TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - Agreed: 30-Day Ceasefire in Ukraine

Episode Date: March 11, 2025

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food supply needs. Sky News reporting that Ukraine has agreed to a 30-day ceasefire proposal and that the United States says it will restart military aid and intelligence sharing with Kiev after a day of peace talks in Saudi Arabia. This is true news for Tuesday, March 11, 2025. Let's begin our analysis and commentary with this breaking report from Europe Sky News. This says it appeared just a few minutes ago. Ball now in Russia's court, U.S. says, after Ukraine accepts 30-day ceasefire proposal. We're going to report it just as Sky News reported it minutes ago. Doc, I mean, the last It may be on

American websites right now, but I quickly scanned a lot of websites just minutes ago and there's no reporting yet Right that this is ceasefire, but it is BBC News and Sky News in Great Britain So they are they are reporting that Zalinski has accepted a 30-day ceasefire proposal. Sky News says, quote, we're hearing, it's talking about Sky News, we're also hearing reaction from Zelensky, who has thanked the US team for constructive talks in Saudi Arabia. The Ukrainian president says the 30-day ceasefire proposal covers the front line, not just the air and sea. In a statement that he published on Telegram, Mr. Zelensky said,

the American side understands our arguments, accepts our proposals, and I want to thank President Trump for the constructiveness of the conversation between our teams. Zelensky confirms Ukraine has accepted the ceasefire proposal, adding, we considered it positive and we are ready to take the step. And Zelensky added, Ukraine is ready for peace. The time has come for the full truth. Now, they weren't thinking that way last night because they launched one of the biggest attacks ever on Moscow.

Yes. The largest drone attack of the war hits Moscow region hundreds of drones. I think Russia said they shot down over 350 drones. Right. And even in spite of that, three men have been killed in the Moscow region And what is described as the largest drone attack on the Russian capital since the start of the war? in Ukraine 18 people in addition including three children were injured health officials have told Russian media

Seeing some scenes of the drone attack there officials said that all three men who died had been working at a distribution center where it was hit by drone debris. And dozens of vehicles were destroyed when a drone hit a car park and the glass front of a supermarket was badly damaged. The Russian Defense Ministry said 337 drones were intercepted over Russia, and 91 of them were shot down just over the Moscow

region there and so you're seeing some of the impact of that. Once again that was the largest drone strike on Moscow since what this war began three years ago. So you've got talks going on in Saudi Arabia to bring about a ceasefire and Ukraine says let's launch an attack on downtown Moscow. But isn't that the way that these ceasefires really... Every ceasefire I've observed, there's that one last shot. Get the last shot in. Before the ceasefire. Yes.

It doesn't matter whether it's Middle East or if it's Asia, wherever it is. Now, Russia today, this was in response to the drone attack last night. So this was the initial response by the Russians that they should launch an Oreshnik strike in retaliation for the Ukrainian drone attack. This came from a senior member of parliament there. If you recall, the Oreshnik is that hazelnut missile. It's a medium-range ballistic missile. And a member of the parliament has suggested that that should be used in response to the drone strike. Now, when asked by a

journalist on Tuesday if Russia should strike Ukrainian targets with the Orushnik and retaliation, the head of the Russian State Duma Defense Committee Chairman Andrei Kartapalov replied that the decision is up to the Supreme Commander in Chief, Russian President Vladimir Putin, but I think it would be appropriate to launch the Arushnik and it would be even better if there's more than one, added the MP, who is a former Deputy Defense Minister and also currently still holds the rank of Colonel General. So, Donka, a pattern that I've seen over 26 years during this program is whatever the conflict,

when there is a movement towards resolving conflict or ceasefire, anything other than all out war again. I've seen a pattern that Something will happen while the peace talks are underway. Yes to disrupt the peace process, right? Israel's very good at doing that but it's I've seen in many theaters of war So I have to wonder Did a European NATO power encourage Zelensky to carry out this attack last night with the intention of collapsing the peace talks? Okay, so look at the situation now.

You carried out an attack. Right. Massive attack. I mean, 337 drones in a capital city. Obviously, the Russians are angry. You have this member of parliament who's a former deputy defense minister and holds the rank of colonel general.

He's saying, we need to shoot one or two hypersonic missiles into Ukraine. Did somebody, maybe France, Great Britain, encourage Zelensky to carry out this attack last night to anger the Russians so that the Russians say, I'll tell you what to do with your peace talks right now. We're going to get a piece of your hide, right? Okay, they could have responded that way, but currently they haven't yet yet. Yes But the Russians have shown incredible restraint as all through this process. I mean, you know, so what happens if the Russians Retaliate before they agree to this proposal? Who looks bad then? The Russians.

The Russians. Which is another tactic. I'll punch you in the face and then put my hand out and say, let's be friends. If you don't shake, you're the bad guy. Even though you're bleeding, your mouth is bleeding. So look at the tactic of what they're doing. They hit Russia last night, then they agreed to a ceasefire. And then if Russia strikes back, how dare you do that when we wanted to have peace?

Now, once again, this is just a ceasefire. It's not the end of the conflict. Right. It's just a ceasefire, 30 days. So what's your estimate? Will Putin strike or will he show restraint and agree to the 30-day ceasefire? I think they'll show restraint. I don't know if they'll agree to the proposal yet, but I think they'll show restraint because they know how the game is played. Right. They know exactly what they're doing. They know they're being drawn in. I mean, they've been watching these guys for a long time. Hey, the history between Russia and Europe

goes back a thousand years. They've gotten pretty much figured out by now. And the same families. Yes, isn't that strange? The same families. So earlier in the day, all right, so this kind of this, you know, Mr. Zelinsky was in Saudi Arabia. Now he wasn't invited to the meeting. That's right. He was not participating in the negotiations. But he showed up. That's right. He showed up to do what influencers do, social media influencers do, influence people through the media. And so, he was there to shake hands and cuddle up to folks and everything.

We have some images of him being received by the Saudis here. The Crown Prince. Right. And so, he's got his best blacks on. Yeah. So he's got his best black fatigues and everything. But still, he's there for the sole purpose of being able to be seen, to stay relevant, everything, even though everybody knows, really, this is his farewell tour.

Isn't it, Rick? Isn't this his farewell tour? It is, but he's doing what he's good at, getting free publicity and begging. You know he hit up the crown prince for something. Sure. I guarantee you, he asked him for something. And when he left, you can be sure the crown prince

Told somebody you won't believe what he asked for He asked for my car He asked for one of my Arabian horses he asked for something because that's Zelensky he's a moocher right But he wasn't invited to the peace talks right now the The representatives that he sent from Ukraine, they wore business suits. Yes. Why? Why?

Because you were there for business. Right. Not- You wear a costume if you're there to put on a play, put on a show. So you know, I think we can skip number seven because it's out of date now. We can move on because these are all talking about the talks that were underway. Let's go down to number nine. Trump envoy to meet Putin in Russia. Yes, it looks like Steve Witkoff, the envoy that Donald Trump has appointed

to, you know, broker some of this situation. So he's taking the deal to Putin. Right. He's on his way to Moscow. He's got the deal. All right. You know, I don't know a lot about Steve Witkoff other than generally, but he has handled himself well in these two months. I've been impressed by him, Doc. Time will tell how he resolves things, but he's doing quite well.

And operating within the Trump sphere doing it. Yes. I mean, let's face it. I mean, every day is a surprise with President Trump. Right. Today, we're going to own Gaza. Tomorrow, we're going to own all the minerals in Ukraine. And he's got to keep moving around in that and stay calm and cool about it.

And then General Kellogg is the other one. Now, I did see an article in one of the London papers that said, I think it's a telegraph, it said, the Trump plan is hidden in plain sight. The Trump plan is hidden in plain sight. And they went back and got a plan published by General Kellogg last year of how he would bring about peace in Ukraine. And they took it line by line. And the Trump plan is following the Kellogg plan. Really? Yes. That's interesting. Which tells you why he following the Kellogg plan. Really? Yes.

That's interesting. Which tells you why he chose General Kellogg. He said, all right, this guy's got a plan. You know, maybe nobody else had a reasonable plan, but it appears that President Trump looked at what General Kellogg had published last year. Well, there was certainly no plan to wind down the war. Right. None. There was certainly no plan to wind down the war. Right. None.

