TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - Former Russian Spy Claims KGB Recruited Donald Trump in 1987

Episode Date: February 21, 2025

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Because strength comes from smart preparation. American Reserves, your ally in emergency readiness. Visit our website and become prepared today. Attorney General Pam Bondi plans to release files on Jeffrey Epstein. She made the comments to podcaster Benny Johnson during a brief interview at the Conservative Political Action Conference just outside Washington, D.C. The Attorney General said the explosive material is on her desk now and that there are a lot of documents to see. This is True News for Friday, February 21st, 2025. Let's begin our analysis and commentary on today's headlines with this article published by Newsweek.

Donald Trump's AG to release Jeffrey Epstein list. A lot of documents. And we get a short clip from Benny Johnson's podcast. And this is what Pam Bondi said to Benny Johnson. Scaring bad guys is something Cash has talked about a lot. And you have when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein and the people who are like predators in this country. They've been given a pass. And a lot of Americans think these guys got a pass for a long time and maybe even are still being protected right now. Where are we at with the Jeffrey Epstein list, the documents? And Cash has made a lot of public statements about this. Where are we at? I was briefed on that yesterday. I can't

talk about that publicly, but, you know, President Trump has given a very strong directive and that's going to be followed. Wow. OK, so a lot of documents. Yeah. Okay. All right. So people can expect actual movement on this. It's not just empty promises. Oh, Donald Trump doesn't make empty promises. Yeah, right. I think promises made, promises kept. And that's why we're all there to carry out his directive about making America safe and prosperous.

All right, Doc. So we should expect to see something released soon. Something. Something. Do you think everything? I have no idea because I don't know what it is, everything. Yeah. You know, if you've never seen it, how do you know if it's everything?

You have to just take people's word for it. Just like the JFK files. When they release it, how do you know it's everything and how do you know it's the real thing? Right. And I saw a clip of Attorney General Bondi from Fox & Friends this morning. She appeared and they asked, what files are on your desk now besides Epstein? She said, JFK files, RFK files. And they asked her directly, have you seen anything that took your breath away yet?

She said, no, not yet. So I thought that was an interesting comment there, too. So I guess we'll just see what happens here at this point. That, to me, sounds like the real stuff was removed before it got to her desk. Right. Okay, Pam, you can go ahead and release this. Another one, P. Diddy. I ordinarily don't talk about this case, but something happened here today.

His lawyer dramatically quit the case. This is the Mirror newspaper. And issued a mysterious 14-word statement about his withdrawal from the case. This is the Mirror newspaper, and issued a mysterious 14-word statement about his withdrawal from the case. That's right. Go ahead. PDD's lawyer, Anthony Rico, stepped down from the legal team. He said, quote, under no circumstances can I continue to effectively serve as counsel for Sean Combs. Sean Combs is his actual name. Attorney Rico said this in a motion for withdrawal of counsel filed in New York earlier today. Discussions had been held with lead counsel Mark Aniflio and Rico before the motion was filed.

Rico said he would not be providing details to support the application. And so likely there's a shakeup in the team with the likelihood of information being released on Sean Combs now, too. Dr. Lee, I interpreted that statement, under no circumstances can I continue to serve as counsel for Sean Combs. I interpreted it as Mr. Rigo saying, what I've learned is so gross and disgusting, I can't do this. I can't defend this man. That's, we'll wait and see. But again, there could be some explosive revelations. If the names and details are brought out, I think we're looking at another Jeffrey Epstein-style blackmail operation.

I really believe that's what was going on. And it went on for decades. I mean, it wasn't like a one-time event. This went on for years. And Hollywood and the music industry knew about it. Yes, and they were participating in it, too, more than likely. New York Post, Trump administration launches probe into extremely lax HHS vetting for migrant kids that left thousands vulnerable to sex trafficking. Yes, the Department of Health and Human Services is launching an investigation to thousands of cases of unaccompanied migrant children

who may have ended up in the hands of sexual predators and human traffickers because of lax vetting policies during the Biden administration. An internal memo viewed by the New York Post details how the Office of Refugee Resettlement ignored obvious safety risks and prioritized quickly releasing youth under the Unaccompanied Children Program, creating a situation that made vulnerable kids very easy targets. The report details egregious cases where migrant sponsors provided images that were obviously fake or doctored in their application to obtain custody of children and were seldom challenged by government staff tasked with protecting the kids. Now, one photo, which we're going to show you here, submitted by a man who wanted custody of a migrant child, showed the child's mother crudely photoshopped into the image to claim he had a relationship with her. If you look on the image there, the mother's feet were clipped off in the botched clip art job.

