TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - Fauci’s Preemptive Pardon Backdated to 2014

Episode Date: January 21, 2025

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Trump watches in disbelief as woke bishop scorns him with transgender children fearing for their lives. And the bishop, Doc, is Mary Ann Budd. Yes. And she is a lesbian, a bishop in the backslidden apostate Episcopal Church, which used to be, at the time of the founding of America, Doc, the Episcopal Church was the Church of America. It's where many of the founding fathers belong. Right. It was the conservative church. It was really the major church, wasn't it? It was.

It was. I mean, George Washington, you go down the list of great patriots at that time, they were members of the Episcopal Church. We're talking this is before Baptists, this is before Methodists, this is before everything. So, well, President Donald Trump was left in disbelief today as he was forced to listen to a woke bishop deliver a stunningly negative sermon calling for him to show mercy to illegal immigrants and transgender kids. On the first full day of Mr. Trump's presidency, Mary Ann Budd, the left-wing Episcopal Bishop of Washington, unleashed a wild lecture claiming trans kids were fearing for their lives due to him being in the Oval Office. President Trump sat stony-faced in the front row next to First Lady Melania Trump as the prelate told him illegal immigrants were not criminals and he shouldn't deport those with children. We have that clip. I ask you to have mercy upon the people

in our country. We're scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender children in Democratic, Republican, and independent families. Some who fear for their lives. And the people, the people who pick our crops and clean our office buildings, who labor in poultry farms and meat packing plants, who wash the dishes after we eat in restaurants and work the night shifts in hospitals, they may not be citizens or have the proper documentation. But the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals. They pay taxes and are good neighbors. They are faithful members of our churches and mosques,

synagogues, wadara, and temples. I ask you to have mercy, Mr. President, on those in our communities whose children fear that their parents will be taken away, and that you help those who are fleeing war zones and persecution in their own lands to find compassion and welcome here. Our God teaches us that we are to be merciful to the stranger, for we will all want strangers in this land. My question, who in the Trump White House scheduled the president to be in that church. What did they think she was going to say? No one did any background check

because there are videos all over social media. She's very anti-Trump. Yeah, it has been for years. A lesbian infiltrator in the Church of God. She's not a bishop. No. I don't care what the Episcopal Church calls her. She's not a bishop. She's not a bishop and there's no such thing as gay, lesbian, or transgender children. There's only parents projecting that on their children. Yes. A child is born from a male and a female. Right.

Now, homosexuals may be allowed to legally adopt heterosexual children, but they didn't produce any children. Anyhow, she's an imposter bishop. An impaster. Impaster. And she's in an apostate church. Episcopal church has gone apostate. And somebody in the Trump organization scheduled, they dropped it. They absolutely dropped it. And they put the president

in a very uncomfortable position. And, you know, she's saying that little transgender children. They're hiding. They're hiding. They're scared. Well, they should have hid from people like you that cut their genitals off right so no such thing as transgendered children there's no little children born into the world and and you know at age four or five they go i i'm supposed to be another sex now these are these are adults, perverted, twisted adults who are mutilating the bodies of children. You got it, Rick.

And we shouldn't be tolerating these people at all. Shouldn't I be tolerating them? Somebody at the Trump White House made a major blunder and put the president— But they're probably not working there anymore. I bet. If we ever find out who it was, I bet they're out right now. I hope it wasn't my wife's namesake, Susie Wiles. I'm sure it wasn't her.

But somebody messed up. Somebody on the team messed up really big time. Now compare that with yesterday, Rick. Man, that pastor yesterday, Rick. Oh, man, that pastor yesterday? Yes. Pastor Lorenzo Sewell. He's the pastor of the 180 Church in Detroit, Michigan. Yes. Wow. He was on fire.

He traveled with the Trump campaign throughout 2024. I mean, not full time, but he appeared at a number of rallies. A dynamic speaker. And he was flowing in and out of...yesterday was Martin Luther King Day also. So his prayer incorporated parts of Martin Luther King's famous speech. If you missed it, you missed an awesome prayer at the inauguration yesterday. We're going to play.

This is Pastor Sewell. Heavenly Father, we're so grateful that you gave our 45th and now our 47th president a millimeter miracle. We are grateful that you are the one that have called him for such a time as this that America would begin to dream again. We pray that we would fulfill the true meaning of our creed, that we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. We pray that you use our president, that we will live in a nation where we will not be judged by the color of our skin, but by the content of our character. Heavenly Father in the name of Jesus we are so grateful today that you will use our 47th president so we would sing with new meaning my country tis of thee sweet land of liberty of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrims' pride, from every mountainside,

let freedom ring. And because America is called to be a great nation, we believe that you will make this come true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening alleghenies of Pennsylvania. Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado. Let freedom ring from the curvaceous hilltops of California. But God, we're asking you not only that, let freedom ring from Stone Mountain, Georgia. Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee. Let freedom ring from every hill and every mole hill in Mississippi, from every state, every city, every village, and every hamlet. And when we let freedom ring, we will be able to speed up that day.

All of your children, black men and white men, Protestant and Catholic, Jew and Gentile, will be able to sing in the meaning of that old Negro spiritual. Free at last. Free at last. Thank you, God Almighty. We are free at last. If you believe what the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. Come on, put your hands together and give your great God great glory.

The most awesome moment of yesterday's ceremony. I think so. Other than the oath itself. You had the representatives of the federal government glorifying God. That man brought that audience into a state of worshiping the Lord. That was an awesome moment. He didn't have to say anything about transgender kids hiding in the corner. No. Scared of Donald Trump. You're right, Doc.

Somebody got fired today at the Trump White House. Well, hey, Mr. Trump's been busy. I'm sure you watched him last night. I just marveled watching what was happening. I thought, this guy's a showman. He's doing a TV show. He's turned governing into a primetime TV show. Yeah, you're right.

And so I don't know if you got to watch any of the parade or anything yesterday. No, I didn't get to see that. Me and I watched some of the parade. Of course, they moved the parade indoors, and that was quite the feat. I have to hand it to— How do you do the parade indoors? They carved out a lane in the center of the arena where the different marching bands and different... They did? I missed that part. And they did performances. They had bands from

all the marching bands. So they had the parade, but it was in the arena. They had the parade and Donald Trump was in the reviewing stand there with Melania and all the family. It was really quite impressive. And then he transitioned from that to having a resolute desk. That's where I picked it up. Where he started signing executive orders. Yes, that's the part where I picked it up.

Which I think was the coolest thing ever. I don't agree with Donald Trump on everything, that's for sure. But I have to admit, that was a pure P.T. Barnum move there. That was classic Trump, but elevated. To sign the executive order. Look, folks, I'm signing this executive order in front of 20,000 people. You've got to hand it to me. You're making content.

Love him or hate him, he is the showman. He was making content. Yeah, you're right. All right, he's making media content. He's a brilliant man. CBS News, government website offering reproductive health information goes offline suddenly. That happened at 12.05 yesterday. There's what you get now, Doc.

That's right. Can't reach this page. Nothing else to say about it. CBS News, Trump moves to withdraw U.S. from the World Health Organization. Another excellent move. Next one. Let's see. This is number eight, Doc.

Oh, no, we have a video. We have a video. We got a video of his comments last night at the White House when he withdrew, signed the executive order withdrawing the United States from the World Health Organization for the second time. Yes. He did it in his first term. He did and just

redid it last night. Let's watch. Withdrawing from the is this withdrawing from the World Health Organization. Oh, that's a big one. So we paid five hundred million dollars to World Health when I was here and I terminated China with one point four billion people. We have three fifty. We have nobody knows what we have because so many people came in illegally. But let's say we have 325. They had one point four billion. They were paying thirty nine million. We were paying five hundred million. It seemed a little unfair to me. So that wasn't the reason.

But I dropped out. They offered me to come back for thirty nine million. In theory, it should be less than that, but you know. And when Biden came back, they came back for $500 million. He knew that you could have come back for $39 million. They wanted us back so badly. So we'll see what happens. The next one is a tweet that he posted on Truth Social. Yes. He said, our first day in the White House is not over yet. This was late yesterday evening.

While he's juggling speeches, parades, and balls, he makes this announcement. office is actively in the process of identifying and removing over a thousand presidential appointees from the previous administration who are not aligned with our vision to make America great again. Let this serve as official notice of dismissal for these four individuals, with many more coming soon. Jose Andres from the President's Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition. Man, you must have done something really bad to do that. Yeah, kicked off of a fitness board.

Mark Milley from the National Infrastructure Advisory Council. Brian Hook from the Wilson Center for Scholars. And Keisha Lance Bottoms from the President's Export Council. You're fired! And these are really low-level positions. I mean, they're commissions, councils, and so forth. Fired! And these are really low-level positions. I mean, they're commissions, councils, and so forth. But he's going after people like Mark Milley.

He's going to make sure these people have no place at all in the government. Next one, he fired Admiral Linda Fagan, removed as the U.S. Coast Guard Commandant. Yes, the Acting Secretary of Homeland Security removed the Coast Guard Commandant from her position. That's according to a message to the service reviewed by USNI News. Admiral Linda Fagan was the first female Commandant of the Coast Guard. She assumed duties as Commandant on June 1st of 2022. Now, Fox News first reported Fagan's termination, citing issues with recruitment, operations concerns, and a focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion as the reasons for her relief. And Outcoast, which is an announcement or message sent to all members of the Coast Guard announced the relief of command. So things are happening pretty fast. Very quickly.

