1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:02,759 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Three Stories version of the Todd Hermer Show. 2 00:00:02,879 --> 00:00:06,360 Story number one, God speaks directly to young men, and 3 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:09,199 I'm going to bring a young man on. Story number two. 4 00:00:09,320 --> 00:00:12,119 San Francisco sues junk food makers, but it's not for 5 00:00:12,199 --> 00:00:17,719 health reasons. Story number three, Abiding with Christ is mental wellness. 6 00:00:18,079 --> 00:00:20,359 We'll talk about this all with the help of God Almighty. 7 00:00:22,440 --> 00:00:26,320 Speaker 2: But Todd Herman Show is one percent disapproved. But big 8 00:00:26,399 --> 00:00:34,159 pharma technocrats in Tyron severanwhere from the high mountains of 9 00:00:34,280 --> 00:00:42,119 Free America. Here's the Emerald City exime Todd Herman. 10 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:47,679 Speaker 1: Today is the day the Lord has made in These 11 00:00:47,719 --> 00:00:50,200 are the times to which God has decided who shall live. 12 00:00:51,520 --> 00:00:54,520 And for story number one, God speaks directly to young men. 13 00:00:54,600 --> 00:00:56,280 I'm going to have a young man on. He's going 14 00:00:56,359 --> 00:01:00,560 to magically appear here right now. This is the first 15 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:01,520 time you've been on set with me. 16 00:01:02,359 --> 00:01:04,959 Speaker 3: A second, is that you had me talk about Angel 17 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:09,959 Studios movie The Chosen. Yeah, yeah, but it's good. 18 00:01:10,319 --> 00:01:13,560 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's good to have you back. So God does 19 00:01:13,599 --> 00:01:16,719 speak directly to young men. Tewod Timothy, Chapter two, Verse 20 00:01:16,799 --> 00:01:21,280 twenty two. So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness. Faith, love, 21 00:01:21,319 --> 00:01:24,959 and peace along with those who call on the Lord 22 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:27,400 from pure hearts. And I know that you're a Christian man. 23 00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:30,719 You've given your you've given your life back to Christ 24 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:33,239 because He gave it to you. But do you find 25 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:34,159 solves and stuff like this? 26 00:01:34,920 --> 00:01:35,159 Speaker 2: Yes? 27 00:01:35,799 --> 00:01:39,159 Speaker 3: Always? I mean scripture never returns void. Yeah, and two 28 00:01:39,239 --> 00:01:44,040 Timothy is full of wisdom like that. And I need 29 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:47,640 to remind myself that specific verse flee from youthful passions, 30 00:01:47,760 --> 00:01:49,120 I mean all the time. 31 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:52,359 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think even old men sometimes have to 32 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:55,159 do that. And there is there are other people want 33 00:01:55,159 --> 00:01:58,959 to speak to young men. Nick Fuentes, I was reading 34 00:01:58,959 --> 00:02:01,719 an analysis the other day of his work and how 35 00:02:01,799 --> 00:02:03,640 much of it appears to be bought driven. And this 36 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:08,159 isn't handwaving. This is a pretty specific analysis that there's 37 00:02:08,199 --> 00:02:10,280 a whole bunch of bot accounts that seem to boom. 38 00:02:10,280 --> 00:02:12,840 They're just there to retweet him and leave these comments. 39 00:02:12,919 --> 00:02:16,199 And there's an estimation that it might be up to 40 00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:19,240 three quarters of his audiences bot driven. And his influence 41 00:02:19,759 --> 00:02:21,919 and so the mockingbird media wants him to be a 42 00:02:21,960 --> 00:02:24,800 spokesperson for the right because he says things like Hitler 43 00:02:24,879 --> 00:02:26,879 is cool, et cetera. So there's a lot of people 44 00:02:26,919 --> 00:02:28,680 try and explain this. You brought this to my attention. 45 00:02:29,919 --> 00:02:32,759 This is a video guy by a guy named Gates Garcia, 46 00:02:32,879 --> 00:02:36,000 and he has this message to sport. Now, I'm not 47 00:02:36,039 --> 00:02:38,560 saying you're a funt Days follower a supporter, but he's 48 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:41,199 coming after guys your age. Yeah, okay, so let's listen 49 00:02:41,199 --> 00:02:41,400 to this. 50 00:02:41,439 --> 00:02:44,599 Speaker 4: Watch this, Dear Nick Fuintes followers, I want to provide 51 00:02:44,599 --> 00:02:47,800 you with some perspective. There's a line you've heard hard 52 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:51,599 times create strong men. Strong men create good times, good 53 00:02:51,680 --> 00:02:54,800 times create weak men, and weak men create hard times. 54 00:02:55,319 --> 00:02:58,400 But there's a difference between knowing that line and living 55 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:01,479 the truth behind it. Is right now, you're part of 56 00:03:01,479 --> 00:03:06,039 the generation born in the good times, blessed with comfort, convenience, 57 00:03:06,439 --> 00:03:10,280 and endless possibility. And in that comfort, many of you 58 00:03:10,319 --> 00:03:14,280 have grown soft, not because you're bad, not because you're doomed, 59 00:03:14,680 --> 00:03:18,000 but because comfort is a thief. So this message is 60 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:21,400 a warning, a challenge, a chance to flip the script. 61 00:03:22,199 --> 00:03:24,800 But before we go further, you need to hear something. 62 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:31,479 Life has always been hard for every generation, for every man, 63 00:03:31,919 --> 00:03:35,400 across all of human history. And here's the truth that 64 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:39,479 no one is telling your generation. Hard is your advantage, 65 00:03:39,919 --> 00:03:43,639 Hard is your opportunity. Hard is the doorway to everything 66 00:03:43,759 --> 00:03:49,840 you want. Purpose, confidence, fulfillment, pride, identity, because when you 67 00:03:49,879 --> 00:03:53,520 never endure the grind, you start believing you don't need it. 68 00:03:54,159 --> 00:03:57,759 When life hands you everything, you start believing you deserve it. 69 00:03:58,639 --> 00:04:01,680 When you've never earned a victim, you don't value one. 70 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:05,199 That's how good times create weak men, and that's why 71 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:08,400 so many young men today feel empty because meaning isn't 72 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:10,759 found in comfort, It's found in earning. 73 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:13,919 Speaker 1: Now, I know our high view that as an old man, 74 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:18,680 until I saw a video recently by a former Green 75 00:04:18,680 --> 00:04:22,839 Beret who was confronted by people who follow Nick Fonte. 76 00:04:22,920 --> 00:04:23,720 So how do you see it? 77 00:04:24,319 --> 00:04:28,360 Speaker 3: Well, I don't know who Gates Garcia is, and frankly 78 00:04:28,399 --> 00:04:30,879 I don't care based on his words, only in what 79 00:04:30,920 --> 00:04:33,600 he said to me. Who I'm not. I'm not a 80 00:04:33,680 --> 00:04:41,240 Nick Fointes follower, but I I I can relate to 81 00:04:42,120 --> 00:04:45,240 people who listen to Nick Fointes. I know that he 82 00:04:45,439 --> 00:04:49,399 speaks in such a way. He speaks to the anger 83 00:04:49,560 --> 00:04:51,600 that a lot of young men who have been demonized 84 00:04:51,639 --> 00:04:56,240 their whole life, their whole youth growing up, have been demonized. 85 00:04:56,319 --> 00:05:00,000 I understand the anger that they have. Now I play 86 00:05:00,279 --> 00:05:05,480 my faith in Jesus and he is my piece, and 87 00:05:05,560 --> 00:05:08,560 he can bring me that piece that I think a 88 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:13,759 lot of Nick Fointees followers don't have. And Gates Garcia, 89 00:05:13,839 --> 00:05:16,959 the guy who just spoke, I don't think he understands 90 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:20,959 Nick Fointees followers, and I don't even think he understands 91 00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:25,439 the true purpose of meaning. While he speaks truth, there 92 00:05:25,560 --> 00:05:29,120 is a lot of meaning that can come from hard things. 93 00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:33,879 I don't think that's the ultimate meaning is going through 94 00:05:33,879 --> 00:05:35,879 hard things. You can go through hard things all the 95 00:05:35,879 --> 00:05:41,240 time and come out and grow from them. But he 96 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:44,399 almost loses the plot with me when he speaks to 97 00:05:44,439 --> 00:05:48,079 me as if he doesn't understand who I am. 98 00:05:48,399 --> 00:05:50,360 Speaker 1: Yeah. Right, And this is one of the reasons I 99 00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:52,160 wanted to bring you in, says, because you know, I 100 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:55,120 know you, and I work with young guys, so I 101 00:05:55,120 --> 00:05:57,800 have a little bit more insight. But I saw this 102 00:05:57,879 --> 00:05:59,600 statement from a Green Beret. We're going to get to 103 00:05:59,639 --> 00:06:02,240 in a later show. There's another comparison I want to 104 00:06:02,240 --> 00:06:06,480 compare this. There's a guy named Nick Freytes who responded 105 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:07,759 to this, and we'll get to this in a second. 106 00:06:07,759 --> 00:06:09,399 At Because I want to get your response to this. 107 00:06:10,279 --> 00:06:13,040 A lot of people are angry about having their childhoods. 