Speaker 1: Welcome to the three Stories version of the Todd Hermer Shaw.
Story number one, a manly sheriff stands up to a
godless woman and state story number two, The Great AI Robbery,
Why we all need safe Words? And story number three
Huge lies gen Z got sold about following Jesus. We'll
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Speaker 1: Todd Herman. Today is the day the Lord has made,
and these are the times to which God is the
sad we shall live. This requires little bit of a setup.
I want to show you what it looks like to
be a godly and manly sheriff in the separate country
of Washington State. But it requires a little bit of
context settings so that you understand how extraordinary this actually is.
Because if you live in a sane state, you're gonna
look at this and go so what. So you have
to understand the context of what the separate country of
Washington is. Context number one is they're setting up a
legal edifice to be able to economically separate themselves from
the federal government. Now conservatives can listen to that, go sweet, okay,
pursue it legally. They're trying to do this to establish
themselves as a full on separate country where Washington State
citizens do not contribute to federal taxes, and they're already
cut off from the federal government in terms of drug legalization, immigration,
environmental policy. They have the ability of Seattle residents to
print their own ballots at home. They can change where
their votes count without having to move. It is so
divorced from what America is supposed to be on just
about every front, even on a cultural front. There was
a case in Seattle where an illegal immigrant rammed this
vehicle into ice agents. And this was last June. This
was before the media, Mockingbird media and others decided to
try to light the fuse on this another They've successfully
done that. They've lit the fuse and it went in
front of a Seattle jury. This is part of the
context setting as you get ready to hear from this
godly Manly Sheriff Roe jury.
Speaker 3: In Seattle has acquitted a man accused of assaulting federal
agents during an immigration arrest last summer. King five Savannah
Welch joins us live from the newsroom with the latest
on this case. Savannah, can you bok us through what
happened here?
Speaker 4: Well, Madeline. Twenty five year old Victor vivanco Reyes was
charged with four felonies after a chaotic run in with
federal agents. DHS says he's an undocumented Mexican national and
had an immigration warrant issued and may based on his
criminal history.
Speaker 1: So just to be clear, King five News is a
race hustling network that was say there is very clever
and very slick and very subtle. DHS says, well, there
are the legal papers you could look at. There are
the judicial rulings. They don't say this, this is what's
reflected in the legal paperwork that they like to leave
it that way. It's what DHS says. They never do
that when it's leftist politicians. It's just stated as the truth.
Back to the piece, he.
Speaker 4: Was previously convicted of a felony back in twenty nineteen.
Since then, he's had just one misdemeanor conviction on just
one his record. This video shows the arrest and happened
back on June sixth on a remote Comino Island road.
Court documents show federal agents surveil levonco Reez for weeks.
They first tried to arrest him in Mount Vernon, but
he got away about two weeks later.
Speaker 1: Okay, so evading a law officer by the way is
also a crime, just one misdemeanor.
Speaker 4: They used a helicopter to track him to a job
site on Komano Island. That was where he was working
as a landscaper. Agents on the ground surrounded him as
he tried to drive away in a company truck, calling
a lawnmower, crashing into their vehicles. He was arrested moments later.
Two agents suffered minor injuries.
Speaker 1: In this minor they say she gets to make that decision.
Speaker 4: Prosecutors say he used his truck as a dangerous weapon
while trying to escape. King five spoke with his partner
when all this happened. When he was detained.
Speaker 1: She said they didn't have time to go out and
speak at the partners of the law enforcement agents who
were lucky to be alive as a.
Speaker 4: Son, and she was pregnant with their child at the time,
calling the arrest devastating for their family.
Speaker 1: So this is the way they play the game in Seattle,
there's a government playing the game. They shield people like this.