There was no plan. If anything, to lengthen it out and even intensify it. Increase it, yes. So General Kellogg is doing well. I was concerned of how that was going to work out. Sending a general in to wind down a war, you send generals in to intensify wars. But both of them are performing well under a lot of stress. And the stress coming from Mr. Zelensky and

the Europeans. And we're going to talk about that right now. So France 24. France pushes shift to wartime economy as US turns its back on Ukraine. That's the French news article, France 24. The US turns its back. I didn't see France work out this agreement. No. France wants to have war. Yes.

Europe wants to go to war with Russia. They're still, to this day, Europe wants to go to war with Russia. They still, to this day, they want to go to war with Russia. The French and the German and the British political leaders want this war to continue. And they're doing their best to put on a good face. And all they're doing is shifting their position to, well, we want to put troops in Ukraine to keep the peace, but really what they want is to prolong the war. So they had their own meeting, Doc. Yes.

I'll let you know. So France 24 is reporting this, saying that this is coming from French Finance Minister Eric Lombard. He said, we're not there yet, but we need to be heading towards a wartime economy. And the finance minister promised to unveil new budgetary measures to boost defense spending in the coming weeks. He said that we must go faster and harder. He said in a separate interview, we will have to make greater efforts to protect ourselves,

to build an economy that protects peace and to strengthen our defense within a European framework. Well, Doc, if the Ukraine-Russia war ends, why does France need to go to a wartime economy? Because they have to have their boogeyman. They have to have their bad guy, which is still going to be Russia. Yes, because what they are anticipating now is that the US is going to pull out of NATO, and now the Europeans can finally have their European army.

Yes, do whatever you want to do now. Germany, there used to be, I thought it would be three players, it was four. Germany, France, Great Britain, and Poland. Poland. Poland wants to be in an army. They want to be a player, a big player in this. Right, and they're really the only one that could put up a substantial number of forces. Only Poland can. The others, I mean, it's not going to be the UK. It's not going to be France. But France has got nukes.

Maybe Germany in five years, but certainly not today. But Poland could man troops on the front line. But France has nukes. That's true. And while we were in Europe last week, Mr. Macron offered a French nuclear umbrella to all of Europe, meaning, we'll protect you. We have nukes. We're willing to protect all of Europe with our nuclear weapons. So what you see coming is a new NATO minus the United States.

They will still have some type of Article 5 that if one country gets attacked, then it would be France that would be obligated to attack the attacker with French nuclear weapons. But the way I read it, Mr. Macron was willing to put French nukes in Germany to deploy French nuclear missiles in other European countries. He's dreaming of replacing the United States. So the race is on. Who is going to replace the United States? Because these guys have ambitions of being the next Napoleon. Right. But how did it work out for a Napoleon in Russia? Oh, he got sent back. What happened to him?

Defeated. And what happened to his troops? Died. They froze to death. Yes. You know why they froze to death? They didn't know cycles. And they invaded Russia at the beginning of an ice age. They didn't know their cycles. That's

what happened. The French troops got the water loom. They were frozen. It was an ice age. Nobody told them. It snows a lot in Russia. And the night's age. Nobody told them. And it snows a lot in Russia. And the Russians like snow. And so his troops were bogged down in ice and snow. But Mr. Macron is dreaming of being the next Napoleon.

We're watching this stuff play out in real time. I think the United States will be out of NATO by the end of the year. It could be by the next NATO meeting. Maybe by June or July? Yeah, that's the next NATO meeting. So, France 24, this is reporting about the summit that Rick mentioned. French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday was set to address a meeting of military chiefs from 30 European and NATO countries willing to contribute

to security guarantees for Ukraine after any negotiated truce with Russia. President Macron, who has sought to rally a European response to Washington's shock policy shift in US-Russia relations, said Tuesday's meeting will be held in coordination with NATO military command. The get-together of military chiefs of staff from 30 European and NATO nations, including Britain and Turkey, is important, said Defense Minister Sebastian LeCourneau, adding that

it would aim to lay the foundation for any possible security guarantees for Ukraine. It is simply a question of looking ahead and thinking about what the Ukrainian army should be in the future, LaCourneau said ahead of the talks. We will reject any form of demilitarization of Ukraine, he added. But I would just say out here Russia's made a big point about troops in Ukraine, European troops in Ukraine. That's going to be a sticking point. And if Mr. Witkoff takes a proposal back to, you know, Mr. Putin, and there's any sort of mention of European troops in there, unless some policy shift has taken place within the

past several days, at the end of last week, Lavrov and Medvedev both came out the same day saying, any mention of European troops in Ukraine is totally off the table for us. Yes. Doc, the way I see World War III progressing and ending, ending in the 2030s, will be the the United States versus China and Europe versus Russia. Yes. Those would be the final battles in the 2030s. The Europeans, to me, is just madness, is insanity. They've been putting out their boogeyman propaganda for so long that they've convinced themselves

it's real. But we, the United States, created the boogeyman in their minds. And now we've pulled away. But then they're still afraid of the boogeyman. They're still afraid of the boogeyman. And the boogeyman doesn't want to invade them. Russia doesn't want to invade Europe. Look at the price Russia has paid for three years just

in Ukraine. You're telling me Russia's gonna go and invade Germany and France and Great Britain and all of Europe. That's crazy They're not thinking that way Putin would have to be totally insane right But the Europeans are convinced they've convinced themselves of their own propaganda and The Russians are watching them going these people really are planning to attack us.

They really are getting ready for a world war. Which leaves Russia with what option? World war. World war. But I think the United States is getting ready for war with China. China's getting ready for a war with China. China's getting ready for a war with the USA. That's where we're headed over the next five to seven years. Those are going to be the two big battles.

May not be simultaneous. We may see a European-Russian war by the late 20s. Both sides know they need about five years to get ready. Yes. Okay. That's why the French are saying, we've got to go to a wartime economy. We've got to start producing weapons. We've got to move investment from domestic projects.

We've got to move it into military projects You don't have to If this Ukraine war ends just go to the Russians and say hey, can we sign a peace treaty? Has that thought entered anybody's mind apparently not in Europe it's happening here on in DC but You go to war when the other side says, we're not interested in a peace treaty. But nobody's even brought up the idea of a peace treaty. They're just going straight to war.

Right. And I'll show you more of these here in just a moment. By the way, one group, one country that was not invited to the European meeting to discuss peace in Ukraine was the United States. That's right. Here's Newsweek, the US shunned by European allies for top security summit. Again, they're jockeying for position.

Who's gonna replace the United States to keep the war going? Yes. To keep the Ukraine war going. Yeah, they'll settle for a 30-day ceasefire, but the Europeans are going to agitate for more war. They see the U.S. as pulling out, and they're going to step in. They're going to replace the United States in leading the war against Russia. And what they're asking for is a hypersonic missile up there. You know what?

That's what's going to happen to them. That may come a lot sooner. Russia is not going to give them five years to prepare. They're going to, Russians are going to say, we're going to take you out now. While you don't have the ability to respond. The only country that could respond in half, is France, and it would,

lights would be out for France in about 30 seconds yes and the only country that could possibly mount a grand offensive once again is Poland I mean other countries have soldiers but you need a lot of soldiers to fight the Russians you need a lot of the Russians. You need a lot of them. Ask Germany. Twice. And now we're telling Germany, after they lost two world wars, we're telling Germany, hey listen, we need you to get an army corps. Yeah, do it again. Yeah. We want to give Germany the chance to do it one more time. Well, the Russians aren't going to allow the Germans to do it again.

No, of course not. They're not going to allow it. So President Macron went on national television in France. I think this was Friday night as we were preparing to leave Spain. And he addressed the French people telling them, we've got to prepare for war. We've got a small segment, and's got English translation, let's watch. For us to sign a peace agreement where Ukraine will no longer be invaded by Russia, we have to do so by supporting the Ukrainian troops in the midterm. It may require further European forces to be deployed. Russia is, so this war is not going to be just on the warfronts. This is a fight that we need to fight to ensure stability. And that is why the heads of armies in Europe

are going to meet to ensure that we can come to an agreement. We need to come up with a long term peace plan, one that we can continue to change agreement. We need to come up with a long-term peace plan, one that we can continue to change. This is what we have prepared with a number of European partners and Ukraine. This is what I went to present to the United States just a few days ago. And I want to believe that the United States will stay by our side, but they will need to be. But we need to be ready. If that were not the case, whether we come to peace now or in a somewhat distant future, Europe needs to be able to better defend itself and to deter other forms of invasion, whatever the case may be, we need to arm ourselves more.