I don't recall ever seeing a president move this fast. No. The one that I recall was Barack Obama fired all the U.S. attorneys fairly quickly. Right. He fired all the U.S. attorneys fairly quickly. But I don't recall firing so many other people like at one minute after the inauguration. John Bolton got his security clearance taken away from him. Secret service detail. Oh, his security detail.

Oh, I didn't read that. He's had secret service protection for the past two and a half years. So his security detail was taken away from him. That's right. He doesn't have anybody to guard him now when he's running around promoting war. Right. And the reason why they assigned a detail to him in the first place was, remember the threats about two, two and a half years ago that Iran was out to assassinate Donald Trump and John Bolton? Right. Well, that Secret Service detail has been in place since then, ordered by President Biden.

Not anymore. If you want security, you're going to pay for it yourself, Mr. Bolton. Elections have consequences, Rick. They do. He's putting his foot down on this one, Doc. Continues oath keepers, proud boys, leaders released from prison, pardoned last night. 1,500 January 6 Americans who were convicted and in prison and instructed his aide, get this over to the Bureau of Prisons now. I want to release them tonight.

We want to get them out of prison tonight. So two individuals in particular there. The one on the left is Stuart Rhodes. He's the head of Oath Keepers. The one on the right is Enrico Tarrio, the former head of Proud Boys. They were released late last night following President Trump's sweeping pardon of those convicted in the January 6th Capitol riot. Interesting on the Stuart Rhodes one, though, Rick, is that he was in prison on gun charges related to an investigation where they had stockpiled guns at a hotel across the Potomac River during that particular period of time. Enrico Terrio, he was heavily involved in the activities on January 6th. So two very unique situations there.

Is it illegal to own guns? Well, it's not illegal to have guns, but they had about 40 of them in a hotel room. Is it illegal to have 40? Is there a law that says it's illegal to have 40 legally owned guns in your hotel room? Probably not. Then how could he be convicted? Well, he was in prison, so someone figured it out. Right, but you can't

point to a law that says it's illegal to have 40 guns. It's questionable. Would you agree to that? Well, it depends. If you're a gun collector, it isn't. But the point I'm making is they put him in prison on a conspiracy.

It was a trumped-up charge. Conspiracy. Right. Government prosecutors believe in conspiracy theories. Right. So you can go to prison on a conspiracy theory. If the conspiracy theory is pushed by the government, they can put you in prison. If they invent a conspiracy right? They can put you in prison. If they invent a conspiracy theory, they can put you in prison.

Now, we can have conspiracy theories about them, and we can't put them in prison. Right. The next one is Wall Street Journal. I'm not going to go through the entire article. There's a lot in here. Trump to meet with GOP congressional leaders after a flood of executive orders that's already happened uh he met with them today on capitol hill um some of the things that happened quickly yesterday the homeland security uh cpb1 app it went dark there were 400,000 appointments per month from illegal immigrants

requesting meetings with government agents. This is where you got your benefits. Right. Everything was on that CPB1 app. Yes. Housing, benefits. Yep. All you had to do was have the app be illegal, download the app and then... Set up your appointments

with it and everything. And then just go shopping. And at 12.05, it was dead. It went dark. He ended the asylum at the border. Made a threat to the BRICS nations. Did you hear that last night?

Oh, yes. I watched that at the Oval Office last night. It was one of the best times I've ever had observing Donald Trump. It was just casually answering the questions of the reporters. Nobody was shouting. Nobody was screaming. The president wasn't hiding. They asked him questions, and he answered the questions.

And he kept signing executive orders. And I mean, can you imagine? Joe Biden was not capable of forming a sentence. He could barely read a sentence that was written for him on the teleprompter. And he certainly wouldn't have the patience to deal with the press in a manner that Donald Trump did. Now, what I did is I gathered a few of the executive orders that Donald Trump signed yesterday. Some of these are at the arena, at Capital One Arena, in front of the crowd. The others were in the Oval Office later in the evening. These are just a few of the executive orders that Donald Trump signed yesterday that are going to— everyone is a game changer. Anyone is a game changer.

So let's watch this. The first item that President Trump is signing is the rescission of 78 Biden-era executive actions, executive orders, presidential memoranda, and others. Next item, sir, is a freeze on all federal hiring, accepting the military and a number of other excluded categories, again, until full control of the government is achieved and we understand the objectives of government going forward. Sir, the next item, as you announced in your speech, is a requirement that federal workers return to full time in person work

immediately. The second item, President Trump, is a regulatory freeze, as you announced in your speech, preventing bureaucrats from issuing any more regulations until we have full control of this. The government is this administration. So this is January 6th. These are the hostages. Approximately 1,500 for a pardon. Yes.

Full pardon. This is an order creating and implementing the Department of Governmental Efficiency, known as DOGE. Okay, that's a big one. Is Elon Musk doing it at a West Lane office? No, he's getting an office for about 20 people that we're hiring to make sure that these get implemented. We have a problem in this country. He's on an executive order. It doesn't get done for six months.

As an example, when we allow the J-6 hostages to go out, it might not be approved under the old days by for two weeks, three weeks, six months. You know, they had a good ruling for the Supreme Court and it's like nothing happened. That ruling was six months ago. You know that. And it was like they didn't have a ruling. They've been treated very unfair. The judges have been absolutely brutal. The prosecutors have been brutal. Nobody's ever treated people in this country like that. This next order relates to the definition of birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment of the United States. That's a good one. Birthright.

That's a big one. Thank you, sir. What can we expect of the countries in NATO that spend the least amount of money, like Spain, France, below the 5%? Spain is very low. And yet, are they a BRICS nation? They're a BRICS nation, Spain.

You know what a BRICS nation is? You'll figure it out. And if the BRICS nations want to do that, that's OK. But we're going to put at least a 100 percent tariff on the business they do with the United States. You know what the BRICS is, right? You guys know. You know what I'm saying, right? What is this withdrawing from the World Health Organization? Oh, that's a big one. So we paid five hundred million dollars to World Health I was here, and I terminated it. China, with 1.4 billion people, we have 350. Nobody knows what we have because so many people came in illegally. But let's say we have 325.

They had 1.4 billion. They were paying 39 million. We were paying 500 million. It seemed a little unfair to me. So that wasn't the reason, but I dropped out. They offered me to come back for 39 million. In theory, it should be less than that, but, you know. And when Biden came back, they came back for 500 million.

He knew that you could have come back for $39 million. They wanted us back so badly. So we'll see what happens. So last night he issued 14 executive orders, 143 executive actions, released or pardoned nearly 1,800 people. That includes 1,500 of the J6ers. And that was just yesterday. And, of course, there's been a few others that have been dribbling out throughout the day today.

He just got finished with a major press conference saying that America is going to invest $500 billion in developing artificial intelligence infrastructure in the U.S. And so the beat goes on today. I mean, the Trump presidency is in full throttle right now, Rick. And I stand in awe of the man's stamina and energy. Does he sleep? I mean, I go on a little sleep. Right. But this guy, I don't know if he sleeps at all. Supposedly he sleeps four to five hours a day, but I don't know

when he slept between yesterday and today. I mean, because he was at the inaugural balls until two or three in the morning, and then was at church this morning. Right. Probably wishes that he slept in. Yes. Well, the president of panama president molino says i'm sorry mr trump uh we we wholly reject your threat to take back the panama canal uh president of panama has rejected a pledge by President Trump that the United States would take back the canal. And President Molina said the canal is and will continue to be Panamanian. And its ownership is non-negotiable.

The problem is that the Panama Canal was handed over to Panama by a treaty. And in that treaty, in that treaty, it says that Panama must remain neutral as far as, you know, any Chinese companies, whether they were transferred over from Hong Kong companies, now they're basically CCP-controlled companies now. Are they? I don't know. Well, every company in China is CCP-controlled, Rick, if we're to believe the rhetoric. But the fact of the matter is, I mean, what's Panama going to do? If the U.S. says, I want the canal back, Panama, are you ready to fight for it? I doubt it.

See, there was a former president of Panama that learned that lesson. President George Herbert Walker Bush invaded Panama. You were in the National Guard, weren't you sent to panama i wasn't sent to panama i i served in panama during the iraq war oh okay yeah but you weren't there for the the invasion no okay so can i ask you what were you doing in panama during the iraq war it's classified no oh okay uh we were receiving helicopters and trucks back from the theater in Iraq. And they arrived in Panama. Yes, and I'll tell you the reason why. EPA regulations wouldn't allow the transfer

of military vehicles directly to the United States. Our government prevented our own military from moving the vehicles? They had to be thoroughly cleaned and washed before arriving in the United States. So they shipped them to Panama to be cleaned and detailed. And then they went. And the reason why, Rick, is because they were probably, they had nerve gas, maybe uranium on them. I have friends that are having to take advantage of BA benefits nowadays because of exposure to what they had in Panama. No kidding.

Yeah. But we didn't find out about that until years later. Of course. That aspect of it. And we always wondered, well, why don't these – it's government efficiency at work. Can it just send the trucks directly to the U.S.? But no, they knew exactly. There was a reason.

Well, the bottom line is – But Panama is a great country. I'll say that. It is. Wonderful country. It's a good country, good people. They love Americans, and they're going to become a state. Why not?

No, really. I think that's – I think they should have been the whole time. At this point, just over a day into the Trump administration, I wouldn't be surprised now. Anything is possible now. I think he will offer President Molina statehood. I think so, too. Come on in. Just join.