108 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:15,240 It wasn't your childhood, but you were part of the 109 00:06:15,279 --> 00:06:18,639 lockdown generation. Oh yeah, right yeah. I mean this affected 110 00:06:18,639 --> 00:06:21,920 you in a big, big way, and Tony Fauci was 111 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:24,680 the architect of that. Fauci is featured in a new 112 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:27,639 movie called Thank You, Doctor Fauci, and it is not 113 00:06:27,879 --> 00:06:32,399 a compliment. A guy named Jennifers did this. We interviewed him. 114 00:06:32,439 --> 00:06:34,920 He's a director of this movie. You're going to see 115 00:06:34,959 --> 00:06:37,519 exclusive interviews you've never seen anywhere else. You're going to 116 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:40,000 see some conclusions you've never seen anywhere else, and you're 117 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:43,439 going to watch a progressive He doesn't mean politically progressive, 118 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:48,879 but you're going to watch someone who calls himself an 119 00:06:49,079 --> 00:06:53,160 artistic progressive land on the fact that Fauci helped create 120 00:06:53,199 --> 00:06:56,639 things like lime disease for real. And it's called Thank You, 121 00:06:56,680 --> 00:06:58,920 Doctor Fauci. You can stream this right now at angel 122 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:01,959 dot com slash herm, and don't just stream it, become 123 00:07:01,959 --> 00:07:04,079 a member of the Andrew Guild. Vote for this movie 124 00:07:04,120 --> 00:07:05,879 so they can make more like it. It's angel dot 125 00:07:05,879 --> 00:07:09,360 com slash Herman. Obviously you're Christian man, and we're talking 126 00:07:09,399 --> 00:07:12,240 about Timothy. This is first Timothy, chapter four, verse twelve. 127 00:07:12,360 --> 00:07:15,720 Let no one despise you for your youth, but set 128 00:07:15,720 --> 00:07:18,639 the believers an example and speech and conduct and love 129 00:07:18,720 --> 00:07:22,160 and faith and purity. And young men do have the 130 00:07:22,199 --> 00:07:25,120 capacity to to set this tone right? And do you 131 00:07:25,199 --> 00:07:27,519 have friends that do this? They set this tone in 132 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:28,319 this purity. 133 00:07:28,519 --> 00:07:31,920 Speaker 3: Absolutely. I have a friend group, a group of guys 134 00:07:31,959 --> 00:07:34,920 that I was in a small group with in high 135 00:07:34,920 --> 00:07:39,120 school who we still text and meet to this day, 136 00:07:39,560 --> 00:07:42,360 offer prayer requests. We've kind of fallen by the wayside, 137 00:07:42,360 --> 00:07:47,040 but we're getting back into it, hopefully soon where I 138 00:07:47,079 --> 00:07:50,319 never feel like I'm comparing myself for competing with them, 139 00:07:50,680 --> 00:07:52,600 but I can come to them and say, hey, this 140 00:07:52,639 --> 00:07:54,680 is what I'm struggling with. I need prayer in this. 141 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:57,000 I'm struggling with lust right now. I need prayer in this, 142 00:07:57,360 --> 00:07:59,920 and they will uplift me. I've got a friend who 143 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:02,839 who is physically way better built than me, and I've 144 00:08:02,839 --> 00:08:06,040 worked out with him a few times who he's such 145 00:08:06,079 --> 00:08:10,519 an encourager in that aspect of his life and in 146 00:08:10,600 --> 00:08:13,600 the spiritual aspect. I find that I want to be 147 00:08:13,680 --> 00:08:17,319 around him more and create fellowship, create a bond of 148 00:08:17,319 --> 00:08:23,399 fellowship with these guys. So yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm possible. 149 00:08:23,519 --> 00:08:25,279 Speaker 1: I have it at my age too. And and you 150 00:08:25,319 --> 00:08:27,680 know that it's the cliche, and it's a statement from 151 00:08:27,720 --> 00:08:32,240 the it's a statement from the the Bible, which is, 152 00:08:32,279 --> 00:08:33,320 you know, iron sharpens iron. 153 00:08:33,399 --> 00:08:33,679 Speaker 3: Amen. 154 00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:36,799 Speaker 1: So this is Nick Fryates. He's a Green Beret combat 155 00:08:36,879 --> 00:08:40,840 veteran represents he likes to say James Madison's district in 156 00:08:40,960 --> 00:08:45,559 Virginia House of Delegates. And he has a statement to 157 00:08:45,679 --> 00:08:47,960 young men that I think comes at this from a 158 00:08:48,120 --> 00:08:49,320 very very different. 159 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:51,200 Speaker 5: Perspective because I got in a fight with my co host, 160 00:08:51,240 --> 00:08:54,399 who's one of my best friends. He's thirty one, and 161 00:08:54,519 --> 00:08:56,840 I was talking about masculinity and I was very much 162 00:08:56,879 --> 00:08:58,279 going for the you know, hey, you got to pull 163 00:08:58,320 --> 00:08:59,480 yourself up by your bootstraps. 164 00:08:59,519 --> 00:09:00,519 Speaker 1: You got to like push. 165 00:09:00,279 --> 00:09:04,000 Speaker 5: Ahead, you gotta do four be a man, and clicked 166 00:09:04,039 --> 00:09:05,679 off the camera and he goes, I'm so sick of 167 00:09:05,759 --> 00:09:09,320 hearing that crap. And I said, what, I'm so sick 168 00:09:09,320 --> 00:09:14,519 of hearing it from you. And now I'm gonna like, oh, 169 00:09:14,559 --> 00:09:16,960 I'm sorry, his life's just so damn hard for you. 170 00:09:17,240 --> 00:09:19,879 Oh I'm sorry. Where were you at twenty five because 171 00:09:19,919 --> 00:09:22,279 I was sitting behind a fifty cal machine gun. Irack, 172 00:09:22,840 --> 00:09:24,879 you want to talk to me about how tough life is, 173 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:27,720 let's talk about it. And he goes, you know what, Nick, 174 00:09:28,559 --> 00:09:30,960 You're right, You're right. You were over there fighting a war, 175 00:09:31,279 --> 00:09:33,720 and you know what, they loved you for it. They 176 00:09:33,759 --> 00:09:36,399 loved you. You were a man, you were a warrior. 177 00:09:36,440 --> 00:09:38,200 You had a beautiful wife waiting at home, you had 178 00:09:38,279 --> 00:09:41,080 kids that couldn't wait to see you again. He goes, 179 00:09:41,080 --> 00:09:42,960 I don't pretend for one second I know what it's 180 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:44,840 like to fight a war the way you did. But 181 00:09:44,919 --> 00:09:46,720 you don't get to pretend that you know what it's 182 00:09:46,799 --> 00:09:49,320 like to be told your entire life that every single 183 00:09:49,360 --> 00:09:51,840 instinct you apply it on that battlefield, every sort of 184 00:09:51,879 --> 00:09:54,879 instinct that was rewarded by a wife and a child 185 00:09:55,039 --> 00:09:57,600 and a grateful nation. I don't know what any of 186 00:09:57,639 --> 00:10:04,559 that is. That's what I'm going through. And I had 187 00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:08,639 to apologize because I'm gonna tell you right now, war sucks, 188 00:10:12,320 --> 00:10:16,360 but that sucks worse. Hard times do not create good men. 189 00:10:17,519 --> 00:10:20,519 Good men are appreciated for what they do in hard 190 00:10:20,559 --> 00:10:23,120 times and ways that they are not during the good times, 191 00:10:24,799 --> 00:10:29,039 and the sucky part is for young men. Is the 192 00:10:29,039 --> 00:10:31,679 only way through this is if you choose to be 193 00:10:31,759 --> 00:10:33,159 the good man that the times require. 194 00:10:33,879 --> 00:10:36,759 Speaker 1: That's it. Like I said, it's a different take. So now, 195 00:10:36,879 --> 00:10:38,039 how do you respond to this. 196 00:10:39,279 --> 00:10:44,919 Speaker 3: Much more warmly, much more positively. It's said that you know, 197 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:47,000 people don't know how much you care until they or 198 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:49,720 people don't care what you know, care what you know 199 00:10:49,840 --> 00:10:54,200 until they know how much you care. And that hits 200 00:10:54,360 --> 00:11:00,960 home with me because him speaking to his producer who's 201 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:04,600 gone through it, and then listening and actually understanding, having 202 00:11:04,639 --> 00:11:09,879 an understanding and seeing the struggles different struggles that his 203 00:11:10,039 --> 00:11:13,120 generation went through and our generation is going through now 204 00:11:15,840 --> 00:11:21,320 helps the truth ring all the clearer and hard. He's right, 205 00:11:21,360 --> 00:11:25,879 hard times do create good men, but not really. It's 206 00:11:26,159 --> 00:11:29,240 what the good men do in spite of the hard 207 00:11:29,279 --> 00:11:32,080 times or the good times that makes them good men. 208 00:11:32,399 --> 00:11:35,559 It reminds me of I'm gonna quote token to you, 209 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:38,399 but it reminds me of Gandalf speaking to Frodo. Of Frodo, 210 00:11:38,440 --> 00:11:40,559 I wish these times had never come to me. I 211 00:11:40,600 --> 00:11:42,360 wish I wish it had never had the ring. I 212 00:11:42,360 --> 00:11:45,279 wish it had happened to someone else in some other time, 213 00:11:45,679 --> 00:11:49,799 and Gandalf says to him, so do all But all 214 00:11:49,840 --> 00:11:53,279 we can do, all we can know is what we 215 00:11:53,320 --> 00:11:55,120 are to do with the time that has been given 216 00:11:55,159 --> 00:11:55,440 to us. 217 00:11:55,519 --> 00:11:58,159 Speaker 1: Yeah, well said in token of course a Christian. And 218 00:11:59,240 --> 00:12:01,480 I think also you have been in psychological war for 219 00:12:01,559 --> 00:12:05,559 your whole life. I mean truly, the COVID lockdowns, the 220 00:12:05,679 --> 00:12:09,840 gender stuff, the white people are oppressor's stuff. I mean, 221 00:12:09,840 --> 00:12:12,240 there's been a massive psychological war. But it's also a 222 00:12:12,399 --> 00:12:14,639 of course, it's a spiritual war. You know this, All 223 00:12:14,679 --> 00:12:18,000 things are spiritual. More with young men in how the 224 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:22,919 Bible addresses directly young man Ecclesiastes eleven nine. Rejoice a 225 00:12:22,960 --> 00:12:25,879 young man in your youth, and let your heart share 226 00:12:25,919 --> 00:12:27,600 you in the days of your youth. Walk in the 227 00:12:27,639 --> 00:12:29,759 ways of your heart and the sight of your eyes. 228 00:12:30,240 --> 00:12:33,200 But know that for all these things God will bring 229 00:12:33,240 --> 00:12:37,360 you into judgment. So the times we live in yep, 230 00:12:37,440 --> 00:12:39,600 they're tough. You've been in the psychological war. It's been 231 00:12:39,639 --> 00:12:42,559 repressed upon you. But for all these things, all your 232 00:12:42,600 --> 00:12:44,879 youth we've been talking about, it's youthful passions, et ceter 233 00:12:45,039 --> 00:12:47,840 God's going to bring you the judgments. And then Psalm 234 00:12:48,120 --> 00:12:50,360 one nineteen verse nine. How could a young man keep 235 00:12:50,440 --> 00:12:53,039 his way pure by guarding it according to your work 236 00:12:53,279 --> 00:12:55,879 the word of God. And this is the thing that 237 00:12:55,960 --> 00:12:58,200 I don't see in fant taste at all. I've never 238 00:12:58,200 --> 00:13:01,039 watched a full program, I want to be fair. But 239 00:13:01,120 --> 00:13:03,799 the many mini clips I've seen, I have never seen 240 00:13:04,360 --> 00:13:09,159 Flente's supply anything that I would look at and say, 241 00:13:09,200 --> 00:13:12,000 you know what, knowing a person by his fruits, I 242 00:13:12,039 --> 00:13:13,679 see in him the fruit of the spirit. I see 243 00:13:13,679 --> 00:13:16,360 biblical love, I see respect for God. Am I wrong? 244 00:13:16,480 --> 00:13:18,559 Or I mean no? I mean ever see anything like that? 245 00:13:18,600 --> 00:13:20,279 Speaker 3: I don't. I don't want him all the time either. 246 00:13:20,360 --> 00:13:22,600 I only see clips of him when he goes viral. 247 00:13:22,679 --> 00:13:25,840 So I have an understanding that a I'm seeing something 248 00:13:25,879 --> 00:13:30,639 that is likely very curated. Yeah, curated and over the top. 249 00:13:31,120 --> 00:13:33,919 And I can see the fruit or the lack of 250 00:13:34,320 --> 00:13:38,200 fruit from from the way he speaks. It's very clear 251 00:13:38,360 --> 00:13:42,399 that he he he has a flippancy about him where 252 00:13:42,440 --> 00:13:46,799 everything's a joke. And when everything's a joke, anytime you 253 00:13:46,840 --> 00:13:49,600 try to take something to be serious with an audience, 254 00:13:50,360 --> 00:13:52,559 it's not gonna work well when they're so used to 255 00:13:52,600 --> 00:13:55,919 everything being a gag or everything being a what's passive 256 00:13:55,919 --> 00:14:00,519 aggressive with that too? Yeah? Or every if everything is 257 00:14:01,200 --> 00:14:04,639 a parody of we're gonna mock this because we're gonna 258 00:14:04,679 --> 00:14:07,399 we're gonna praise Hitler because we've been mocked for beat 259 00:14:07,440 --> 00:14:09,600 for praising Hitler on the all the time. I can 260 00:14:09,639 --> 00:14:13,519 see that being effective at generating a lot of buzz, 261 00:14:13,720 --> 00:14:17,039 and I can see that being effective at making a point. 262 00:14:17,080 --> 00:14:19,240 But if that's the only point you make all the time, 263 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:20,919 what are you. 264 00:14:20,919 --> 00:14:23,840 Speaker 1: Doing If everything's parody, nothing's parody? Yeah, right, yeah, And 265 00:14:24,519 --> 00:14:27,360 you know when you are when you've been given this audience. 266 00:14:27,399 --> 00:14:30,240 And again, I firmly believe looking at this analysis, a 267 00:14:30,240 --> 00:14:32,840 lot of this is bot driven, but still it's there. 268 00:14:33,120 --> 00:14:35,600 And look, I know what it's like to have never 269 00:14:35,639 --> 00:14:37,879 at that level, but I know what it's like to 270 00:14:37,919 --> 00:14:41,919 be young and infamous and on national television and on 271 00:14:41,960 --> 00:14:44,600 the fronts of newspapers et cetera and Wall Street Journal 272 00:14:44,639 --> 00:14:48,480 and all that nip on television Japan. I got there 273 00:14:48,519 --> 00:14:51,039 by being a jackass. And I feel like this guy 274 00:14:51,120 --> 00:14:53,360 is doing that as well. So thanks for coming on set. 275 00:14:53,440 --> 00:14:59,840 Appreciate you very much. Story number two San Francisco su 276 00:15:00,159 --> 00:15:03,919 junk food makers. But it's not for health reasons. Man, 277 00:15:03,960 --> 00:15:06,360 this is entertaining because it brings back to me the 278 00:15:06,480 --> 00:15:10,000 days of living in Seattle. And I remember that when 279 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:12,279 there was an announcement that came out that Seattle was 280 00:15:12,440 --> 00:15:18,360 banning plastic straws. And my producer and friend Alex remember this. 281 00:15:18,440 --> 00:15:21,720 I made a video that was me going into a 282 00:15:22,440 --> 00:15:26,639 production studio with a syringe and I had broken the 283 00:15:26,720 --> 00:15:29,600 needle off the syringe and I took it into the 284 00:15:29,639 --> 00:15:32,960 studio and I had a drinking straw and I tried 285 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:34,519 to find this video. I guess I should have tried 286 00:15:34,559 --> 00:15:37,399 to find this, and this one's pretty viral. And I 287 00:15:37,559 --> 00:15:41,000 drank water with the straw and said, this is illegal 288 00:15:42,120 --> 00:15:45,320 in Seattle. This is now illegal. But actually I broke 289 00:15:45,360 --> 00:15:47,320 the needle off there on set. That's right. I broke 290 00:15:47,360 --> 00:15:50,879 the needle, opened the syringe and sucked the drink through 291 00:15:50,879 --> 00:15:54,039 that this is legal, and they hand these out and 292 00:15:54,080 --> 00:15:57,799 there's this pretense this was all for health reasons. And 293 00:15:57,840 --> 00:16:00,480 they did the same thing with happy meals seat they 294 00:16:00,600 --> 00:16:05,720 banned juice in happy meatles like apple juice in the 295 00:16:05,759 --> 00:16:10,960 Apple State, in a state where they were pushing wrong 296 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:14,799 sex hormones to kids that same state, that same state 297 00:16:14,919 --> 00:16:19,480 was making marijuana available all over the place, and drugs 298 00:16:19,480 --> 00:16:21,519 were wildly available. But man, they got rid of that juice. 299 00:16:21,559 --> 00:16:24,799 But chocolate milk was okay, because that's so much better. 300 00:16:26,080 --> 00:16:28,320 The city of San Francisco has come out with the 301 00:16:28,320 --> 00:16:32,000 first of its kind ban on some foods, and they're 302 00:16:32,039 --> 00:16:37,000 going after there's a lawsuit and they're suing Big Food. 303 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:39,080 Now on the front of this, you'd think that me 304 00:16:39,320 --> 00:16:41,879 being the guy who is the body of the temple guy, 305 00:16:41,919 --> 00:16:44,399 because that's I fully believe the body is the temple. 306 00:16:45,279 --> 00:16:48,240 So you would think that being that guy, I would 307 00:16:48,279 --> 00:16:51,039 take a totally totally positive view to this, and in 308 00:16:51,039 --> 00:16:54,320 one way I do. But it's an utter joke. If 309 00:16:54,360 --> 00:16:57,120 you know anything about the streets of San Francisco, I'll 310 00:16:57,159 --> 00:16:59,200 explain why this is such a joke in just a second. 311 00:17:00,159 --> 00:17:02,000 There's a whole lot of things in our country that 312 00:17:02,120 --> 00:17:05,920 the medical establishment, this is the technocratic medical class, the 313 00:17:05,960 --> 00:17:11,039 pharm of pharisees that they pretend to protect you. For instance, 314 00:17:11,079 --> 00:17:14,400 a ban on actual stem cell therapy if you're going 315 00:17:14,440 --> 00:17:16,799 to get stem cell therapy, to say, not go get 316 00:17:16,799 --> 00:17:19,720 a shoulder surgery when you don't need one, or a 317 00:17:19,759 --> 00:17:22,599 back surgery when you don't need one, or you'd like 318 00:17:22,640 --> 00:17:25,359 to have the use of your hands back, and you 319 00:17:25,400 --> 00:17:29,160 don't want to have your tendons scraped because of carpal tunnel, 320 00:17:29,400 --> 00:17:31,759 or you're sick of all the numbness, or maybe you 321 00:17:31,799 --> 00:17:34,079 have a loved one has a traumatic brain injury and 322 00:17:34,200 --> 00:17:37,279 you prefer not to go through surgical routes and the 323 00:17:37,400 --> 00:17:40,720 drug route. You want the best stem cells in America. 324 00:17:40,960 --> 00:17:45,480 The stem cells are basically a frozen gas station burrito 325 00:17:46,319 --> 00:17:48,880 at Port of Art to Mexico. With Renewed Healthcare. These 326 00:17:48,880 --> 00:17:52,160 stem cells are taken from donors. They pay for the 327 00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:55,039 birth of those women. They monitor the health of the 328 00:17:55,039 --> 00:17:57,640 baby the women throughout that process. So what you're getting 329 00:17:57,720 --> 00:18:00,559 are the world's best stem cells because they reject eighty 330 00:18:00,640 --> 00:18:03,960 to ninety percent of them and then they culture the 331 00:18:04,039 --> 00:18:06,839 remaining stem cells, so they are the highest possible quality. 332 00:18:06,880 --> 00:18:09,440 It's not just the stem cell treatment, it's the IVS, 333 00:18:09,519 --> 00:18:11,920 it's the hyperbreak chamber, it's the whole approach. They're the 334 00:18:11,920 --> 00:18:14,000 best at this. So if you're suffering from any of 335 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:16,319 these things, or even things that are aesthetic, don't do 336 00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:19,359 both talks. Two stem cells go to renew Dot Healthcare. 