Speaker 1: Welcome to the Three Stories version of The Todd Herman Show.
Story number one, King Josiah, the Lost Law and President
Trump's Mission. Story number two Tesla versus bud Light, anger
can be, Holy rage cannot And story number three only
an academic theologian could believe Jesus never said he was God. Well,
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Speaker 2: Thank you Lord.
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Speaker 2: Today is the day the Lord has made, and these.
Speaker 1: Are the times through which God has decided we shall live.
There is a story in the Bible I want to
get to. I know not everyone's a believer.
Speaker 2: I get that.
Speaker 1: I wish you would be, because it's your eternal soul
and all we are you going to spend the Trinity.
But it's not that big a deal. It's actually the
big deal. I want to start, though, with a just
ground setting statement. There are times when people just go
completely off the rails. We're seeing that. We're seeing all
forms of derangements around literally Hitler and literally Hitler junior,
Elon Musker courses, literally Hitler junior now and it even
comes down to people who used to be smart political thinkers.
And yes, we're building up into King Josiah. That's someone
from the Bible, and I get it. Not everyone's a believer.
I'll say that again. Please please please forgive me for
sure and what I believe. And I know you always
do so. Jimmy Carvell back in the day used to
make some sant he's a smart political thinker. He sat
down to talk with Chris CMO, who's looking move What
are you going for here with the I'm worried that
Trump has syphilis?
Speaker 4: Well, okay, first of all, there's something wrong with it.
That's pretty clear.
Speaker 1: That's set out behind Jimmy Carville. Is that is that
grape juice and such? Oh gosh, what that looks like
grain whiskey, A whole bunch.
Speaker 4: Of it that's meeting in the Oval office was a
significant dariation. Secondly, we do know that he did have
rich spotches on his hands. You know, he could be
an indication of syphis. But the other thing that we
know that we hadn't talked about. On January seventeenth, twenty seventeen,
the key Shell and two other goons broke into his
doctor's office.
Speaker 2: Doctor Bornstein, Wait, I'm not kidding. I can smell booze.
I'm serious.
Speaker 1: No, I can smell booze coming off the mat. So
he's going through things we know but don't know. You
don't know that President Trump has syphilis because there's no
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Speaker 1: You may have seen this picture President Trump. From twenty
seventeen to twenty twenty one, President Trump posted this and
in the middle twenty twenty one to twenty twenty five
is a picture of the auto pen signing Joseph R.
Speaker 2: Biden Junior.
Speaker 1: And then of course President Trump's mugshot with a.
Speaker 2: American flag behind it.
Speaker 1: Now President Trump posting that President Trump's not King Josiah.
I don't even know that President Trump is saved. Honestly,
I think that he is, at the at the most
an immature Christian. I know, I just angered a bunch
of people.
Speaker 2: Just just hear me.
Speaker 1: It's not a sin to be an immature Christian. It
means you're new at doing it. And I think President
Trump is being humbled. I think there's great signs in
that arena.
Speaker 2: But he is being.
Speaker 1: Used by God. And of this I have absolutely no question.
One of the litter or lesser known books in the
Bible is the book the Story of King Josiah, and
it's from Second Kings, and it begins in twenty two
and it tells the story of a young kid eight
years old when he became king. And I know it
seems weird, but that's the way they did things. Then
he reigned in Jerusalem thirty one years. His mother's name
was Jeba Jebadah, daughter of Adaiah. She was from Bostath.
Let me just kind of story this, as we say
in Preacherville. So this guy's very young, obviously he's a kid. Obviously,
he takes over the kingdom and someone comes to him,
one of the high priests, and Hikiyah is his name.
The high priest came to the secretary, I found the
Book of the Law in the Temple of the Lord.
So they were doing work on the temple and King
Jocides said, hey, pay the people doing the work in
the temple.
Speaker 2: And they came back and they found.
Speaker 1: This book or the scroll. I mean, it wouldn't be
a book, it to be a scroll. It's the law
from Moses. And the people had forgotten the law. They'd
literally forgotten the law written by Down, the man who
helped them come out of Egypt. God worked through Moses
to do that, brought them out of bondage. So Hikia
the high priest said to Stephen the secretary, I've found
the Book of the Law in the Temple of the Lord.