They will not charge illegal immigrants with DUIs. They'll charge
you with the dui if you're an American citizen. They
will get them snuck out of jail so dhis agents
can't find them. They allow the cartels to operate in
the open. This is just part of the setup to
you seeing a godly sheriff and what this godly sheriff
does him, this godly sherif you're going to meet, imagine
if he had an interaction with Don Lemon going into
churches to disrupt services. Yeah, let's do that side by
side as well. I'll set some more context and you'll
see this sheriff in a second, because it's important. This
requires a bit of context. You could be young, you
could be super active, and suddenly you're not a friend
of mine who just absolutely blew up his back, not
even weightlifting, and he is as amazing as strong a
person's ever me simply doing stuff around the house. Blew
it up. This past weekend. So he's out. He's out
of being able to do anything related to CrossFit. He's
out of being able to do anything related to skiing
or hunting, some of the things he loves. He's out.
This can happen when you're young. Now he's being told
it's going to be surgery. He's listened to my program
for enough time to know that I work with Renewed Healthcare,
and this is the context. There are people telling him
you could get the stem cell treatments that herman gets
up here. You can't. It's very simply this. Do you
want three day old sushi from a gas station or
do you want friends sushi fish taken out of the
tank in front of you and dispatched and then cut up.
That's the difference. At renew Healthcare, the stem cells come
from people they know. They monitor the health of the
women and the child during and after pregnancy. They reject
eighty to ninety percent of the stem cells. Then they
use a world class lab lab, a Level four lab,
one step below a biocontainment lab for things like abola,
and they culture the stem cells that are potent enough
to be used. My friend may not have to have
surgery he may be back at it in a number
of weeks. He's gonna send them their MRI. They're gonna
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Last bit of context before we get to the sheriff.
The people in Washington State want to allow Washington State
to decertify and remove elected officials at will. Now, there
are people voting against this. In fact, it's twelve thousand,
eight hundred and seventy three against this versus about one
eight hundred and seventy one people in favor of this.
And it wasn't a Senate Republican poll. It was actually
a media poll that is published here. Eighty seven point
one percent do not want this. What the politicians in
Washington State are trying to do is make sure that
in order to be a sheriff, the legislature has to
prove your candidacy. So in order for one person to
run for office, a bunch of other people need to
say they're allowed to run for office. There's a reason
that they're panicked, and that's because there are sheriffs like
Sheriff Keith Swank in Pierce County who will not play
the game of what the party wants done there. The
party wants illegal immigrants running loose. The party wants the
cartels free to traffic people and to sell drugs. The
party wants bankrupt or, wants a vagrancy laws not enforced.
They want homeless cans everywhere. They want it to be
legal to vandalize someone's property. They want minor assaults to
be legal. They want and I mean this juvenile drive
by shooting assailants. They want them let out on their
own recognizance. This is the Washington state they want. Here
is a godly, manly sheriff who will not play the game.
His name is Keith Swank.
Speaker 5: Some of my colleagues naively believe that they can come
here in reason with you. They don't understand what's at
stake here. They don't understand you like I do. You're
going to pass this qualification bill for law enforcement, but
you won't hold yourselves accountable. Therefore, I propose everyone who
runs for an elected office go through a background check,
a social media review, a polygraph, a psychological test. But Democrats,
you won't agree to that because you have convicted felons
who are elected officials. Here I represent almost a million people,
more than all of you combined. Here, many more people.
I was an elected chief of police, being sheriff of
Pierce County, much more than police work. Citizens reach out
to me all the time regarding over each of the
government by you. Some say they finally have a voice
because of me, and you want to silence it. Because
I said, transgender women are men. I said the truth.
You want to give unelected bureaucracy the ability to decertify
me and remove me from office because you don't agree
with my speech. Just for the record, my deputies don't
wear masks, but once you pass this law that they can't,
I will not only allow them, but I will encourage
them to do so, just to see what you do.
I don't recognize your authority to impose these controls over me.
And when you try to remove me from office, thousands
of Pierce County residents will surround the county city building
and downtown Tacoma and will not allow that to happen.
