Speaker 1: Welcome to the three stories version of The Todd Herman Show.
Starting with story number one. Nancy Pelosi loves Jeff Epstein's
ghost Story number two, the mall version of this that
they not be judged?
Speaker 2: Is that right?
Speaker 1: How about thy not be judge? Story number three. God
does not need you to do anything. We'll talk about
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Speaker 1: Today is the day the Lord has made in. These
are the times to which God has decided we shall
live in. Nancy Pelosi has a new love affair. She's
in love with Jeff Epstein's ghosts. President Trump asked about
the Epstein case. I know people to move on, but
I'm curious. Why do you think your supporters in particular
have been so interested in the Epstein story. I'm so
upset about how it's been handled.
Speaker 4: I don't understand it why they would be so interested.
He's dead for a long time. He was never a
big factor in terms of life. I don't understand what
the interest or what the fascination is. I really don't,
and the credible information has been given. Don't forget we
went through years of the mullowitch hunt and all of
the different things to steal Dotsier, which was all fake.
All that information was fake. But I don't understand why
the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody.
It's pretty boring stuff. It's shorted, but it's boring, and
I don't understand why it keeps going. I think we
really only pre any bad people, including fake news, want
to keep something like that gus, but credible information. Let
him give it. Anything that's credible, I would say, let
them have it.
Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi is in love with jeff Epstein's ghost, and
President Trump is not helping things. She loves his ghost
because it's now separating Mega and people who would support
President Trump, and that President Trump doesn't get this. His
own sons tweeted constantly about jeff Epstein, not once or twice,
but many times. It's boring. I don't think that the
people who as girls were taken captive by jeff Epstein
think it's a boring case. I don't think one of
the key Trump supporters and now cabinet officials who wrote
one of the sweet deals for Epstein thinks it's boring.
I think he wants to hear it stop. But it's
not interesting. President Trump can't understand why we be interested
in this. I'll explain it one day. Maybe there'll be
an actual Hollywood level movie made about this, because there
should be because of what it appears actually happened. And
there are studios that are brave enough to do this.
Maybe not on the Jeff Epstein thing, but Angel Studios
has put out a new series called Testament, and this
is the book of Acts brought into the modern world,
so into a world of surveillance, state censorship, and a
world that hates truth. In other words, says that sound familiar. Now,
they could go out at Angel Studios and make one
of the soft, soap, fun Christian movies where the little
girl gets the horse at the end, because they're kind
but kind of grizzled. Old preacher man died and left,
they didn't. Testament is a question of our faith. Are
we willing to stand with Jesus in times like this?
Because we're still in the era of spreading the gospel
or we should be. So this is a chance to
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faith driven content. So President Trump said it's boring, it's not.
This could be a huge movie. It's not boring to
the people who went through it. So why is it
so interesting? Well, let's start with some recent news. When
Fox News hosts full time and sometimes Attorney General Pam
Bondi came on board, she said the Epstein files were
on her desk for her review. Then she had that
huge event at the White House where influencers came along
and they got those files and they stood there in
front of the cameras with those files that had nothing
in them. They were basically empty. It was a photo op.
People who participated in that some of them were rightly
furious that they were used that way when they got
home or to their offices and found out there was
nothing in them. But they're pure Trump loyalists, and so
they haven't come out and said anything too bad about it. Well,
then after that we learned from full time Fox News
hosts and sometimes Attorney General Pam Bondi that the Southern
District of New York they were holding onto those files
and she would not rest and she got those files.
In fact, you know what she could have done, She
could have dispatched federal authorities to go get those files
from the Southern District of New York. She could have
done that as the Attorney General Theuned States of America.
So instead she didn't. Recently they did release from Pam
Bondi's office finally some of the prison footage outside of
Jeff Epstein's cell, which is interesting because we were told
the cameras broke and the guards were asleep and one
call reporting his death darned the stinking look it went missing.
And one of the people involved in the Jeff Epstein
case is one of the people involved in the Diddy case,
because remember, did he got off too just minor charges.