He gave it to Safon, who read it. Then Saphon
the secretary went to the king and reported to him
your officials have paid out the money that it was
in the temple of the Lord, and have entrusted it
to the workers and supervisors at the temple. Then Stephen
the secretary informed the king Ekiah the priest has given
me a book, and Saffon read it from the presence
of the king. When the King heard the words of
the Book of the Law, he tore his robes. That
means he was upsets. He was like, I can't believe
we aren't doing this. He gave these orders to Hakaiah
the priest Acam son of Safon Akbor, son of Mekaiah, Saffen,
the secretary of asia In, the King's attendant, go and
inquire of the Lord for me and for the people
and for all Judah about what is written in this
book that has been found. Great is the Lord's anger
that burns against us, because those who've gone before us
have not obeyed the words of this book. They've not
acted in accordance with what is written. They're concerning us.
So it turned into a literal bloodbath, and God forbid
that happen here. I'm not calling for that at all.
But what happened was they found out that there were
a bunch of so called priests who are misleading the people, teachers,
misleading the people, involving them in horrible, terrible, ungodly Satanic sacrifices.
So he ended a bunch of lives Josiah, and he
was a righteous king. I mean, these people were leading
their flocks to hell. President Trump's not a pastor, but
God is using in a very, very similar way.
Speaker 2: We've forgotten the law.
Speaker 1: In the United States. There is almost an across the
board forgetting of order. These rogue judges are a great
sign of this. Zau judges are district court judges, and
if the word district means anything, it means they have limits.
It doesn't mean national. And their decisions are so often
written clownishly, such as quoting the musical Hamilton. So President
Trump's team was wise to not give in to this
latest thing to stop the deportation of these illegal immigrants.
Axios wrote about that. The Trump administration says it's ignored
a Saturday court order to turn around the two planeloads
of alleged Venezuelan gang members because the flights were over
international waters, therefore the ruling didn't apply to them. Why
it matters Axios. The administration's decision to defy a federal
judges' order is exceedingly rare and highly controversial.
Speaker 2: Court ordered to fight.
Speaker 1: First of many as have seen warning sort of a
true constitutional crisis. National security attorney Mark Zaide said he's
a Trump critic.
Speaker 2: The constitutional crisis is the.
Speaker 1: Forgetting of the law. President Trump is the elected president
of the United States. Even the Democrats admit that elected,
by his case, the majority of voters and the majority
of the Electoral College, not just a plurality. He represents
all the nation. The Senate is the next They are
represented statewide than the House. Elected representatives always carry more
weight than appointed representatives, and there are geographic limits. You,
as a congressman from the fifth district of Washington State,
cannot go represent citizens from the sixth district of Washington State.
You can't say today I represent the whole state. You
don't get to do that. There are limits. Districts mean
a thing. It means they represent a district. And in
the case of the deportation order, it's made worse by
the fact that none of the people on that airplane
were in d C. The people who are being ordered
to be brought back weren't in d C when that
ridiculous Circuit court judge made that decision and attempted to
have his verbal order override.
Speaker 2: His written orders. Clown show.
Speaker 1: Oh incidentally, he was also involved in the FISA court
decision to fought to spy on Trump's campaign. See President
Trump is not a pastor. I'm not saying he's King Josiah,
but I'm saying we are a nation it has forgotten
law and order. Marco Rubio talked to the truly unbelievably
good at being arrogance and wrong, Margaret Brennan, and they
talked about another situation involving immigration, and of course it
has to do with a guy who was organizing terror
type activities on behalf of a moss in our nation.
Speaker 5: Is there any evidence of a link to terrorism or
is it just his your point of view?
Speaker 6: Yeah, they take over I mean do you not? I
mean you should watch the news. These guys take over
entire buildings, shut down.
Speaker 2: I'm asking about the then.
Speaker 6: You should justification for the ravocation of his visa. Was
there any evidential so was the negotiator on negotiating on
behalf of people that took over a campus that vandalize buildings,
negotiating over what that's a crime in and of itself
that they're involved in, being the negotiator of the spokesperson, this, that,
and the other. We don't want it, We don't need
these people in our country. That we never should have
allowed him in the first place.
Speaker 1: It's a great answer, and he makes clear that no
one has a right to this right in this form
of visa.
Speaker 2: We're forgetting law and order.
Speaker 1: If you brought someone into your house, you invited him
in your house to come and stay, and they walked
in and began cursing and saying, look at this garbage
you live in, Look at this and your family. Your
family's a bunch of bigots, and look how they stink,
and your wife's a horrible cook. How long before you say, hey,
invitation revoked out. In this case, they are representing this
guy a terrorist organization. Let's call it what it is.