Just join the United States. You have military protection you have all the benefits of being an american and and we won't have to send the marines to panama to take the canal i honestly i think it's a real possibility his he is building the american fort yes okay for what world war three with china he he's getting us ready for a big war with china uh president trump withdrew from through the united states from the paris climate accord last night that's another big one that's good uh excellent decision. He also talked about slapping 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico on February 1st. This is CBC News in Canada. And we got a video clip of the president talking about it. I'm thinking in terms of 25% on Mexico and Canada because they're allowing vast numbers of people.

Canada's a very bad abuser also. Vast numbers of people to come in and fentanyl to come in. When do you think you would enact those? I think February 1st. Are you planning on keeping notice of that? I think we'll do it February 1st. 25% on both, sir? Sir, on each.

On each. Well, that's big news in Canada today. Right. And wounded, outgoing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who has no political power left now. Right. That he's announced his resignation. He hasn't officially left yet. Right.

But he's limping. He's bleeding. He's on his way out. He promised very strong response. What is it, Justin? He's going to do tariffs too, he says. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday that Canada is going to hit back at the U.S. if President Donald Trump goes ahead with punishing tariffs on February 1st,

promising his country will respond in kind with rapid, robust, and very strong retaliatory measures. Now, Mr. Trudeau spoke to reporters at a special cabinet meeting in Quebec. He said he was unfazed by Donald Trump's about-face, saying he's come to expect a great deal of uncertainty when dealing with this president. He said Mr. Trump is a skilled negotiator and he will do what he can to keep his negotiating partners a little off balance. But Canada is a good negotiator too, according to Jester Trudeau, and is willing to inflict economic

pain on the U.S. to get Trump to back down. So, what sort of economic pain can Canada squeeze on America? Well, here's some of the imports and you may disagree with some of these, but this is what CBC News provided for us. No, this is what AI provided. Oh, really? Yes. Oh, okay. I just asked AI what are the top products that Canada exports to the United States, and this is the list it gave me.

Oh, really? Okay. Right. All right. So I don't know if it's accurate. It could be AI could be hallucinating. Well, it might be, but let's go through the list. And so first one is mineral fuels and oils.

This category, including crude oil and natural gas, is one of the largest imports. Let's go through the list. And so first one is mineral fuels and oils. This category including crude oil and natural gas is one of the largest imports. Vehicles, this includes cars, trucks, and automotive parts. I can already tell you that's something that Trump's going to change immediately. He wants vehicles made here. Machinery and equipment such as nuclear reactors, boilers, and other industrial machinery. Plastics and plastic products, a lot of wood in Canada, wood and wood products. We have trees here too.

Six, aluminum and aluminum products. Seven, electrical and electronic equipment, pharmaceutical products, agricultural products such as cereals, vegetables, meat. These are just a few, as Rick mentioned, generated by AI. So, Doc, if— But we produce all those things here, too. So if Mr. Trump counters—let's say Justin Trudeau, in his remaining days in office, puts a tariff on these Canadian products. And now Americans have got to pay this high tariff.

Donald Trump's going to counter that and put 100% tariff on all these things. Right. And now he's just torpedoed the Canadian economy. Right. How's this going to work? Trudeau doesn't have any, he doesn't have any,

he doesn't have any ammo to work with. No clout. There's no clout. Yeah. So, the tariffs are going to come on. And the same thing with Mexico. Right.

And the president of Mexico is saying that she's going to help the people who are being deported. Well, good. It's about time. Yeah, it's about time. Take them back. And if they don't belong in Mexico, move them out of Mexico. That's right. You shouldn't have allowed them in Mexico in the first place.

You've got a much smaller southern border than we do, Mexico. Oh, Doc, let me tell you. I've read the Mexico immigration laws. You don't stop in Mexico as an illegal. You keep walking through Mexico, right? They'll put you in prison. They are strict. You've got to keep walking to mexico they'll put you in prison they're they are strict you got to keep walking if you if you stop and say hey i'm just going to stay here i'm an illegal from central

america i'm going to stay uh they'll lock you up they do not allow illegal immigrants in mexico neither should we they only are allowed if they're on their way to the united states if they're transient passing through like like inflation transient transitory inflation inflation has been hanging around a long time here uh another one this is financial times in london donald trump threatens tax war over U.S. multinationals. That's right, Rick. This may sound to a lot of people watching, so what?

I don't know what this is all about. Well, I'll give you the breakdown on it very quickly. The socialist countries, Great Britain, France, all run by socialists. Right. They have been trying to create

a global tax. And with some success. Yes. Because the United States under Biden was signing on to it. Yes. Now, there wouldn't be like the United Nations

is passing a tax bill. The way that they were going to do it is every nation was going to pass the same taxation. Right. And it would be global. It would be primarily on U.S. companies. No.

But that's who's going to end up paying the most. Yes, they were going after the big U.S. corporations. But if you... the idea behind it was that a small country you know they call them a tax haven right no they're not havens they're they're just they have lower taxes right okay the the way that the media and politicians talk about it it's like oh like they're criminal yeah sneaky they're how dare they lower their taxes more than france and french corporations moving to those little caribbean islands to get away from paying that you know high 70 percent whatever their tax rates are in fr, you know. No, that's really what, and this whole thing comes out of France. It's the OECD, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

It's not a government agency. It's a private organization. But they act like they have governmental powers. You'll read newspaper articles. The OECD has declared, so what? And that's what Mr. Trump did last night so what yes okay and he's he's just he backed out and he said uh you know he's withdrawing from the oecd plan for uh let's say harmonized taxes That's the way to put it. That they would have a system of harmonized taxes where each country has the same tax rate on corporations. Therefore, no small country could attract business by lowering their tax rate.

Right. Now, I'll tell you what this tells me. Mr. Trump plans to lower taxes in america and he said we're headed he said ain't no way i'm locking our taxes into what france and germany and great britain we're not this is the beginning of a global tax it's a global day we're not gonna i'm not gonna lock us into it we'll set our own tax rate. That's really where it's going. He's looking ahead where he can lower American corporate taxes. And he knows if we stay in this, the taxes are going to go up. Well, how is the OECD even going to function without the U.S. participating in it?

It's probably going to collapse now, isn't it? At some point, because you know what French and German and British companies are going to do? They're going to come now, isn't it? At some point, because you know what French and German and British companies are going to do? They're going to come to America. They're going to come over here. And that's what he's doing. He's draining their investment. Come on over here. Build your

stuff over here. This is going to be an amazing ride. So, oh, the next one I want to show you, Marco Rubio is now the Secretary of State. He was,

his nomination was confirmed by the U.S. Senate yesterday. Yes. Unanimous vote. He was sworn in this morning at 9.30. And so we've got a short video here. This is from Real America's Voice of Marco Rubio talking about his new job as Secretary of Defense, or Secretary of State. I thought it was a plot. It was not by design. But it's one of the most

special relationships I've established. And obviously, it's an honor to be with the Vice President, who I think is going to be phenomenal. Someone I knew and admired and actually relied on for policy ideas before he was even elected to the Senate and now will do an extraordinary job for the president. I can't think of a better voice for the world and for the president's policies. As far as the task ahead, President Trump was elected to keep promises and he's going to keep those promises. And his primary promise when it comes to foreign policy is that the priority of the United States Department of State will be the United States. It will be furthering the national interest of this country and he's given us a very

clear mandate. President Trump's made it very clear everything we do and this is true in government but especially at the Department of State everything we do must be justified by the answer to one of three questions. Does it make us stronger? Does it make us safer? And does it make us more prosperous? If it doesn't do one of those three things, we will not do it. And so that is the goal and that is the task and that is the promise that he was elected to keep and that is the promise he will keep and we will help him keep. It's a transformational moment. The United States, I think, is now, as President Trump pointed out last night, and I believe deeply, we are headed into a new era that I think will make the world a safer place. We have a president who yesterday,

President Trump made clear in his inaugural speech that one of the primary goals of American foreign policies is the promotion of peace. Of course, peace through strength, peace and always without abandoning our values. But I think it's extraordinary that it's something that needs to be said and hasn't been said enough in recent memory. And we look forward to being a key part of helping the president achieve his agenda that he has a clear mandate to keep. I was just remarking to Rick. I watched Marco Rubio deliver a message to State Department employees in person. He was well-received. There weren't people chatting him, booing him or anything like that.

He really extolled the virtues of the U.S. State Department. He did make mention that we will continue our commitment to Israel in that statement to everyone. But I have to admit, Marco Rubio came off as a great Secretary of State. He's a classy guy, and I like him. My only disagreement is his stance on Israel. Other than that, I don't have any problem with Marco Rubio. Do you notice how young the Trump administration is?

Oh, yes. It's a changing of age. Mr. Trump is 78, but his administration is 40s and 50s. Yeah. His press secretary is 27. Yes. There hasn't been a press secretary in the White House in his or her 20s since the days of Richard Nixon. So, very young administration coming into power. One of the topics in Washington right now is what to do with TikTok. And in fact, in the Oval Office meeting last night,

there were about, I don't know, maybe a dozen or so questions about TikTok to the president. And so obviously this is on the minds of a lot of people. Of course, the restoration of TikTok, what's going to happen? Well, the company is owned, it's a Chinese company that owns it, ByteDance. And, you know, the people that want TikTok to be sold to an American group believe that ByteDance is like the Panama Canal.

If it's Chinese, it's got to be communist controlled. Right. And the argument is that all this data and everything from tiktok is being sent back to the ccp in china that's yes that's the argument which i always thought was kind of odd that you would say well if all that data is being sent to the ccp if we have an american buyer where's that data where's that data gonna go Where's that data going to go? But we don't want to ask that question. Well, the one senator who's actually been the most outspoken against breaking up, selling, or banning TikTok has been Rand Paul. Yes. On the principle of free speech.