I hope it doesn't come to that, but I and
they are prepared. Are you prepared? Finally, anyone who votes
for this will never have an audience with this sheriff.
Speaker 6: Thank you. Could I have you identify yourself for the record.
I'm sorry, that is not what we dRIT public hearings,
and you will be asked to be removed if that
continues the class the sheriff. For the record, we do
need you to identify yourself by name. I'm sorry. Can
I have you come to that at the mic so
we can capture that information.
Speaker 5: My name is Keith Swank, Pearce County Sheriff.
Speaker 6: Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. By the way, when you're there
and you want to drink water, it's from a rainbow cup.
That's just a little dig at people like Keith Swank.
So a manly and godly sheriff stands up to an
ungodly woman in an ungodly state. And now this question, America,
are we going to get away from elected sheriffs and
other counties because even in relatively conservative areas like North
Idaho where I live. There are attempts to do away
with the elected sheriff position. Why because it's a direct
result of what people want. There is one office, sheriff
with one job to enforce the laws. It's a very
easy vote. Is this person an experienced law enforcement officer?
Will they enforce the laws? Will they keep public safety?
They don't get to hide behind politics. This is why
the politicians want to seize it. Now, imagine Don Lemon
going to try to pull what he and some activists
pulled in the state of Mini Minnesota where they went
into a church and Don Lemon is saying, oh, I
didn't know weird because it seems like he was interviewing
the people who did this before they did this. Imagine
him having to deal with a sheriff like Keith Swank.
This is the beginning of what's going to happen here.
Speaker 7: When you violate people's due process, when you pull people
off the street and you start dragging them and hurting
them and not abiding by the constitution. When you start
doing all of that, people get upset and angry. And
if you remember what the civil rights movement was about.
The civil rights movement was about these very kinds of protests,
and there's nothing in the constitution that tells you what
time you can protest. You can protest at anytime. That's
the whole point of it is to disrupt, to make uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: That's actually not true. There is such a thing as
trespassing on private property, and that church is owned by
a church association. It is administered by and struarded by
the congregants through a group of elders and a pastor.
It's private property. A sheriff like Keith Swink, if you
got a trespassing call for something like this, I think
would come along and help people make a decision to leave.
I don't want to see that in a house of worship.
I don't want to see people drug out of a
house of worship. I also do not want to bow
down to people who believe it's their right to force
you to listen, just like the legislator there. Do you
think she really needed Keith Swank to state his name
or do you think she really just wanted to lord
her power over him. I can make you turn around,
I can make you come back, I can make you
speak into the microphone. Oh and by the way, I
see that you were up here testifying and needed a
couple water. I can make you drink out of a
rainbow cup. Be interesting to see what happens when more
jurisdictions try to get rid of an elected sheriff. Story
number two, the Great AI Robbery. I'm going to show
you some apparent AI applications, and I'm going to make
a suggestion to you. My wife and I were talking
about this. It's the creation of safe words. No pervert,
not that court sort of safe word, a safe word
in regard to being the one communicating with your loved ones.
And by the way, if you're in business and you
do any video calls, you ever have video conferences or
call people on FaceTime or whatever application you use for that,
you should probably have a safe word. You should probably
tell some things, tell people some things you will never do,
or places from which you will never call. Because this
technology is so potent, it's going to make it super
easy for some people to do some super easy thieving.
By the way, Grandma and Grandpa, you ever call them
through video, lease warn them. Please get the safe words
tapes to their screens, and please make it something that
easy to guess. I've got mine from my wife. I'm
not going to tell you what it is, and there's
no way you're gonna guess. The only person who could
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Now watch this. You get to see a guy sitting
in a chair and as he moves, the fake image
behind him moves. He can make himself into anything. He
can make himself into an only fans model. This is creepy.
And my wife was watching this with me, and there's
a tiny little glitch in the fake onlyfan model face.
