't think that's the ultimate meaning is going through
hard things. You can go through hard things all the
time and come out and grow from them. But he
almost loses the plot with me when he speaks to
me as if he doesn't understand who I am.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Right, And this is one of the reasons I
wanted to bring you in, says, because you know, I
know you, and I work with young guys, so I
have a little bit more insight. But I saw this
statement from a Green Beret. We're going to get to
in a later show. There's another comparison I want to
compare this. There's a guy named Nick Freytes who responded
to this, and we'll get to this in a second.
At Because I want to get your response to this.
A lot of people are angry about having their childhoods.
It wasn't your childhood, but you were part of the
lockdown generation. Oh yeah, right yeah. I mean this affected
you in a big, big way, and Tony Fauci was
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com slash Herman. Obviously you're Christian man, and we're talking
about Timothy. This is first Timothy, chapter four, verse twelve.
Let no one despise you for your youth, but set
the believers an example and speech and conduct and love
and faith and purity. And young men do have the
capacity to to set this tone right? And do you
have friends that do this? They set this tone in
this purity.
Speaker 3: Absolutely. I have a friend group, a group of guys
that I was in a small group with in high
school who we still text and meet to this day,
offer prayer requests. We've kind of fallen by the wayside,
but we're getting back into it, hopefully soon where I
never feel like I'm comparing myself for competing with them,
but I can come to them and say, hey, this
is what I'm struggling with. I need prayer in this.
I'm struggling with lust right now. I need prayer in this,
and they will uplift me. I've got a friend who
who is physically way better built than me, and I've
worked out with him a few times who he's such
an encourager in that aspect of his life and in
the spiritual aspect. I find that I want to be
around him more and create fellowship, create a bond of
fellowship with these guys. So yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm possible.
Speaker 1: I have it at my age too. And and you
know that it's the cliche, and it's a statement from
the it's a statement from the the Bible, which is,
you know, iron sharpens iron.
Speaker 3: Amen.
Speaker 1: So this is Nick Fryates. He's a Green Beret combat
veteran represents he likes to say James Madison's district in
Virginia House of Delegates. And he has a statement to
young men that I think comes at this from a
very very different.
Speaker 5: Perspective because I got in a fight with my co host,
who's one of my best friends. He's thirty one, and
I was talking about masculinity and I was very much
going for the you know, hey, you got to pull
yourself up by your bootstraps.
Speaker 1: You got to like push.
Speaker 5: Ahead, you gotta do four be a man, and clicked
off the camera and he goes, I'm so sick of
hearing that crap. And I said, what, I'm so sick
of hearing it from you. And now I'm gonna like, oh,
I'm sorry, his life's just so damn hard for you.
Oh I'm sorry. Where were you at twenty five because
I was sitting behind a fifty cal machine gun. Irack,
you want to talk to me about how tough life is,
let's talk about it. And he goes, you know what, Nick,
You're right, You're right. You were over there fighting a war,
and you know what, they loved you for it. They
loved you. You were a man, you were a warrior.
You had a beautiful wife waiting at home, you had
kids that couldn't wait to see you again. He goes,
I don't pretend for one second I know what it's
like to fight a war the way you did. But
you don't get to pretend that you know what it's
like to be told your entire life that every single
instinct you apply it on that battlefield, every sort of
instinct that was rewarded by a wife and a child
and a grateful nation. I don't know what any of
that is. That's what I'm going through. And I had
to apologize because I'm gonna tell you right now, war sucks,
but that sucks worse. Hard times do not create good men.
Good men are appreciated for what they do in hard
times and ways that they are not during the good times,
and the sucky part is for young men. Is the
only way through this is if you choose to be
the good man that the times require.
Speaker 1: That's it. Like I said, it's a different take. So now,
how do you respond to this.