And so these were the types of evidence that were being submitted that the Biden administration just simply didn't follow up on, or ignored, or allowed it to go on because they were participating in it. I'm going to go with the last talk. They allowed it to go on because they were participating in it. CBS News, Mexico's president warns U.S. against invading to fight cartels after Washington designates them as a terrorist group. So we've moved to the place now. We're talking about an invasion of Mexico.

Or at least she is at this point. Or at least she is, but I think you can count on it. Yes. Mexico will never tolerate an invasion of its national sovereignty by the U.S. President Claudia Scheinbaum warned Thursday after Washington designated Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations. This cannot be an opportunity for the U.S. to invade our sovereignty, she said. With Mexico is collaboration and coordination, never subordination or interventionism, and even less invasion. President Trump signed an

executive order on his first day back in the White House saying that the cartels constitute a national security threat beyond that posed by traditional organized crime. The move has raised speculation about possible military action. And some of that speculation is a tweet by Elon Musk on his X platform which said that means they're eligible for drone strikes. Right, and this is in response to the U.S. State Department officially designating a number of cartel organizations as terrorist organizations. You know, President Scheinbaum said something interesting earlier today where she's trying to maybe change the tack a little bit. She said most of the weapons that the cartels are using are from the U.S., therefore isn't the U.S. a sponsor of terrorism. She said 74 percent of the weapons that the cartels use are sourced from the United States.

Well, that goes back to Barack Obama and Fast and Furious. Right. But I would want to know why are the guns still flowing unless they're coming from Ukraine. Right. And that's what I suspect. Ukraine and other places. Are selling U.S. weapons. Right.

This next story, this came out today, Daily Beast. Former Russian intelligence officer claims KGB recruited Donald Trump when he was 40 years old. This is the story, folks. And the KGB agent, former KGB agent, posted this claim on his Facebook page.

So, Doc, you know, obviously people are saying, well, Rick, why are you doing this? Why are you showing this? Well, if this story was about Joe Biden, would I show it? Certainly you would. I'm just being fair. Right. This is what's being said. Whether it's true, I have no way of knowing.

This is what's being reported. That a former Soviet intelligence officer has alleged that Donald Trump was recruited by the KGB in 1987 and given the codename Krasnov. So who's the agent? Well, the agent is an Alner Musaev, a former head of intelligence in Kazakhstan and before that a Soviet KGB officer. He's making this explosive claim in a Facebook post, which he made, and he claimed that he served in the 6th Directorate of the KGB in Moscow, which was responsible for counterintelligence within the economy. One of his key objectives, he claimed, this has come from Musaev, was recruiting businessmen from capitalist countries. Musaev wrote that in 87, our directorate recruited Donald Trump, a 40-year-old American businessman under the pseudonym Krasnov. Now, he offered no corroborating evidence, but he is a well-known former senior intelligence agent. The Daily Beast has reached

out to him for comment. In his Facebook post, he said that his department specialized in recruiting spies and intelligence sources. He made another shocking allegation in another comment saying today the personal file of resident Krasnov, Donald Trump, has been removed from the FSB. He is being privately managed by one of Putin's close associates. We have that Facebook post there by Alner Messiah. And, of course, we already talked about these details here. Houdini said, you know, is verified as a well-respected, you know,, former KGB spy. He's not just alleging that he's a spy. He has the resume to back it up. Okay?

That's what makes us serious, Doc. So why now? Why now? Um, the, uh, deep state operatives are very, very alarmed at Mr. Trump's, um, negotiations with the Russians. Okay. And this is, this is meant to, uh, disrupt those disruption, disrupt those negotiations. It's either fake information or it's real. Or the Europeans have gotten to Messiah and they're using him.

Okay, but I'm saying it has to be either the claim is fake or it's real. Which one is it? Well, you have to go back, I guess, to motive. Who would gain by accusing Donald Trump of being a KGB operative? The Western deep state? Yes. That's what I'm saying. So either they have released it now and you only have two options. I'm assuming they're the

ones who have done it. All right, so let's take that and say that's the fact. All right, we'll just assume they have motivated this former KGB agent to make this claim. So now we have to come between two options. Either he made it up and he's been encouraged to make up a claim, or the Western deep state has had this information for quite some time and said we've got to use it now. Which one is it? I would lean to it's made up because Mosayev has been a critic of Russia in Ukraine, has not been a fan of Vladimir Putin.

I think the folks in the EU, in the EU Ministry of Dark Arts, said, hey, we need a KGB agent to accuse Donald Trump of being a spy. And so, because of all the ridiculous stories about Donald Trump, when I saw this one today, I was like, all right, how desperate are these guys to try to pin a spy charge, a Russian spy charge on Donald Trump? And it hasn't appeared till now. I mean, the man has been involved in politics since 2014, 2015. They've accused him of everything, everything.