Her cheek kind of dissolves for just a second. That
would be the only hint. The background looks solid, it
looks like she's in a studio. He can move back
and forth and give you the flirty face and it
just changes his here's the friendly wave and gosh forbid
seeing that guy take his clothes off and have it
be that girl appearing on the screen. It's that good
and it appears to be instantly done. Someone else did
it with the actors from the show Strange Stranger Things,
and I'm not certain if during this video one of
them came out or not, but that's some of the
things that they do on Stranger Things. This is an
older dude leaning into the camera looking to the left,
and he becomes some of the actors in the show
almost instantly, and it's creepy. There's no way to tell.
So if you were someone who is ever on video calls,
ever on a FaceTime call, anything like this, communicating with
mom and dad, anything like this age mom and dad,
please create safe words. Furthermore, something really should be done
legislatively here. If we're going to have AI capabilities like this,
it should be a major crime to not label them AI.
You should have to label images like this created by
artificial intelligence. After all, we do this with certain foods,
right if it contains artificial ingredients, we tell people food
is one thing, and it should be labeled. But human
beings are another and it should be labeled too. Is
that big government? Is that going against the free market system?
Now it's simply being just in favor of actual truth. Yep,
you're not going to guess my safe word. And by
the way, honey, you need to get yours for me.
We've got to protect ourselves here. Story number three, huge
lies that gen Z got sold about following Jesus. God
help the people in gen Z. They are being sold
a ton of lies about what it means to follow Jesus.
And the Lord has warned us about false teachers. False
teachers will pay a significant penalty when they pervert the
Word of God for their own ends or for any ends.
It damages me kind of spiritually because I look at
gen Z as a great population of help. So many
young gen Z men are coming to the Lord and
praise God. They're going into Orthodox churches that are usually
very very very tight to the Bible, with some changes
in terms of dogma and interactions with priests and confessions, etc.
None of the things I would consider to be salvation issues.
They're not going to keep you out of heaven in
my mind, and I think the Bible reflects that. But
there's some really big lies that young people are walking
around with, and it's up to us to confront them
because they are very close to salvation issues. Some of
them are in fact salvation issues that can keep you
out of heaven. Let's start with a simple one and
you'll see this one a lot online if you're in
any of the comments sections and YouTube or any of
their social media platforms. And that is that everyone is
a child of God. That's not true. Not everyone is
a child of God. We're all created by God, We're
all made in His image. We're all loved equally by God.
There are no races in the body of Christ. There's
no roles, there's no servant in their master. We're all
equal the eyes of God. We're as given some gifts
to you, some of us Paul equates to a thumb,
others to eyes that as Paul points out, the eyes
may say I'm greater than the thumb, and the thumb
might say, hey, try eating without me. So you can
look through scripture for all sorts of backup on the
fact that we are not all children of God. In
John chapter one, verse twelve, or read this, Yet all
who did receive him, to those who believed in his name,
he gave the right to become children of God. We
could end there. It's pretty simple. You know that phrase
born again Christian. It doesn't mean that we just invented
that phrase. It's just an evangelical thing. It means. It's
what Jesus said. When Jesus was talking to Nicodemus, a
pharisee who was interested in him, he said, you have
to be born again, born of the spirit. In Galatians three,
verse twenty six, it says, so in Christ Jesus, you
are all children of God through faith, not because you
were born through faith. It's through Christ Jesus that you
become a child of God. Romans eight, verse sixteen. The
Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children
of God, with our spirit, that we're children of God.
In First John chapter three, verse one, see what great
love the Father has lavish on us that we should
be called children of God. And that is what we are.
The reason the world does not know us is that
it did not know him. So you couldn't be a
child of God before Christ Jesus. You are a child
of God. Within Christ Jesus and through Christ Jesus, but
not everybody is a child of God. And to finish
it off with Romans chapter nine, verse eight, those who
are children of the flesh are not the children of God,
but children of the Promise are counted as offspring. The
promise is the promise of Christ, the promise of the Messiah,
the Covenant that God made to come and get us.