Speaker 3: Much more warmly, much more positively. It's said that you know,
people don't know how much you care until they or
people don't care what you know, care what you know
until they know how much you care. And that hits
home with me because him speaking to his producer who's
gone through it, and then listening and actually understanding, having
an understanding and seeing the struggles different struggles that his
generation went through and our generation is going through now
helps the truth ring all the clearer and hard. He's right,
hard times do create good men, but not really. It's
what the good men do in spite of the hard
times or the good times that makes them good men.
It reminds me of I'm gonna quote token to you,
but it reminds me of Gandalf speaking to Frodo. Of Frodo,
I wish these times had never come to me. I
wish I wish it had never had the ring. I
wish it had happened to someone else in some other time,
and Gandalf says to him, so do all But all
we can do, all we can know is what we
are to do with the time that has been given
to us.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well said in token of course a Christian. And
I think also you have been in psychological war for
your whole life. I mean truly, the COVID lockdowns, the
gender stuff, the white people are oppressor's stuff. I mean,
there's been a massive psychological war. But it's also a
of course, it's a spiritual war. You know this, All
things are spiritual. More with young men in how the
Bible addresses directly young man Ecclesiastes eleven nine. Rejoice a
young man in your youth, and let your heart share
you in the days of your youth. Walk in the
ways of your heart and the sight of your eyes.
But know that for all these things God will bring
you into judgment. So the times we live in yep,
they're tough. You've been in the psychological war. It's been
repressed upon you. But for all these things, all your
youth we've been talking about, it's youthful passions, et ceter
God's going to bring you the judgments. And then Psalm
one nineteen verse nine. How could a young man keep
his way pure by guarding it according to your work
the word of God. And this is the thing that
I don't see in fant taste at all. I've never
watched a full program, I want to be fair. But
the many mini clips I've seen, I have never seen
Flente's supply anything that I would look at and say,
you know what, knowing a person by his fruits, I
see in him the fruit of the spirit. I see
biblical love, I see respect for God. Am I wrong?
Or I mean no? I mean ever see anything like that?
Speaker 3: I don't. I don't want him all the time either.
I only see clips of him when he goes viral.
So I have an understanding that a I'm seeing something
that is likely very curated. Yeah, curated and over the top.
And I can see the fruit or the lack of
fruit from from the way he speaks. It's very clear
that he he he has a flippancy about him where
everything's a joke. And when everything's a joke, anytime you
try to take something to be serious with an audience,
it's not gonna work well when they're so used to
everything being a gag or everything being a what's passive
aggressive with that too? Yeah? Or every if everything is
a parody of we're gonna mock this because we're gonna
we're gonna praise Hitler because we've been mocked for beat
for praising Hitler on the all the time. I can
see that being effective at generating a lot of buzz,
and I can see that being effective at making a point.
But if that's the only point you make all the time,
what are you.
Speaker 1: Doing If everything's parody, nothing's parody? Yeah, right, yeah, And
you know when you are when you've been given this audience.
And again, I firmly believe looking at this analysis, a
lot of this is bot driven, but still it's there.
And look, I know what it's like to have never
at that level, but I know what it's like to
be young and infamous and on national television and on
the fronts of newspapers et cetera and Wall Street Journal
and all that nip on television Japan. I got there
by being a jackass. And I feel like this guy
is doing that as well. So thanks for coming on set.
Appreciate you very much. Story number two San Francisco su
junk food makers. But it's not for health reasons. Man,
this is entertaining because it brings back to me the
days of living in Seattle. And I remember that when
there was an announcement that came out that Seattle was
banning plastic straws. And my producer and friend Alex remember this.
I made a video that was me going into a
production studio with a syringe and I had broken the
needle off the syringe and I took it into the
studio and I had a drinking straw and I tried
to find this video. I guess I should have tried
to find this, and this one's pretty viral. And I
drank water with the straw and said, this is illegal
in Seattle. This is now illegal. But actually I broke
the needle off there on set. That's right. I broke
the needle, opened the syringe and sucked the drink through
that this is legal, and they hand these out and
there's this pretense this was all for health reasons. And
they did the same thing with happy meals seat they
banned juice in happy meatles like apple juice in the
Apple State, in a state where they were pushing wrong
sex hormones to kids that same state, that same state
was making marijuana available all over the place, and drugs
were wildly available. But man, they got rid of that juice.