Yes. Because the bill that was passed last year giving the president the authorization to shut down TikTok, it's not limited to TikTok. Right. He could shut down any social media company. Anything. Any media company. Any media company that the U.S. government decides is a national security threat. I've got two videos from Rand Paul.

This first one is a couple days old. He was on Fox News. He was telling Brian Kilmeade his opinion about who really owns TikTok. My personal view, I don't have – I'm not weighing in one side or the other. I'm concerned because TikTok is Chinese. And that worries me that the Chinese Communist Party have, you know, they've got a major foothold in the minds of Americans. But at the same time, I listen to Rand Paul and I go, he makes a very strong case. Right.

That that's a cover story for people who just want to take control of the corporation and if you go back the the other story i had up there new york times it's giving all the reasons why tiktok should be sold or shut down but i want to read the last paragraph. They are also worried that China could use TikTok's content recommendations to fuel misinformation, a concern that escalated in the United States after the start of the Israeli-Hamas war. Critics say TikTok fueled anti-Semitism. Bingo. There it is. So who benefits from the repression of TikTok? Israel.

Right. And Zionism. You could put things on TikTok about Israel and Zionism that you can't put on other social media platforms. That, I think, is the real reason. I agree with you. It has nothing to do with money or data going to China or fortune cookies or anything. That's right. Well, anyhow, this is Rand Paul.

The most important fact of all of this, and it needs to be debated and not assumed as a fact, the company is owned 60% by international investors, 20% by the two Chinese software engineers who developed it, the entrepreneurs who began the business, and 20% by their employees, 7,000 of whom are American. So it's a very diverse ownership. It's not owned by the Chinese government. Allegations against a company owned by Americans and you have to prove it.

Who owns that company? Who owns that company? ByteDance. ByteDance is owned by China. No, it's not. See, that's a lie and you're defaming the country. You're defaming the company. Sixty percent of it is owned by international investors. Twenty percent is owned by the software developers who are Chinese. And 20 percent is owned by the employees, 7000 of whom are Americans.

Who controls the algorithm? But it's not owned by the government. It's not about profits. Who owns the algorithm? TikTok owns their own algorithm and it's actually not in China. TikTok. ByteDance. And who owns TikTok? ByteDance. And who owns ByteDance? The Chinese government. No, they don't.

See, you've just told a lie, Brian. You can't say on TV something that's a lie about a company. That is an out-and-out lie, and it's provably false. They're not owned by the Chinese government. Poor Brian. All he knows is what his handlers have told him. His Zionist handlers have told him.

He doesn't know how to... The senator told him multiple times who owns the company. And he kept saying, the Chinese government owns it. And he said, no, Brian, that's not true. That's a lie. He called him a liar. He did call him a liar. About time somebody did. But poor Brian,

he was being forced to actually think. and he didn't know what to do. Just read. Yes. Now, Rand Paul came out with another video. This was, I believe it was yesterday that he came out with this. And he is making the argument that the ban on TikTok that's currently in place should be repealed on the basis of free speech. He said he's introducing a bipartisan bicameral bill to repeal the TikTok ban. Let's listen to Rand Paul. They tell you this is about China, about security and safety. That's a lie. This is about control, about fear, about silencing you.

A government that can ban an app can ban a book. A government that can silence a platform can silence a person. Today it's TikTok. Tomorrow it's your news. Next week it's your voice. Some politicians think the First Amendment has fine print. It doesn't. The right to free speech doesn't come with exceptions. Not for apps, not for ideas, not for politicians who think they know better than you. They don't ban speech to protect you. They ban speech to control you. That's why today I'm introducing a bipartisan, bicameral bill to repeal the TikTok ban. If we don't stop this now, where does it end?

To every American who believes in liberty, stand up, speak out, fight back, because freedom isn't given, it's taken. Last line was a great line there. It was. But so there's a very strong difference of opinion between those that are in the government regarding TikTok and, of course, Rand Paul. Is Facebook still in China? I don't know. What if China seized Facebook? But Twitter is not. I know Twitter is not in China.

They're restricted from China. Well, what if China just seized it? Yeah, well, you got a good point. What if they took over Facebook China? Yes. So it's the same argument. Yeah, and everybody would be throwing a fit about that, wouldn't they? You know, at one point there in the beginning, it sounded like he said true news.

I know. I had to listen to it several times to get it. But, Rick, we're at the heart of the matter here. There's only one group of people, one nation, that benefits from the ban on TikTok. Well, if TikTok is sold to, quote, an American group, let's see who buys it. Yes. And then the question will be answered. Yes. buys it yes and then the question will be answered yes okay our our lead story at the beginning of the show was dr fauci's preemptive pardon well now we're learning that it was

backdated to the year 2014 yes that's a lot of preempting yes Yes. So what did the dear doctor do 10 years ago? Well, and that's a great question. And while many assume that the pardon issued by President Biden was engineered to shield Fauci from MAGA retribution, the act of clemency raised eyebrows for another reason. President Biden had backdated the pardon back to 2014, a date nearly six years before COVID emerged. And though the pardon is not an admission of wrongdoing, critics on the right quickly denounced Biden's decision as an unprecedented political maneuver that could deepen public distrust. Really? The executive order, which covers actions dating back to January 1st, 2014, ostensibly shields Fauci from allegations tied to U.S.-funded gain-of-function research in addition to his work during the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, it also protects him from retribution related to the theory, still unconfirmed, that COVID-19 leaked from a lab in Wuhan, the Chinese city where the

virus first was identified, and that the U.S. government had knowledge of it at this time. And I'm going to throw something else in there. Fauci's involvement in Ukraine. I'm glad you said it. I was going to say it if you didn't. And when did we take over the bio lab in Ukraine? 2014.

2014. When we engineered the coup in Ukraineraine that article to me just has a big guilty oh yeah guilty and you're right and they don't even bring out the ukraine no action you're right about the what you said yesterday that he he can still be questioned he's actually got more exposure now. Yes, he does. In fact, Jamie Raskin brought up this point on MSNBC, and not about Fauci, about himself.

Jamie Raskin was given a pardon. And now he said, you know, I'm talking with my attorney whether or not I ought to accept the pardon or not. Really? I thought, yeah, you've got it. You've got it figured out, Jamie. So, you beat cancer, now you're beating this. That's interesting. Yeah, he's more exposed, Dr. Fauci is more exposed now than he has ever been. Well, did the pardon

extend back to the decades when he tortured puppies? Didn't go back that far, Rick. Jerusalem. Or the HIV. HIV, yes. Or experimented on children in orphanages. Yeah. Purposely infected gay men in San Francisco.

Went to the gay clubs. Yes. To observe AIDS in action in the gay clubs in San Francisco. That's our good – America's doctor, Dr. Fauci. America's Mingala is more like it. Well, speaking of Mingala, the biggest brouhaha since yesterday that everybody on the left is stirring up dust about is this image right here. It was weird. A lot of liberal left media saying Elon Musk gave a Nazi Sieg Heil salute. I mean, the photograph, the video and the articles are everywhere.

I will show you the video and then we'll talk about it. You know, there are elections that come and go. Some elections are, you know, important, some are not. But this one, this one really mattered. And I just want to say thank you for making it happen. Thank you. My heart goes out to you. It is thanks to you that the future of civilization is assured. Now, if he had said Heil Hitler, I would have, you know, I'd be on that same bandwagon too, Rick, but that's

not, Elon Musk, and listen, I think Elon Musk is a Bonneville. I'm not his biggest fan, but that was not a Nazi salute. Now, let me tell you what it was, and I say this with kindness, not

in any derogatory way Elon Musk is autistic yeah he's brilliant very high IQ yes but he's autistic yes

and he's extremely awkward in social manners that's one of the one of the traits of autism right if you remember at some of the campaign rallies where he was jumping and dancing around on stage? Well, even at the inauguration yesterday. He was restless. And standing beside him

was Barron Trump, who is also autistic, standing there stone-faced. Two different faces of autism. Yes. No, I agree with you. But he doesn't know how to act in public. He's awkward. He's very awkward.

That sending out his love from his heart was just awkward. It wasn't a Nazi salute. But the first one to come out with that pbs came out with it and then every other leftist media outlet you know say look he's saluting hitler come on folks this is this how desperate they are rick the the left is really desperate they they don't have anything doc they they simply don't have anything now I'm going to skip over some stuff. There's a couple more things I want to get to because I don't want to go another half hour like we did yesterday. Number 29, Wall Street Journal, U.S. government has a landlord and Trump isn't a fan.

Who's the landlord? The GSA, the Government Service Agency. What comes out in this article, Doc, is that the GSA, which officially owns all the government buildings that the government uses, it's the government's real estate arm. They have 370 million square feet nationwide. But when you when you drill down into this article, it is in many of the cities. Government buildings

are sitting empty. And one reason they're empty is because the workers never came back from COVID. And so the numbers in here are absolutely shocking, how many millions of square feet the U.S. government owns of office buildings, more than office, you know, warehouses and storage buildings and so forth that are just empty. And there's no maintenance being done on the buildings. Right. In fact, squatters are in some of these buildings. Yes. So this article is saying the Trump administration is going to have a fire sale. Now, perk up if you are an investor. You're going to be able to buy government buildings at about 30% on the dollar.