And we live now in this New Testament age, this
Church age. So this lie that gen zias have been
told that we're all children of God is just that.
And this can be a salvation issue because if you're
talking around saying, well, God loves me as a child,
he wouldn't do that to me. He does love you,
He's not waiting to do something from you. But once
you join the family of God, by accepting Jesus Christ
as your Lord and Savior and confessing in your mind
he is that he's the Messiah, He's the Son of God,
confessing him with your mouth, signifying this. Through baptism, you
are given entry into the family. But you're also given
the gift of the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit
can be like a loving father or sometimes a lovingly
nagging mother. Saying, don't do that, don't go that way.
You know this is wrong. And as the spirit magnifies
in you, even in time that your act in our
prodigal there's this spirit. It's going to make it harder
and harder and harder on you until you come back
to the path. So become a child of God. Accept Jesus,
confess him in your mind, and then confess him with
your mouth, and that way you can join us in
the family of Christ. Gen Z is also told, and
you'll hear this continually in discussions, in arguments. You'll hear
heretic pastors say Jesus Christ had no opinion on same
sex activity. So let's pause and consider this from just
a position of logic. Jesus was and is God, part
of the triune Godhead, the son of God who returned
to God. He was there in the beginning, and the
beginning was the Word. The word was with God, and
the word was God. The Word there is Jesus, and
he has no opinion on same sex activity. The God
who desired human procreation, the God who said it is
not good that man is alone, the God who made
sex pleasure has no opinion on same sex activity. Let's
begin in the Old Testament before you do the thing
where well, that's the Old Testament that doesn't count. No,
this is this is the Bible Jesus read. Jesus came
to fulfill the law, not to do away with it,
and this would come from the era of the law. Levitigus,
Chapter eighteen, verse twenty two. Do not have sexual relations
with a man as one does with a woman. That
is detestable. Now, incidentally, there are Christians who come along
and say it's only the topic of same sex activity
that calls the test God called detestable or abominable. That's
not true. That's throughout the Bible. But it is very
clear that it's detestable to God. So let's get into
the New Testament. Matthew five, Verses seventeen through twenty. Do
not think that I've come to abolish the law or
the prophets. I have not come to abolish them, but
to fulfill them Leviticus. For truly, I tell you, until
heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, nor the
least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear
from the law until everything is accomplished. Therefore, anyone who
sets aside one of the least of these commands and
teaches others accordingly, will be called least in the Kingdom
of Heaven. But whoever practices and teaches these commandments will
be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven. For I
tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the
Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly
not enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Now we could do
an entire video series on your righteousness surpassing the Pharisees,
because Pharisees thought they were the most right human beings
in the world. They thought their wealth was because they'd
done well with God. But that's focused out on this
in terms of same sex activity. And Jesus did not
come to abolish the law, but to fulfill it. And
when he says he warns people that by perverting these words,
by teaching them wrongly, by trying to confuse people about
this commands, you make yourself least in the Kingdom of heaven.
Jesus had an opinion on things that mattered, and sexuality
matters Matthew Chapter nineteen, verse five. And Jesus said, for
this reason, a man will leave his father and mother,
and be united to his wife, and the two will
become one flush. He didn't say one partner leaves the other.
He spoke of a man and a wife. And in
this case Jesus Christ is quoting the Old Testament. Jesus
did have an opinion on same sex activity. One Corinthians,
Chapter six, verses nine through ten. Or do you not
know that wrongdoers will not inherit the Kingdom of God?
Do not be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters,
nor adulters, nor men who have sex with men, nor thieves,
nor the greedy, nor dunkards nor slanders, no swindlers will
inherit the Kingdom of God. And I know people say, no, no, no,
that's just Paul. That's not Jesus, that doesn't count. It's
Jesus who saved Saul and made him into Paul. Is
Jesus who struck him blind on the road to Damascus
and then change him from a guy who was out
unlive in Christians into a guy who became probably the
greatest of the apostles in terms of going out to
spread the word of God. One third of the New Testament,
written by Paul in his letters and other communications. You
could extend to this as well. Jesus when he spoke
about adultery, you've heard it said you should not commit adultery.