But chocolate milk was okay, because that's so much better.
The city of San Francisco has come out with the
first of its kind ban on some foods, and they're
going after there's a lawsuit and they're suing Big Food.
Now on the front of this, you'd think that me
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because that's I fully believe the body is the temple.
So you would think that being that guy, I would
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stuff that I looked at. This sort of excited first
of its kind lawsuit in San Francisco.
Speaker 6: They're on nearly every shelf and nearly every grocery store
across the country. Ultra processed foods now make up over
fifty percent of the American diet.
Speaker 7: Our case is about companies who design food to be
harmful and addictive.
Speaker 6: In San Francisco, today, City Attorney David Chu announced the
first government lawsuit of its kind against eleven companies that
manufacture ultraprocessed foods, including breakfast Titan, Kellogg, and beverage maker
Coca Cola, accusing them of using unfair and deceptive marketing
to sell food. We've known for a long time that
the ingredients in many of these ultraprocessed foods are unhealthy.
Speaker 5: Why now we have.
Speaker 7: All suspected for a long time, have that food that
is not found We're likely not good for us. But
it took many years for the science to catch up.
Speaker 6: Research has linked ultraprocessed foods to obesity, type two diabetes,
and cancer. In a statement, a trade group representing many
of the companies named in the lawsuits said there is
currently no agreed upon scientific definition of ultra processed foods
and that calling them unhealthy is misleading to consumers.
Speaker 7: There's a clear definition in California law on what ultraprocessed
foods are. We look forward to having that discussion in court.
Speaker 6: And San Francisco has a history of taking on big business.
They previously sued and won multi million dollar lawsuits against
big tobacco, lead paint, and opioid manufacturers.
Speaker 1: Elizabeth thanks so much. They have a strong track history
of holding them up for money. This is a money play.
This is not a health play. This is not a
defending the people play. People still smoke in San Francisco
and opioid use. That's the core of this. This is
not about health. It may have some health effects. It's
about money. They're not gonna stop selling this stuff there.
They're gonna pay the fine. They're gonna keep selling the stuff.
They're gonna label it differently, and this is paid to play.
It's time for you to pony up. You notice some
things that are absent here. Did you see, for instance,
any of the fake meat stuff on there? Like the
miracle burger you talk about processing. You take a bunch
of plants made to appear to be a hamburger, including
leaky fake blood that's alts. A process that's not going
to be in these lawsuits because of course this is
narrative keeping, but it's the juxtaposition of junk food versus
what they're doing to people's bodies. If you ever want
to have some fun, go search the phrase San Francisco
zombie and what you're going to encounter are people who
have been put under the boot of the opioid crisis.
And let's not forget how this began. Now. People have
always wanted to change their mind, their mind chemistry. You
can go all the way back to Edgar and Allan Poe.
He was really really into that. He was probably stone
when he wrote some of his best work. You can
go way way back in human history. People have always
wanted to do this stuff. The first time they figured
out that fermented liquids did this for you, people sought this.
There's always this want to goof with their minds. But
the opioid crisis was helped along by a whole bunch
of factors. One of them that's forgotten and no one's
gonna get sued is because the opioid makers invented something
called pain as the fifth vital sign. Okay, do you
believe that pain is an indication? It's a vital sign
like your heart rate, your brain activity, your respiration, your pulse.
As I said heart rate, do you believe that's a
vital sign. Now, certainly we all experience pain, and yes,
if you're alive, you're going to experience pain, and if
you're dead, there's no pain. So you could defend it
that way. But what they did to doctors is they said,
we're going to now rate you on how much pain
your patients feel. So this led to some insane things.
This happened in San Diego, California, that a guide gotten
on and had an operation on his arm, and he
went home and he kept complaining that he was in pain.