Interesting that in that Diddy had apparently a whole bunch
of footage of powerful people doing perverse sexual things to
other people, sometimes without their knowledge or consent. That was
the allegation or allegations. Well, by the way, that footage
that came out of Pambonni's office Wired magazine and yeah,
they hate Trump, but they did a metadata analysis and
other people have confirmed this. There was approximately two minutes
and fifty three seconds that were removed. This was from
one or two things stitched together. It was like the
missing moments from the Watergate tapes. That's not interesting. Why
are Trump supporters interested in this because we elected you
to drain the swamp. There's a whole lot that's interesting
about this. For instance, Glaine Maxwell is in prison for
conspiracy to commit sex trafficking acts of minors. She conspired
with someone, she was working for someone. Is it the
contention to hear that there was enough evidence to commit
her of conspiring with someone, but not enough evidence to
show that Jeff Epstein was that someone? Or was it
just that all these powerful men flew to Epstein Islands
and simply what enjoyed the eats the view they don't
have their own islands, their own eats, their own views.
We have the pictures of these young women massaging people
like William Jefferson, blythe Clinton the Third also known as
Slick Willie, or President Clinton. That seems kind of questionable,
giving that we know about President Clinton's sexual taste and proclivities.
It's boring, right up to the red shoe, foot of
the blue dress, red shoe or painting that Epstein had.
It's boring, and people don't get it. Sidney McCain and
the McCain family, they're not friends with the Trump family.
They don't support President Trump at all. John McCain couldn't
stand that style of politics. Sidney McCain was asked a
question at an event. This is a brief portion of
her answer, and she mentions Jeff Epstein hiding in the
open side.
Speaker 5: Epstein was hiding in plain side. We all knew about him,
we all knew what he was doing, but we had
no one that was no legal aspect that would go
after him. They were afraid of him. For whatever reason,
they were afraid of him.
Speaker 1: Why were they afraid of him? President Trump is saying
that this is a hoax, hoax hoax. Now in the
case of him being a Russian asset, that was Hillary
Clinton oppo that was laundered through a disgraced law firm,
I think his disgrace Perkins Cooey, and they pretended that
they were being paid for legal services when in fact
it seems were being paid for media services and laundering
opposition research. And it involved a truly truly slimy company
called Fusion three sixty that they went out and manufactured
this stuff, so that was manufactured from whole cloth. Many
of the cases against President Trump breathed life into after
thirty years are laughable if you get to the actual
evidence of it. But this isn't laughable. Cindy McCain was
the insiders in. She said everybody knew, and everybody was afraid.
So Alex Azar, the Trump official who cut that very
very special deal for Jeff Epstein, was he afraid. The
talk of him having videos of all these people has
been going on for years, that there were safes filled
with videos, and suddenly those videos don't exist. There are
FBI whistleblowers who've come out to say that not only
did they exist, but the people who were running the
FBI prior to Patel and Bongino getting there destroyed every
shred of evidence because this guy was such a high
level asset for the intelligence services that they didn't want
them to have it. And Dan Bongino was on the
verge of leaving because of this Epstein situation in Pam Bondi,
and that's been confirmed by multiple, multiple sources that Bongena
was a thinking of quitting. It's not interesting. President Trump
can't understand why this draws or attention. It goes all
the way back to two thousand and nine, when some
of us saw this the first time around and said, hey, wait,
what three.
Speaker 2: Years I've had this interview with Virginia Roberts. We would
not put it on the air. First of all, I
was told, who's Jeffrey Epstein? No one knows who that is.
This is a stupid story. Then the Palace found out
that we had her whole allegations about Prince Andrew and
threatened us a million different ways. We were so afraid
we wouldn't be able to interview Kate at will that
that also quashed the story. And then and then Alan
Dershowitz was also implicated it because of the planes. She
told me everything she had pictures, she had everything. She
was in hiding for twelve years. We convinced her to
come out. We convinced her to talk to us. It
was unbelievable what we had Clinton, We had everything. I
tried for three years to get it on to no avail,
and now it's all coming out and it's like these
new relevant revelations and I freaking had all of it.
I'm so pissed right now, Like every day, I get
more and more pissed because I'm just like, oh my god,
it was on. What we had was unreal. Other women
backing it up. Hey, yep, Brad Edward's the attorney three
years ago saying like aunt, like, there will come a
day where we will realize Jeffrey Epstein was the most
prolific pedophile this country has ever known. I had it
all three years ago.
Speaker 1: Amy Roback, reporter with ABC News back in the day.