You know, being a Russian stooge, you know, the Russiagate files, and now this story comes out. I just don't buy it. It stinks like spoiled borscht. I mean, it just stinks to me. But I think we can agree the timing is because the Western deep state is in a state of panic. Right. Absolutely.

Whether it's true or false, now is the time. They're in a state of panic. Because now, Donald Trump's the enemy now. We'll go down to number 11, Newsweek. Steve Bannon accused of making Nazi salute during CPAC speech. And that picture there is not him doing a Nazi salute. No. we've got the video. So Newsweek says, Steve Bannon has been accused of making a Nazi salute while giving a speech at

CPAC. The incident occurred soon after Elon Musk was accused of giving a Nazi salute on stage at an event celebrating the president's January inauguration. We'll show you the video. You decide. It's very, very fast, quick at the end of this video. This video's only 13 seconds long. Let's watch. The only way that they win is we retreat, and we're not going to retreat.

We're not going to surrender. We're not going to quit. Fight, fight, fight. Amen. What was it? I think he did it on purpose. And what did he do? He'll say it's a Roman salute, but he knew that it would get attention.

He knew that the left would go nuts after seeing him do it. Why would you do it? He's an anarchist. That's why. But why would you want to be associated with Hitler? I mean, he deliberately made a Sieg Heil Nazi salute. That's not a normal. We can argue back and forth on Elon and what he did

but what Bannon did what Elon did was strange it was strange but that clearly looked like a deliberate Nazi salute and he did it at CPAC

don't trust Steve Bannon I haven't trusted Steve Bannon. I haven't trusted Steve Bannon for years. Well, it was enough to make the leader of France's conservative movement to cancel his speech at CPAC. Jordan Bardella said he canceled his speech at CPAC after a gesture alluding to Nazi ideology by Steve Bannon. So the president of France's National Rally Party was in Washington, D.C., but not present when Bannon made the gesture. Mr. Bardella, who's only 29 years old, said, I had been invited to make a speech on the links between the United States and France, as well as recent electoral dynamics of patriot parties of Europe.

Yesterday, while I was not present in the room, one of the speakers, out of the provocation, allowed himself a gesture alluding to Nazi ideology. I therefore took the immediate decision to cancel my speech that had been scheduled this afternoon. I don't like it, Doc. I don't. I'm just. I have withdrawn from.

I really have withdrawn from politics, from the Republican Party, from the right. It's just stuff going on I don't like. I'm a conservative. Politically, you're a conservative. Politically, a conservative. But I'm not a nationalist.

I'm not a Nazi. And I'm not anything. I'm not a nationalist, I'm not a Nazi, and I'm not anything. I'm a conservative, okay? And things like that bother me. I don't like alluding to emperors and Caesars. Wait till you see this next one. This is at CPAC also Here are two young men promoting what they call the third term project

To allow Donald Trump to run for another term, but look at the image on their banner Yes, look at it. Here it is Hello there everyone. I am Shane Trejo. I am the campaign lead for the third term project. So our stated goal is to ensure that President Trump can get the third term that we believe the public demands that he can receive. Representative Andy Adels of Tennessee has introduced a constitutional amendment that would amend the Constitution to allow President Trump to get a third term.

Mark Avano, a legal expert, will be explaining kind of the basis of how that works after I give my brief statement today. But we believe that the public needs a third term from President Trump. What he's doing already at warp speed with DOGE and with making the government more efficient, going to battle with the bureaucracy, the permanent bureaucracy in Washington DC that has lorded over us and strangled the economy for so long. This has been such a scourge for the American people. Trump is going to battle with them and he's making incredible strides, but the forces of evil that he's going to war

against are not going to go away. They might be dormant for a while, but they're gonna be waiting to get right back in there as soon as President Trump is out of office. So we believe that with a third term, he'll be able to remake the government. He'll be able to take a wrecking ball to the bureaucracy, to the networks that operate behind the bureaucracy. And for generations to come, it will make the necessary change. Stop the deep state, stop the institutional bureaucracy,

stop the administrative state, and restore freedom to the people. So that's the idea here that we're pushing with the Third Term Project. Go to thirdtermproject.com for more information. And I'm just going to have Marco Vagno, our legal expert, talk a little bit about the basis behind it before we take some questions from the media. So, Mark, go right ahead. Thank you, Shane.

So a lot of people, especially in the modern mind frame, think, well, presidents should only have two terms, right? That's how it's always been. That video goes on, but the main thing I wanted you to see was the banner portraying Donald Trump as Caesar. With the laurels and everything. Doc, this is just weird. I don't know in the image with the eagle.