You may end up getting something you wish you didn't buy, but if you've got the money to renovate, you're going to be able to buy major buildings in major cities. Not just New York City and Chicago, but wherever the U.S. government has buildings. Right. We have a lot of buildings. Every city has federal buildings, just about.

I mean, little Fort Pierce down the road here has federal buildings. I mean, little Vero. I mean, your Social Pierce down the road here has federal buildings. I mean, it's a little virile. Your Social Security is a federal building. The post office is a federal building. So, yes, there are federal buildings everywhere. But the Trump administration is going to sell off a lot of unused federal buildings. Now, let me ask you something. If that happens, is that going to impact the rest of the commercial real estate market? Oh, it's going to,

Doc, it's going to decimate commercial real estate. Look, if you've got one building at fair market price and next to it is a government building marked down 70%, what's it do to the other building? They've got to be competitive. They've got to lower their price. It will gut property values for commercial real estate.

This isn't going to happen overnight, but it is going to happen fairly quickly. They're going to move on this because this is part of the Doge government efficiency program. And so they're going to start selling off. So what you want to do, GSA has a website. I used to go to a lot. And then they kind of like went empty. There wasn't much there. I just like to go and look and see what was available for sale.

I always thought it was cool the day you found a radar base. I mean, with houses and a fire station and everything, you could buy a whole town. I was like, wow, on the GSA site? That was a CIA town in West Virginia. I thought about it. I thought, we could buy this place. It's a whole town owned by the CIA. But you're going to see the GSA, like Rick said, this will be a fire sale. And we've been watching the commercial real estate market for years here because that is going to be a bellwether across the whole economy. Don't you find it interesting that a real estate tycoon who is president is going to be selling off.

Did you know that he bought Mar-a-Lago from GSA? I'm glad you brought that up. Yeah. Merriweather Post, who used to own Mar-a-Lago. She's, you know, when you think of Post cereals. She gave it to the federal government. But the federal government said, you know, it's costing us way too much money. And they sold it at pennies to Donald Trump.

Right. And then he turned around and made it what it is today. Well, anyhow, if you're a real estate investor, you want to pay attention to GSA this year because you're going to see buildings and land, vacant land, all kinds of things, property, anything owned by the government, it's going to go up on that site for sale. So they have more than 7,500 vacant buildings around the country right now that are vacant, truly vacant, and 2,200 that are partially vacant. They've got to sell them. This is going to sell them off.

Yeah. Newsweek, Russian Su-25 jet factory in flames after massive Ukrainian drone strike. We'll show you some of the videos coming in here. These are images of the drones being shot down. These are the images of— That's the factory being hit. Yes. Now, it's significant.

This is a Russian jet factory here. Warplanes. Yeah. This one comes into the town. There is just no way Russia is going to let this stand. This is a direct attack on a military facility in Russia. Building their warplanes. Right.

There it is. There's the factory burning. This is a significant attack on Russia, inside Russia. Now, the next story, Newsweek,ussian tv host vows moscow will put london underwater yes there's no we already know what he's talking about the tsunami torpedo the nuclear torpedo that that would create a uh a nuclear blast undersea and develop a 1,500-foot-tall tsunami that would wash over the British Isles. Right. So go ahead, Doc. I'll let you set it up.

So Russian state TV host and ally President Putin issued a nominous warning to the UK on state TV during an appearance on channel russian russia one vladimir solojov who we've talked about before one of the most prominent figures in kremlin-backed media suggested russia put the uk underwater had threats against other nations too let's watch this video i'll be reading the captions i have shown plaques from liberated Maripol, New York. This one's from Maripol. We'll bring them from everyone as a reminder. I'll place it here nicely. As for how the enemy behaves, let them prepare.

I'll bring these plaques from Berlin, Bonn, and Paris. I won't be able to bring one from London I haven't mastered an underwater sport yet therefore I and comrade general Gurlab probably won't go deep enough to remove the plaque so direct threats against several European countries but specifically the UK.

Doc, they have not withdrawn that threat last week that there's going to be a hypersonic attack in February. Right. Mid-February. It may be London. It may be London. It may be London. President Trump's election, I think, is going to keep us out of World War III for four years. I hope

so, Doc. The war is underway. It's already started. I am hopeful that he keeps us out of World War II or World War III. But there will be a day that his term will end. Right. And we have no idea who's going to replace him. Right. It could be Nikki Haley in 2029. Well, I think at this point I've got more to go, but we'll save it for tomorrow.

The IDF general in Israel resigned today and accepted blame for the October 7 failures. And now there are people calling on Netanyahu to follow him out the door saying hey wait a minute the general is going to resign uh netanyahu you need to go too yes i think donald trump is going to put pressure on israel to get rid of netanyahu i do doc oh i think so, too. I think there's going to be a change. I think he's going to tell Israel, if you want our support, Netanyahu's got to go. And that will be the end of the Netanyahu regime. Now, I will say this, that one of the executive orders last night, I didn't get the clip of it, is for 90 days he has suspended all foreign aid

except for Israel, Egypt, and Jordan. Those three countries. Everywhere else? Israel, Egypt, and Jordan. Yes. But all other foreign aid has been cut off. For at least 90 days. They're going to reevaluate at the end of 90 days on a

nation-by-nation basis. It's interesting, those three countries. Yeah. I thought you'd find that interesting. They're protecting it. Okay, hey, thank you so much. We're going to wrap it up for today. Don't forget the American Reserves special

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Take advantage of it. We'll be back tomorrow with more true news. Thank you. Did you want to talk about Mobile World Congress before we sign off? Well, yeah. I don't have the exact number, but I think we're pretty close to our goal, but I didn't bring it with me. I've got the number if you want it. Okay.

What is it? $30,579. Okay. We were asking for $30, praise god thank you go folks thank you you did that thank you so much god bless you and if anything else comes in the next day or two we'll just apply it to the another future uh conference that we'll go to um this year i hope that we get back to going to events with the Trump White House. I would like to see that. And I'll make another prediction. Attendance is down at World Economic Forum. Davos is underway this week. Attendance is

down and there's hardly, I'll put it like this, a lot of major government leaders are not there. I think Donald Trump's going to put him out of business. I hope so. All right, but I'm going to go one more. He's going to start the American Economic Forum.

And he's going to say, come to America. Don't go to Davos, Switzerland. Come to America. This is where things are happening. Actually, we'll talk about economics rather than culture control. Yeah, we'll show you how to do it. I think we're going to see the American Economic Forum, the AEF. So let's see.

But I don't see Donald Trump saying, yeah, next year I have to be in davos i gotta go to the world economic forum but he's supposed to make an appearance by video uh yeah but next year so it'll be here i believe you and he'll put that thing he'll just put it to bed uh klaus schwab is gone you know he's not He's not running it anymore. It'll die off. It'll just be for a few diehard globalists that will just go for the good times and memories. I think there's a power shift that's going to move to the United States. The thing with the taxes. He's moving things to America. This is going to be the the United States. He cut the thing with the taxes. He's moving things to America.

This is going to be the center of power. The world is going to split up into two big spheres. The east and the west. And the west is not going to be in Davos. The west is going to be in Denver. You want to go to the ski resort? It's Denver, not Davos. I mean, I'll lose my opportunity to go to Switzerland. I love Switzerland. But he's going to move everything this way.

That's my prediction. I don't think anybody in the White House is going to be bothered about Davos next year. I think it's going to be a has-been organization. This is where it's happening now. There's energy. There's movement. It's happening in the United States. All right.

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Gracious Father, dear Heavenly Father, Father, we come to you in the name of Jesus. Father, we glorify you, we exalt you, we magnify you. Father, you are a good God. You are a good father father as sons and daughters we desire to know more about you your son your spirit your kingdom and so we gather here together though we are in many nations and many time zones we are one in christ and we ask the holy Spirit to teach us today. In the name of Jesus, amen. Amen, amen. All right, well, welcome to chapter two.

What would you like for me to read today, Rick? Doc, I don't think we'll get the nine verses, but let's do verses one through nine. All right, so if you got your Bibles and you should have your Bibles every time we get together for a Bible study, you should have three things, your Bible, a notepad, and a pencil or a pen.

So you're taking notes while we're doing this, because you won't remember. You'll need to write it down. So Romans chapter 2, verses 1 through 9, I'm reading from the King James. Therefore, this means that he's making the conclusion to everything we talked about in chapter 1. Therefore, thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest. For wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself.

For thou that judgest does the same things. But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things. And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which commit such things. And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God? Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance. But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasures unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath, and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

who were rendered to every man according to his deeds, to them who by patient continuance in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life. But unto them that are contentious and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first and also of the Gentile. No one is without excuse, Rick. Doc, go ahead and finish out that paragraph for you. Look at verses 10 and 11. Okay. But glory, honor, and peace to every man that worketh good to the Jew first and also to the Gentile,

for there is no respect to persons with God. All right, so we're going to be in this for a couple of days, right? Yes. This has got a lot of... Good doctrine here today. Yes, it does. So, verse 1, Paul opens his remarks with, oh, man. When you say something like, oh, man, you're speaking to the entire human race.

He's speaking to humankind throughout the world. What it's saying is that what I'm about to say to you is universal. It applies to everybody. Regardless of your gender, your nationality, your race, your ethnicity, your religion, it doesn't matter. This is for everybody he's speaking those to those who judge others while committing the same sins yes all right so if you judge another person, you judge that person's sins, it reveals that you, the judger, the judge that's doing the judging, it implies that you have a knowledge of moral standards. Therefore. You have no excuse.