So the nurses kept upping his doses of opioids, and
every time they upped it, he came back and said,
I'm in pain. Well, they knew that their ratings depended
upon no pain, because pain is a vital sign. If
your patient's in pain, that means your patient is dying.
This is what the opiated manufacturers sold through States Medicare
and Medicaid programs. This was the federal government installing this.
It was a marketing plan. This guy finally, a doctor
came along and said, what are we doing. This is
a minor arm operation. What are we doing? Get this
guy in here. So they brought him in. It turned
out the bandages on his arm hadn't been changed. They
were too tight, and his arm was becoming gangrenous. It
was cutting off the blood. It was killing his arm.
They were solving this by taking the pain away, because
that's what they were told to do. There was also
the fact that Barack Hussein Obama and the people who
ran him decided to allow the Taliban to ship opioids
into a country over across and through the southern border.
And this is detailed in a story called Project Sandra,
where Barack Obama decided to stop the indictment of Taliban
members and Narco terrace in Mexico to stop it even
though it was ready to go. There were seven named
intelligence sources who came out and said this is going on. Now.
Obama froze that stopped it, didn't allow to continue. That
brought in a whole bunch of availability, which brought the
prices down. Then, of course the open borders and these
precursor chemicals coming in from China. So you had big business,
you had big government, you had big cartel, you had
big politics combined to create this flood of opioids within
the country. So there's a lot of people who are
now on the streets because they got prescription medicine and
they liked it. This happened to a friend of mine
whose life was taken by opioids because he liked what
they did to him after a surgery, and it was
a surgery that was just sadly botched. So if you
searched the phrase San Francisco zombie, you're likely to come
across videos like this.
Speaker 3: Y'all got to clean all this up.
Speaker 1: This is the utter trash to walk that road to
work every day. Is it hard to clean up? What
he's cleaning up is human excrement, and which you see
are people kneeling, people on their sides. A guy looks
like he's crawling, and then there's a guy crouching in
a very familiar zombie pose. These people are unable to
move themselves in any other way. And if you look
at that, you look at the fact that there are
apps in San Francisco that are designed to do one thing,
which is to warn you of human excrement. So when
you're walking to work, you use the app. Hey, there's
a pile of it here, don't step in it. Here.
This is a really well downloaded app within San Francisco
that's not ultra processed foods. But the city attorney at
San Francisco is not going to do anything about this.
He's not going to go sue the open aid manufacturers
for pain is the fifth vital sign because that went
through the state of California. He's not going to make
a statement against this open air drug use because that
goes against the theory of California that they're reducing harm.
But he's going to go after drunk food manufacturers, but
not to stop it, just to get payments. And what
are they going to do with that money? What do
you think San Francisco is going to do with that money?
And again, go search the phrase zombie San Francisco and
you'll end up with videos like this. This is outside
of someone's home office. So this is a guy leaning
against someone's door, barely able to stand, and tell me
that does not look like a zombie from the Walking Dead.
Now you have to leave through that door, Your kids
have to leave through that door. And this guy's out
there barely hanging on, barely able to hang his body
against the door. What we're seeing in San Francisco in
this lawsuit. Yeah, it's first of its kind, and yes,
these foods are very addictive, and yes, in that way,
this is very very good. But when they get their settlement,
because these food companies are gonna have to settle. There
is a law in California that defines ultra process foods.
It's not hard to define. You could take the steps
for this. It resolves itself in the simple sugars what
you eat. When you eat, for instance, modern bread, it's
not bread. All of its simple sugars and starches. It
doesn't have protein in it. And where it does, the
protein resolves to sugars. It is filled with chemicals. All
of the nutrition's been stripped out. That's what enriched flour means.
It means putting back some of the enrichment that's been
taken out in these processes. In the olden days, when
you made bread, you made it from heritage seed. Do
you know that most bread was actually sour dough? Do
you think most of it went through that process of fermentation?