337 00:18:19,400 --> 00:18:23,119 It's e nue dot Healthcare elevates your quality of life 338 00:18:23,160 --> 00:18:25,759 by elevating your healthcare. It's renew dot Healthcare. Please tell 339 00:18:25,799 --> 00:18:28,680 them you're part of the Todd Hermanshell family. And it's 340 00:18:28,680 --> 00:18:30,960 because I track health, because I'm a geek on this 341 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:33,920 stuff that I looked at. This sort of excited first 342 00:18:33,920 --> 00:18:36,880 of its kind lawsuit in San Francisco. 343 00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:40,720 Speaker 6: They're on nearly every shelf and nearly every grocery store 344 00:18:40,799 --> 00:18:45,039 across the country. Ultra processed foods now make up over 345 00:18:45,200 --> 00:18:47,400 fifty percent of the American diet. 346 00:18:47,799 --> 00:18:51,680 Speaker 7: Our case is about companies who design food to be 347 00:18:51,880 --> 00:18:53,359 harmful and addictive. 348 00:18:53,759 --> 00:18:57,119 Speaker 6: In San Francisco, today, City Attorney David Chu announced the 349 00:18:57,160 --> 00:19:01,279 first government lawsuit of its kind against eleven companies that 350 00:19:01,400 --> 00:19:07,119 manufacture ultraprocessed foods, including breakfast Titan, Kellogg, and beverage maker 351 00:19:07,200 --> 00:19:12,240 Coca Cola, accusing them of using unfair and deceptive marketing 352 00:19:12,400 --> 00:19:14,960 to sell food. We've known for a long time that 353 00:19:15,160 --> 00:19:18,319 the ingredients in many of these ultraprocessed foods are unhealthy. 354 00:19:18,359 --> 00:19:19,440 Speaker 5: Why now we have. 355 00:19:19,559 --> 00:19:22,240 Speaker 7: All suspected for a long time, have that food that 356 00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:25,200 is not found We're likely not good for us. But 357 00:19:25,279 --> 00:19:27,559 it took many years for the science to catch up. 358 00:19:27,759 --> 00:19:32,200 Speaker 6: Research has linked ultraprocessed foods to obesity, type two diabetes, 359 00:19:32,480 --> 00:19:35,799 and cancer. In a statement, a trade group representing many 360 00:19:35,880 --> 00:19:38,599 of the companies named in the lawsuits said there is 361 00:19:38,640 --> 00:19:43,640 currently no agreed upon scientific definition of ultra processed foods 362 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:47,720 and that calling them unhealthy is misleading to consumers. 363 00:19:47,960 --> 00:19:51,920 Speaker 7: There's a clear definition in California law on what ultraprocessed 364 00:19:51,920 --> 00:19:54,480 foods are. We look forward to having that discussion in court. 365 00:19:57,240 --> 00:20:00,640 Speaker 6: And San Francisco has a history of taking on big business. 366 00:20:00,839 --> 00:20:05,200 They previously sued and won multi million dollar lawsuits against 367 00:20:05,240 --> 00:20:09,079 big tobacco, lead paint, and opioid manufacturers. 368 00:20:09,319 --> 00:20:14,519 Speaker 1: Elizabeth thanks so much. They have a strong track history 369 00:20:14,559 --> 00:20:17,200 of holding them up for money. This is a money play. 370 00:20:17,640 --> 00:20:19,640 This is not a health play. This is not a 371 00:20:19,680 --> 00:20:23,039 defending the people play. People still smoke in San Francisco 372 00:20:23,960 --> 00:20:28,240 and opioid use. That's the core of this. This is 373 00:20:28,279 --> 00:20:31,400 not about health. It may have some health effects. It's 374 00:20:31,400 --> 00:20:33,960 about money. They're not gonna stop selling this stuff there. 375 00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:37,480 They're gonna pay the fine. They're gonna keep selling the stuff. 376 00:20:37,519 --> 00:20:40,480 They're gonna label it differently, and this is paid to play. 377 00:20:40,519 --> 00:20:43,319 It's time for you to pony up. You notice some 378 00:20:43,359 --> 00:20:46,240 things that are absent here. Did you see, for instance, 379 00:20:46,319 --> 00:20:49,559 any of the fake meat stuff on there? Like the 380 00:20:49,920 --> 00:20:55,720 miracle burger you talk about processing. You take a bunch 381 00:20:55,759 --> 00:20:59,400 of plants made to appear to be a hamburger, including 382 00:20:59,599 --> 00:21:02,440 leaky fake blood that's alts. A process that's not going 383 00:21:02,519 --> 00:21:05,160 to be in these lawsuits because of course this is 384 00:21:05,319 --> 00:21:10,640 narrative keeping, but it's the juxtaposition of junk food versus 385 00:21:10,640 --> 00:21:13,519 what they're doing to people's bodies. If you ever want 386 00:21:13,559 --> 00:21:17,720 to have some fun, go search the phrase San Francisco 387 00:21:18,119 --> 00:21:21,920 zombie and what you're going to encounter are people who 388 00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:25,079 have been put under the boot of the opioid crisis. 389 00:21:25,119 --> 00:21:27,960 And let's not forget how this began. Now. People have 390 00:21:28,039 --> 00:21:30,559 always wanted to change their mind, their mind chemistry. You 391 00:21:30,559 --> 00:21:32,599 can go all the way back to Edgar and Allan Poe. 392 00:21:33,079 --> 00:21:35,599 He was really really into that. He was probably stone 393 00:21:35,599 --> 00:21:38,000 when he wrote some of his best work. You can 394 00:21:38,039 --> 00:21:40,519 go way way back in human history. People have always 395 00:21:40,599 --> 00:21:42,599 wanted to do this stuff. The first time they figured 396 00:21:42,599 --> 00:21:45,160 out that fermented liquids did this for you, people sought this. 397 00:21:45,240 --> 00:21:50,279 There's always this want to goof with their minds. But 398 00:21:50,359 --> 00:21:52,799 the opioid crisis was helped along by a whole bunch 399 00:21:52,799 --> 00:21:54,839 of factors. One of them that's forgotten and no one's 400 00:21:54,880 --> 00:21:59,519 gonna get sued is because the opioid makers invented something 401 00:21:59,599 --> 00:22:04,960 called pain as the fifth vital sign. Okay, do you 402 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:07,519 believe that pain is an indication? It's a vital sign 403 00:22:07,599 --> 00:22:14,119 like your heart rate, your brain activity, your respiration, your pulse. 404 00:22:14,160 --> 00:22:16,880 As I said heart rate, do you believe that's a 405 00:22:16,960 --> 00:22:22,799 vital sign. Now, certainly we all experience pain, and yes, 406 00:22:22,839 --> 00:22:24,680 if you're alive, you're going to experience pain, and if 407 00:22:24,720 --> 00:22:27,119 you're dead, there's no pain. So you could defend it 408 00:22:27,119 --> 00:22:31,039 that way. But what they did to doctors is they said, 409 00:22:31,119 --> 00:22:34,720 we're going to now rate you on how much pain 410 00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:39,720 your patients feel. So this led to some insane things. 411 00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:43,640 This happened in San Diego, California, that a guide gotten 412 00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:46,960 on and had an operation on his arm, and he 413 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:49,839 went home and he kept complaining that he was in pain. 414 00:22:51,079 --> 00:22:56,680 So the nurses kept upping his doses of opioids, and 415 00:22:56,720 --> 00:22:58,640 every time they upped it, he came back and said, 416 00:22:58,680 --> 00:23:01,759 I'm in pain. Well, they knew that their ratings depended 417 00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:04,839 upon no pain, because pain is a vital sign. If 418 00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:07,720 your patient's in pain, that means your patient is dying. 419 00:23:07,799 --> 00:23:11,000 This is what the opiated manufacturers sold through States Medicare 420 00:23:11,079 --> 00:23:14,720 and Medicaid programs. This was the federal government installing this. 421 00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:18,920 It was a marketing plan. This guy finally, a doctor 422 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:21,559 came along and said, what are we doing. This is 423 00:23:21,599 --> 00:23:25,480 a minor arm operation. What are we doing? Get this 424 00:23:25,559 --> 00:23:27,480 guy in here. So they brought him in. It turned 425 00:23:27,519 --> 00:23:31,440 out the bandages on his arm hadn't been changed. They 426 00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:34,119 were too tight, and his arm was becoming gangrenous. It 427 00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:36,519 was cutting off the blood. It was killing his arm. 428 00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:42,759 They were solving this by taking the pain away, because 429 00:23:42,799 --> 00:23:45,599 that's what they were told to do. There was also 430 00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:47,960 the fact that Barack Hussein Obama and the people who 431 00:23:48,079 --> 00:23:53,359 ran him decided to allow the Taliban to ship opioids 432 00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:56,960 into a country over across and through the southern border. 