But I tell you a man who looks at a
woman with less than his eyes has already committed adultery.
You can easily apply that to fornication. And remember, in
the time of Christ, there was no such thing as
so called gay marriage. Therefore, any act outside of marriage
is ungodly and detestable to God. Jesus Christ obviously had
an opinion about same sex activity. Gen Z's also told
that God is super hard to understand. Well, you could
make it that way. And He's certainly complex. His ways
are above ours in every single way, and there's things
that we will never understand why God does certain things,
but we understand who God is. And if you want
to make it hard, be my guest you could also
make it really easily understandable with some quick bullet points
about who God is. Let's start in the first book
of the Bible, Genesis, chapter two, verses fifteen through seventeen.
The Lord God took the man and put him in
the garden of Eden to work it to take care
of it, and the Lord God commanded the man, you
are free to eat from any tree in the garden,
but you must not eat from the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat it,
you will certainly die. So God set man in a
position of liberty, not freedom. Freedom you're allowed to do
whatever you want. Liberty is freedom within constraints. And God
made it very simple to understand. Do not go eat
from that tree, but eat from all the others. And
men decided to go their own way. So when Eve
came along, Adam did not enough tell her. Listen, seriously,
stay away from that tree. You don't even look at
that tree. Don't go near that tree. We can eat
from anything else in the garden. We don't need to
try that tree. We need to trust God. But Adam
failed on that front. He was deceived. Eve ate from
that tree, gave Adam some and sin was born in
the world. We didn't die immediately. It was a spiritual
death that God created, and death did enter the world.
See God's not that hard to understand. Let's stay in
Genesis Genesis chapter two, verses eighteen through twenty four. The
Lord God said, it's not good for man to be alone,
I will make a help or suitable for him. Now
the Lord God had formed out of the ground all
the wild animals and all the birds in the sky.
He brought them to the man to see what he
would name them. And whatever the man called each living creature,
that was his name. So the man gave names to
all the livestock, the birds in the sky, and all
the wild animals. But for Adam, no suitable helper was found.
So the Lord God caused the man to fall into
deep sleep. While he was sleeping, he took one of
the man's ribs and then closed up the place with flesh.
Then the Lord God made woman from the rib he'd
taken out of the man, and he brought her to
the man. The man said, this is now bone of
my bones and flesh of my flesh. She shall be
called woman, for she was taken out of man. So
God loved us. He gave us life. He gave us liberty,
which is freedom with and constraints. Why did he give
us liberty because he didn't want robots. Because he wanted
us to be able to love him. And if you're
just a robot set on love, you don't really love
you simply can't do anything else. He gave us the
ability to love another. He gave us the ability to
form a family, to be like him, to let him
work through us to create life. And it was not
good that was man was alone. That extends beyond just
having a marriage. It extends into friendships. Throughout the Bible,
we're told or read the phrase to the other or
one another about one hundred and forty to two hundred
and twenty times, depending upon translation. So God gave us
friendship as well. God's death that hard to understand. Matthew
chapter nineteen, Versus four through six, haven't you read? He
replied that at the beginning, the Creator made them male
and female, and said for this reason, a man will
leave his father and mother would be united to his wife,
and the two will become one flesh. So they are
no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has
joined together, let no one separate. God invented marriage. He
loves marriage. He wants to maintain marriage. He wants us
to maintain marriage. So he's up the bar for why
you have to you can get a divorce. He's also
said he hates divorce. John chapter three, verse sixteen. For
God to love the world, that he gave his one
and only son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish,
but shall have eternal life. So, having loved us enough
to give us life, to give us liberty, to give
us one another, to give us what we need to live.