Do you know that it took days for it to age?
Do you know that you had to really chew it?
If you ever look at any of the heritage breads
made with heritage grains, you actually had to chew that.
And people were able to subsist on that. There were
people able to go out and do hard labor using
bread like that. What you eat now is sugars and
it starts and you chew it once. So there's easy
ways to define the fact that this is ultra processed.
There's also easy ways to define what San Francisco is
going to do with this money they get to bankroll this.
What they're going to do is sue food manufacturers, come
back and pay more people to hand out more needles,
to go clean up more human feces, to go out
and pretend that they're doing harm avoidance or harm reduction.
So they sue the food manufacturers so that they don't
have to go out and face the heroin problems that
they're allowing to fester on their streets. And if you
think this is just an issue with adults, remember this.
Drug cartels don't have morality. Drug cartels are more than
happy to sell drugs to kids, and the easiest way
to do that is not to take their money, is
to take their bodies through trafficking, because guess what, you
can only sell a drug once. You can sell a
human body ten to twenty times a day. Story Number
three abiding with Christ is mental wellness. Have you seen
the mental wellness industry. It's a big, big industry, and
I'm going to tell you how big here in a second.
Mental wellness, what does that mean? I mean to me,
mental wellness means that you feel safe. You don't feel
consistently attacked, You don't feel gas lit or made crazy.
Mentally well means that you are not dealing with senses
of paranoia. It means that you have times of respite.
It means you have a sense of confidence that things
are going to be okay. It means you have a
sense of confidence in community. That part of being mentally
well is to have a community of people surrounding you.
It means that you have a community with whom you
can share that you're not an isolated person. You're not
a person on an island. So to me, mental wellness
means these things. It means the ability to have the
strength to come back, to have resilience. What are the
key measures of mental wellness? As a resilience, can you
take a hard hit and then bounce back? And if
you need help bouncing back, can you do that? Can
you help others? Part of being mentally well is to
have been poured into This is an evangelical phrase, to
have been poured into our cup worneth over so that
you can pour out. Therapists might speak of this in
terms of an emotional and emotional piggy bank. If you
heard this phrase, or you get consistent deposits into an
emotional piggy bank so that you can then make withdraws.
Because if you're bankrupt emotionally, you don't get poured into
you don't have deposits into your emotional piggy bank. You're broke.
So when a friend of yours comes to you and says, man,
I'm hurting and I need help, you want to help,
but you have no help there You have no energy
for this. So mental wellness can go across a range
of things. Some of people will relate it to how
you look. Now. I would rather people not do that,
but it's very difficult if you don't like how you
look to maintain mental wellness because you see yourself in
the mirror and it can bring you down. People who
have weight issues are sometimes whispered into the ear by satan, Oh,
look at you, you're not presentable. People are going to
judge you. And true, there are people who judge us
for the way they look or the way we look. Now,
mental wellness is to be able to recognize this that hey,
I am not my weight, I am not my body size.
I have value beyond this. Right now, I'm dealing with
the weight issue, and maybe it's something you want to change.
Maybe it's something you don't want to change for health reasons,
physical health reasons. I would hope you would, because it's
hard on your skeletal system, it's hard on your organs.
I would hope you'd change that to the degree that
you can. And not everybody can, but people can try
and at least to be mentally healthy. Part of it's physical,
but there's a massive industry behind this. And if you
doubt me, I'm going to show you a second a
video from Japan that shows how much the self care
is industries advancing into utter absurdity. And then we'll go
through the size of this marketplace. But what is mental
wellness to me? It's abiding with Christ. The designers, the
designer Jesus part of the triune godhead. He designed our
minds and our psyches and our psychology. He knows how
it works, he knows what's best for it. And abiding
with Christ is mental wellness if we take the steps
of what truly abiding means, and first is to understand
abiding the phrase abide, consider abode a home, and abode
is a home. In abiding with Christ, we live with Christ.