But we've forgotten on order. And when law and order
is being replaced, when people have been living without the law,
it's going to freak people out. It was not a
problem for that judge when the figurehead Biden was being
caused to welcome in planeloads of illegal immigrants, many of
them cartel members. But all of a sudden, it's a
problem now that they're sending him home, maybe even on
the same airplane. You know, Jasmine Crockett, this woman who
is inexplicably represents a district in Texas. Oh, I'm sorry,
all of Texas. No, she represents the nation. No, she's
a congresswoman, but she represents the nation because district doesn't
mean anything. She came out in support of keeping these
cartel operatives and soldiers in America, to.
Speaker 7: Deport undocumented Venezuelans that the administration say are dangerous individuals
with ties to the gang Trendarragua. That gang is obviously
associated with a lot of crime, human trafficking, drug dealing, theft, shooting,
concluding in year state of Texas, right outside of your
congressional district. Do you with this, and if not, what's
your issue with the US using any tool of its
disposal to remove undocumented violent people from this country.
Speaker 5: Come on, Jasmine, My argument is that we already have
tools that are available to remove undocumented violent people from
our country, and so the idea that you want to
go into a zombie law, this is kind of like
what we saw in Arizona when they decided to revive
a zombie law around abortion.
Speaker 2: A zombie law.
Speaker 1: She's referring to a law created by our founders, and
it's a zombie law because it's old. No, it's a
tool necessary in times of emergency to remove people from
a country who do not meet us. Well, they've just
forgotten the law. Resident Trump is not King Josiah, but
God is using them to restore law and order, because
God is a god of order, not chaos.
Speaker 2: Story number two. The tesla versus bud.
Speaker 1: Light thing is a way that we are different from
people on the left. It's fascinating to watch people want
to make it the same thing and to so easy
to be able to point out that it is not
the same thing. And I'm going to share with you
a couple of examples of people who have been how
would I put this, willingly turned into some of the
most disgusting human beings walking the planet because it gives
them meaning. Have you ever been in a sense of rage?
I mean, when was the last time you felt rage?
Speaker 2: Man? It is potent.
Speaker 1: The last time I felt rage was someone did something
to my little girl and I will not get into detail.
I will say that it was awful. One of her
friends brought it to my attention, and then a grown
man defended what a boy did. And I didn't just
go into a sense of rage. It was so potent
that I put hands on a dude and vigorously alerted
him to the fact.
Speaker 2: That he needed to meet the pavement, which he did ungodly.
I repent of it, but man, that was powerful.
Speaker 1: I remember later Dad's coming to me saying, we didn't
know you could move that quickly.
Speaker 2: I didn't either, neither did he.
Speaker 1: Rage it doesn't last long, but man, if you can
take rage and turn it into resentment, now you've got
something you can work with as a political mover. That's
why they're doing this, the rage being turned into resentment.
That's why they've got these websites. Take down test the websites.
They want to take people who've been a sense of rage,
and then they want to harvest the resentment, because resentment
can last a long time. Rage gets that potency. It's
that adrenaline rush. It's a hormone rush. It is a
hormone rush. People can become rage addicts, particularly people who
don't have a terrible amount of meaning in their life
and around Tesla and Elon Musky is literally hitler because
of course he's looking into government spending, which makes him hitler.
There's a ton of rage it's been produced. They're trying
to harvest this into resentment. But people are saying, well, wait,
you did this to bud Light. No, we didn't burn
down bud Light. We didn't burn down their facilities or
their trucks. We didn't burn down.
Speaker 2: Stores that sold it. We just stopped buying it.
Speaker 1: We certainly didn't do what you are about to see,
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Speaker 1: Let me describe the scene for the people who don't
have the wonderful pleasure of watching this. A man and look,
I'm not trying to judge. I'm trying to discern in
some not great looking clothes, not great looking health. He
looks like not doing things in his life that matter.
This probably gives him a great sense of meaning and bravery.
Speaker 2: He does not.
Speaker 1: Permanently harm the tesla, though I would never touch it again.
The man walks through the parking lot and he reaches
into his ample hm area between the buttock, but talks,
and he he.
Speaker 2: Goes deep, and then.