Even after the fall, God sent his only son to
come and get us. Because we'd screwed things up so
badly we could not fulfill the law. It was impossible
for us, but possible for Jesus. So the triune godhead
always knew they'd do this. They sent one of them,
Jesus Christ, to come to earth in order to rescue
us and to pay a debt we could not pay.
Otherwise God would not have his children back. Were not
all children of God. He wanted to reunite the family,
and here came big brother Jesus Christ, to come and
get us. In Mark one, verses fourteenth through nineteen, Jesus
announces the good news. Jesus began his ministry, and this
is John the Baptist to presage Jesus. He told Jesus
was on the way. After John was put in prison,
Jesus went into Galilee, proclaiming the good news of God.
The time has come, he said, the Kingdom of God
has come near. Repent and believe the good news. Jesus
calls his first disciples. As Jesus walked beside the Sea
of Galilee, he saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting
a net into the lake, for they were fishermen. Come
and follow me, Jesus said, and I will send you
out to fish for people. At once, they left their
nets and followed him. When he'd gone a little father,
he saw James, son of Zebedee, and his brother John
in a boat preparing for their nets. Without delay, he
called them, and they left their father Zebedee in the
boat with the hired men, and followed him. Jesus is
inviting people to be changed by him another way, he said,
this is Come and follow me, and I will make
you fishers of men. I will make you into something.
What he makes us into is disciples. Who go and
make disciples. We become family members and have the authority
to bring other people into the family. On behalf of God.
Matthew Chapter twenty two, Verses thirty six through forty, Teacher,
what is the greatest commandment in the law? Jesus replied,
Love the Lord your God, with all your heart, all
your soul, and with all your mind. This is the
first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it,
Love your neighbor as yourself. The law, all the law,
and the prophets hang on these two commandments. And when
he said this, he's talking about the worldly approach to love. No,
he's talking about God's approach to love. It's not a feeling.
It's a set of activities. It's how we behave with
one other. First Corinthians, Chapter thirteen, verses four through seven.
Love is patient, Love is kind. It does not Mbiit
does not boast. It is not proud. That does not
dishonor others. It is not self seeking. It is not
easily angered. It keeps no record of wrongs. Love does
not delight and evil, but rejoices with the truth. It
always protects, always trust, always hopes, always perseveres. And on
the Christ the cross before he died, Jesus embodied this
when he prayed for the people who had put him
on that cross. Item number four. Gen Z has been
lied to that church is a building. It's not a building.
It is sometimes a place we go in Ephesians Chapter two,
Verses nineteen through twenty two, where read consequently, you are
no longer foreigners than strangers, but fill the citizens with
God's people and also members of His household. Built on
the foundation of the apostles and the prophets, with Jesus
Christ himself as the chief cornerstone. In him, the whole
building has joined together and rise is to become a
holy temple in the Lord. And in Him, You too
are being built together to become a dwelling in which
God lives by the spirit. In Acts Chapter two, Versus
forty two through forty seven, the fellowship of the believers,
They devoted themselves to the apostles teaching, and too fellowship
to the breaking of bread and prayer. Everyone was filled
with aught that many wonders and signs performed by the apostles.
All the believers were together, and they had everything in common.
They sold property and possessions to give to anyone in need.
Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts.
They broke bread in their homes and ate together with
glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor
of all the people and the Lord added to the
numbers daily those were being saved. Yes, they began meeting together.
But we, the Body of Christ, are part of the church.
We act as the Church. We don't just go to
a building. And the last and worst lie that gen
z is told is God lets you choose your way
to follow him. No, he does not. John chapter fourteen,
verse fifteen. If you love me, keep my commands. That's
how Jesus knows you love him, keep his commands as
communicated through the Bible. This is the todd hermanshell. Please go,
be well, be strong, be kind, and please make every
effort to walk in the light of Christ.