We need to bolster our defence positions. We need to deter. And that is why we uphold NATO and our partnership with the United States of America. But we need more. We need to reinforce our own defence and security capabilities. The future of Europe is not going to be decided by Russia or by Washington. So yes, once again, the threat is now coming from the East. And this is a stark reminder of what has happened over these past 30 years since the fall of

the Berlin Wall. We have now moved into a new era. So we have the meeting of the heads of state and government of Europe at the council, and we will take numerous decisions. Of course, he calling for a rearming of Europe and coming up with a standing European army, which I guess my dispensational friends from the 80s would just be going giddy

over. Watch for the European army coming about. Revive Roman Empire. President Macron said something in that that got my brain thinking earlier. He said, and other forms of invasion. Now, of course, the current situation relates to Russia and everything, but then in this speech to the French people, he said, we also need to repel other forms of invasion. What is that?

I don't know. What was he alluding to there, Rick? I don't know. Do they perceive other threats out there of invasion? He said forms. Yeah. Other forms of invasion? Who are they? He said forms. Yeah, other forms of invasion. And it just got my mind turning and thinking about it because I wasn't quite sure what he meant by that. I want to get your response on this.

Aliens? I don't know. Robots? I mean, are they expecting an invasion from Africa or from China or from the Middle East? Where are they expecting this invasion from? I don't know. China or from the Middle East? Where are they expecting this invasion from? Or a separate form of invasion other than military from Russia? Maybe a cyber attack, something along that line.

I don't know. But it caught my attention. And so now I'm thinking, okay, let's say the US and Russia come to a peace deal and everything, there's not an imminent threat of Russia blowing up everything, right? So now they have to come up with another bogeyman. They have to create another one or go to war with Russia. And if that one, we're sitting that one out, the US is going to sit it out. I was, as I was watching anything, I was thinking, doc, is Francis being led by a man who's married to an old pedophile. Why, France? French people? Why are you letting this guy take

you to war with Russia? He's married to an old pedophile. What does that tell you about him? He worked for the Rothschilds. What does that tell you? What does that tell you? He's taking you to war. Why are you letting this man do this to you? Oh boy. Here goes my visit to France. There's an influential German politician. He's a former member of the European Parliament. He's chairman of the Stockholm Free World Forum.

His name is Gunnar. Is it a Hawkmark or a Hokemark? A Hawkmark. You've got to get that hard O in there. Like you're hawking something up. A Hawkmark or Hockmark? Hockmark. You've got to get that hard O and they're hawk, like you're hawking something up, a hawkmark. Yeah. But he's very influential in Germany. And he said, if the US is really, if US really is siding with Russia in order to force Ukraine

to capitulate, Europe has to recognize that Trump is siding with Russia regarding European security, threatening us instead of putting pressure on Putin. That's a new world order. You got it. It is a new world order. Yes. And your old world order of war is over, but they don't want to let it die. And I'll say the next article, London Times.

British Army must spend billions to prepare for war. Why? Why? Nobody from Number 10 Downingable of flying over to Russia, have a meeting with Putin and say, why do you want to kill us? And Putin go, what are you talking about? We just want to sell oil. Right. Oil and natural gas. That's it. So maybe some borscht. But we read it in the newspapers. You want to invade us? What is this?

This is a madness. There is a war fever. It's a madness. They're going to spend billions of dollars to prepare for war with Russia. They're convinced the Russians are going to attack them. And the Russians have no intention of attacking Great Britain, but they're going to attack them. And the Russians have no intention of attacking Great Britain, but they're going to do it because these guys are preparing for war. They're arming themselves up. So it's a self-fulfilling prophecy.

When the war comes, they're going to say, look, we told you. Yes. But you created it. You created your own war. Go ahead. I'll let you read this. So, a reading from the London Times here. Britain must immediately spend billions of pounds on drones, shells, and armored vehicles to be ready to get the country ready for war,

ministers have warned. Sir Keir Starmer's Strategic Defense Review will set out plans to modernize the Army, Navy, and Royal Air Force over the next decade. See, this doesn't happen overnight, folks. Drones, shells, armored vehicles are among the weapons that insiders believe must be bought rapidly amid warnings that the UK cannot solely rely on the slow procurement of ships, submarines, and fighter jets. Quoting from the article, we can ramp up the production of munitions and drones quickly, one defense industry source said. But we need the government to put in the orders

rather than just give us warm words. And so even if they start today, though, they're five to 10 years out. So the end of World War III is in the 2030s. I think we can safely relax over the next five years. There may be some moments where things get very tense, but everybody knows they're not ready for this big war. Yes. It's like the stretching of the rubber band. How far can you stretch this thing before it snaps?

And they're all doing it. How much time can they get to build up their armament before the other side takes a swing? Well, and the UK is, they're in this hip deepdeep now because they signed a hundred-year security agreement with Ukraine last week while we were in Barcelona. But who did it? Their prime minister is an atheist. Yes. He has no wisdom at all.

He's an atheist. Yeah. A fool says there is no God. He's a fool. He's a fool. The Bible describes him as a fool. He says there is no God. He's a fool. He's a fool. The Bible describes him as a fool. He says there's no God. So Great Britain, you're led by a fool.

Mr. Lavrov said Britain's peacekeeping plan is a ploy to save the Kiev regime. So Britain and France's plan to send peacekeeping troops to Ukraine to enforce a potential ceasefire is merely a ploy to save the remnants of the Kiev regime." That's coming from Russia's foreign minister. Sergei Lavrov was speaking in Moscow as senior U.S. and Ukrainian officials met in Saudi Arabia for talks on bringing the three-year war to an end. Quoting from the Telegraph here, Lavrov, who has repeatedly rejected the idea of a Western peacekeeping force in Ukraine, said, what will the peacekeepers protect?

The remnants of the Kiev Nazi regime, which adopted a series of laws exterminating Russian culture, language, media, and banned the Russian Orthodox Church? Is that what these peacekeepers are going to protect? The standard quo of that? Denmark is ready to send troops to Ukraine. Denmark? I'm sure the Denmark Army is well trained and they are a great force, but I'm not intimidated by Denmark. Are you? No.

Okay. But they said if there is a need to send European peacekeeping forces to Ukraine, Denmark is ready to provide troops. That is what Foreign Minister Lars Rasmussen and Defense Minister Troels Poulsen said after a meeting of the Foreign Policy Committee where they have made the government's position clear and received support from a large number of parties in the Volkutin, that's their version of parliament for that line, says it is important that we in Europe send the right signals to both Putin and Washington.

That is what we are doing today by saying if it comes to the point where European presence is needed for a ceasefire or peace agreement to be reached, then Denmark is in principle prepared for that, says Lars Rasmussen. So they're lining up to get troops into Ukraine. Even Denmark. The Nordic states now. So if Denmark sends their army to Ukraine, who's going to defend Greenland? Yes.

I mean, how big is the Danish army? Can they afford to send troops to Ukraine, defend Denmark, and defend Greenland? And Ukraine. That's what I'm saying. Defend Ukraine, defend Denmark, and defend Greenland. All of them were acting like they're giant military powers. I know. None of them could last in a war more than an hour.

I always think about years ago, it's been, I guess probably 30 years ago, Doc, in the Caribbean, the war between St. Kitts and Anguilla. Yeah, I remember you telling me this. When I first heard this when I was in the Caribbean, people told me there was a war between the islands of St. Kitts and Anguilla. I'm like, what did they do? They threw coconuts at each other? Imagine trying to raise up an army in St. Kitts. I'm having trouble visualizing that.

Hey, you want to go to war against Engel? Tomorrow. Kind of busy. Tomorrow. Manana. Tomorrow. But they did. They had a war.

Engel had declared its independence from St. Kitts. They went to war. It lasted. Well, the Queen sent a British ship. That ended it. So are you saying that greater firepower brought peace to a regional conflict? The Queen showed up with her Royal Navy showed up. And that's why it's the US and Ukraine and the Russians that are talking in Saudi Arabia now.

No one else matters. It doesn't matter what Macron or I forget the name of the new chancellor in Germany, he's hell bent on raising up an army and I'm using that word very carefully there, in that he said, we're going to do it. So, look at Poland. Telegraph reporting. This is the telegraph from Kosovo. Oh, from Kosovo.