With the crown? Yeah, the crown. Or it could be a halo. Either way, it concerns me. Okay, this is weird. It's weird. Why are conservatives, why are so-called conservative patriots trying to create a movement to establish a dictatorship? If the Democrats were doing it. We'd be screaming.

That's right. Well, I'm not a Democrat and I'm not a Republican. But you remember back, I think it was several years ago. I think it was during President Trump's first term where they had the tweet that he put out, where Trump forever? Yes. Well, he had 2024. Right. 28.

Oh, there it is. Oh, look at this. Oh, you guys are fast. Look at that, 40, 44. And you know what? And when I showed this, people watching True News said, come on, Rick, he's trolling you. He's not serious about this. You're falling for it.

Okay, well, then why did these guys have Donald Trump portrayed as Julius Caesar? Why is Steve Bannon doing a Nazi salute? Look, Donald Trump's former wife said that he had Mein Kampf at his bedside when they were married. Yes. That he liked to read Hitler's speeches. Now, that was her accusation, but they were married. I don't know, folks.

There's some troubling things going on. I like the stuff that's being done. I like cleaning up the corruption and everything, but this talk of a Caesar deeply troubles me. I don't know if you caught the

image, let's see, today's the 21st, so that would have been Wednesday. The White House – Deeply troubles me. I don't know if you caught the image. Let's see. Today is the 21st. That would have been Wednesday. The White House put out a tweet, and the image had a picture of Donald Trump with a crown. No. Oh, you didn't see that? No.

Where did this – I'll grab that for you real quick. It came from the White House? Oh, yes. Hang on here. Let me grab it real quick. And hang on, guys in control. I know I'm getting ahead of you here so but I sent that link over this came from the White House official account so I don't know if you can pull it up Lee come on that's getting strange oh well we live in

strange times that's the White House account Rick Rick. Okay? It was talking about congestion pricing and everything. It said, long live the king, President Donald Trump. Is this an actual – is this supposed to be Newsweek magazine or Time or did they create it? I guess the White House created it. It's the White House official account. They created that cover? Oh, this isn't good. It's not good, folks.

I don't know if you recall, but the day after, well, I think the week after the election where Donald Trump met with Republican leadership in D.C., you know, saying, hey, we won. And he made the comment about a third term to the Republican leadership. That's something you guys are going to have to work on here over the next couple of years. So I think – well, I know that those that support Donald Trump would be really in favor of it. But it's – there are some disturbing trends that are popping up here. Doc, many years ago, I used to get a lot of, I haven't had anything, thank God, for quite some time. I used to get a lot of death threats.

They always came from the left. There was one day I was praying about it, and the Holy Spirit said to me, Rick, there will be a day you will get death threats from the right. I never forgot that. We're entering a very weird time. And I think a lot of Trump supporters would gladly accept him as king. I do. I believe a lot of them would accept him as a king.

And be prepared for martial law. I'm probably just destroying my support base. Folks, I'm committed to Christ. I'm not committed to any human. I'm committed to Jesus Christ. I'm telling you the truth. My goal is to help you get to New Jerusalem. And there are going to be some really strange things happen

before we get to New Jerusalem. Don't get caught up into the delusions of the day. Next one, number 14. This is Sierra sometimes. Republican U.S. Senators and House members introduce Defund Act to pull the USA from the United Nations. I like it. I like it. I like it, too.

But you know where we're going, Doc. America will be an empire. Right. We will be the United Nations. Yes. We will tell other nations, join us, or we'll come and get you. Yes. Do you like what's going on with us in Canada?

Do you like the fighting that's going on in hockey games? I mean, hockey's always been aggressive. Right. But American and Canadian athletes fighting each other on a hockey rink. Over what? Their respective national anthems. I don't like this. I don't like it.

I like my Canadians. I like them. I've never had a bad thought about a Canadian in my entire life. Have you? Just Justin Trudeau. Yeah, but I mean, what can you say bad about a Canadian? Nothing. That it's not America?

I mean, that's one thing I can say. I don't like this. I don't like this. Suddenly in the past couple of weeks, we got Americans and Canadians fighting. I don't like it. And Donald Trump has stirred up this aggressive feeling. He stirred it up. Yes. He's making Canadians and Americans fight. He's doing it deliberately. I don't like it. I have nothing wrong with him suggesting what about

if the American people and the Canadian people have a discussion about uniting as one country? Alright, let's have that discussion. And let's vote on it. Both countries, we vote on it. But this stuff of, we're going to come get you?

Yes. Because that's where it seems to be heading right now. Well, it is. It's very aggressive. Same way with Greenland. We're going to take it. Well, it is. It's very aggressive. Same way with Greenland. We're going to take it. Well, that's called theft. That's what dictators do.