That was twenty nineteen. Courtesy of Project Veritas. Why are
Trump supporters interested in this because of that? Because when
there's a propaganda of silence from the mockingbird media and
they don't want to break a story like that that
involves a prince and a former president and they choose
not to break that story. We wonder are they told
not to break that story, because I'm here to tell
you sometimes they're told not to break stories. There's a
huge story. I'm a little obsessed with Project Cassandra, and
in that case, Barack Obama and his vice president at
the time, was more mentally coajined. Joe Biden decided to
prevent US authorities from moving forward in a case to
arrest Taliban operatives and Mexican drug cartel operatives who were
smuggling heroin overthrew across and under our border. They had
named agents from the intelligence services in the DOJ and
from foreign intelligent services who'd worked with them. Seven named
agents said we were ready, we had the indictments, we
were ready to go. Barack Obama said no, and that
project was revealed in one article and then died. I
talked to a guy who since passed on. He was
a hardcore newsman, neither left nor right, but I said
he heard me complaining about it one dan. I said
to him, Dan, why does stuff like this happen? He said, well,
I don't know the specific in this case, Tom, but
I can tell you, having been a Beuer chief in Washington.
Sometimes we get phone calls from the Intelligent Services saying
you can't run that. I said, what do you mean,
can't you gave into that? He said, I'm embarrassed to
say I did. During the Vietnam War, when he worked
in Washington, DC as one of the bureau chiefs, he
had the Intelligence Services come to him and say, you
can't run that because if you do, we're going to
have men and women in the field unalived. They're going
to lose their lives if you bring this out. So
we can't stop you, but we can show you the
pictures of the families you're going to affect. And he
never knew if that was true, but he didn't want
to risk it, so in that case he decided to fold.
So when I look at ABC News having a story
like this and they refuse to erit, and none of
the other networks erit it, because if she had it,
you think they didn't. If Cindy M. Kaine knew, everybody
knew and they didn't erit. Why is it interesting because
of the propaganda of silence? Why is it interesting because
of the huge aspects of this that go beyond his
perverse desire to harm children sexually such. He was a
eugenicist that wanted to seed the earth with his seed.
He was paying for a project in Arizona to take
his seed to recede the earth. Do you think it
was just him? Maybe it was just Perchaing, Prince Andrew
and William Jefferson Blithe Clinton the Third. Maybe they were
the only powerful men that went to go do that.
Is that believable to anybody? This is from GBN, a
British news article GBN news. It's from a Twitter account
Bohemian Atmosphere. So gb news took down the Epstein article
regarding the Clintons, Prince Andrew and Branson sex tapes and
right there, yep, sorry, we can't find the page you're
looking for. Darn the look, where'd that go? And incidentally,
the family of Glen Maxwell has written a letter they
want a review of her case because, after all, if
there's no proof about Jeff Epstein, how is the proof
about Glaide Maxwell, Because remember she was convicted.
Speaker 6: Prosecutors argued that Maxwell and Epstein conspired to set up
a scheme to lure young girls into sexual relationships with
Epstein from ninety four to two thousand and four in
New York, Florida, New Mexico, and the Virgin Islands. For
women testified during the trial that Epstein abused them and
that Maxwell facilitated the abuse and actually sometimes participated as well.
Speaker 1: And we're told so did other men. But there's no
client list. President Trump is making a major mistake. Here's
the cure. Release everything. President Trump said himself, the man
has been dead a long time. Release everything he wants.
Just the legitimate stuff released, no release at all. Let
us judge to redact names of victims, please do. If
you need to redact names of intelligence agents, please do.
But until that happens, people aren't going to trust you,
mister President, not on this topic. Story number two, that
thy not be judged. Why when you say things like that,
you have to go into the King James and I
can't say the Lord's prayer outside of the King James
can be done in NIV sense, that thy not be judged.
There's a case that happens at a mall in Atlanta,
the Cumberland Mole, and it has to do with a
boy who has cerebral palsy. And there's multiple aspects here
to me of judge not that thy not be judged.
It's not that we're not to have discernment, were to
be very careful, or to discern or to test all spirits.
We're to know people by their fruits. That phrase judge
can be read to mean that you are judging a
person's worth completely or their salvation or their worth through God.
What does God think of them? The final judge, the
Lord Jesus. He has that authority, none of us. So
we can discern, we can choose, we can choose who
we're friends with. And in this case, there was a
judgment made by the owners of the mall or the
management of the mall in regards to this little boy
with cerebral palsy. But there's a whole series of layers
of judgment here. I think it requires a little bit
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the Cumberland Mall, a father talked about a general manager
there at Cumban Mall who had an opinion and carried
it out as to regards to his son with cerebral palsy.
Speaker 7: And that's being vendors today for Major League Baseball All
Star weekend. You had the general manager of the mall
tell us that my son, my son, cannot be in
the mall with us this weekend. He's a part of
our company, he's my son and my family. I find
that to be very discriminate. D So the Cumberland Mall,
I want to let you all know this is not
the end because of what y'all have done today. And
I felt it was very discriminate over that. We have
to leave now because my son who's in the wheelchair
that has cerebe with paulser who works with us, who's
a part of our family. He goes everywhere with us.