Speaker 1: He goes to the tesla. He goes in deep again,
digging out feces that's apparently amply there. And he does
this four or five times. He didn't sniff his finger,
which I think is probably a plus, and that gave
him this sense of superiority. Now, we were not doing
this to bud Light. We stopped buying it. And this
is just an isolated case, so we should be fair.
If it's isolated, it shouldn't be so easy to find
so many of these. And that's I guess, relatively minor,
unless you're the person who touches your car and doesn't realize.
Oh and by the way, I wonder if like I
went to Taco Bell right after that and handed them
as a food stamp card. Watch Alex across the room
getting physically ill. Now this is different by type, but
not by degree or by degree but not type. Tim
Waltz doesn't go harvesting in his pants. Tim Waltz gets
on stage and celebrates the demise he would think of Tesla,
despite the hundreds of thousands of Americans employed in and
around Tesla, and despite an important detail in terms of
the economy, the personal economy of people who worked in
government in Minnesota and would like one day to retire.
Speaker 2: Here is tampon Tim on my phone. I don't some
of you know this on the iPhone. They've got that
little stock app. I added Tesla toe to give me
a little boost during the day. That's fun.
Speaker 8: Two twenty five and dropping. And if you own one.
If you own one, we're not blaming you. You can
you can take dental floss and pull the Tesla thing off,
you know, and take out of just telling.
Speaker 1: You actually they are blaming you. There's full blown websites
that are bragging about actually publishing the names and addresses
of people who bought a car. The cursor on that
website is a Molotov cocktail. The verbiage on that website
is here's some ways to be untraceable, here's some creative
ways to cause destruction. It is an organized effort at
domestic terror that we never did with bud light, Praise God,
we never did this. Is it that we weren't traumatized?
Speaking as someone who sat and watched gender ideology and
what it did.
Speaker 2: There were plenty of people terrorist.
Speaker 1: Having spoken to people who watched their cities overrun by
criminal gangs, that's some terror. But we didn't go respond
this way. There's a difference. The Democrat Party is rage
harvesting so that they can nurture people's resentment for the
long run, at least up to the midterms, and they
really don't care what it does to their psyche evidence
Tim Waltz evidence.
Speaker 2: Pant harvester Bill Burr.
Speaker 1: Apparently I don't know who he is because I'm utterly
divorced from pop culture, but apparently he used to be
a comedian and some people even say he was funny once.
Now Bill Burr is a political ranter, and he is
also figured out that Elon Musk is literally Hitler.
Speaker 9: It's a positive time, Jimmy, Yeah, I really is. Billionaires
are not happy having a billion dollars. We must dress
psyche just a thank you for my length. Why does
a long musk dress like he just got out of
a hot topic. I am so sick of that guy
trying to rewrite his origin story like he was Matthew
McConaughey pulling.
Speaker 2: Into the high school.
Speaker 9: It's like you were a nerd, nobody banged you, and
now you have hair plugs in.
Speaker 2: The laminated face.
Speaker 9: And everybody, everybody is afraid of these nerds.
Speaker 2: I don't get it.
Speaker 9: My whole life, feminists were focusing on frat boys and
guys with their hats on backwards, and they left the
nerds alone.
Speaker 2: And now look at them.
Speaker 9: They got people wearing adult diapers, driving eighteen wheelers trying
to get crops to the I don't know, the box
store on time. They're horrible, heartless people. And then for
some reason, if you say that you're like a communist,
and then we're in bed.
Speaker 2: With the Russians. I don't get any of it. None
of it makes sense.
Speaker 1: You're not in bed with the Ussians, Billy Burr. But
you're upset because the guy is analyzing spending.
Speaker 2: That upsets you.
Speaker 1: Elon must can't cancel government programs, President Trump can. It
upsets you that he's letting us look at how our
money spent. That's upsetting to you. And so that's horrible
and heartless to let us see how our money is spent. Now,
Billy Burr is clearly a very very funny and very
talented comedian who says funny things and people just laugh
and laugh and laugh because.
Speaker 2: It's so funny.
Speaker 1: Likewise, Jessica tar Love on the View really drove home
this bud Light and Tesla comparison, and man, I need
you to sit back and observe the brilliants.
Speaker 4: You guys know.
Speaker 10: I think Ellen Musk has done a tremendous amount of good.
I think Starlink is one of the more exciting modern
discoveries or creations that there is. I again reiterate, I
draw the line at ours and no one should be
setting cars on fire. But I would argue no, this
is an important point. It's a free market point. But
also we talked about Dylan mulvaney, a single trans influencer
who was a stop.