We're just going to come take it. I don't like it. I didn't vote for this stuff. This is not what I voted for. I'm very concerned how quickly it's gone in this direction. I'm probably coming to the place where I should just get out of the news business. Because it's...

I'll tell you, Doc, where this is going, it's going to go... You are either totally in allegiance to Mr. Trump or you are an enemy. There's not going to be any middle ground. And his supporters are going to have that attitude. Right. Okay? His supporters will have that attitude. So it concerns me.

But the stuff he's doing I like you know other than trying to take Canada and Greenland London Times and Gaza right we're just going to take Gaza oh two million people

you got to get out where are you going to go I don't know just get out I want the land that's what a landlord does right he's evicting the people Two million people, you got to get out. Where are you going to go? I don't know. Just get out. I want the land. That's what a landlord does, right? Right. He's evicting the people. So he can build a new building.

But it's not his land. That hasn't stopped him in the past, Rick. He started building on property before he closed on the land. So... Well, God may have something to do with this. Yeah. London Times, Trump will scrap federal income tax and abolish the IRS.

Hey, this is wonderful. All right? I'm all for it. This is great. Let's do it. Yes. All right? I'm not complaining.

This is.... Let's do it. Yes. All right. I'm not complaining. This is our secretary of Mr. Lutnick. Lutnick. Okay. Secretary of what? Commerce? Yes, commerce. I don't know all the cabinet members yet. So Mr. Lutnick was on Fox News talking to Jesse Waters, and this is what he said about getting rid of the IRS. Think about it. Donald Trump announces the external revenue service, and his goal is very simple, to abolish.

His goal is to abolish the internal revenue service and let all the outsiders pay. I mean, this is someone who is focused on America. Let's drive down our waste, fraud, and abuse. I'll give you an example. Cruise ships. You ever see a cruise ship with an American flag on the back? They have flags of, like, Liberia or Panama.

None of them pay taxes. None of them pay taxes. Every super tanker, none pays taxes. Alcohol, all foreign alcohol, no taxes. This is going to end under Donald Trump, and those taxes are going to be paid, and Americans' tax rates are going to come down. That's what Donald Trump wants to do, balance our budget and cut our taxes. I mean, imagine a Democratic senator going against that. What planet are these people on? Doc, what was his job before he became Commerce Secretary?

Well, at one time, he was the chief executive officer of a company called Cantor Fitzgerald. Cantor Fitzgerald. And where were they headquartered? Well, in 2001, they were headquartered in the World Trade Center in New York City. So he was in the trade center on 9-11? No, he had taken the day off that day. Oh, okay. He was out of the office that day. Okay, we'll move on now.

J.D. Vance, speaking at CPAC, told the young men there, act like men. Let's watch. My message to young men is don't allow this broken culture to send you a message that you're a bad person because you're a man, because you like to tell a joke, because you like to have a beer with your friends, or because you're competitive. our like our our message the the cultural message and i think the president's and mine is the exact opposite but our cultural message is i think that it wants to turn everybody into whether male or female into androgynous idiots who think the same, talk the same, and act the same. We actually think God made male and female for a purpose. And we want you guys to thrive as young men and as young women. And we're going to help with our public policy to make it possible to do So, a week or two ago, Mr. Trump was asked about J.D. Vance being the Republican nominee in 2028,

because Mr. Trump is only serving this one term. Right. And Mr. Trump did not endorse J.D. Vance for the presidential nominee. Here it is. This is New York Post. From the 10th. What's the date on this? The 10th?

Yes. Trump reveals he doesn't yet view J.D. Vance as his successor in 2028. Do we have the video? No, I don't have the video ready. Okay. Because they asked him, do you endorse him? And he quickly said no. I mean, immediately he said no.

And kind of implied he had to work for it. That's how I took it then, but now I don't. Oh, yeah? Okay. Mr. Trump is the nominee in 2028. It didn't hit me on February 10th. I didn't even consider that. It didn't dawn on me on February 10th because I thought, why? Why didn't he say, of course, J.D. Vance?

Why I picked him as vice president? Right. We're going to move him into the presidency. I had any consideration. No, Donald Trump already knows he plans to be the nominee in 2028. We have the video now. You got it? Let's watch.