Sorry about that. Telegraphy. Okay. Yeah, I think it's from Kosovo. You might be right. I think it's Kosovo. Poland prepares its citizens for war. Families will receive guides to survive dangerous situations.

Why do you think Russia is going to invade Poland? Again, they have no interest in doing it. But if you make them mad enough, you know, if you anger a bear long enough, it will charge. And a charging bear does incredible damage. Okay, you're not going to stop it. But here's Poland. It says, a NATO member Poland will soon send its citizens a manual on how to survive a future crisis and has warned that men should undergo military training as tensions with

Russia rise. The country which borders Ukraine and Russia will send pamphlets to homes this year. The manual will inform them how to deal with various toxic and dangerous situations. Announced the Deputy Director of Civil Protection, Robert Klonoski. He said civilians would be advised during the war on coping with a power outage lasting days or hours, Doc. A war with Russia. You're going to be out of electrical power for maybe hours? How about for the remainder of your life. Of time.

These people are not dealing with reality. It says we're also planning a special version of the guide aimed at children. So let's scare the little kids. Let's make the kids frightened that they're gonna die in a war. Okay, that's enough war talk. So there'll be more tomorrow. Yes, so last week we went to a technology conference in Barcelona, but so did Kamala Harris,

but she didn't go to Barcelona. She went to a technology conference in Las Vegas at the Fountain Blue Hotel. Oh, the fancy new Fountain Blue. Yeah, it was an AI conference. At the Fountain Blue? At the Fountain Blue called Human X. And one of the top speakers at an AI conference was Kamala Harris. Can you imagine?

Well, she was the AI czar for Joe Biden, wasn't she? Was she? Yes. Well, she was the AI czar for Joe Biden, wasn't she? Was she? Yes. Well, she was the czar over so many things. Oh, that's right. I mean, she was an expert in so many different things. So I got a video clip because I want you to see what we're missing had the American people

elected Kamala Harris. Just watch this clip and tonight when you go to bed, thank God that this woman is not in the White House. Here's Kamala Harris talking about artificial intelligence. So I was willing to give up whatever might be the tracking of Cromwell Harris's particular fondness for nacho cheese Doritos for the sake of getting a big bag of Doritos as I watched the Oscars. That's the consumer behavior. And that's right, also expect, and you can debate with me if it should be a right, I think it should, to expect that the innovation

would also be weighted in terms of solving their everyday problems, which are beyond my craving for Doritos, but about whatever, and I know the work is happening around scientific discoveries, for example, to cure longstanding diseases, but I'm gonna throw out another one, and you all again, please get back to me and information you have.

I would love it if there would be an investment of resources in solving the affordable housing issue in America. Like help me with that. We dodged a missile on that one. What doc for four years. She was a heartbeat away from being president. What can you say? We certainly wouldn't be ending the Ukraine conflict.

No. Another story that came out while we were in Barcelona was that every document except one over four years signed by Joe Biden was not signed by Joe Biden. It was signed by an auto pen. We had a robot signing executive orders. Is that what you're telling me? Yes. So who was in charge?

Well, based on that, the robots. Or whoever's controlling the robots. But Joe Biden didn't have any idea what his signature was being put on. No. In fact, I saw an interview with Speaker Mike Johnson where they were having discussion about the cutbacks in liquid natural gas going to Europe. And Biden said I didn't sign that. and liquid natural gas going to Europe. And Joe Biden was confused about it. And Biden said, I didn't sign that. And Speaker Johnson said, well, you signed it as a good order,

cutting it back. He said, I don't remember doing that. You don't remember doing that? Because he didn't sign it. Somebody did it for him. Who was the committee? Who ran the White House? The tribe.

London Times, Donald Trump tells Canada to join the United States to avoid tariffs. He did it again today. Yes. NBC News, Trump says he'll double tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum in response to electricity duties? So we've got an update on this story here, Rick. If you recall, Premier Ford of Toronto had issued a 25% surcharge on electricity going to the US. To three states. Right.

These, New York, Minnesota, Michigan. Michigan, yes. So, Donald Trump responded by saying, okay, then we're going to double the tariffs on aluminum and steel coming from Canada. Within the past 15 minutes, Premier Ford has come out and said, I'm lifting the tariff on electricity and I'm on my way to meet with Commerce Secretary Lutnick. This has just been in the past 15, 20 minutes.

Well, he folded quickly. Boy, he folded like a cheap deck chair, didn't he? Well, we just eliminated the next 10 things we had to talk about. What? These guys fold too quickly. That's what you get for breaking news. We've got video of his premier for talking about how he's going to stand up against Donald Trump. He said yesterday, he said, I'm prepared to cut off the electricity.

Yes. And today, he's on his way to meet Lutnick, okay, you meet my Lutnick So, okay, let's skip down to number 27 Well, we'll talk economy Folks I'll tell you right now Every just about every True News program will have some economic news stories.

And officially, these are sponsored. We'll just say that these reports are sponsored by GOLCO. Okay? And I told GOLCO I would do this. This was my idea. I said, you know, we need to cover these stories and we'll just make this the GoldCo financial report. Okay. So you'll understand why you should call GoldCo. So the story, we're gonna look at this one. Dick's Sporting Goods is the latest retailer to forecast a rocky 2025 as recession fears swirl.

Bottom line is the sporting goods store says, it's not gonna be a good year for the retailer. Now, they might've, they might want to think back a few years ago when they went on a pro gun control position. Oh yeah, they're a woke company. Yeah, I mean you're selling sporting goods and you endorse gun control. And you're wondering why sales are down. They are very DEI. That's for sure.

That's right. So anyhow, there's Dick's Sporting Goods. They're hurting. Next one is Kohl's. Kohl's shares plunge 15% as retailer gives rough outlook for the year ahead. Now that was this morning. I don't know where Kohl's is at today.

Also DEI company too. Yes. Very muchI company too. Yes. Very much involved with that. On a Tuesday earnings call, CEO Ashley Buchanan said the company has fallen short in recent years by focusing too much on new categories and de-emphasizing core products such as jewelry, petite clothing, and proprietary brands. Said a lot of issues were probably, read this quote. Rick sent this quote out to our entire staff today. This is something to learn folks a lot of the

issues were probably self inflicted over many years of decisions if you can and said, we have a very loyal customer. And that's true. Coles Company customers are extremely loyal to the brand. When I toured stores, all I heard was how much they love Kohl's. And what I realized is we're kind of making it hard for them to love us. Wow, what a revelation. Yes. For a CEO to receive.

We're making it difficult for our customers to like us. Yes. So what happens? Go back and look at the headline. The shares plunged 15% as the retailer gives a rough outlook for 2025. Once again, a DEI company there. And here's another DEI company. Southwest? Yes. Southwest Airlines plans to end its decades old policy of allowing free checked bags. Can you imagine Herb Keller on that? Oh my goodness. He'd say what did you do to my company? Yeah so things aren't going well Southwest so now they're gonna you know the the thing that you got two bags Yeah, so things aren't going well with Southwest.

So now they're going to, you know, the thing that you got two bags checked in free, that's over. Yes. Okay, they're going to charge you for every bag. Yes. They're really the last holdout on that. No major carriers. Southwest is eliminating its famous two bags fly free strategy as part of a massive push

to ditch its longstanding customer perks and policies. Once again, making it hard to love them. Last year, Southwest announced that it would move from open seating to a single class cabin. Once again, not asking customers what they wanted. Another change announced on Tuesday is basic economy kit tickets that don't allow free changes. Once again, you know, Southwest used to be the airline you got on. They were singing songs and everything. Even if you got just a glass of soda and a chip, they were singing the song.

Flight attendants were singing. The captain would come on the intercom system and sing a song for you. The people liked working at Southwest. Right. Now, you know, if I tell you, Rick, hey, Rick, we're flying so and so, and we're flying Southwest, are you excited about that trip? Not at all. No. No, the culture has changed. And now, so has the revenue. has changed. And now, so is the revenue. And so, London Times, Trump volatility threatens world economy, soft landing says BIS. BIS is a bank of international settlements. That's the mother of all central banks. Did you know that there is a global central bank? There is a mother bank. There is a mother bank, the BIS.

All right. And that's where all the central banks report to. That's right. That's where they bank. Yes, they do their banking at the BIS. And so they're saying Trump's volatility is threatening the world. We're not going to have a soft landing. So when they talk about a soft landing, they're talking about the economy.