For violating the very thing that you're criticizing somebody else for doing. Right. So, you know, at the heart of what Paul's talking about, he's talking to hypocrites. And as we've learned in this Bible class, in the book of Matthew, and in the book of Acts, a hypocrite is an actor. That's where we get the term hypocrite. It's from acting. It's acting, pretending to be somebody and something that you're not. That's what actors and actresses do.

They portray people that they're not. And so whenever you call somebody hypocrite, what you're saying is you're an actor. You're acting like you're something, but you're not. So the central theme in this, these verses in chapter two of Romans is the hypocrisy of those who judge others for the sins they themselves commit. Yes. And the hypocrisy leads to self-condemnation because the act of judging affirms the individual's awareness of what is right and wrong.

So Paul shifts from exposing the sins of the Gentiles, because he was doing that in chapter 1. Now he's confronting the hidden sins of the super religious. And he's saying that these people are guilty of the same moral feelings whether it's outwardly or inwardly again because when you judge another person you are acknowledging that there is a moral standard and you're aware of it and that's why you're judging these other people yes so today in the modern world so when a transvestite accuses you of not being tolerant they're being a hypocrite

because they're pretending to be something they're not but they're judging you so they have they have some sort of sense of their own of right and wrong but it's not derived from god but they have their own innate sense so they're judging they're judging morally but they're hypocrites because they're pretending to be something that they're not actually doc a transvestite is a double hypocrite because uh they're pretending to be a gender that they're not yes okay so they get upset with you because you say I'm sorry you're a man you're wearing a dress and they want you to affirm that they yes in print hateful so God's truth or God's judgment is fair he's an impartial judge he rules on the law if you've ever been in a courtroom

with a judge who is a stickler for the law you know what I'm talking about that kind of a judge says I'm not going to let my feelings get involved in this this is what the law says that type of judge will tell the jury, disregard what you just heard. Stay

with the law. So the law is always in effect. Jesus said, I did not come to abolish the law, but to fulfill the law. If you're in Christ, the law has been fulfilled. If you're outside in Christ, the law has been fulfilled. If you're outside of Christ,

the law is in effect. And it will be until heaven and earth passes away. After heaven and earth pass away, there's no need for the law. So in God's courtroom, the law is the law. Right.

And he is impartial. He's unbiased. He's not a respecter of persons. And his law holds people equally accountable the way that you bypass the penalties of violating the law is to be in christ because he kept the law he fulfilled the law i mean honestly doc once you get this in your in your system you know get it get it down inside in in your in your mind your being is wow the law is in effect that law has death penalties that law has serious penalties i'd be a fool i'd be an idiot not to take advantage of what Jesus did.

That's why you run to Christ. That's why you stay in Christ. Because now the law is not touching you. When God looks at you, he says, innocent. Never violated the law. Because you're in Christ. Some Bible scholars believe that Paul was particularly directing his remarks at the Jewish leaders who judged Gentiles harshly, while at the same time thinking that they had a privileged status under the Mosaic law. Judaizers were present in the early church.

Yes. And it was a constant problem. Even among the Jews who were saved there were certain a certain portion of the jews who were saved who tried to hold on to judaism right and it's interesting that this is keep in mind we talked about this before we got started here on uh morning manna today who the audience. The audience are believers in Rome, because someone asked, why do we call it Romans? Well, it was a letter to the believers in Rome. So it's interesting here, Rick, that chapter one, and now we're into chapter two here, that we have this, you know, this

is a letter to believers. So this is believers either reading this or hearing this being read in the assembly. So these are the words of Paul being transmitted here. So you have to ask the question, why did Paul, you know, deliver this particular message? And now we're in chapter two. What was going on in Rome that Paul felt like it was necessary to address and i'm in agreement with you that even uh even in rome there had been the judaizers had had wherever the gospel shows up judyizer show up yes keep that in mind wherever the gospel shows up judaizers eventually catch up and so my guess is that paul is you know uh condemning those judaizers that have already kind of infiltrated the assembly there in rome now you're right it is because the principle of universal guilt is what Paul is addressing. Yes.

And what he's saying is that both Jews and Gentiles stand condemned before God. Whether for overtly open sinful act or for hypocritical judgment. Now for the

Gentile, this is great news. Hallelujah. There's no favorites. But to the Gentile, this is great news. Hallelujah. There's no favorites. But to the Judaizer, this is, hold on a minute. We've had, this is our territory. This belongs to us. Us and Yahweh, we're like this.

You guys, in other words, to be, if you want to know God you have to become like us that's what Judy Judaizers do and Paul will say no you don't you don't want to become like them right because see there's a lot of religious pride in that attitude so what he's challenging is this double standard of holding these people accountable to a moral code while excusing yourself and he's saying that this hypocrisy reveals inconsistency in doctrine and it reveals a genuine a lack of genuine self-awareness of your own sinful state.

Right. So the sins of the Gentiles as he talked about in Romans 1 remember the litany list that he gave us these are the sins Gentiles do yeah yeah they're out in the open they're open they're overt they're visible but the sins of the self-righteous religious people often are hidden yeah they're concealed

but hidden sins are still seen by God and that's what he's saying here like you may you may have a facade that nobody on the outside sees your wicked heart but God sees it. Right. And because you're condemning others, God is aware that you're committing the same sin or even worse. That's right. So,

you know, Paul's teaching that relying on your religious status, your knowledge of the law, your observation, obedience to rituals and so forth does not justify you.

Yes. Where he's leading them is that humanity's guilt is universal. And there is a universal need for salvation. And the only solution for that grace through faith in Jesus Christ. That's right. They're equally guilty, equally in need of salvation. One group does not have, I guess, you know, the reference to the right word.

Yes. Preference. You know, before God, it's all the same. Um, so human judgment is always partial. It's biased. It's hypocritical. It's self-serving. God's judgment is perfect. It's unbiased.

It's impartial. It's always based on absolute truth. Let's go to verse 2. And verse 2 affirms that. But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things.

We know. We know. He know. The phrase we know is speaking of the undeniable certainty of God's judgment. We know. This is not open for debate. We know. And Paul's judgment is, or God's judgment, is rooted in his divine authority and his role as the sole ultimate arbiter of justice and truth just think about it you're having a father there's there's he has no competition he's totally secure in his position doc he's got lifetime tenure that's right and he's not moving off the court he's not leaving he's going to be on that bench as the supreme judge forever and ever and ever there's nobody there are no term limits no age limits. No retirement.

No young judge coming up in the universe to challenge him. He's God. There's nobody. There's one God. One judge. One maker. One creator. Can you name anybody that even in the slightest way, could even apply for the job?

Who's on the scene in the universe who could apply for the job? Who could, who could give him a run for his money and say, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna be your competitor and become God. Who? There's nobody. He's not looking over his shoulder saying, I wonder what young God is coming up in the world I got to watch out for. Yes. There isn't any. And because he is that God, he is the sole ultimate decider of justice and truth.

You know, we like to say, you know, presidents will put a sign on their door, on their desk that buck stops here. I started with Harry Truman, right? I mean, you know, hey, right is where this is where the decision is made well that's the way it is with god so it is impartial it is incorruptible it is based on accurate understanding of all the facts external actions internal motives god sees all, knows all, hears all. And his judgment isn't going to be

based on gender or how tall you are or if you got one eye or two eyes. It's going to be based on who you are. You can't bribe him. That's right. You can't cry your way out. Nothing.

He is the ultimate judge. Now, human judgment is biased. It's flawed. It's imperfect. It's imperfect. It's hypocritical. It can be swayed. It can be bought. We know.

We've seen it in this country in recent years. Corrupt judges. Corrupt prosecutors. but god evaluates each person's each person based on their actions their motives their character their heart with no favoritism no favoritism based on their status, their race, their ethnicity, their religious identity. Many preachers have said all are level at the foot of the cross. Amen.

The ground is level. Nobody's standing up higher than somebody else. Nobody's down lower than another person. Everybody is at an equal height at the cross so what paul is what he's doing here is he's he's condemning this hypocrisy of those who judge others and yet they're privately engaging in the same sins. Yes. He would never condone sin, encourage anyone to sin, but basically what he's saying here is, if you're going to do it, at least stop judging the other people who are doing it.

You're worse off by, you know, it's one thing you're guilty for doing it. Right. But you're double guilty for judging the other person for doing what you're doing. Right. That's why I always say in True News about the news media and the political activists whatever they accuse you of being whatever they accuse you of doing that's what they are that's what they're doing you know look at the things they accuse president trump of doing the very things that they were doing yes

I've been subjected to it the people who accuse me online of being something they themselves are what they accuse me of being it helped me get over it once I realized oh they're just but when they make those accusations now we

understand that it's a confession right yes why because scripture tells us here these hypocrites they'll judge you for things but they're doing the exact same thing yes

so in Paul's time the Jews who read his letter were challenged this was revolutionary talk coming from a Jewish

scholar of the law, of Mosaic law. He's challenging the Jewish assumption that their ethnic relationship with God exempted them from judgment. And he dismantles the notion that religious rituals, religious observances, religious rules provide any kind of immunity from God's truth-based justice. Right. I mean, this is a message that the church needs to hear today, Rick, because, I mean, really, don't we elevate Israel and the Jewish people, we elevate them to another status above Christians.

They can kill 20,000 children and God's not bothered. That's right. And whether they say it out loud or not, they do imply it that there is a that the Jews have a different pathway to salvation than Gentiles. That's right.

They rarely come out and say it publicly, but they imply it all the time. They also imply that they are justified in slaughtering the Palestinians because the land belongs to them, to the Jews, and they have the right to do whatever they have to do to get the land. But Paul makes it clear here. Listen, both Jew and Gentile.