Do you view Vice President J.D. Vance as your successor, the Republican nominee in 2028? No, but he's very capable. I mean, I don't think that it, you know, I think you have a lot of very capable people. So far, I think he's doing a fantastic job. It's too early. We're just starting. But by the time you get to the midterms, he's going to be looking for an endorsement. A lot of people have said that this has been the greatest opening, almost three weeks, in the history of the presidency. That's what's been the fastest and the most stuff. Well, we've done so much so fast, and we really had to because

they have really, what they've done to our country is so sad. It's so sad. We're going to be bigger, better, and stronger than ever before. All right. But he said no. Yes. And I didn't make the connection until you just said it here. I just thought that he was just saying Vance is going to have to earn it that way. And think of all that's happened with Vance since the 10th. He's been to Munich. He's called the EU out. Now he's a CPAC. If J.D. Vance isn't qualified to be president in 2029,

then he's not qualified to be president today if Donald Trump died. Right. So, would you not say, of course I endorsed him in 2028? I had that in mind when I selected him.

Well, I would keep this in mind, too. He's been burned by vice presidents before. True. But I never made the connection to you. He's planning to still be president. Trump forever. I think we're going to have a constitutional convention.

Enough states have already ratified a, what year was that? 1970-something resolution for a constitutional convention. And the argument is that one of the last states that ratified it, it was after the deadline that Congress passed, but I think they're going to push it through and have a constitutional convention and not just have an amendment, but rewrite the Constitution. You ain't seen nothing yet. Okay? You haven't seen anything yet.

The Guardian in Old Red in London. Liz Trust tells CPAC UK is failing and needs a MAGA-style movement. I guess she was the shortest-run prime minister in the history of the country. Yes. Only for a few months. She says that Britain is run by the deep state. And she said Great Britain needs a Trump style MAGA movement to save the country. Here is Liz Truss. And we look across the Atlantic with envy. We see President Trump in the executive, in the Oval Office, signing off executive orders. And we want some of that in Britain. We want, we want drill, baby, drill. We want men banned from women's bathrooms and women's sports.

We want illegal immigrants deported. We want taxes to be cut. We want a Trump revolution in Britain. We want to flood the zone. We want Elon and his nerd army of muskrats examining the British deep state. Well, maybe we just take over England. That would be the easiest thing. We just conquer Great Britain.

And then the Buckingham Palace can just become... A tourist attraction. No, it'd become Mar-a-Lago East. Stephen Miller, White House advisor, set the news media straight as they were questioning him about presidential powers. This is what he had to say. It is true that many of the people in this room for four years failed to cover the fact that Joe Biden was mentally incompetent and was not running the country.

It is also true that many people in this room who have used this talking point that Elon is not elected fail to understand how government works. So I'm glad for the opportunity for a brief civics lesson. A president is elected by the whole American people. He's the only official in the entire government that is elected by the entire nation, right? Judges are appointed. Members of Congress are elected at the district or state level. Just one man and the Constitution, Article 2, has a clause known as the Vesting Clause and it says the executive power shall be vested in a president. Singular. The whole will of democracy is imbued into the elected

president. That president then appoints staff to then impose that democratic will onto the government. The threat to democracy, indeed the existential threat to democracy, is the unelected bureaucracy of lifetime tenured civil servants who believe they answer to no one, who believe they can do whatever they want without consequence, who believe they can set their own agenda no matter what Americans vote for. So Americans vote for radical FBI reform, and FBI agents say they don't want to change. Or Americans vote for radical reform under energy policies, but EPA bureaucrats say they don't want to change. Or Americans vote to end DEI, racist DEI policies, and lawyers in the Department of Justice say they don't want to change. What President Trump is doing is he is removing

federal bureaucrats who are defying democracy by failing to implement his lawful orders, which are the will of the whole American people. Hey, Doug, Yale scientists discovered that the COVID vaccines cause what's called post-vaccination syndrome and bring about long-term biological changes years after the injection. Wow. Frankly, I'm shocked, Rick. Yeah, they caught up with our conspiracy theory, didn't they? Yes. So there it is.

Yale scientists link COVID vaccines to alarming, alarming new syndrome with long-term effects. It's not a new one. They're just finally admitting what many of us were telling people years ago. Don't take this shot. Don't take the kill shot um but it says uh experts from yale university have uncovered a new concerning condition linked to the covet 19 vaccines dubbed post-vaccination syndrome it not only comes with a host of uncomfortable symptoms but also causes persistent biological changes don't want those persistent biological changes. Don't want those. Persistent biological changes? Are you talking about biological changes caused by an operating system that was injected into people's bodies?

What do you think is causing the biological changes? You downloaded an operating system. Yes system that's manipulating your genes. Yes, and so the scientists also identified a troubling connection between this long-term post-vaccination syndrome and the reactivation of a virus known as Epstein-Barr. Remember, we talked about this several years ago. Normally, it remains dormant, but it's a dormant agent that resides in most people and causes flu-like symptoms. In fact, it has a lot of similarity even to AIDS. The findings are the result of research conducted on blood samples collected from 42 people diagnosed with PVS, post-vaccination syndrome, and comparing them to a control group. The results showed that those with PVS had

different proportions of immune cells compared to the control group, as well as elevated levels of COVID spike proteins years after being vaccinated. You know, I don't know if you caught this story, I don't know if it was the beginning of this week or late last week, where Keir Starmer said that he had taken an AIDS test. No. Oh, yes. Yes, I did. I did see that. And that's what I was reminded of when I saw the story earlier today, because some are making the connection that we're, we're about to see an explosion of the AIDS virus again. From the people who were vaccinated. Right.