Is it going to be, if it's a soft landing, things are coming down easy, a hard landing is going to be a crash, we're going to be severe recession. And they're just sounding the alarm, okay, that Trump's rhetoric could have on financial markets and the economy. The bank said policy uncertainty on tariffs, fiscal policy, immigration regulation work like a negative demand shock. They would have negative effects on spending investment, and we see some signs of that. What do we have here? And the same thing as the Wall Street Journal.

They got the same Wall Street... And use that same term, soft landing. Yes. That's the word of the day. Wall Street fears Trump will wreck the soft landing. In other words, they know there's going to be a drop. Yes. They just don't know how big it's going to be. Yes. And they're going to say, well, the reason why you don't have a soft

landing is that's Donald Trump's fault. So what I'm saying to you is heads up, the economy is not going to be smooth this year, okay. It's a combination of reasons. It's a combination of reasons. Mr. Trump is inheriting the Biden spending spree. Trillions, trillions, and trillions of dollars. They were handing out trillions in the last days. They were just giving out money to anybody.

They were parking money in bank accounts to be divvied up later after they left the White House. Right. All right. So, you know, it's going to have an effect on the economy. The number two, Elon Musk is cutting off a flow of government money to a lot of organizations. Okay. They're going to lay off people. They're going to shut down.

Far left organizations are going to shut down. And that's going to have its own... And that has an effect, okay? I'm glad it's happening, but there's going to be consequences. There's going to be a lot of angry Democrats without jobs or money. They have canceled hundreds of billions of dollars of government contracts, again, they needed to be cancelled, but that money is not going to flow through organizations that should not have been getting the money, but still they had employees, they were spending the money. All that's happening right now. So you've got a number of things happening at one time.

And you've got the chickens are coming home, the roos from the COVID stimulus money. I was listening to an interview today driving in, and I thought there's still COVID stimulus money moving around. It's like, how could that be? They're asking some congressmen, well, when, when, when does this all end? Like, COVID? Yes. People are still getting COVID money? Yes. Bottom line, folks, is that the economy is going to have a contraction this year.

Plus, on top of this, we're in this inflation cycle that I keep talking about that started in 1975, ended in 1990. I lived through it. I know what I'm talking about on this. We're in another one. And it's going to last 10 to 15 years. So whatever age you are right now, you just tack 12, 15 years onto your age. That's when it's going to end.

So do you have a plan to get through it? Well, I've got a plan for you. Okay? I told you yesterday, number one, stop spending above your income, cut off all debt, cut it off. Yes, stupid credit cards. Do not use those credit cards. The only time you use a credit card is when you absolutely have the funds to pay it off in 30 days.

Yes. All right. If you don't have, I mean, when I travel, I use a credit card. I don't carry a bunch of cash. I use a credit card, but I'm going to pay it off 30 days. Yes. All right. If you don't have, I mean, when I travel, I use a credit card. I don't carry a bunch of cash. I use a credit card, but I'm going to pay it off 30 days. Number one, stop running up your bills on debt. Number two, pay down your debt. Number three, find a side hustle. Find something to bring in additional money. Number four, become a giver. This is the big one. Begin giving to God,

offerings to God. In this cycle that we're in, you're either going to become a debtor or you're going to become a giver. Those are your two options. You're either going to become a debtor over the next 10 to 15 years, or you're going to become a giver. Of course, the other one is precious metals. Invest in precious metals. And that's why Gold Co. So give them a call at 844-960-GOLD. Or go to truenewsforgold.com.

Tell them you heard it on True News and you would like information about moving your retirement fund over to a precious metals account. Where is the stock market today? It was gyrating early this morning and I just stopped looking at it. Dow is down at $450. $450? It was down yesterday, $450 down. So $450.

This is going to become the norm this year. My personal feeling, stock's not where you want to be invested right now. Later. Later. Later. It doesn't mean completely get out, but at least diversify. Let the prices come down. Let the prices come down. Yes. All right? You can buy stocks later. Let the prices come down. But you don't want to be investing in the stock market right now. You don't want to have your retirement fund completely in the stock market right now.

You need to diversify. That's why you should give GoldCo a call at 844-960-GOLD and build up your assets with precious metals that will stand the test. Okay, they don't erode. A gold coin, 10 years from now, is still a gold coin. A dollar, 10 years from now, is not a dollar. Only on paper. Get that down in your head and think long term. Only on paper. Right. Okay.

Get that down in your head and think long term. Debt free, become a giver, invest in precious metals. Think long term. Don't think short term. Think long term. So that 10, 15 years from now, your financial situation is much better than it is today. All right.

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our dear Father. Father, we thank you for this day. Father, we praise you and worship you and glorify you. Father, we are gathered here to be taught your word. And so we invite the Holy Spirit to be present with us, to instruct us. Father, we lift up our sister Vicki who lost her father. So one of our classmates, one of our brethren is hurting today. So we ask you, Father, to bathe Vicki with grace and help her to have people from all over the world from South Korea, Malaysia, Japan today, Russia, plus all over the United States. Thank you so much for joining us today. We are continuing our study in Roman chapter 7 today, picking back up at verse 7 of that chapter, reading through verse 12. I'll give you a second to turn there. Just want to remind you that, you know, all these lessons are available here on Faith and Values, so if you miss an opportunity, I know we had some people that weren't able to join us yesterday

because the time change over the weekend. Remember, you can always listen and watch the archives here on faithsandvalues.com. So, we want to remind you about that. We continue our study in Romans chapter 7 today, and we do this verse by verse, folks, because Romans requires it. Romans requires an intense focus and study, but it also produces intense fruit as well. And so, let's pick up here in verse 7. but it also produces intense fruit as well. And so let's pick up here in verse seven.

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law. For I had not known lust, except the law had said, thou shall not covet. But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence.

For without the law, sin was dead. For I was alive without the law once, but when the commandment came, sin survived and I died. And the commandment which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death. For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me and by it slew me. Wherefore the law is holy and the commandment holy

and just and good." God bless the reading of his word today. Amen. I told Doc early this morning, and I'm being very transparent, teaching Romans is difficult for me. I'm struggling through it. This is a hard, this is a hard one for me. I'd rather be talking about miracles, raising the dead healing the sick.

That's where I'm at. Okay. Okay, I told Doc, Romans is like being a professor at a law school and teaching a class on warranties. You know, you have to know it, it's mandatory. You have to know every line of a warranty if you're gonna be an attorney, okay? And this is what we're dealing with here. Paul was a lawyer. He's teaching a very intricate understanding of the law.

And so he said, what shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid, nay, I had not known sin, but by the law, for I had not known lust, except the law had said, thou shalt not covet. So once again, Paul's anticipating objections and he's refuting the objections before they're stated. Right. So, he asked the question for his critics. I know what you're thinking. Is the law sin?

Yeah, he's making it clear. I'm not saying that. Right. What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Oh, God forbid. Never, never shall I be. Yeah, because up to this point, you could be critical of Paul.

They said, well, you're saying the law is a bad thing. You're saying the law is evil. You're saying the law itself produces sin. But Paul is making it very clear that is not what he's saying at all. He said, however, I would not have known sin except through the law. Right. For I would not have known coveting unless the law had said, you shall not covet. So the law is not creating sin, it's exposing sin. You got it. That's the best way to describe it. So the law is not the source of sin, but it is the divine instrument that reveals it.

Without the law, humanity would remain blind to their sinful state. So the law is like a reflective mirror. It reflects mankind's true condition and it makes sin's reality very clear. It doesn't cause people to sin, it shows them their sin. Paul gives an example, coveting. He cites coveting to show how the law uncovers inner desires beyond outward acts. In other words, it reveals heart issues. And Paul's using coveting as an example of hidden sin in his life that was brought to light.

He said, I wouldn't know I was a coveter unless the law showed it to me. Right. So did Paul have a problem with coveting before you saved? It implies. So he's confessing that he would not have recognized the sin of coveting without the law. Right. So this is a it's a convicting moment. It shows the laws power over the human conscience.

So we have a Holy Spirit now. At that time they had the law, the law convicted people. Now we have the Holy Spirit in us. And if you're sensitive to the Holy Spirit, you know immediately, that's not right. Yes. You just said something, did something, thought something that was unpleasing to God. If you love the Lord, you know the Holy Spirit spoke to you and you know you need to repent immediately. So despite the laws link to the exposure of sin, the law is holy and just and good because

it reflects God's character. The law has a divine origin. It was part of God's redemptive plan. The law is still in effect for everybody outside of the new covenant. It's still there. Jesus said the law would not not not one jot or tittle will go away until as long as the earth is here. So the law is still here. But we're not under the law. Sin, not the law, is the culprit.