433 00:23:57,400 --> 00:24:00,599 And this is detailed in a story called Project Sandra, 434 00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:05,000 where Barack Obama decided to stop the indictment of Taliban 435 00:24:05,079 --> 00:24:08,559 members and Narco terrace in Mexico to stop it even 436 00:24:08,599 --> 00:24:10,400 though it was ready to go. There were seven named 437 00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:13,079 intelligence sources who came out and said this is going on. Now. 438 00:24:13,279 --> 00:24:16,680 Obama froze that stopped it, didn't allow to continue. That 439 00:24:16,720 --> 00:24:18,720 brought in a whole bunch of availability, which brought the 440 00:24:18,759 --> 00:24:22,000 prices down. Then, of course the open borders and these 441 00:24:22,039 --> 00:24:26,079 precursor chemicals coming in from China. So you had big business, 442 00:24:26,119 --> 00:24:28,759 you had big government, you had big cartel, you had 443 00:24:28,799 --> 00:24:32,240 big politics combined to create this flood of opioids within 444 00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:34,920 the country. So there's a lot of people who are 445 00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:40,039 now on the streets because they got prescription medicine and 446 00:24:40,079 --> 00:24:42,839 they liked it. This happened to a friend of mine 447 00:24:42,839 --> 00:24:45,960 whose life was taken by opioids because he liked what 448 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:48,440 they did to him after a surgery, and it was 449 00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:51,759 a surgery that was just sadly botched. So if you 450 00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:56,839 searched the phrase San Francisco zombie, you're likely to come 451 00:24:56,839 --> 00:24:57,920 across videos like this. 452 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:00,279 Speaker 3: Y'all got to clean all this up. 453 00:25:02,559 --> 00:25:07,680 Speaker 1: This is the utter trash to walk that road to 454 00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:11,000 work every day. Is it hard to clean up? What 455 00:25:11,119 --> 00:25:15,000 he's cleaning up is human excrement, and which you see 456 00:25:16,319 --> 00:25:21,039 are people kneeling, people on their sides. A guy looks 457 00:25:21,079 --> 00:25:23,799 like he's crawling, and then there's a guy crouching in 458 00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:28,640 a very familiar zombie pose. These people are unable to 459 00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:31,880 move themselves in any other way. And if you look 460 00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:33,480 at that, you look at the fact that there are 461 00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:36,720 apps in San Francisco that are designed to do one thing, 462 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:39,960 which is to warn you of human excrement. So when 463 00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:42,039 you're walking to work, you use the app. Hey, there's 464 00:25:42,079 --> 00:25:44,359 a pile of it here, don't step in it. Here. 465 00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:47,599 This is a really well downloaded app within San Francisco 466 00:25:47,839 --> 00:25:51,440 that's not ultra processed foods. But the city attorney at 467 00:25:51,480 --> 00:25:53,319 San Francisco is not going to do anything about this. 468 00:25:54,079 --> 00:25:56,599 He's not going to go sue the open aid manufacturers 469 00:25:56,640 --> 00:25:58,960 for pain is the fifth vital sign because that went 470 00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:01,759 through the state of California. He's not going to make 471 00:26:01,799 --> 00:26:04,160 a statement against this open air drug use because that 472 00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:07,480 goes against the theory of California that they're reducing harm. 473 00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:09,880 But he's going to go after drunk food manufacturers, but 474 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:12,559 not to stop it, just to get payments. And what 475 00:26:12,599 --> 00:26:15,759 are they going to do with that money? What do 476 00:26:15,759 --> 00:26:17,720 you think San Francisco is going to do with that money? 477 00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:23,480 And again, go search the phrase zombie San Francisco and 478 00:26:23,559 --> 00:26:26,519 you'll end up with videos like this. This is outside 479 00:26:26,519 --> 00:26:31,200 of someone's home office. So this is a guy leaning 480 00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:36,319 against someone's door, barely able to stand, and tell me 481 00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:39,880 that does not look like a zombie from the Walking Dead. 482 00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:42,920 Now you have to leave through that door, Your kids 483 00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:45,680 have to leave through that door. And this guy's out 484 00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:48,759 there barely hanging on, barely able to hang his body 485 00:26:48,799 --> 00:26:52,920 against the door. What we're seeing in San Francisco in 486 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:55,799 this lawsuit. Yeah, it's first of its kind, and yes, 487 00:26:55,839 --> 00:26:58,000 these foods are very addictive, and yes, in that way, 488 00:26:58,039 --> 00:27:00,880 this is very very good. But when they get their settlement, 489 00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:03,519 because these food companies are gonna have to settle. There 490 00:27:03,559 --> 00:27:05,880 is a law in California that defines ultra process foods. 491 00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:08,759 It's not hard to define. You could take the steps 492 00:27:08,799 --> 00:27:12,319 for this. It resolves itself in the simple sugars what 493 00:27:12,519 --> 00:27:14,920 you eat. When you eat, for instance, modern bread, it's 494 00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:17,480 not bread. All of its simple sugars and starches. It 495 00:27:17,519 --> 00:27:20,160 doesn't have protein in it. And where it does, the 496 00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:24,640 protein resolves to sugars. It is filled with chemicals. All 497 00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:27,480 of the nutrition's been stripped out. That's what enriched flour means. 498 00:27:27,519 --> 00:27:30,119 It means putting back some of the enrichment that's been 499 00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:33,160 taken out in these processes. In the olden days, when 500 00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:36,160 you made bread, you made it from heritage seed. Do 501 00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:38,319 you know that most bread was actually sour dough? Do 502 00:27:38,319 --> 00:27:41,480 you think most of it went through that process of fermentation? 503 00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:43,720 Do you know that it took days for it to age? 504 00:27:43,759 --> 00:27:45,400 Do you know that you had to really chew it? 505 00:27:46,119 --> 00:27:47,880 If you ever look at any of the heritage breads 506 00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:50,720 made with heritage grains, you actually had to chew that. 507 00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:53,799 And people were able to subsist on that. There were 508 00:27:53,839 --> 00:27:56,240 people able to go out and do hard labor using 509 00:27:56,279 --> 00:27:59,440 bread like that. What you eat now is sugars and 510 00:27:59,519 --> 00:28:05,319 it starts and you chew it once. So there's easy 511 00:28:05,319 --> 00:28:08,039 ways to define the fact that this is ultra processed. 512 00:28:08,599 --> 00:28:11,039 There's also easy ways to define what San Francisco is 513 00:28:11,079 --> 00:28:13,799 going to do with this money they get to bankroll this. 514 00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:18,240 What they're going to do is sue food manufacturers, come 515 00:28:18,279 --> 00:28:21,519 back and pay more people to hand out more needles, 516 00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:25,839 to go clean up more human feces, to go out 517 00:28:25,839 --> 00:28:29,480 and pretend that they're doing harm avoidance or harm reduction. 518 00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:33,839 So they sue the food manufacturers so that they don't 519 00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:36,799 have to go out and face the heroin problems that 520 00:28:36,799 --> 00:28:39,599 they're allowing to fester on their streets. And if you 521 00:28:39,599 --> 00:28:42,240 think this is just an issue with adults, remember this. 522 00:28:43,279 --> 00:28:48,960 Drug cartels don't have morality. Drug cartels are more than 523 00:28:49,039 --> 00:28:52,240 happy to sell drugs to kids, and the easiest way 524 00:28:52,279 --> 00:28:54,440 to do that is not to take their money, is 525 00:28:54,519 --> 00:28:59,279 to take their bodies through trafficking, because guess what, you 526 00:28:59,279 --> 00:29:02,119 can only sell a drug once. You can sell a 527 00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:07,279 human body ten to twenty times a day. Story Number 528 00:29:07,279 --> 00:29:14,039 three abiding with Christ is mental wellness. Have you seen 529 00:29:14,079 --> 00:29:19,079 the mental wellness industry. It's a big, big industry, and 530 00:29:19,079 --> 00:29:20,839 I'm going to tell you how big here in a second. 531 00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:24,359 Mental wellness, what does that mean? I mean to me, 532 00:29:24,359 --> 00:29:29,200 mental wellness means that you feel safe. You don't feel 533 00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:33,559 consistently attacked, You don't feel gas lit or made crazy. 534 00:29:34,759 --> 00:29:37,720 Mentally well means that you are not dealing with senses 535 00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:41,440 of paranoia. It means that you have times of respite. 536 00:29:42,319 --> 00:29:44,400 It means you have a sense of confidence that things 537 00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:46,759 are going to be okay. It means you have a 538 00:29:46,799 --> 00:29:49,440 sense of confidence in community. That part of being mentally 539 00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:51,640 well is to have a community of people surrounding you. 540 00:29:53,079 --> 00:29:54,880 It means that you have a community with whom you 541 00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:57,920 can share that you're not an isolated person. You're not 542 00:29:57,960 --> 00:30:01,119 a person on an island. So to me, mental wellness 543 00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:03,599 means these things. It means the ability to have the 544 00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:08,200 strength to come back, to have resilience. What are the 545 00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:11,039 key measures of mental wellness? As a resilience, can you 546 00:30:11,079 --> 00:30:13,480 take a hard hit and then bounce back? And if 547 00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:16,359 you need help bouncing back, can you do that? Can 548 00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:19,359 you help others? Part of being mentally well is to 549 00:30:19,359 --> 00:30:22,079 have been poured into This is an evangelical phrase, to 550 00:30:22,119 --> 00:30:25,559 have been poured into our cup worneth over so that 551 00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:29,160 you can pour out. Therapists might speak of this in 552 00:30:29,279 --> 00:30:31,960 terms of an emotional and emotional piggy bank. If you 553 00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:36,240 heard this phrase, or you get consistent deposits into an 554 00:30:36,279 --> 00:30:39,759 emotional piggy bank so that you can then make withdraws. 