So how could that happen, Rick? I don't know. Secretary Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, issued an order to the CDC to change, actually to halt an advertising campaign. Mr. Kennedy wants the CDC to focus on promoting informed consent. The advertising campaign is called Wild to Mild.

It's an advertising campaign that urges people to get vaccinated against the flu, saying that the vaccines will reduce your likelihood of being sick from being wild to mild. And anyhow, Mr. Kennedy has canceled the advertising campaign. He will not be seeing these ads anywhere.

It's another big change that's just happened. Florida's Voice, this is number 26. Marco Rubio backs Trump's criticism of President Zelensky. He says he is rightfully upset after President Trump called President Zelensky a dictator without elections. Marco Rubio, Secretary of State, said Trump is very upset at Zelensky, and in some cases rightfully so. During an interview with Catherine Herridge, Mr. Rubio backed President Trump's comments,

saying we're trying to help these guys. Here it is. When President Trump posts that President Zelensky is a dictator without elections, what are you thinking? I think President Trump is very upset at President Zelensky, in some cases, and rightfully so. Look, number one, Joe Biden had frustrations with Zelensky. People shouldn't forget it. There are newspaper articles out there about how he cursed at him in a phone call because Zelensky, instead of saying, thank you for all your help, is immediately out there messaging what we're not doing or what he's

not getting. I think the second thing is, frankly, I was personally very upset because we had a conversation with President Zelensky, the vice president and I, the two, three of us, and we discussed this issue about the mineral rights. And we explained to them, look, we want to be a joint venture with you, not because we're trying to steal from your country, but because we think that's actually a security guarantee. If we're your partner in an important economic endeavor, we get to get paid back some of the money the taxpayers have given, close to $200 billion.

And it also, now we have a vested interest in the security of Ukraine. And he said, sure, we want to do this deal. It makes all the sense in the world. The only thing is I need to run it through my legislative process. They have to approve it. I read two days later that Zelensky is out there saying, I rejected the deal. I told him no way that we're not doing that. Well, that's not what happened in that meeting.

So you start to get upset by somebody. We're trying to help these guys. One of the points the president made in his messaging is not that we don't care about Ukraine, but Ukraine is on another continent. It doesn't directly impact the daily lives of Americans. We care about it because it has implications for our allies and ultimately for the world. There should be some level of gratitude here about this. And when you don't see it and you see him out there accusing the president of living in a world of disinformation, that's highly, very counterproductive. And I don't need to explain to you or anybody else, Donald Trump's not, President Trump's not the kind of

person that's going to sit there and take that. He's very transparent. He's going to tell you exactly how he feels. And he sent a message that he's not going to get gamed here. He's willing to work on peace because he cares about Ukraine. And he hopes Zelensky will be a partner in that, and not someone who's out there putting this sort of counter messaging to try to, you know, hustle us in that regard. That's not going to be productive here. DrHill.com reporting that President Trump said Zelensky has no cards. There's no cards in his game. He shouldn't be in the meetings. He made these remarks during a radio interview with Brian Kilmeade on the Fox News Radio Network.

And that was earlier this morning. Yeah, and so we've got a clip of the audio. Let's listen. But look what you have. You have a man who's led a country that had the most beautiful cities that they demolished, had the most beautiful domes. Thoseished, had the most beautiful domes. Those domes are the most beautiful in the world. But that's Russia's fault, though, Mr. President. Russia did the demolition.

They're all demolished, the 1,000-year-old domes. And everything's demolished. I mean, it's like a demolition site, though. It's sort of like Gaza. In fact, it's more demolished. At least Gaza has a couple of buildings standing. This place, you take a look at the demolition of so many of those cities. And all those people are killed.

Never to come back again. But, Mr. President, that's Vladimir Putin's fault. Don't you agree? I get tired of listening to it, I'll tell you what. I've seen it enough. And then he complains that he's not at a meeting that we're having with Saudi Arabia trying to intermediate a peace. Well, he's been at meetings for three years with a very with a president who didn't know what the hell he was doing. He's been in the meetings for three

years and nothing got done. So I don't think he's very important to be at meetings, to be honest with you. He's been there for three years. He makes it very hard to make deals. But look what's happened to his country. It's been demolished. No, no, I hear you. Mr. President, you know who's to blame for that. Don't you think it's Vladimir Putin that did the invasion unwarranted, that tried to take back land he had no right to?