Sin provokes rebellion. It stirs up. It stirs up thoughts and desires inside humans that are contrary to God's nature, his character. So sin provokes rebellion. Sin has a deceptive, it manipulates people deceptively. This is what I'm trying to say. It manipulates people in a deceptive way. Yes. But the law is that mirror.

And if you look into it, you know you've broken the law. Right. But verse 8 tells us that sin takes advantage of this. Sin takes advantage of the law. Even though the law itself is holy and just and good, sin takes advantage of it because the sin reveals the lust or the covetousness as Paul's talking about here in the 10th commandment. So sin, as you said Rick, is deceptive, is manipulative, and will even manipulate the law and will even manipulate the law in order to expose the guilt. Jay, it's sin saying you're guilty and you can't reach God. Yes. The law diagnoses the problem, but it can't cure it.

Again, it's a mirror. You look into the mirror, you see the wrinkles in your face, you see the bags under your eye, the mirror can't do anything about it. It's just showing you, hey, you got more wrinkles today than you had last week. The mirror has no ability to fix it. The mirror has no ability to fix it. The law does the same thing with sin. It's the, hey, look, look at you. There's sin. But the law mirror cannot do anything about what it's reflecting.

Only Christ. Only the blood of Christ, only the grace of God can change the reflection. Isn't that, think about it. God looks at you, he doesn't see what the law sees. Because when you are in Christ, the reflection is Jesus Christ. That's enough right there to make you shout. And that's enough right there to make you shout. So by exposing sins depth and humanity's failure, the law drives people to seek salvation. And the only place that they're going to find that salvation is

faith in Christ. The law reveals, the law convicts. Grace transforms, grace redeems. Praise God. I want to say that again. The law reveals and the law convicts. Grace transforms, grace redeems. If you can put that one in your pocket. Let's go on to verse, you mentioned verse 8, let's move on to verse 8. But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concomitance. Is that how you say that, Doc? Concomitance. Oh, too many syllables. It just means coveting. And so it's just $20 word for coveting. Right. Well, let's go with the coveting. All right, I can say coveting.

So it's saying, by sin finding occasion through the commandment produced to me all kinds of coveting for apart from the law sin is dead. So, Dr, a moment ago you said that that sin uses the law? Yes, it takes advantage of it. Sin itself can't act on man without using the law to reveal sin. And then sin itself takes advantage of man. So it condemns us. The sin condemns us. The sin condemns us, not the law. The

law just reveals the sin. Okay. So sin seizes the commandment like a base of operations. Right. base of operations, right? For the purpose of provoking rebellion. So while the law is holy, sin manipulates it to incite disobedience. Right. And that's the deceptive nature of sin. You shall not covet exposes internal desires.

I got to keep going back here, Doc. Is Paul revealing to us that before Christ, he had a problem with coveting? I think so. I think what he's doing here is he's going back in time to before he knew Christ, and even before he knew the law, really, as we get into the next verse here, even before he knew the law, because before he knew the law, he knew no sin, no sin, right? He didn't know it was against the rules. And so that's why this verse is very, very important to help us understand. It bridges us to this understanding that it's not the law that is the sin. The law is holy. It's just as good. I like what you say, Rick, that it was from God. It is of God. God is encapsulated in the law, so it can't be sin by any stretch of the imagination, but it does provide that mirror that holds up

and says, this is you. Sin says that according to the law, but like you said, when God the Father looks at us, if we're redeemed by Christ, he sees Christ. He doesn't see the mirror. He doesn't have to look in the mirror. He looks at you. So Paul, Doc, if Paul was a covetor before Christ, if that was his weakness, then he was lusting for everything. So after he comes to Christ and God makes him an apostle, God took away everything and he ended up he lived. I mean that broke the sin of coveting. He gave up everything and gave up the desire for anything. thing, which is eternal life. Paul said, for without the law sin was dead. What does that mean? Well, what it means is if there's no rules, then there's no rule to break.

If there's no speed limit sign, how fast can you drive? Okay, so without the law, apart from the law, is dead meaning I guess it's it's unnoticed right has no the law awakened it and you know sin sin sin was unrecognized by humanity before the law, and yet they were sinners, but they didn't recognize it because there was no standard. If the highway has no speed limit on it, signs, but there is a speed limit, but there are no signs. How would you know that you're breaking the law? But when the law is revealed,

now you're aware that you are a law breaker. And what does a speed limit sign do to most people? It encourages them to go faster. Is that what we're, is that the meaning of this doc? It provokes, it stimulates people, hey, here's the rule. And sin then says, well then let's get busy breaking it. Or as close to breaking it as we can. Right. Which is still breaking it,

but that's what a lot of people don't realize when they say that, well, I didn't lie. Yes, but you meant to deceive, right? I didn't mean to go so fast, but you did mean to take advantage of the speed limit, right? So those are just examples there. But what SIN does, it says, look, this is what you're allowed to do.

Yes. You can get away with this much without breaking the law. And if you break the law, that's okay too. That's what sin says. So once the commandment is given, sin comes alive and it stirs forbidden desires. Right. So the law brings sin to the forefront and it heightens the consciousness, the awareness of guilt. Why?

Because it doesn't create the sin. It's a mirror. It exposes the sin. And when sin is exposed, It exposes the sin. And when sin is exposed, it comes alive inside the person and the person actually desires to do more. Because we are sinful. We have a fallen nature. We have a fallen nature It we our nature is set on default our default is sin

And you have to get a reset at the cross That's what being born again is doing god is resetting your your default of your nature. Because up until the time you're born again, your nature's default is to sin naturally, easily without any awareness of your sin. Human nature just naturally, instinctively resists commandments. That's just the way people are. You put a sign up, says do not whatever, and people do it. Don't touch it. It's got fingerprints all do it. Don't touch it, it's got fingerprints all over it.

That's just people. But the signs do not touch, do not walk on the grass. It provokes people to do the very thing the sign says not to do. Because this is a universal trait in people, that disobedience is amplified when prohibitions are set in place. Yes. I think I'm teaching this right, Doc.

No, you're on the money, Rick. I'm really struggling with it. This isn't an easy class for me Um Sin deceives people by portraying the law as oppressive And then it justifies rebellion as freedom. Yes. Now you got it. That's what we have in society today. Here in America, the modern concept of freedom is lasciviousness. Yes. We're not bound by 6,000 year old rules.

Those are for another age, another time. We're at liberty now. We're more open-minded. We're more mature. We're more evolved. Yes. You're not. You'll still kill your mama if you get hungry enough. I mean, we're all, every one of us, we have not changed. The man's nature has not changed since the garden. That's right. It has not changed. Man's nature is exactly the same now as it was in the garden, at the flood, at the giving of the law, man's nature has not changed. Rockets into space don't change that nature. You know, massive telecommunication networks don't

change that nature. We are bound by sin. And sin uses the law to keep us in bondage. I'll give you an example of how people mistakenly view the law as oppressiveressive and thereby they justify rebellion as freedom. Some years ago, my son Jeremy was very close to a fairly well-known conservative congressman. He's no longer in Congress. He's a good man, Christian, on the surface, you know, his voting record, you know, all the conservative organizations basically gave him 90, 95% hundred percent scores, you know?

I mean, you'd just look at this guy and say, Oh, he is the epitome of a conservative Christian man in Congress, right? Well, Jeremy asked him one day, Congressman, would you introduce a law to ban pornography in America? And the Congress, mind you, this man's a conservative Christian, elected by voters on this idea that man's a conservative Christian, elected by voters on this idea that he is a conservative Christian. And this was a private conversation

between Jeremy and his congressman. And the congressman immediately swelled up and said, oh no, Jeremy, no, no, no, I would never introduce a law to ban pornography. I think it's wrong. I think pornography is wrong. But I'm a libertarian and I believe people have a constitutional freedom to look at pornography and I could never go against my principles. What? You see the reasoning here? Do you see the reasoning here? Rebellion is freedom?

Yes. To them it is. That congressman had a twisted concept of freedom. Yes. That freedom means the right to disobey God. Right. You have a constitutional right to sin. Right. His logic breaks down anyway. You don't have total freedom of speech anyway.