Speaker 1: That's your view. Those are the words you choose to use.
They are not the words that the majority of Americans
choose to use.
Speaker 10: A single can of beer for months, and that can
of beer set the conservative movement on for verbial fire,
rooting against at least half an American company. The Anheuser
Busch side of things. Kid Rock out there doing target
practice with Budweiser cans, people vowing to decimate that brand,
and Dylan mulvaney has much less of an impact on
people's lives than Elon Musk does. So is that okay?
Or that was wrong too? And everyone wants to manw
call THEO.
Speaker 1: There is no comparison, none to burning down Tesla charging
stations or firebombing Tesla sales stores in Las Vegas to
choosing to not buy a beer.
Speaker 2: None. We are not the same Jessica story number three.
Speaker 1: There are ideas that only academics can choose to believe,
and it's so common in regard to Jesus Christ as
people like Bart Denton Ermin, who goes by I Guess
Denton Ermin. He is a New Testament scholar and focus
on the textual criticism of the New Testament, the historical Jesus,
and he's written and edited thirty books, included college textbooks.
It's also authored six New York Times bestsellers. He must
really know what he's talking about in relation to Gesa Christ.
Speaker 2: He must be a.
Speaker 1: True, real lover of the Lord to spend his life doing.
Speaker 2: This too bad.
Speaker 1: He is absolutely wrong and easily proven to be absolutely
wrong when he claims that Jesus never said he was God,
at least not in the Gospels. He chooses to use
because he disqualifies another one. That's very very common for
people to do this and to do it badly. For
instance this, I have friends who want me very very
much to stop talking about sexual sin, fornication, adultery, being
active in same sex attraction. I can love adulterers. My
father committed adultery. I love him to this day. I
miss him. He died too young. I have friends who
have committed fornication. I have when I was young. I did,
you didn't. You're one of the good ones. Praise God
for that, and I've forgiven myself and taken that to
the cross. In the case of my dad, I knew
what he did and I still loved him. And no
one is going into the Bible and saying, Jesus didn't
really mean love your neighbor. But people aren't going into
the Bible to do this because you can't. They are
writing things around the Bible saying, well, they didn't really mean.
Speaker 3: That.
Speaker 1: Being active in same sex attraction, that is taking action
upon it was sin. They didn't really mean that, or
they didn't understand, and they did because Jesus didn't understand
people and Jesus didn't understand.
Speaker 2: How people work.
Speaker 1: You either believe Jesus wasn't is God or you don't.
If you're saying God didn't understand how people work, you're wrong.
And what you're saying is Jesus wasn't God. It's always
on the topic of sexuality that these brilliant theologians have
these amazing discoveries. Well, it was only Paul, only the Apostle.
Speaker 2: Paul talked about this. No one else talked about it.
Speaker 1: But they never go back and edit things like God
to love the world, that he sent his only son,
They never edit that, and they never add the other
part about.
Speaker 2: Those who believe in him.
Speaker 1: But it's always a sexual sin, and recently there's an
concentrated effort to make it seem like Jesus never said
he was God. Because this guy is not alone in
saying this. Bart Rman, I'll show what he said in.
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Speaker 2: So this is Bart's.
Speaker 1: And or ermine this scholar of the New Testament and
listen to what he says about Jesus, so very very carefully.
Speaker 11: Of course, modern Christians think that Jesus made a slightly
more radical claim as well than just that the world
was going to end or some certain sort of moral teachings.
They seem to suggest that he was also walking around
claiming to be God. It's one question to ask whether
Jesus was God. Yes, the question of whether Jesus claimed
to be God, Yeah, I find to be one of
the most interesting and biblical scholarship. And I wondered what
your views are on the matter.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 12: So I think it's right to differentiate between those two
because a lot of people don't. The question of whether
Jesus was God is, I agree, is completely independent of
whether erver said he was. It's also independent of whether
he thought he was but we have no access to
his thoughts. We do have we have access.
Speaker 1: To I have to pause here real quick. We have
no access to his thoughts. Liar Jesus shared his thoughts
and the disciples wrote them down. So why number one
we have no access to his thoughts? And the whole
framing in this podcast called Within Reason starts with well
modern Christians.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, I'm going.
Speaker 1: To try my best to not keep interrupting the very
important artnerments some.