He's a man. To be treated that way, it's heartbreaking.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's infuriating. So probably the boy makes noise. Some
people serve of palsy make noise. Sometimes it can be
disturbing for people. So let's start with judge not that
they not be judged. Motivation of the ma all. I
got to guess it's guests safety, or maybe they're comfort.
Not safety, but comfort. They're comfort. It's got to be that.
But they judged people. People can't discern that this is
a young man with cerebral palsy. He doesn't want to
be making these noises. They judged that there would be
no opportunity for teaching, for parents to say to young kids, Yeah,
that are those noises scary. Well, let me explain that
that person has some brain damage. The person's not a
danger to you. That person's probably trying to speak. Maybe
they're happy. Maybe the young man's happy, Maybe he needs
something he can't communicate anither way. The Lord Jesus told
us that the poor will always be with us, son
of man, was not always going to be I mean
in an eternal sense, yes, but not walking with us.
We have an opportunity to be judged by how we
treat the least of these. We have an opportunity to
welcome judgment in this sense. So the general manager made
judgments of other people. People can't handle this. No one
can be comfortable with this kid here. This is going
to cause people to not spend money. Here's the outcomes.
We can't judge. We can't judge if that sent that
guy to hell, I doubt it. We can't judge the
worth of that general manager. We can't judge his heart.
We can discern discernment. Is that seems like a quick headed,
easy thing versus doing the harder thing of letting people observe.
He who gives mercy will receive mercy. That's not judgment.
That's God's worth, that's God's promise. I don't know that
it's mercy to let a little boys stay with his family.
I know it's the right thing, and I know that
that boy, that young man, is made in God's image,
just like us, and it should haunt us as you
treat the least of these, so you treat me. He
could be an angel, he could have a protective angel.
The fact is we don't get to judge in a
final sense. Jesus Christ does, and he will return his judge.
And when that happens, when he returns his judge, everyone
will bow, every tongue will confess, and we will receive
final judgment. All of us will get there. You can
choose where you go afterwards. If you accept Jesus Christ
as your Lord and savior, you agreed to follow him
and be changed by him, you can live forever in
his presence with no confusion, no distortions, no depression, no anger.
Or you could choose the other way, or sins and
anger and hatred multiply forever and ever and ever, up
to a trillion upon trullions of years. So choose wise.
Story number three. One of the things we need to
realize is that God doesn't need us. God doesn't need
us for anything. And the reason I bring this up
is because I've received this series of comments, and then
having received these comments, I've gone back and thought about
conversations I've had where Christians, sometimes even mature Christians, have
said to me, why does God need us to do this?
And why does God need us to make these changes?
Or why does God need us for this or that?
And it came to mind when I saw President Trump
praising Jesus, praise God for this. And I consider President
Trump to be a baby Christian and that's not an insult.
Everybody starts somewhere and you grow into faith. He said
this about our country, well, the.
Speaker 8: Earliest days of our Republic. The steady compass of faith
has guided the strong hands of American workers, builders, and
entrepreneurs like really no other. Our country was founded by
pilgrims and believers, and every generation since Americans of faith
have built our communities and forged new industries and enriched
our country by millions and millions of people and ways.
John D. Rockefeller, J. C. Penny, Charles, goodyear, true at Kathy,
and Frankly, we have people I could name right in
his room sitting here that their names are every bit
as big as that they were inspired by their love
of God. And now the proud tradition continues with all
of you, and this group reminds us as a nation
that praise is a nation that prospers.
Speaker 1: So he didn't mention the Lord Jesus' name, and perhaps
that's on purpose. If so, that's very sad those who
confess Christ Jesus in public. He will confess before his
father prisident. Trump's done that to be fair. But this
idea that a nation that praise is a nation that prospers,
wouldn't that indicate that God needs us to pray? And
further praying what in praying with what God has told
us in the Bible that when we pray, we need
to pray with absolute belief He can do what we ask,
and we need to pray within His will. So I
don't believe that a nation that prays is a nation
that prospers. I believe that a nation that prays in
alignment with the will of Gods, in an abiding sense
and in full faith that God can and will deliver
on God they promise us, and covenance thrives because God
can bless that. And there are people who've asked, why
does God need us to pray? He knows what we want,
he knows what we need. Why does he need us
to do this? Why does he need us to say?