So in living with Christ, then we get an idea
of Jesus as our home. I was going to show
you this sign of the sign of how big this
industry is here in a second, and part of this
is personal care. But that industry has been taken to
means so much again six point eightllion bucks. There's a tiny, tiny,
little player in this industry. It's called Alan Soaps. They're
not yet a trillion dollar business. I'll check and see
if it's a billion, but I know it's not. Maybe
a million. It exists to make the world's best soap
in partnership with another family. John's family partner with the
family in the American Midwest. That family has made soap
for three generations. It's all they do. They do this
chemical free, all natural. They don't want they're home filled
with chemicals, and Allan Soaps doesn't have any chemicals in it. Also,
the fragrances are completely unique because they come from the
mind of Allan. He can't speak very well at all
because of his limitations expressed through the autism spectrum and
some of the physical health challenges. The eighteen operations very
difficult from the speak, so he use this an iPad
to help design these soaps. Right now, Christmas time is
the perfect time to make the switch for yourself. Buy
yourself the gift of subscription to Alan Soaps come to
you however often you need it so you never run
out of soap. If you have a business, get some
of the liquid soaps. It's called Ian's Black. That's Allen's brother.
He's also impacted by autism. It's great to have in
your store, your office, to give to clients or customers.
If you're a real estate agent, what a cool thing
to leave behind in a house you sell. Also gives
the opportunity to tell the story of Alan's, this company
that exists to employ young people like Alan and Ian.
We want to get back into the business of employing
more young people. This is also great staffer stocking stuffer material,
because again it's an opportunity to tell a really cool story. Alan,
the rest of the world would have stored in a box,
or they would have had aboarded. None of that's happened.
He's a fruitful kid who works every single day at
Alan's in product, product delivery, packaging, quality control. It's alansaps
dot com, slash todd. You get ten percent off all
the products there. Alansoaps dot com, slash todd. They're not
the biggest player in this six point eight trillion dollar industry,
but they're the most important. This industry is a six
point eight trillion dollar industry that's in twenty twenty four.
If you look at some of the things that's considered
mental wellness, you have things like traditional complementary medicine. This
is some six hundred billion dollars public health, prevention and
personalized medicine six hundred and seventy six billion dollars. Mental
wellness two hundred and sixty eight billion dollars. Wellness real estate,
that's a thing. What that means is you live in
communities that are designed for mental wellness, walkability, access to trains,
yoga classes right there on property. Healthy eating, nutrition and
weight loss one point one four billion dollars, physical activity
one point four to four billion dollars, spas one hundred
and fifty six billion dollars, saunas see seventy billion dollars,
Personal care and beauty one point three five billion dollars.
Wellness tourism eight hundred and ninety four billion dollars. Now,
how many people believe a trip is mental wellness wellness tourism?
Now I have done health caations, and this is where
you go to a physical location to go get health
treatment because it's not available where you live. And you
combine aspects of a vacation with health care, wellness tourism,
maybe that's what it is at eight hundred and ninety
four billion dollar industry. Now, the fact of the matter
is physical health is related to mental health. If you're
suffering physically, you've got let's say, low platelet counts, which
give you a precursor god forbids of leukemia. You're likely
to feel tired and exhausted. If you've given yourself type
two diabetes by lack of activity and eating way too
many processed foods, you're likely to have trouble manifesting energy
to do things that can lead to depression, which can
lead to isolation. All these things combine. But if we
go to the Word of Christ, we go to the
Bible or told many many things. Some of the things
we're told about is to be temperate. Some of the
things we're told about is to regard the body as
a temple storage place of the Holy Spirit. Some of
the things we're told is to not go to extremes.