Speaker 12: Limited extent to his words. I am firmly convinced that
Jesus never talked about himself as God. And one way
to demonstrate that is to line up our sources of
information about Jesus chronologically. And so I mentioned earlier that
we have the first three Gospels, Matthew, Mark, and Luke.
These are called the synoptic Gospels because they agree in
so many places in there, which stories they tell, the
sequence of the stories, even word for word, verbatim, agreements
that everybody pretty much agrees. There's some copying going on.
Somebody's copying somebody.
Speaker 1: Okay, maybe they're copying thoughts from Jesus Christ because they
were important.
Speaker 2: Now see the inference.
Speaker 1: Here, of course, as well, they're copying just to make
it look good, and now there are disagreements in the
Gospels because people's perceptions were different. If you're trying to
fake a religion, you would cancel the disagreements. If you're
trying to fake a belief that Jesus Christ wasn't is God,
you would cancel the disagreements. Hey, I'm going to try
to do better to not interrupt the very important art.
Denton Erman, who is a New Testament scholar.
Speaker 2: So let me.
Speaker 1: I will sit on one hand and then I will
hit this button said on the.
Speaker 12: Other scholars who worked on this since the nineteenth century
have said that Matthew and Luke both had Mark as
one of their sources. So you had Mark as a source.
Matthew and Luke copied Mark. But Matthew and Luke have
a number of sayings of Jesus not found in Mark,
and so most scholars today continue to think that Matthew
and Luke had access to some other source of written
source of information that they call q Q is a
list of a group of Jesus sayings that Matthew and
Luke had access to. Matthew has some materials not found
in Mark, or Luke. So they say, well, that came
from some other sources, and Luke has some material not
found in Mark and Luke.
Speaker 2: So that's other sources.
Speaker 12: Okay, so you've got Matthew, Mark, and Luke, but you
also have Q and M Matthew special sources and l
Luke special sources.
Speaker 2: If you look at.
Speaker 12: All of that material, Matthew, Mark, Luke, q M, and
l Okay, all of that together, Jesus never calls himself God.
Speaker 1: Can't remember that? Remember what the very important barts Denton Erman,
who's an American New Testament scholar focused on textual criticism
of the New Testament, just said, you remember that. That's
an important little detail, and he continues.
Speaker 12: All of our earliest sources were g Jesus starts calling
himself God. Is the Gospel of John our last source.
And so to my thinking, you have these sources of
information about Jesus. So I've just laid out six, six sources,
six pieces of information versus one. The six are all
earlier than the one. It seems to me completely implausible
that six authors would describe the sayings of Jesus knowing
that he called himself God and neglect to mention that
part like that bitch just isn't important enough to bring up.
Speaker 1: So I think it's wow, that's brilliant. If only there
was a way to disprove it. Oh wait, let's go
to the first gospel he mentioned Mark Jesus forgives and
heals a paralyzed man. A few days later, when Jesus
again entered Capernaum, the people heard that he'd come. They
gathered in such large numbers that there was no room left,
not even outside the door, and he preached the world
to them. Some men came bringing him a paralyzed man,
carried by four of them. Since they could not get
him to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an
opening in the roof above Jesus by digging through.
Speaker 2: It, and then lowered the mat the man was laying on.
Speaker 1: When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralyzed man, son,
your sins are forgiven.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Some teachers of the law were sitting there thinking to themselves,
why did this fellow talk like that. He's blaspheming who
can forgive sins but God alone. Immediately Jesus knew in
his spirit that this is what they were thinking in
their hearts, and he said to them, why are you
thinking these things? Which is easier to say to this
paralyzed man, your sins are forgiven, or to say get
up and take your mat and walk, But I want
you to know that the son of Man has authority
on earth to forgive sins. Wait, only God can forgive sins.
So Jesus said to the man, I tell you, get up,
take your mat, and go home. He got up, took
his matt and walked out in full view of them.
This amazed everyone, and they praise God, saying We've never
seen anything like this. He didn't just say I'm forgiving sins.
He showed them I can cure a man who everybody
has ever known him, everybody in town always saw him
as paralyzed. That's demonstrating deity, and that's in Mark and
Mark in fact references another story should have pulled. Jesus
is asked directly, are you are you this deity?
Speaker 2: I am?
Speaker 1: I am, I am. That's an important phrase.
Speaker 2: I am. We can go to Matthew, who never.