555 00:30:39,799 --> 00:30:43,319 Because if you're bankrupt emotionally, you don't get poured into 556 00:30:43,359 --> 00:30:46,519 you don't have deposits into your emotional piggy bank. You're broke. 557 00:30:47,480 --> 00:30:49,319 So when a friend of yours comes to you and says, man, 558 00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:52,440 I'm hurting and I need help, you want to help, 559 00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:55,480 but you have no help there You have no energy 560 00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:58,759 for this. So mental wellness can go across a range 561 00:30:58,799 --> 00:31:01,079 of things. Some of people will relate it to how 562 00:31:01,119 --> 00:31:04,319 you look. Now. I would rather people not do that, 563 00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:07,119 but it's very difficult if you don't like how you 564 00:31:07,119 --> 00:31:10,160 look to maintain mental wellness because you see yourself in 565 00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:12,599 the mirror and it can bring you down. People who 566 00:31:12,599 --> 00:31:15,960 have weight issues are sometimes whispered into the ear by satan, Oh, 567 00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:19,160 look at you, you're not presentable. People are going to 568 00:31:19,279 --> 00:31:21,559 judge you. And true, there are people who judge us 569 00:31:21,599 --> 00:31:24,480 for the way they look or the way we look. Now, 570 00:31:24,519 --> 00:31:26,799 mental wellness is to be able to recognize this that hey, 571 00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:29,759 I am not my weight, I am not my body size. 572 00:31:29,799 --> 00:31:32,519 I have value beyond this. Right now, I'm dealing with 573 00:31:32,519 --> 00:31:34,319 the weight issue, and maybe it's something you want to change. 574 00:31:34,319 --> 00:31:37,000 Maybe it's something you don't want to change for health reasons, 575 00:31:37,039 --> 00:31:39,720 physical health reasons. I would hope you would, because it's 576 00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:42,160 hard on your skeletal system, it's hard on your organs. 577 00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:44,000 I would hope you'd change that to the degree that 578 00:31:44,039 --> 00:31:47,039 you can. And not everybody can, but people can try 579 00:31:47,079 --> 00:31:49,759 and at least to be mentally healthy. Part of it's physical, 580 00:31:50,039 --> 00:31:53,559 but there's a massive industry behind this. And if you 581 00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:55,599 doubt me, I'm going to show you a second a 582 00:31:55,759 --> 00:31:59,839 video from Japan that shows how much the self care 583 00:31:59,920 --> 00:32:03,640 is industries advancing into utter absurdity. And then we'll go 584 00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:06,400 through the size of this marketplace. But what is mental 585 00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:13,119 wellness to me? It's abiding with Christ. The designers, the 586 00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:18,480 designer Jesus part of the triune godhead. He designed our 587 00:32:18,519 --> 00:32:23,680 minds and our psyches and our psychology. He knows how 588 00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:26,960 it works, he knows what's best for it. And abiding 589 00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:31,160 with Christ is mental wellness if we take the steps 590 00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:34,000 of what truly abiding means, and first is to understand 591 00:32:34,039 --> 00:32:39,359 abiding the phrase abide, consider abode a home, and abode 592 00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:42,960 is a home. In abiding with Christ, we live with Christ. 593 00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:46,480 So in living with Christ, then we get an idea 594 00:32:46,839 --> 00:32:49,680 of Jesus as our home. I was going to show 595 00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:51,839 you this sign of the sign of how big this 596 00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:54,559 industry is here in a second, and part of this 597 00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:58,119 is personal care. But that industry has been taken to 598 00:32:58,160 --> 00:33:02,799 means so much again six point eightllion bucks. There's a tiny, tiny, 599 00:33:02,839 --> 00:33:06,079 little player in this industry. It's called Alan Soaps. They're 600 00:33:06,119 --> 00:33:08,119 not yet a trillion dollar business. I'll check and see 601 00:33:08,119 --> 00:33:10,079 if it's a billion, but I know it's not. Maybe 602 00:33:10,119 --> 00:33:13,559 a million. It exists to make the world's best soap 603 00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:16,920 in partnership with another family. John's family partner with the 604 00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:20,160 family in the American Midwest. That family has made soap 605 00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:23,000 for three generations. It's all they do. They do this 606 00:33:23,119 --> 00:33:26,119 chemical free, all natural. They don't want they're home filled 607 00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:29,839 with chemicals, and Allan Soaps doesn't have any chemicals in it. Also, 608 00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:32,359 the fragrances are completely unique because they come from the 609 00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:35,480 mind of Allan. He can't speak very well at all 610 00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:39,240 because of his limitations expressed through the autism spectrum and 611 00:33:39,319 --> 00:33:41,920 some of the physical health challenges. The eighteen operations very 612 00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:44,319 difficult from the speak, so he use this an iPad 613 00:33:44,319 --> 00:33:48,079 to help design these soaps. Right now, Christmas time is 614 00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:51,119 the perfect time to make the switch for yourself. Buy 615 00:33:51,119 --> 00:33:54,279 yourself the gift of subscription to Alan Soaps come to 616 00:33:54,319 --> 00:33:56,279 you however often you need it so you never run 617 00:33:56,319 --> 00:33:58,440 out of soap. If you have a business, get some 618 00:33:58,440 --> 00:34:00,960 of the liquid soaps. It's called Ian's Black. That's Allen's brother. 619 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:03,599 He's also impacted by autism. It's great to have in 620 00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:06,720 your store, your office, to give to clients or customers. 621 00:34:07,039 --> 00:34:08,920 If you're a real estate agent, what a cool thing 622 00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:11,480 to leave behind in a house you sell. Also gives 623 00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:14,880 the opportunity to tell the story of Alan's, this company 624 00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:18,199 that exists to employ young people like Alan and Ian. 625 00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:21,159 We want to get back into the business of employing 626 00:34:21,199 --> 00:34:25,159 more young people. This is also great staffer stocking stuffer material, 627 00:34:25,559 --> 00:34:29,400 because again it's an opportunity to tell a really cool story. Alan, 628 00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:31,960 the rest of the world would have stored in a box, 629 00:34:32,039 --> 00:34:34,639 or they would have had aboarded. None of that's happened. 630 00:34:35,119 --> 00:34:37,559 He's a fruitful kid who works every single day at 631 00:34:37,559 --> 00:34:43,480 Alan's in product, product delivery, packaging, quality control. It's alansaps 632 00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:46,280 dot com, slash todd. You get ten percent off all 633 00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:50,000 the products there. Alansoaps dot com, slash todd. They're not 634 00:34:50,039 --> 00:34:52,639 the biggest player in this six point eight trillion dollar industry, 635 00:34:52,679 --> 00:34:56,360 but they're the most important. This industry is a six 636 00:34:56,480 --> 00:35:02,159 point eight trillion dollar industry that's in twenty twenty four. 637 00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:04,639 If you look at some of the things that's considered 638 00:35:04,679 --> 00:35:10,679 mental wellness, you have things like traditional complementary medicine. This 639 00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:15,039 is some six hundred billion dollars public health, prevention and 640 00:35:15,079 --> 00:35:18,599 personalized medicine six hundred and seventy six billion dollars. Mental 641 00:35:18,599 --> 00:35:22,920 wellness two hundred and sixty eight billion dollars. Wellness real estate, 642 00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:25,920 that's a thing. What that means is you live in 643 00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:30,360 communities that are designed for mental wellness, walkability, access to trains, 644 00:35:30,719 --> 00:35:34,199 yoga classes right there on property. Healthy eating, nutrition and 645 00:35:34,239 --> 00:35:37,760 weight loss one point one four billion dollars, physical activity 646 00:35:38,079 --> 00:35:41,679 one point four to four billion dollars, spas one hundred 647 00:35:41,719 --> 00:35:46,880 and fifty six billion dollars, saunas see seventy billion dollars, 648 00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:51,199 Personal care and beauty one point three five billion dollars. 