And there's plenty of verses on this. There's also though,
this initiative, the Global Wellness Initiative, a blueprint for a
wellness and this is one of their webinars, Sustainability and
Wellness Transforming the Future of real Estate. This is February twelve,
twenty twenty five. You could go attend this. What they're
doing is designing villages for wellness. So a village approach. Now,
if you go back to the word of Gods and
you just begin regarding what God said. Let's start at
the very very beginning in Genesis. It is not good
that man is alone. So God had said in his
creation that he created this. You know, he spoke the
world into being. Let there be light. He created the
earth and all the things on it, the seas, the animals,
et cetera. He created man, and Man was there naming
the animals. And God sat there and watched him as
if he named it horse, it was horse. But he
then said, it is not good that man is alone.
And so God made woman. And when he made woman
it was to be a special helper to man to
come under and lift up. Later in the Bible where
read that man is to come under his wife and
lift up to love his wife as Christ loves the Church.
But that statement, it is not good that man is alone.
Adam was the only human, and it was God's plan
that other human beings would come around through procreation. He
wasn't going to create more of them. He was going
to let human beings be involved in this. And therefore
then we created now humankind, and man was no longer alone.
You know that in Genesis, of course, than Adam and
Eve decided to go their own way. They decided to
depart God's plan, which was the beginning of us falling
apart mentally, because prior to that, we walked around with God.
If we had a question, we could ask God. We
were then removed from the garden and sin enter the world,
and sin is a precursor to a lot of mental
health issues. If you're sinning consistently say sexual sin, you're
going to create confusion because your system is not set
up for this. When women bond sexually with a man,
their body releases a hormone that has that woman think
of or feel towards that man as if this is
a husband and protector. When you do this consistently, this
hormone gets very confusing. And when you bond with everybody
as husband and protector, you can bond with nobody as
husband and protector. Men become addicted to the endorphins and
the dopabine, the pursuit, the getting, the lustfulness, and then
they cannot enjoy actual sexual contact with their wives to
the agree that they should. That is to be one
flesh as God designed it. If we go to mental
wellness issues promised duties at the top of one of
the problems that's created by promisecuity, both male and female.
God advise against that. We can go straight through the
word of God things not related specifically to sexuality. For instance,
in Romans twelve, verse two, do not conform to the
pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing
of your mind. Then you will be able to test
and approve what God's will is his good pleasing in
perfect will. Have you heard the phrase neuroplasticity See science
made this amazing discovery. Scientists. We can reprogram our minds.
So there are therapies like DBT therapy. To some degree,
DBT is commonly thought about ways you speak words or
listen to people that you have an affirming approach of
listening to people as opposed to fixing their problems. You
hear someone being sad and you help them name their motions.
You seem really sad to me. I did this the
other night with a young man. Seems like you're feeling betrayed.
Sounds like you're feeling scared, he said, not really scared,
out of control, Okay, maybe helpless. Yeah, I'm feeling helpless.
That's a good word for it. That it's also a
way of thinking that dialectical behavioral therapy changes people's mind
processing from that person is now evil because they said no.
My mom is evil because my mom said no to
My mom is someone I love and I'm really frustrated
with it. I love my mom and I'm angry with her,
and it invites this cognitive dissonance, this gray area. What
it allows people to do is to renew their minds,
to see things in a different way. God built in
the ability for us to renew our minds. One of
the things that happens in a good Christian therapy program
with people who are rebuilding their lives is they are
taught when and how to make friends and with whom?
How do I know with whom to make friends? You'll
know them by their fruits. Are they displaying the fruits
of the spirit? Are they being patient and kind biblical love?
Do they have joy? Are they prideful? You're measuring these
things to say, is this someone with whom I should
form a friendship? Maybe to quaintance, great someone you say
hi to in church. It's not someone you share secrets with.