Speaker 3: Lord? Lord?
Speaker 1: I remember talking with a young person about the Old Testament,
and so often in the Old Testament, the Lord says,
I am the Lord, do this for I am the Lord.
Why does he need people to know he's the Lord?
Obviously he's God? Why does he need this? There's also
people who believe that God needs them to do specific
things in specific ministries, and this is what major problem.
It's something that we should pay real close attention to,
because God doesn't need us, not anywhere. God didn't need
my friend Tim Krukshank to go do what he did,
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need to, but maybe you want to. So God doesn't
need us to do anything. And this is a huge
misunderstanding I think with Christians. Steve wrote to me on YouTube.
I did a very very short video on this, and
it's interesting because longtime supporters of the program, either radio
shows or the podcasts or the video, or we're relatively
new on YouTube. This is the most disagreement I've gotten
on this, on not this, but on a religious topic
like this from longtime supporters. And Steve he typifies this
great guy. Steve wrote on YouTube, I have to push
back on that with all due respect, brother, he chose
to need us. We are his hands and feet in
the earth. He gave us the power to create with
our words according to his will. We are kingdom builders
with God his choice, true his choice. So let's talk
about need. What does need mean? This is caffeine? I
don't need it. I want it. Maybe I've gotten to
a point where I need it chemically, but I could
do without it. There's water in here as a transfer
method for the caffeine. I need water. I want pizza
on Thursday night because that's my pizza night. I don't
need it, I want it, and it's become a habit.
God does not need us to build the Kingdom. God
breathed the earth and everything in it and the rules
that govern it into life when he said, let there
be light. The amazing thing about what he did is
not just quote just that he created the universe. He
created all the plans for everybody who's ever going to live,
whoever has lived. He created all those plans, He created
all those opportunities. He created the language that programs our bodies.
We are the first machines to make machines, if you
want to think of it that way. He programmed that.
He programmed it in a way that meant that we
could later go discover it and read it and share
it and understand it. God did not need to do
that to build the Kingdom. God could simply just snap
his fingers and build it. God has no need for
any of this. Did he choose to need us. Well, again,
let's define need. Can God accomplish this through any other means? Absolutely?
God could accomplish this by having created us to not
be able to choose other than to love God. He
could have done that. He could have created us to
be unable to feel anything but love and respect for God.
He could have created us with an ability, or let's
say this way, a disability to break his word. We
couldn't do it. He could have done all of that.
He didn't need to give us free will. He needed nothing.
He chose to give us free will. The fact that
God doesn't need us goes to something that's most magnificent
about God, Almighty, the God of the universe, who created
all the things, all the things that will ever be.
That God's wanted us.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: To me, that's more profound. To me, that is more amazing.
He wanted you to exist. That's not need, it's want.
And Micah chapter six, verse eight. This is NIV.
Speaker 3: We read.
Speaker 1: He has shown you, immortal, what is good and what
does the Lord require of you? To act justly and
to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God
require that's putting need on us. Here requires us to
do this. Does he need us to? He wants us to.
If he needed us to, he would have programmed us.
So we always did. God loves us so much that
he gave us free will. But for a reason. It's
not a need, it's a want. God. In the Holy spirits,
you take the three persons in one God, the Father, Christ, Jesus,
the Holy Spirit existed forever, always will exist. They existed
together before time, They will always exist together. They were
happy together. They had no need. They chose to create
the earth and everything in it. In Matthew nine verses
nine through thirteen, we worried about the calling of Matthew.
As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man
named Matthew sitting at the tax collector's booth. Follow me,
he told him, and Matthew got up and followed him.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 1: Jesus was having dinner at Matthew's house. Many tax collectors
and sinners came and ate with him in the disciples.
When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, why
does your teacher eat with tax cluctures and sinners. On
hearing this, Jesus said, it's not the healthy who need
a doctor, but the sick. But go and learn what
this means. I desire mercy, not sacrifice, for I've not
come to call the righteous, but sinners. We need his
spiritual doctrine. He desires us to understand mercy. When God
created the world and everything in it, he chose to
create mankind, and in mankind he created us in his image.
Did he need to do that? No, he wanted to.
So this magnificent God, who could create other worlds if
he chose, if he decided tomorrow to create fifteen other
earthly planets with fifteen other species, he could do that,
or one hundred and fifty or fifteen hundred and fifteen thousand.
His powers are limitless. Apparently he doesn't want to do that.
So what does he want. Well, let's take this all backwards.