Gentiles are condemned because of the sin they commit in the world. The Jews are condemned because they think they're more self-righteous than the Gentiles. Yes. So Paul says, according to truth. Yes. According to truth. He's referring to more than just the accuracy of facts. He's talking about God's unchanging nature and character.

God is truth. The truth is not just facts. God is truth. There's no lie in him he can't lie according to God according to truth so his judgment is grounded in eternal unshakable truth and pulsing this isn't ever going to change as long as there is a heaven and earth these are the way it's going to be this is a them which commit such things which things the things that he talked about in chapter one. And the hypocrisy of the people he's talking about in chapter two.

Right. Because, Doc, isn't he saying to the Jews, you secretly are doing all these things that I just accused the Gentiles of doing openly. Right. But you paint over it. You get this bucket of whitewash. Right. And you cover up your dirty sins with whitewash and you think nobody can see it you know weight wash is just uh it's it's chalk yes

watered down chalk watered down i used a lot of it as a kid my granddad get out there and whitewash that wall okay um and the good thing about a doctor you could just be sloppy with it you don't have to be you don't have to be a great painter with whitewash you're just slopping it on you know it's just chalk um so again what I'm reiterating here is Paul is setting the stage for his main thesis about the universality of sin and the universal need for justification through faith in Jesus Christ, who lived the sinless life, fulfilled the law, was killed, crucified at Calvary, died, was buried, rose from the dead. That's the main message here. He's saying nobody can escape God's judgment. It's universal and the only the way the only way out is faith in jesus christ so i you know i said the other day it's like for years and years and years i was told by well-meaning christian leaders you got to be like jesus and i tried for decades to be like Jesus and and I just

would you know can't you know condemn myself because I'm thinking I can't do it I'm so far behind in the class doc you know I've been in this Christian class for decades and I I haven't gotten out of kindergarten yet and you're no closer to being like jesus than you were 20 years ago but i'm watching these people on tv and and and these big churches telling me they they have graduated they're like Jesus. Honestly, Rick, Jesus doesn't need a clone on earth, does he? He doesn't. He does need a Rick Wiles. But they want you to believe that they have raged at perfection.

And that's why pastors rarely or ministers rarely are transparent they don't want the congregation to see them as they are because they're they fear the congregation their their followers will lose their all of them. It isn't a respect. It's they want them to stay in all of them. And I've just been the opposite. It's like, hey, I am what I am. This is it. This is me. I'm doing my best. But I came to the place where one day, god finally got it through my head and said rick you'll never be like me and never you're a fallen man yes let my son live in once i did that then it took all the pressure off of me doc amen

it just took the pressure off of me and i you don't have to be a hypocrite you don't have to pretend you don't have to put a religious face on you don't have to wear a mask you just you and you let christ live in you right there's the challenge so he's now now the challenge is to each day decrease decrease decrease less of you more of you getting better yeah but you can't get better you can only get less the way for your life to be better is for you to get less to be less of you yes more of Jesus less of you not more of you being like jesus this whole concept is mind-blowing to the people who were hearing it for the first time see what do you mean we're all guilty yes you're all guilty everyone but i can i do this so what you're guilty it's a radical message it's still radical today

so paul is inviting us to examine our own lives. Stop finding fault with other people. I want to say something. Some of you may be in personal relationships, you are obsessed with changing somebody else. And you might be right about what they are and what they're doing. But it's not your job to change them. Yeah. And you can't change them. And all you're doing is making yourself miserable. And you're making the other person miserable. And you're making everybody around you miserable, because you're trying to make some, you're trying to change somebody else.

Change yourself. Yeah. Change your attitude. Change yourself. You know how you change yourself? Decrease. Let Christ increase in you. Your attitude will change.

Your perspective on life will change. Your words will change. Everything will change your your perspective on life will change your words will change everything will change and and then the other person that you're trying to change will look at you and go wow what's gotten into you jesus the holy spirit stop criticizing other people. You can't change your wife or your husband or your father, your mother, your children. You can't do it. All you can do is change yourself. And the only way you can change yourself is by decreasing yourself

and making room for more Jesus. Yes. Less you get more jesus you study the word he is the word you're filling up your gas tank inside your being you're filling your gas tank up with with high octane Jesus gas. That's right. You need to drain that old watery lead-filled gas of yourself. Get it out. All right. Let him fill up your tank. Right.

Your life will start humming along pretty good. Now, let's be clear now let's be clear here that even though rick is saying uh you know you need to you be more like jesus be more like jesus uh you know that that's not the case we need to be rick wiles filled with the holy ghost we need to be doc burkhart filled with the Holy Ghost. The Bible doesn't tell us to be more like Jesus, but it does tell us to be imitators of Christ.

That's different. The Bible says to imitate Christ, that he is the example. And so he provides the template. He provides this is the standard. This is how you should walk. But Doc Burkhart, you walk, but my example. Rick Wiles, you walk, but my example.

Filled with the Holy Spirit, because you can't even do it on your own anyway. All right, so, Doc, I just had a thought. The difference between hypocrisy and imitation. Hmm. Paul is attacking hypocrisy and imitation. Hmm. Paul is attacking hypocrisy. Right. Claiming to be somebody that you're not. But Jesus said, be an imitator.

The devil says, be an actor. Jesus says, be an imitator. Yes. What's the difference? An actor is playing a role that he or she is not. An imitator is taking

on the characteristics of the ideal image. Wow. That was worth coming here this morning. That was worth the price of admission. It was. Doc, let's, I guess, verse 3? Yes.

Could you read that one for me? Sure. And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God? So he's asking a rhetorical question. He's directly asking this question to people who judge others for the sins that they commit. Do you think you're going to escape the judgment of God? He's focusing on

those who presume to be spiritually superior while secretly practicing the sins they condemn. So obviously there were some in Rome that thought this.

They thought they could get away with it. And Paul is correcting them. Correcting them with love and the word. But obviously there was some sort of issue or Paul wouldn't have written about it yes so he doc paul is challenging this false assumption that they had that the hypocrites that they could somehow escape god's judgment. Well, that's based,

that concept, that assumption is based in self-deception. You've lied to yourself. And what Paul's doing is bursting their bubble. Yes. You've deceived yourself. And so what he's showing them is that God's judgment is inevitable it's inescapable nobody can evade accountability regardless of their race

their status to religion their outward appearance their well nothing nobody can Nobody can avoid accountability. And so the universality of God's justice system makes sure that everyone on the planet is subjected to the same standard. Yes. Again, that... You go over to the State of Israel today and preach that on the streets of Tel Aviv or Jerusalem and tell me what happens to you. You'll get beat up. You'll be evicted. You'll be deported. You'll be evicted. You'll be deported.

You're not allowed to say those things. You know, request a meeting with your local synagogue rabbi and tell him that all the Jews in his synagogue are held accountable to the same rules everybody else does. The same standards. They'll argue with you on this. What Paul is teaching us is the fallacy of believing in double standards. That's really the theme here in these verses you people have double standards and i'm here to tell you you have deceived yourself nobody is exempt we're all going to be held accountable according to the same standard and the only

the only way out of this judgment is faith in jesus christ i i mean it's a radical message and yet it's such a simple message and it it needs to be proclaimed everywhere today uh i'm gonna do one more uh doc uh let's read verse four yes sir and this is really a continuation of three here or despises thou the riches of his goodness in for this vast, abundant, overflowing spring that comes from God's goodness. Right. of God like a bubbling spring is kindness, mercy, grace, and it's abundant because it's his character. Right.

The last thing God wants to do is judge somebody. It's not his character. He doesn't want to do it. He doesn't desire to do is judge somebody. It's not his character. He doesn't want to do it. He doesn't desire to do it. We force him to do it. His default mood is kindness, mercy, and grace. He doesn't sit in the courtroom all day long yeah that's the one place he doesn't want to go he he does it out of necessity but it's not where he desires to be

and really and technically the father hands off judgment to Jesus on the final day that's how much he doesn't like it and Jesus said his word would judge you on the final day that's right he hands it off to his word

I've already spoken it. You're judged according to my word. In fact, the Bible, Gospel of John says, the Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son. But the Son said,

my word judges you. So, it's like two negatives. They're going to hold it up. Here's the word and here's you. Do they match? You are going to be judged according to this word. So the smart thing to do is to get as much word in you and allow christ to dwell in you and live in you and speak through you and act through you so that when god holds up the negatives

you look just like the word looks the same to me that's what we're doing here in this class we have a lifetime to do these things so the forbearance that paul speaks of is god's restraint in delaying judgment right withholding the punishment that the sinners deserve this goes back to what we were just saying it's not his desire to judge he's long suffering he's been putting it off yes you know doc one one common theme I've heard from Christians in the 25 years, almost 26 years I've been doing this work, you know, with the message I was speaking about America.

America must repent, must come back to God. Judgment is awaiting trouble great troubles overhead and many times uh well-meaning christians will say yes rick but god you know always god is always about four syllables god god is is long suffering yes he is and you got to make god long too for the long suffering to really be emphasized god yes but i my reply is always well have you ever considered the possibility that we're at the end of his long suffering you know because i'll say well god god god won't judge without warning us he's been warning us this new book that i've written i'm going back to 1930s showing prophetic visions that preachers had about world war iii god's been long suffering

but eventually it comes a time where he goes okay i have to deal with this but that's not his desire it's not he's not like boy i'm going down to my courtroom today and i'm going to whack some sinners that's not his desire he's such a kind loving father give them some more time send another brother send another sister another saint over to him with the word maybe we can change him maybe today's the day they'll listen. And yet in his knowledge he knows who will listen and who won't. And yet he doesn't give up on them

until they reach the state of being a reprobate. His kindness is not tolerance of sin. Yes. It is an active expression of his desire to lead sinners to repentance. Yes.