649 00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:55,800 Wellness tourism eight hundred and ninety four billion dollars. Now, 650 00:35:55,920 --> 00:36:01,880 how many people believe a trip is mental wellness wellness tourism? 651 00:36:02,639 --> 00:36:06,480 Now I have done health caations, and this is where 652 00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:09,199 you go to a physical location to go get health 653 00:36:09,239 --> 00:36:12,519 treatment because it's not available where you live. And you 654 00:36:12,599 --> 00:36:16,920 combine aspects of a vacation with health care, wellness tourism, 655 00:36:17,119 --> 00:36:18,960 maybe that's what it is at eight hundred and ninety 656 00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:21,800 four billion dollar industry. Now, the fact of the matter 657 00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:24,960 is physical health is related to mental health. If you're 658 00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:28,679 suffering physically, you've got let's say, low platelet counts, which 659 00:36:28,719 --> 00:36:31,320 give you a precursor god forbids of leukemia. You're likely 660 00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:33,760 to feel tired and exhausted. If you've given yourself type 661 00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:36,760 two diabetes by lack of activity and eating way too 662 00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:40,880 many processed foods, you're likely to have trouble manifesting energy 663 00:36:40,920 --> 00:36:43,159 to do things that can lead to depression, which can 664 00:36:43,239 --> 00:36:46,679 lead to isolation. All these things combine. But if we 665 00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:49,159 go to the Word of Christ, we go to the 666 00:36:49,199 --> 00:36:53,199 Bible or told many many things. Some of the things 667 00:36:53,199 --> 00:36:56,519 we're told about is to be temperate. Some of the 668 00:36:56,519 --> 00:36:58,400 things we're told about is to regard the body as 669 00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:03,000 a temple storage place of the Holy Spirit. Some of 670 00:37:03,039 --> 00:37:05,760 the things we're told is to not go to extremes. 671 00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:09,880 And there's plenty of verses on this. There's also though, 672 00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:13,360 this initiative, the Global Wellness Initiative, a blueprint for a 673 00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:16,519 wellness and this is one of their webinars, Sustainability and 674 00:37:16,559 --> 00:37:20,920 Wellness Transforming the Future of real Estate. This is February twelve, 675 00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:23,760 twenty twenty five. You could go attend this. What they're 676 00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:29,559 doing is designing villages for wellness. So a village approach. Now, 677 00:37:29,639 --> 00:37:31,480 if you go back to the word of Gods and 678 00:37:31,519 --> 00:37:34,320 you just begin regarding what God said. Let's start at 679 00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:38,039 the very very beginning in Genesis. It is not good 680 00:37:38,079 --> 00:37:41,880 that man is alone. So God had said in his 681 00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:45,360 creation that he created this. You know, he spoke the 682 00:37:45,360 --> 00:37:48,199 world into being. Let there be light. He created the 683 00:37:48,199 --> 00:37:50,920 earth and all the things on it, the seas, the animals, 684 00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:54,320 et cetera. He created man, and Man was there naming 685 00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:57,199 the animals. And God sat there and watched him as 686 00:37:57,199 --> 00:38:00,320 if he named it horse, it was horse. But he 687 00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:02,239 then said, it is not good that man is alone. 688 00:38:03,159 --> 00:38:06,199 And so God made woman. And when he made woman 689 00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:08,920 it was to be a special helper to man to 690 00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:11,719 come under and lift up. Later in the Bible where 691 00:38:11,719 --> 00:38:13,920 read that man is to come under his wife and 692 00:38:13,960 --> 00:38:16,159 lift up to love his wife as Christ loves the Church. 693 00:38:16,199 --> 00:38:18,559 But that statement, it is not good that man is alone. 694 00:38:18,880 --> 00:38:22,760 Adam was the only human, and it was God's plan 695 00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:25,559 that other human beings would come around through procreation. He 696 00:38:25,599 --> 00:38:28,599 wasn't going to create more of them. He was going 697 00:38:28,639 --> 00:38:31,400 to let human beings be involved in this. And therefore 698 00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:35,320 then we created now humankind, and man was no longer alone. 699 00:38:35,360 --> 00:38:37,440 You know that in Genesis, of course, than Adam and 700 00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:39,840 Eve decided to go their own way. They decided to 701 00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:43,280 depart God's plan, which was the beginning of us falling 702 00:38:43,280 --> 00:38:46,440 apart mentally, because prior to that, we walked around with God. 703 00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:49,000 If we had a question, we could ask God. We 704 00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:51,480 were then removed from the garden and sin enter the world, 705 00:38:51,480 --> 00:38:53,559 and sin is a precursor to a lot of mental 706 00:38:53,800 --> 00:39:00,599 health issues. If you're sinning consistently say sexual sin, you're 707 00:39:00,639 --> 00:39:03,440 going to create confusion because your system is not set 708 00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:07,360 up for this. When women bond sexually with a man, 709 00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:11,760 their body releases a hormone that has that woman think 710 00:39:11,840 --> 00:39:14,559 of or feel towards that man as if this is 711 00:39:14,599 --> 00:39:18,679 a husband and protector. When you do this consistently, this 712 00:39:18,719 --> 00:39:22,079 hormone gets very confusing. And when you bond with everybody 713 00:39:22,159 --> 00:39:25,000 as husband and protector, you can bond with nobody as 714 00:39:25,079 --> 00:39:28,840 husband and protector. Men become addicted to the endorphins and 715 00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:33,440 the dopabine, the pursuit, the getting, the lustfulness, and then 716 00:39:33,480 --> 00:39:37,719 they cannot enjoy actual sexual contact with their wives to 717 00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:39,400 the agree that they should. That is to be one 718 00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:42,280 flesh as God designed it. If we go to mental 719 00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:45,519 wellness issues promised duties at the top of one of 720 00:39:45,559 --> 00:39:48,880 the problems that's created by promisecuity, both male and female. 721 00:39:49,079 --> 00:39:51,840 God advise against that. We can go straight through the 722 00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:55,440 word of God things not related specifically to sexuality. For instance, 723 00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:59,079 in Romans twelve, verse two, do not conform to the 724 00:39:59,119 --> 00:40:01,639 pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing 725 00:40:01,679 --> 00:40:04,280 of your mind. Then you will be able to test 726 00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:06,920 and approve what God's will is his good pleasing in 727 00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:12,440 perfect will. Have you heard the phrase neuroplasticity See science 728 00:40:12,480 --> 00:40:17,039 made this amazing discovery. Scientists. We can reprogram our minds. 729 00:40:18,079 --> 00:40:21,079 So there are therapies like DBT therapy. To some degree, 730 00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:26,599 DBT is commonly thought about ways you speak words or 731 00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:30,800 listen to people that you have an affirming approach of 732 00:40:30,840 --> 00:40:33,280 listening to people as opposed to fixing their problems. You 733 00:40:33,320 --> 00:40:35,800 hear someone being sad and you help them name their motions. 734 00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:38,440 You seem really sad to me. I did this the 735 00:40:38,519 --> 00:40:40,960 other night with a young man. Seems like you're feeling betrayed. 736 00:40:41,760 --> 00:40:43,760 Sounds like you're feeling scared, he said, not really scared, 737 00:40:43,800 --> 00:40:47,119 out of control, Okay, maybe helpless. Yeah, I'm feeling helpless. 