God didn't need to create Adam, and then he didn't
need to create Eve. He saw that it was not
good that man was alone, so he created Eve, and
together they had an opportunity to walk with God. God
didn't need them, He chose them. And as they walked,
and they made the mistake of following the serpent into
eating for the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,
they chose. God could have stopped that, he could have
made them robots. He didn't. He let them choose. After
he cast them out of the garden. Just before they left,
he knew they would need to be clothed. They didn't
understand that they'd never had a problem staying warm or
an appropriate temperature because of what the Garden of Being
had been, So he knew he needed to give them
that they needed it, So he cloaked them in animal skins,
first time they'd ever done that. God knew that they
would need rules, that they would need instructions, that they
would need the law, and he gave them the law,
and he knew that they would break it. So what
was God seeking? Ultimately, when the Christ Jesus Messiah when
he came, Jesus didn't need to be gentle. Jesus could
have come along and been incredibly harsh. Jesus could have
come along and created miracles of such a type that
no one could possibly ignore him. He didn't need to
go to the small towns. He didn't need to go
into the wilderness. He could have simply gone into the
halls of power and showed himself to be exactly what
he was by having Moses appear with him in Elijah.
He could have had that in an instant. He could
have freed John the Baptist. They put him in jail.
Now I'm just going free him and have him appear
right here before me. He chose not to do that.
He didn't need John the Baptist. John the Baptist played
an important role. He foretold of the coming of Christ
that people would hear, which people the ones God created
in his image. God doesn't need your love, He doesn't
need your prayers. He doesn't need anything, So why does
he want us to pray? Let's think further about this.
What does God want? He wants his children back with him.
Does he need it, doesn't need anything. He wants his
children back with him in the new Heaven and the
new Earth. So why does he require us to follow him?
Why does he state unequivocally that Jesus is the Way,
the Truth, and the life, and no one gets to
the Father but through him? Why does he do that?
Because God wants us to love him. Want is different
than need. But why does he want us to love him?
Because he loved us first. He loved us so much
that he gave his own son that ever believes in
him and follows him is saved from death and has
eternal life with God the Father. He did that because
he wants our love. So why does he want our love?
Because he is love. He created us in his image
to love, and it's good for us. We want our
kids to love us because it feels good. It feels
good to know that your little girl or your little
boy loves you. You feel like you're a successful parent.
God doesn't need us to prop up his success. He
knows exactly who he is. He says it throughout the
Old Testament. There's none greater. I am the Alpha, the Mega.
He knows all this about himself. He doesn't need anything,
but loving him is good for us. God wants what's
good for us. There's some things we needed, and he
gave us the righteous and the unrighteous. We need food,
we need water, we need sunshine, we need air. Those
are called the common blessings. Those are things we needed.
He did that because He loved us enough to give
us time to come to him. So when we pray
it's good for us? Is it good for God doesn't
need it? When we follow his commands, it's good for us?
Does he need us to do that. He doesn't need anything.
But when we follow his commands, we draw closer to him.
We become more like him, We become sanctified. We're being
cleansed in a way that he can welcome us into
the new Heaven and the new Earth. God doesn't need us,
He wants our love because by loving him it's good
for us. It makes us into beings who can be
with him. God didn't need to have sin in the world.
He didn't need to allow it. He chose to because
God loved us so much that he wanted a choice.
He wanted us to make the decision. And the decision
is this, do we trust in an all loving, all seeing,
all knowing God who sacrificed in some of the most
unspeakable ways that you can ever imagine. And if you
think it's just the cross, then you wildly misunderstood what
happened to Jesus on the cross. The cups of wrathpoort
out upon him for all sins ever committed, in all
sins that ever would be committed, and no living human
being could sustain that they'd be crushed. So we choose
to serve a God who doesn't need a stinking thing
from us. Everything we have is rags and trash. The
only thing in which we can boast is allowing God
to make us more like Him, to sanctify us. Paul
the Apostle at one point said that in weakness God
shows his glory and impair. He boasted of his weakness
because in his weakness Christ filled the gaps. God doesn't
need us, he wants us. He doesn't need our prayers.
He knows they're good for us. He didn't need the
Ten Commandments. He's perfect. He knew we needed them, and
he knows this. We need the Holy Spirit. And if
you've not yet confessed Jesus Christ as your Lord and
savior and agreed to follow him, you don't have the
Holy Spirit. So make that decision today to love a
God who doesn't need you. This is the Todd Hermann Shaw.
Please go be well, be strong, be kind, make a
decision to walk in the light of Christ's and now
I will go home and see him. I have a
loved wife,