That's a good point to bring out, Rick, because the modern world would interpret that as, well, if there is a God, then he's certainly not judging us because he hasn't judged us yet, has he? That's right. So his mercy, his long-suffering patience with us, that's his mercy.

It's meant to bring about a transformation of heart and behavior. He's always trying to reconcile. Keep that in your mind. God is always trying to reconcile. Let's get together. Come on, let's get together. Let's talk this out. Sit down

and let me show you my way. He's always trying to reconcile. He's worked here almost 11 years. One of my faults as an executive, and I don't have to do it anymore because I've turned this over to Travis. So I stepped out of that role, and I'm so glad. But one of my faults misbehaving rebellious employees whatever the problem was you know failure to come to work on time failure to do their job refusal to follow instruction whatever it is argumentative whatever it is okay arguing with other employees i would put off and put off and put off dealing with that problem because it's like let's work with them but maybe we can get them through this

we can love them in yeah maybe yeah we can love them If I'm kind to them, maybe they'll change. Did they ever change, Rick? Did they ever change? No, none of them changed. Nope. None of them changed. And so you had to ask them to leave. Or you pray, God, speak to them to leave.

I've done that a number of times. And they leave. Yeah. I've seen people resign in two weeks after I asked God to remove them. That doesn't mean everybody who's resigned doesn't mean that. But I'm just talking about really problem people. I just say, God, I can't deal with them anymore. Please find this person another job.

Please bless this person. Please bless this argumentative, difficult employee with another job. Bless them. Prosper them somewhere else. Let them go somewhere else and spread their ways, okay? Folks, you need to learn from that. I really do. You need to learn from that. That is a life lesson. That there are times you

just can't love people back to correction. It's not without trying. So, God's desire is to bring people to reconciliation with him see our main our main assignment from the from the king from jesus is to be reconcilers right when he says go out into all the world he's saying go out and reconcile those people bring those sinners to me to be reconciled you're my reconcilers get out there and spread the good news of reconciliation

my doors are open i'm reconciling today the reconciler is in his office. Come and be reconciled with your maker. That's our job. Our job is not to change them. That's right. Because even the goodness of God, and these verses three and four,

even the infinite goodness of God will not bring them in unless they repent. It doesn't matter how big and how good God is. It won't make a difference to those individuals unless they repent. So if God's goodness cannot change some people, your goodness isn't going to change people either. Right.

But again, this goes back to the thing we were talking about earlier. Stop trying to change people either. Right. But again, this goes back to the thing we were talking about earlier. Stop trying to change people. Our responsibility is to announce reconciliation. That takes the wind out of a lot of religious people. What do you mean? I'm supposed to do this? No, you're just supposed to do this no you're

just supposed to announce reconciliation that's right preach the word the holy spirit will do the changing um so some sinners despise god's goodness they actually despise it they reject his goodness they they treat his grace with contempt or indifference and indifference is you just treat it like it's common. Contempt is outright rejection. But people that have contempt for God's grace have a hardened heart. Yes. You've got to be really hard-hearted to have contempt in your heart towards God.

And yet, we probably have all met people like that way just angry at god just angry they get contempt for god like what did he do to you what what did he do to you that makes you so angry towards God right it's often as this comes down to their rebellious their stubborn and God's been dealing with their their rebellion and stubbornness for many years and they've come to resent him. Yeah. And not realizing it's his goodness that's working in them because their stubbornness and rebellion is going to lead to their destruction. Right.

And isn't it interesting that generally in life, two things reveal the rebel. Blessings and trials. Sometimes blessing a rebel reveals their rebellion. Sometimes them going through a trial reveals their rebellion too. Yes. But we're under no obligation to bless a rebel. Nope. That's another thing I stopped doing. but that you were under no obligation to bless a rebel

nope that's another thing i stopped doing well maybe if i was if i just was really good to him and you've been really good to some and what ends up as i get hurt yeah see r. See, Rick has an extremely generous heart. I mean, he really, really does. And so there is no fault in that, Rick, at all. I don't. And so I would rather that you be generous than anything else. And so you've taught me generosity in these things. And so because I have a tendency sometimes what i want to withhold my

hand yes that's doc and so i'm being transparent there are times i i like holding on to things but rick has taught me generosity and because he goes above and beyond uh in blessing people and so make that clear to everybody yeah but my my personal weakness failure is uh allowing myself to be hurt when somebody that I was generous to treats me with unkindness later and I go I don't understand this I just don't understand how how could someone if I've been so kind and good to you why later do you turn against me I don't understand this and there's a you know there's you can be wounded yeah and that wounding is um it's actually a form of unforgiveness. I hadn't thought about that.

It's actually a form of unforgiveness. It's not that you're angry and bitter at that person, but you can't let go of the wound that they inflicted on you. Oh boy. I think you're speaking to some people there right now, Rick. I just spoke to myself again. Oh, it's... I got faces jumping in my mind right now, Doc.

Let it go, Rick. Let it go. I'm thinking right now. Wow. You're watching Holy Spirit Conviction live in action, folks. Yes. Just let it go. You know, and so we punish ourselves thinking, well, this person that we were very kind to very good to and then turned around mistreated us spoke you know unkind things did you know whatever or was ungrateful just totally ungrateful just walked away out of our life we think well if i hold on to this pain somehow god's going to reconcile and bring that person back in and that person's going to say oh i'm so sorry i took advantage of you

no it's not going to happen most likely it's not going to happen most likely i'm not saying it won't happen most likely it's not going to right and what you have to do is let that person go just let them go um this this may sound harsh but i've actually have applied it in my life a couple times because i had to um i i read a biography of of the entertainer Dean Martin. It was written, it was either I read one written by his son and one written by his daughter and I don't remember which one said this. But they said, dad had a way, he had the old Italian way of dealing with people

who wronged him, didn't him because martin was very generous and very helped a lot of people get their career started and so forth and when people would not show appreciation for what he did but they turned against him the way he dealt with it the son or daughter said was the old italian way and the old italian way was you turn your back and you walk away and you never look back not meaning that you hold bitterness not meaning that you hold a grudge but you simply say i'm done with that person. I'm moving on.

You're not holding any grudges. You're not bitter. You're not angry. You're not unforgiving, but you're not punishing yourself. Right. You're not going a couple of years saying, what did I do wrong? Why won't that person come back and be friends

with me again and why you know now you just turn your back and walk on they made a decision you make yours go on okay it sounds sounds hard doesn't it but life is that way yes life is did jesus ever just walk away from people many times many times he walked away from them yeah i've been around and argue with the pharisees and sadducees he walked away in, he taught his disciples to walk away and say, hey, you come to a town and they're continuing to bug

the daylights out of you. You don't have to put up with it. You can shake the dust off your sandals and move on. I am not going to condemn you for that. Just get out of town. You don't have to tolerate it. You can condemn them, but you don't have to tolerate it. You can condemn it, but you don't have to tolerate it. Jesus was telling them,

the dust of those people's town, the dust on their streets and roads, you don't even want it on your shoes. Yes. Just shake it off and move on. Go to another town. So, but anyhow we're back to God is always a reconciler he's always seeking to record declaring somebody reprobate is the last final the thing that he doesn't want to do to anybody it's the judicial decision that he dreads making on any person because it

sentenced them to the lake of fire. When he says there is no hope for you, there is no way you will ever change. Because he knows. He knows. Jesus. because he knows he knows jesus god's patience is enormous it's immense but it is not eternal his patience doesn't last forever for each person. Judgment is certain for those who refuse to respond to his kindness with repentance. What is repentance?

It is changing the way you think, the direction you're going. You get a new attitude about something. i'm not going to do that anymore therefore i'm going to change my ways so we get back to the theme paul is targeting self-righteous religious people who judge others while failing to recognize their own need for repentance excuse me and their hypocrisy reveals an inconsistency in their life they got double standards God's mercy is active. It's ongoing. Always calling for transformation. God is always seeking to draw sinners, backsliders to him.

Not a harsh, mean God. Okay, I think we'll wrap it up there. We'll start tomorrow with verse five. All right. Great lesson day, Rick. Really enjoyed it and got a great response from folks. By the way, while we were doing our study today,

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see everything's got there's an action a reaction i'm not i'm not trying to get anybody to play a little fiddle for me i'm not looking for sympathy i just things take to to get things done you have to structure time yes so we have to prepare for morning manna and then we have to prepare for the god guest plus we have other projects that are currently running in the background like you see here churches there's a we're rolling out a new uh podcast called remnant ready we got a book that's going to go to publication there's all kinds of things underway really i don't know how we manage it all except through the holy spirit and so i know that's but good thing we got the

holy spirit and so yes all right folks tomorrow wednesday morning, join us at 8 a.m. Eastern Time for Morning Manor. We're going to pick back up in Romans 2, verse 5. So read ahead, study a little bit, get some of that word into you so that when you come here tomorrow, you are prepared to join us together.

Thank you for the 360-plus people that joined us live today on Morning Manor. Final words, Rick? Yes. thank you for the 360 plus people that joined us live today on morning man final words rick yes watch how fast i disappeared to go to work for true news in three two one god bless you we'll see on the next edition of morning manna