738 00:40:47,159 --> 00:40:49,920 That's a good word for it. That it's also a 739 00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:55,119 way of thinking that dialectical behavioral therapy changes people's mind 740 00:40:55,199 --> 00:40:58,920 processing from that person is now evil because they said no. 741 00:40:58,960 --> 00:41:01,280 My mom is evil because my mom said no to 742 00:41:01,440 --> 00:41:03,760 My mom is someone I love and I'm really frustrated 743 00:41:03,760 --> 00:41:06,559 with it. I love my mom and I'm angry with her, 744 00:41:06,880 --> 00:41:10,719 and it invites this cognitive dissonance, this gray area. What 745 00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:15,440 it allows people to do is to renew their minds, 746 00:41:16,360 --> 00:41:19,280 to see things in a different way. God built in 747 00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:23,320 the ability for us to renew our minds. One of 748 00:41:23,320 --> 00:41:25,599 the things that happens in a good Christian therapy program 749 00:41:25,679 --> 00:41:28,199 with people who are rebuilding their lives is they are 750 00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:31,679 taught when and how to make friends and with whom? 751 00:41:33,119 --> 00:41:36,119 How do I know with whom to make friends? You'll 752 00:41:36,119 --> 00:41:41,719 know them by their fruits. Are they displaying the fruits 753 00:41:41,719 --> 00:41:48,360 of the spirit? Are they being patient and kind biblical love? 754 00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:55,480 Do they have joy? Are they prideful? You're measuring these 755 00:41:55,519 --> 00:41:57,880 things to say, is this someone with whom I should 756 00:41:57,920 --> 00:42:01,760 form a friendship? Maybe to quaintance, great someone you say 757 00:42:01,840 --> 00:42:04,920 hi to in church. It's not someone you share secrets with. 758 00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:08,760 It's not someone you become intimate friends with you know 759 00:42:08,840 --> 00:42:12,159 them by their fruits mental wellness friends. It is not 760 00:42:12,199 --> 00:42:16,280 good that man is alone. Community. Instead of a billion 761 00:42:16,360 --> 00:42:20,360 dollar more industry or trillion dollar industry for mental wellness 762 00:42:20,679 --> 00:42:24,440 real estate, how about a community of people, all of 763 00:42:24,480 --> 00:42:29,679 whom are striving to provide biblical love, all of whom 764 00:42:29,760 --> 00:42:33,519 are seeking to serve the other. The race to the bottom, 765 00:42:33,519 --> 00:42:36,239 as it were, Christ said, in order to be first 766 00:42:36,239 --> 00:42:38,480 in heaven, you need to be last on earth. Imagine 767 00:42:38,480 --> 00:42:42,239 a community like that where everybody is seeking to outserve 768 00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:45,559 the other or to outlove the other, because Christ loved 769 00:42:45,599 --> 00:42:49,440 us first. One thing that goes missing in that industry, 770 00:42:49,599 --> 00:42:53,159 that one point six y' eight trillion dollar industry, is 771 00:42:53,239 --> 00:42:57,840 recognition of power beyond self. And being an evangelical Christian, 772 00:42:57,920 --> 00:43:00,679 I believe there's one power beyond self we want to seek, 773 00:43:00,719 --> 00:43:03,280 and that's Jesus Christ. The other power beyond self is 774 00:43:03,280 --> 00:43:07,199 something we don't want anything to do with, and that's Satan. Philippians, 775 00:43:07,239 --> 00:43:11,440 chapter four, verse eight. Finally, Brothers and sisters, whatever is true, 776 00:43:11,519 --> 00:43:15,079 whatever is noble, whatever's right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, 777 00:43:15,199 --> 00:43:18,840 whatever is admirable, If anything is excellent or praiseworthy think 778 00:43:18,840 --> 00:43:22,880 about such things. This goes back to neuroplasticity. When you 779 00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:28,079 have men or sometimes women who become addicted to, say, pornography, 780 00:43:28,920 --> 00:43:31,199 one of the things that is ineffective is to stay 781 00:43:31,480 --> 00:43:35,559 just stop the porn. What people need to do is 782 00:43:35,639 --> 00:43:40,159 replace it with something else. So when the temptation to 783 00:43:40,320 --> 00:43:44,239 view pornography comes up, people have a replacement. And this 784 00:43:44,280 --> 00:43:47,119 goes back to therapy. CBT therapy is good at this. 785 00:43:47,199 --> 00:43:50,920 DBT therapy is good at this. You cope ahead. So 786 00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:52,920 you know that you're going to be alone for the weekends, 787 00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:56,599 your wife's gone or your husband's gone. You have this temptation, 788 00:43:57,320 --> 00:44:00,000 so you cope ahead. One of the things the Bible 789 00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:02,639 tells us is to plant in our minds whatever's right, 790 00:44:02,719 --> 00:44:06,039 whatever's pure, whatever's lovely, whatever's admirable. So you can plant 791 00:44:06,079 --> 00:44:11,360 in your mind biblical verses regard no one in the flesh. 792 00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:13,880 When you regard no one in the flesh, and then 793 00:44:13,920 --> 00:44:17,159 you're sitting down to look at porn, it's all flesh. 794 00:44:18,280 --> 00:44:22,639 Jesus said, you've heard it said you shall not commit adultery. 795 00:44:22,880 --> 00:44:24,880 But I tell you, a man who looks at a 796 00:44:24,880 --> 00:44:27,920 woman with lust in his eyes has already committed adultery. 797 00:44:28,280 --> 00:44:30,119 You plant in your mind these things and you go 798 00:44:30,239 --> 00:44:31,800 back to the Bible. It is not good that man 799 00:44:31,840 --> 00:44:36,760 is alone. In a community, a Christian, a supportive Christian community, 800 00:44:37,199 --> 00:44:40,119 you have friends who will walk with you through this. 801 00:44:41,239 --> 00:44:43,400 You have friends you can text or call to say, Man, 802 00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:46,000 I'm facing a lot of temptation right now. Can you 803 00:44:46,039 --> 00:44:48,920 help me with this? You've coped a heads or to 804 00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:52,760 confess to one another. This is an Evangelic perspective. The 805 00:44:52,760 --> 00:44:55,679 Catholic perspective is you go confess to your priest, and 806 00:44:55,719 --> 00:44:57,559 your priest gives you some things you can do to 807 00:44:57,679 --> 00:45:00,199 earn redemption. I don't stand with that. One of the 808 00:45:00,199 --> 00:45:01,840 reasons it's not a catholicause I don't believe we can 809 00:45:01,880 --> 00:45:05,760 earn redemption. I think only Christ can forgive Ultimatemily can 810 00:45:05,760 --> 00:45:08,400 forgive one another, but only Jesus can forgive our sins. 811 00:45:09,480 --> 00:45:12,840 And we're told within the church environment to confess to 812 00:45:12,880 --> 00:45:16,119 one another because the devil would like to keep things secret. 813 00:45:16,519 --> 00:45:18,480 He likes to operate in the darkness. And this goes 814 00:45:18,519 --> 00:45:22,000 back to mental wellness. There are people who harbor feelings 815 00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:25,079 about themselves. They hate the way they look they're harboring 816 00:45:25,079 --> 00:45:28,400 feelings of being unsafe at home. They hide that for 817 00:45:28,440 --> 00:45:30,360 fear that people are going to out them or that 818 00:45:30,360 --> 00:45:33,360 they're going to be embarrassed. Part of mental wellness is 819 00:45:33,400 --> 00:45:36,280 being able to confess this, being able to take it 820 00:45:36,280 --> 00:45:40,000 to someone and receive this supportive help. In Ephesians chapter four, 821 00:45:40,159 --> 00:45:43,679 verses twenty two through twenty four, we read you are taught, 822 00:45:43,679 --> 00:45:45,840 with regard to your former way of life, to put 823 00:45:45,840 --> 00:45:49,400 off your old self, which is being corrupted by deceitful desires, 824 00:45:49,800 --> 00:45:51,679 to be made new in the attitude of your minds, 825 00:45:51,719 --> 00:45:53,400 and to put on the new self creator, to be 826 00:45:53,559 --> 00:45:57,760 like God in true righteousness and holiness. One aspect of 827 00:45:57,800 --> 00:46:00,920 mental health is to know that things that are troubling 828 00:46:01,360 --> 00:46:05,400 are often not permanent, and when we're ourselves, we contend 829 00:46:05,400 --> 00:46:07,639 to think of things as permanent, trouble as permanent. God 830 00:46:07,679 --> 00:46:09,599 warned us, do not be surprised when you face troubles 831 00:46:09,639 --> 00:46:11,679 on the time. But one of the things about being 832 00:46:11,760 --> 00:46:13,920 a Christian is to know that you're in the process 833 00:46:14,079 --> 00:46:18,039 of sanctification, that if you're allowing God to change you, 834 00:46:18,039 --> 00:46:20,440 you're being made holy, more and more holy like God 835 00:46:20,480 --> 00:46:23,639 every single day, arriving at a point in the new 836 00:46:23,639 --> 00:46:26,199 Heaven and the new Earth where we're in pure holiness 837 00:46:26,239 --> 00:46:31,679 walking with God. Tewod Corinthians, Chapter ten, verse five. We 838 00:46:31,760 --> 00:46:35,199 demolish arguments in every pretension that sets itself up against 839 00:46:35,199 --> 00:46:38,079 the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought 840 00:46:38,119 --> 00:46:41,480 to make it obedient to Christ. If you're dealing with 841 00:46:41,519 --> 00:46:44,519 thoughts like this, you're fat, so people can't love you. 842 00:46:44,599 --> 00:46:48,599 That's the devil. People do and can love you. If 843 00:46:48,639 --> 00:46:51,280 you're dealing with thoughts like look at what you've done 844 00:46:51,280 --> 00:46:52,880 in your life, you're a mess. No one can ever 845 00:46:52,920 --> 00:46:55,519 support you. You think God can love you, that's the enemy. 846 00:46:55,920 --> 00:47:02,320 Jesus never accuses. The Holy Spirit might convict, which is 847 00:47:02,360 --> 00:47:05,039 an eternal sense of doing something wrong, internal sense of 848 00:47:05,039 --> 00:47:07,719 doing something wrong. If you have the Holy Spirit, but 849 00:47:07,840 --> 00:47:12,119 it's Satan who's the accuser. Is Jesus Christ, who is 850 00:47:12,159 --> 00:47:16,239 our defender, our little lawyer in front of God Almighty. 851 00:47:16,480 --> 00:47:21,320 Abiding with Christ is mental wellness. This is the Todd 852 00:47:21,320 --> 00:47:24,599 Hermann Shaw. Please go be well, be strong, be kind, 853 00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:27,360 and please make every effort to walk in the light 854 00:47:27,440 --> 00:47:27,880 of Christ.