Right. I mean, you can't. The great example from when we were kids, Rick, is you can't yell fire in a crowded theater, right? Now the theaters aren't crowded. Yeah. Now you could. No one would care. But back then, theaters were packed.

If someone said, fire, I mean, you'd cause more damage than an actual fire itself. So can that speech be controlled? Yes. Can you make terroristic threats against the president of the United States? Well, I've got freedom of speech. Not when it comes to making terroristic threats

against the president. You don't. You don't have freedom of speech. And so this logic that you can't, you know, get rid of certain forms of speech, it just totally bonkers in the first place. But it does, it serves a great example for us here in that, you know, there's some people who like it. The reason why we have so much sin, Rick, is because we like it and we're good at it. There you go. And it's hard for us to let go. Admit it. Just admit it. Just say it. Say you like your sin.

I'd have more respect for you if you just would say you like it. Didn't we have that one guy at the Mobile World Congress? He said, hey, I like porn, I like gambling. He's teaching this to young men. Yes, he presented himself as a mentor to young men. And he said, I start out every session on my first time with them. And I tell, Hey, I want you to write now, right now to know I like my porn. What was the other one he liked? Gambling. Gambling. I like my gambling.

And that was to bond him with the young men. So they go, oh, you're cool too. Oh, you both go to burn in hell. Right. But that's the logic today. That evil is good. Yeah, I told you, Doc, at Doc at that conference, that man's a very immoral moral man. Right. He thinks he's moral, but he's actually immoral. Right.

He says a lot of moral things, but it's wrapped up in immorality. The purpose of the law is to drive people to Christ. Yes. And that's where you find grace. Hallelujah. Aren't you glad you find grace? Aren't you glad that grace is there? Law and grace. Martin Luther said every sermon's got to have law and grace. And I understand it now. You got to constantly tell people without Christ, you're under the law. In Christ, you're under grace. Which one do you want? Those who want to be under the law raise your hands, okay those who want to be under grace raise your hands I mean just it's just that simple You'd be an idiot to say I want under the law

Every time a preacher has a Every time a preacher has a salvation call, an altar call, whatever you want to call it. That's the question he's asking. Do you want to be under the law or do you want to be under grace? This is the way the gospel ought to be presented. We ought to be telling an audience of sinners, hey, I'm going to lay this out for you. And then at the end, we're going to have a decision. And I'll respect your decision. Make it very clear to the people. If they don't raise their hand for grace, they're automatically raising their hand for law. Once again, the law amplifies.

It makes bigger, sends visibility. But grace transforms a person, grace liberates a person and sets them free. Verse nine, for I was alive without the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died. This is like he talks in riddles, doc. I'll get into this going, wait a minute. I was alive without the law once. When the commandment came, sin was revived and I died. Well, in this particular verse, he's going back to even before the law in his case. There was a time in his life when there was no law to him, None. It might have been when he was a little child

or when he was a young teenager, whatever it was, there was a time where the law for him did not exist, did not apply to him. So as a young Jewish man, there was a time he wasn't even aware of the law. Right. Okay. So I was alive. Yes. And not aware of the law, therefore not aware of sin. But once I became aware of the law, that revealed the sin within me.

In this case, he's speaking about covetousness. So the commandment came before the law. He what? He did not covet before the law. And he's just using this as an example. Of course there was covetousness before the law. Right? It was wrong before the law as it was after the law. All right? It was, it's wrong before the law as it was after the law, right? He's just using this as an example. He's saying, right, the law came, now it condemns my covetousness.

Therefore, I'm a sinner. So sin was lying dormant in Paul and unnoticed. torment in Paul and unnoticed. But once the law was made aware to him, the law stirred sin into conscious rebellion. And once that happened, he died. He's dead. He died. He's dead spiritually, just like Adam and Eve in the garden. They died spiritually that day. You're born alive, but you die spiritually. I died.

So, Doc, are people born with a dead spirit, or does their spirit die when they find out there's a law? Well, according to Paul here, their spirits die, at least in this particular example that Paul is using. You can't use this standalone. You've got to add the rest of Scripture with it, too. But this, we don't become aware of our deadness until sin is revealed in us. So when he said, I died, he's talking about his spiritual despair, his guilt, his recognition of unworthiness. And his acknowledgement that he was due for judgment at that point.

Mm hmm. People know when they do wrong. When they do wrong, they have a guilty conscience, whatever, but what is that? What exactly is that? What happens when that takes place? When we, if I steal a cookie from the cookie jar, I know I'm not supposed to be getting into the cookie jar, that's the rule. Don't get in the cookie jar, but I take one anyway and I enjoy the cookie, but if I get caught with the cookie, I'm guilty. Why? because I become aware that I broke the rule and what that I'm due for punishment because I broke the rule otherwise the law prepares the heart for grace yes hallelujah and Paul explains that to him later in the same passage that the law served. It wasn't the law's intent to do this.

The law's intent was to bring us to life. That was the whole purpose of the law, to bring us to life. But sin takes advantage of the law and brings us to death. We die. Verse 10. verse 10, And a commandment which was ordained to life I found to be unto death. What's your thoughts, Doc? Well, once again, the purpose of the law was to bring us to life. Who is life? Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father but by me.

The purpose of the law was to bring us to Christ. Even when it was first given by Moses, Moses was pointing to the Savior. He was pointing to the cross 1600 years later. So, he may not have seen the cross. He may not have seen the Savior on the cross. But the law's purpose was to put us toward the cross, to make us realize our utter despair and helplessness when it came to sin. We had nothing. We bring nothing. The only thing that we can do is bring ourselves to the Word of Life itself and throw ourselves

on the mercy of God because the law through sin reveals the utter despair and hopelessness of our lives without God. That's why the law was meant to bring us to life. And who is the author of life? Christ himself, the creator and the resurrected Christ who raises us. We were dead in our sin, but through Christ, we've been resurrected to new life. Praise God for the law, praise God for his grace,

praise God for pointing us to life. So this first, there's a paradox. A commandment ordained for life becomes a harbinger of death through sins, corruption, humanity's weakness. Paul's realization mirrors our own experience. The law, which is holy and good, exposes the depth of sin, and it convicts our heart, and it reveals our inadequacy to obey the law. Right. It's not that I've made mistakes.

It's not that I may have tripped up once in a while. No. I was evil. I was bad. I was condemned. I was dead. It's when we come to that point and conclusion, if we just think of ourselves as just, well,

we're just a little tainted. No, you're sinful. You're sinful through and through. You deserve nothing. You deserve not a thing. You don't deserve anything. You don't even deserve the scraps off the table. That's how far gone we were. We were dead. We were dead. Dead in our sins. It had us so bound, it pulled us six feet under into the grave. So I'll go back to Paul's sin of coveting. At one point before Christ, he wanted everything.

After Christ, he realized he deserved nothing. Amen. Now he could deserved nothing. Amen. Now he could teach us. Amen. He had an attitude adjustment. Oh, he used to lust for everything. It was give me, give me, give me. I want it.

I want it. I want it. And now you're a law and he followed the law. Yes. But now he realized. I was a Jew above Jews. A Pharisee of the Pharisees. Listen, what are you talking about? Jews? I'm A number one. I'm your top guy. He was the ultimate Jew. He was the ultimate Jew. And then he says in verse 11, for sin taking occasion by the commandment deceived me and by it slew me. Sin finding an occasion through the commandment tricked me, deceived me, and through it, it

killed me. An interesting concept. Sin deceives. It presents to people rebellion as freedom. But it's hiding its deadly intent. It soon is a cunning, sneaky deceiver. It's not just a deceiver, it's a sneaky deceiver. Yes. There's two types of deceivers.

The most dangerous one is the professional deceiver that hides his or her intention. So sin has this allure it's promising everything and it delivers nothing but ruination. Yes. And this is a universal trap for mankind So Paul's saying look What what I experience is the same for every human being? sin Sins lie Leads to spiritual ruination. There's no liberation, there's no gain, there's nothing but loss.

The true cost of sin is death. That's what the pay window, the wages of sin, is death. Imagine going up to the pay window and you open up your check comes in an envelope you open up the envelope and it says pay to the order of Raymond Burkhart the value of death. I would be shocked if the person behind the pay window was the Grim Reaper. Just slide that envelope under the teller window. Yes, imagine you're looking at the Grim Reaper and here's your pay. Enjoy. You were deceived. Gotcha! I deceived you. I was cunningly deceptive.