Speaker 1: Said Jesus was God right, the good solid, very important Bartnerman,
who is a New Testament scholar, neglected to mention that
there were different focuses of these gospels. Matthew focused on
the genealogy of Jesus for a reason because it hadn't
yet been focused upon. Matthew one verse one, this is
the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah, the son of David,
the son of Abraham. What does Massiah meant again? Savior
of mankind, a deed he sent to save us from
the deity, the God of Abraham. God Abraham was the
father of Isaac, Isaac the father of Jacob, Jacob the
father of Judah. And I know people read these genealogies
and I get it. It's boring. And we get down
to and Jesse, the father of King David. Why are
they doing this? Because the Messianic line was predicted through prophecy.
Jesus fulfilled most of these prophecies and was born exactly
where he was foretold to be born, in exactly the
way he was foretold, with exactly the star that was
supposed to appear at the right time. Hence the wise
men coming to see this. But Jesus isn't God, and
Matthew never said he was. He demonstrated it.
Speaker 2: In Luke the Boy Jesus at the temple.
Speaker 1: Every year, Jesus's parents went to Jerusalem for the festival
of the Passover. When he was twelve years old, they
went up to the festival according to the custom. After
the festival was over, while his parents were returning home,
the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but they were
unaware of it, thinking he was in the company their company.
They traveled on for a day, and then they began
looking for him. Among your relatives and friends. Just pausing,
I just you know, it's bad when you lose your
kid and misplace your kid and you don't whar that
is scary.
Speaker 2: It's God's son.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine? Mar Wait, wait, we lost God's son.
So they traveled for a day. Then they began looking
for him among their relatives and friends. When they did
not find him, they went back to Jerusalem to look
for him. After three days, they found him in the
temple courts, sitting amo the teachers, listening to them and
asking them questions. Everyone who heard him was amazed at
his understanding and his answers. When his parents saw him,
they were astonished. His mother said to him, son, why
have you treated us like this? Your father and I've
been anxiously searching for you. Why were you searching for me?
He asked, Did you not know I had to be
in my father's house. They did not understand what he
was saying to them, but they learned. I don't know
that Joseph had a chance to learn, but Mary definitely did.
Speaker 2: Mary knew who he was.
Speaker 1: Also in Luke chapter four, verse one through nine, that
the very important New Testament scholar seems to have not seen,
Jesus is tested in the wilderness. Jesus full of the spirit.
The spirit, which spirit, oh, the holy spirit?
Speaker 2: You mean the one that he breathed. Undo Us.
Speaker 1: Left the Jordan was led by this spirit into the wilderness,
where for forty days he was tempted by the devil.
He ate nothing during those days, and at the end
of them he was hungry. The devil said to him,
if you are the son of God, tell this stone
to become bred. Jesus said, it is written man should
not live on bread alone. The devil led him up
to a high place and showed him in an instant
all the kingdoms of the world. And he said to him,
I will give you all authority and splendor it's been
given to me I can give it to anyone I want.
If you worship me, it will all be yours. Jesus answered,
it is written. Worship the lords your God, and serve
him and him only. The devil led him to Jerusalem
and had him stand on the high point of the temple.
If you're the son of God, he said, throw yourself
down from here, for it is written. And we could
continue with Jesus answering scripture with scripture, because Jesus.
Speaker 2: Was the word.
Speaker 1: Luke was a historian and researcher. He compiled data and
interviewed people, and that's how he created his gospel. Matthew
focused on the genealogy and the jewishness of Jesus.
Speaker 2: Christ.
Speaker 1: Mark went out and eyewitnesses were his focus. They had
a different approach to the same event. John was the
disciple whom Jesus loved. He was in the inner circle.
He focused on the deity of Jesus in the beginning
was the Word. The word was with God, and the
word was God. Peter is the foundation upon which Christ
built his church. When Peter said, you are the Messiah,
the living son of God, Jesus Christ described himself by
saying this to the Pharisees, I and the Father are one.
He said, in fact, to his doubting Thomas, tell us
where you're going. I am the Way, the Truth, and
the light. No one gets to the Father but through me.
Jesus didn't just say he was God. He didn't just
show that he was God. He didn't just say I
am the Father are one. He conquered death after he
said he would destroy this temple and I will build
it up in three days. There are some ideas only
academics can believe because they are incredibly clever. If only
there was a Bible verse to counter that God uses
the simple things to shame the wise. This is the
Todd Herman Shaw. Please go, be well, be strong, be kind,
and please make every efforts to walk in the light
of Christ.