It's not someone you become intimate friends with you know
them by their fruits mental wellness friends. It is not
good that man is alone. Community. Instead of a billion
dollar more industry or trillion dollar industry for mental wellness
real estate, how about a community of people, all of
whom are striving to provide biblical love, all of whom
are seeking to serve the other. The race to the bottom,
as it were, Christ said, in order to be first
in heaven, you need to be last on earth. Imagine
a community like that where everybody is seeking to outserve
the other or to outlove the other, because Christ loved
us first. One thing that goes missing in that industry,
that one point six y' eight trillion dollar industry, is
recognition of power beyond self. And being an evangelical Christian,
I believe there's one power beyond self we want to seek,
and that's Jesus Christ. The other power beyond self is
something we don't want anything to do with, and that's Satan. Philippians,
chapter four, verse eight. Finally, Brothers and sisters, whatever is true,
whatever is noble, whatever's right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely,
whatever is admirable, If anything is excellent or praiseworthy think
about such things. This goes back to neuroplasticity. When you
have men or sometimes women who become addicted to, say, pornography,
one of the things that is ineffective is to stay
just stop the porn. What people need to do is
replace it with something else. So when the temptation to
view pornography comes up, people have a replacement. And this
goes back to therapy. CBT therapy is good at this.
DBT therapy is good at this. You cope ahead. So
you know that you're going to be alone for the weekends,
your wife's gone or your husband's gone. You have this temptation,
so you cope ahead. One of the things the Bible
tells us is to plant in our minds whatever's right,
whatever's pure, whatever's lovely, whatever's admirable. So you can plant
in your mind biblical verses regard no one in the flesh.
When you regard no one in the flesh, and then
you're sitting down to look at porn, it's all flesh.
Jesus said, you've heard it said you shall not commit adultery.
But I tell you, a man who looks at a
woman with lust in his eyes has already committed adultery.
You plant in your mind these things and you go
back to the Bible. It is not good that man
is alone. In a community, a Christian, a supportive Christian community,
you have friends who will walk with you through this.
You have friends you can text or call to say, Man,
I'm facing a lot of temptation right now. Can you
help me with this? You've coped a heads or to
confess to one another. This is an Evangelic perspective. The
Catholic perspective is you go confess to your priest, and
your priest gives you some things you can do to
earn redemption. I don't stand with that. One of the
reasons it's not a catholicause I don't believe we can
earn redemption. I think only Christ can forgive Ultimatemily can
forgive one another, but only Jesus can forgive our sins.
And we're told within the church environment to confess to
one another because the devil would like to keep things secret.
He likes to operate in the darkness. And this goes
back to mental wellness. There are people who harbor feelings
about themselves. They hate the way they look they're harboring
feelings of being unsafe at home. They hide that for
fear that people are going to out them or that
they're going to be embarrassed. Part of mental wellness is
being able to confess this, being able to take it
to someone and receive this supportive help. In Ephesians chapter four,
verses twenty two through twenty four, we read you are taught,
with regard to your former way of life, to put
off your old self, which is being corrupted by deceitful desires,
to be made new in the attitude of your minds,
and to put on the new self creator, to be
like God in true righteousness and holiness. One aspect of
mental health is to know that things that are troubling
are often not permanent, and when we're ourselves, we contend
to think of things as permanent, trouble as permanent. God
warned us, do not be surprised when you face troubles
on the time. But one of the things about being
a Christian is to know that you're in the process
of sanctification, that if you're allowing God to change you,
you're being made holy, more and more holy like God
every single day, arriving at a point in the new
Heaven and the new Earth where we're in pure holiness
walking with God. Tewod Corinthians, Chapter ten, verse five. We
demolish arguments in every pretension that sets itself up against
the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought
to make it obedient to Christ. If you're dealing with
thoughts like this, you're fat, so people can't love you.
That's the devil. People do and can love you. If
you're dealing with thoughts like look at what you've done
in your life, you're a mess. No one can ever
support you. You think God can love you, that's the enemy.
Jesus never accuses. The Holy Spirit might convict, which is
an eternal sense of doing something wrong, internal sense of
doing something wrong. If you have the Holy Spirit, but
it's Satan who's the accuser. Is Jesus Christ, who is
our defender, our little lawyer in front of God Almighty.
Abiding with Christ is mental wellness. This is the Todd
Hermann Shaw. Please go be well, be strong, be kind,
and please make every effort to walk in the light
of Christ.