A sneaky deceiver, I told you. Sin was fun. Sin would lead to great things, but hey, here's your pay. That's basically what Paul's saying. So our fallen nature fuels our susceptibility to sin's deceit. And sin takes advantage of our inherent desires to sin. Yes. Kind of like the carnival game card master, you know?

You go to a carnival and you're young and gullible, and he's standing there saying, I'm going to take everything you got. And you do it. You know why? Because you're actually thinking you're going to win this game. And nobody wins it. But he makes you believe you're going to win. That's the cunning deception.

The guy at the carnival game knows how to make you believe you're going to win this game. Knowing the game is rigged. And you're going to lose every time. That only happened to me one time, Doc. Just once? Just one time at a carnival. Yep, I was about 18 years old, a buddy and I, we just got paid, we went to a carnival.

And we got, we got cleaned out. You had me at 18 and just got paid. Yep. On Friday night, just both of us had just gotten paid. And we went to a carnival. And I still remember the grin on that guy's face when he took all of our money Like suckers, thank you so much boys I Learned my lesson on that one

Okay But he made me believe I was gonna win that game And sin does the same thing too, doesn't it? Yes. Sin makes you believe you can win that game. Just do it one more time. You're going to win. So sin seizes the occasion.

It seizes the opportunity and it turns the law into a foothold for rebellion. Yes. It's not the law's fault. It's not the law's. The law doesn't have any flaws. Our nature is corrupt and Satan takes advantage of our corrupt nature and stirs up the desire for sin and then Entrap us and convicts us and says here's your pay He said it slew me Spiritual death guilt condemn, condemnation, separation from God.

That's the ultimate death. It slew me, it killed me. It separated me from my father. Yes. other. Yes. It magnified the power of sin. It intensified guilt. It exposed a person's inability to break free of sin. And now the person has a crushing awareness of their helplessness. And what Satan says is, Hey, you're a weak sinner. Just keep on doing it. What's the use?

Well, what's the use? You can't get out of it. Just go on. Live your life this way. I've actually heard people say that. I have heard people say words similar to that. Like, I can't help it. And they just justify it because I can't get out of it. I've been doing it for so long. But isn't that a self-confession? That's a self-confession. That's saying I'm trapped by sin.

Therefore, I'm going to keep doing it. I'm going to remain trapped. I'm aware that I'm trapped. I'm in bondage. But you know, you get used to the change after a while. In fact, you can join him. I work out with my chains. Last Christmas, I put a homeless guy in a hotel for a week. It was cold. I saw him sleeping under a tree. You know, Doc, I mean, he was drunk. OK, he was, he was drunk. Okay. He was an alcoholic and

um, but a nice guy. And I had a conversation with him. I said, how'd you get in this mess? Well, he told me, you know, he was in construction and he fell and hurt his leg and that, you know, cost him his job. I said, well, did you fall because you were drunk on the job? I kept trying to take him back to his drinking. And he didn't want to go there, Doc, you know, and I was lovingly saying to him, you know, I put him up for a week, got him out of the cold, you know, but I'm lovingly saying to him, brother, if you don't confront this alcoholism, you're going to live the rest of your life on the street and you're going to die under a tree. It's the alcoholism that's your enemy. You've got to confront this giant. But he didn't want to.

And I'm like, there's no hope for this guy until he wants to do it. Yeah. He was like, I like drinking. Okay, well, you're gonna have to like sleeping under trees. That's what sin does to people. Yeah, look at these people. What a waste of human life. It's so sad to see humans wasted this way because of sin.

Somewhere Satan got that man deceived and got him addicted to alcohol and then told him, you can't get out of it. You might as well just drink. And there are guys in business suits driving Porsches and living in million-dollar mansions that are just as trapped as that guy too. That's right. They're snorting coke, they've got their sin, they've got their addictions, and they can't break free. Only the blood of Christ can break that addiction. Isn't it strange, Rick, how sin uses that against us?

You know, on the True News program, we've talked about Jeffrey Epstein and Puff Daddy and all these different organizations that entrap people in sin, whatever the sin is, and then use that sin to manipulate them. That's what's happened here between sin and the law in our own lives. And that sin will lead us into the sin and then condemn us in the sin, and trap us in the sin. Yes. Think of all the people. I mean, it's got to be probably in the thousands. How many years did he have his parties? 20 years? How many people? Both well-known entertainers, influential people in the media,

in the music industry, how many of them are living every day with this fear, Doc? They're going to be caught. Yes. Because P Diddy is caught. And at some point they're going to be called into a trial and they're

living with this fear every day. And the devil's back then, the devil was telling them he was deceiving them, go ahead, this is good for your career. And now the devil's saying, gotcha, I'm gonna destroy your career, gonna destroy your marriage, gonna destroy your finances,

gonna destroy your name, I gotcha. Verse 12, wherefore the law is holy in the commandment holy and just and good. That one's easy to understand. The law is holy because it reflects God's sacred nature. And Paul puts a wherefore there at the beginning of it. So anytime you see wherefore or therefore in the scripture, you've got to ask yourself what's it there for. What this is is a conclusion to this argument. You'll see this happening, it's happened several times in Romans up to this point, but Paul is closing this argument now. He's saying, okay, I've explained this, I've explained what the purpose of sin is, what

the law really does, and I want to emphasize, I'm just using this as a picture here, wherefore the law is holy and the commandment holy and just and good. So he's finishing up his argument here. The argument, the question was, if you will, the thesis is the law sin. God forbid, wherefore the law is holy and the commandment holy, just and good. Everything else in between is the meat of the sandwich.

So each commandment in the law is just. That means it's fair, it's equitable, applies equally to everybody, and it's good. It's beneficial. It's life-giving. It promotes peace. But it's also holy, which means it derives from the divine. It's from God. It's not man-made. It's not something we dreamed up. It's not something just, you know, we casually wrote some laws down. No, this was generated from God Himself. This is divine rules, divine law, not opinion, divine law.

And that law reflects God's holiness, His justice, His goodness, His righteousness, and His mercy. And His mercy. Hallelujah. Oh, praise God. Praise God. Praise God. Alright, Doc. Anything else you want to add? No, I think this was a good lesson today. Everything in Romans chapter 7 is giving us that bridge between justification and sanctification,

understanding what it is. We've been justified now through Christ. So how do we move forward? How shall we then live? As Francis Schaeffer said back in the 80s, he said, how shall we then live? Well, we should live holy, just and good. Why? Because now the law abides within us. Christ, the lawgiver himself,

abides within us. No longer is the law written on tablets of stone, but written on the flesh of our hearts now, just as the prophets prophesied back in the Old Testament, in the Old Covenant. the old covenant. It was not meant to stay on a rock, but to stay on these broken hearts, these rock hard hearts of ours that have been redeemed by the blood of Christ. We are no longer bound to sin. We are at liberty in Christ through what he did for us on the cross. Praise God for it. Mercy found me. Mercy found me. I'm so glad Mercy found me. I'm reading, I'm reading chat. I don't get to read it until the hospital. Jan says we're talking about our son David.

There's a lot here. Yes. Let's pray. Father. Thank you, Lord. Father, we pray for Jose who is in the hospital. Lord bring divine healing to him. Tend to him.

You are our physician and I speak healing into his body, Father, in the name of Jesus. Father, pray for David. Father, bring divine light to him. Sever his ties to sin. Clarify things for him, Father. May the Holy Spirit in the blood of Christ wash away all confusion in his mind, cloudiness. Let his spiritual eyesight be 20-20. Suddenly, Father, he understands, he perceives. Father, I pray for every brother and sister here today who has needs. I pray that your Holy Spirit minister to them today, may mercy and goodness pursue them today,

answer their prayers, meet their needs, heal their bodies, men, broken relationships, provide for them, Father, in the name of Jesus. Amen. Amen. Praise God. All right. Well, we appreciate you tuning in today for Morning Manna and I hope you gain some great direction for your life today. As we proceed in chapter 7, we're gonna, Paul's gonna bring up the discussion now, now that we're dead to sin, why is it that we still struggle with sin? Why is sin still a bother in our lives? And he's going to be talking about that struggle between our two natures, if you will, as we finish up chapter 7. So you don't want to miss tomorrow as we dig into that part of Romans chapter 7. So once again, we encourage you,

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