And don't you think fundamentally that's that? And now both sides want to talk it seems, so we should just get to that point? Brian, you're doing your best to maintain the deep state narrative. Yes. I guess the Fox

Thought Control editor was speaking through his earpiece saying, Brian, interrupt him. Defend the narrative. But anyhow, the U.S. reportedly halts weapon sales to Ukraine. So the flow of weapons has been shut off, Doc. Now, this is the Kiev Post, which up until a few weeks ago was being partially funded by USAID. I'll just put that out there. Rumors spread within the Kiev government Thursday that weapons sales and deliveries to Ukraine from the U.S. have been halted.

That's according to one Ukrainian lawmaker's claim, later contradicted by another parliament member. The lawmaker, Roman Kostenko, who works at the Secretary of the Parliament's Committee on National Security, Defense, and Intelligence Intelligence said some companies involved in weapon sales and deliveries to Ukraine are waiting for political decisions, but the exact reason for the suspension is unclear. He said, according to my information, deliveries of weapons that were going to be sold have stopped. Those companies that were supposed to transfer those weapons here are now waiting because there is no decision. That's coming from Kostinko. The New York Post says Zelensky's friend list is dwindling at the White House.

Not too many people want to be associated with him right now. And what I wanted you to see is a White House aide, he's unnamed, said it would be best, the best case would be that he leaves and goes to France immediately. Yes. There it is. There's your sign. Yes. So he's not going to retire to South Florida. It's going to be France.

Yes. But the White House is now saying the best thing that could happen to you, Mr. Zelensky, is you pack your suitcases and move to Paris now. Okay. Immediately, that source at the White House said. Mm-hmm. So there's definitely been a change of tone at the White House regarding Zelensky now. The exact line is, a second source close to Trump concurred with the assessment and suggested that the best case for Zelensky and the world is that he leaves to France immediately. That's like today.

His days are numbered. A London Telegraph, Ukraine could get instant NATO membership if Russia breaks the peace deal. Do you think Russia's going to sign that deal? Of course not. And so Ukraine, now this is what the Telegraph is saying, folks, so you've got to filter it here. Ukraine could be granted instant NATO membership if Russia violates the terms of the peace deal being negotiated by Donald Trump. The Telegraph is saying the White House is considering this mechanism to address concerns that Putin would use a ceasefire to regroup and launch another invasion. Under the strategy, Kiev would be allowed to bypass a series of hurdles to prove it is fit to join

the Western Military Alliance. I don't believe that story at all. Just letting you know. Don't believe it at all. No, I don't either, Doc. I think it's the dark arts ministry in the UK that's operating there. Financial Times in London reporting Russia asks U.S. for NATO withdrawal from Eastern Europe. Financial Times saying Russia used the first round of talks with the United States over ending the war in Ukraine to demand the withdrawal of NATO forces from the alliance's eastern flank,

triggering concern in Europe that the Trump administration could cave in on this and sign a deal. Romania, this is according to Romania's government. And so I am sure that the Russians are asking that. That's not an unreasonable concept, that they're demanding a complete withdrawal. All U.S. troops that were stationed. All NATO. All NATO troops.

All NATO troops. That were admitted since 1990. Since 1990. Right. So any countries that were admitted to NATO since 1990, the idea is that Russia is asking for the withdrawal of troops from there. Where did you see that? I saw it in a story yesterday. I didn't see the 1990.

Yeah. That's a serious rollback. Right. Basically, Russia is saying to the U.S., you guys promised that you wouldn't expand NATO. And we're taking you back to the 1990s. Right. So that was the reasoning behind it. I mean, they can ask for the moon, but it doesn't mean they'll get it.

But even if they get some withdrawal, it's a win for them. that this thing's going to, these talks between Putin and Trump are going to melt down and both sides are going to go back to their respective corners and we're going to continue the fighting? I don't know. That's the question. RT is reporting right now, even as I speak, that Donald Trump and President Xi Jinping of China have accepted the invitation to the victory parade on May the 9th in Moscow. Who has? That both Donald Trump and Xi Jinping will attend the victory parade in Moscow on May the 9th. Who reported that?

That's RT, just moments ago. Donald Trump is going to attend the Russian Victory Day parade and be seated next to Xi Jinping. I'm just saying what RT is reporting. There's something new happening in the world in a big, big way. Doc, I was trying to remember today, maybe some of you will recall, I have to go search through my files to remember the name of the,

the code name of the old Soviet plan to destroy NATO. This goes back to the 1960s. A plan was made in the early 60s to erode and destroy NATO. I don't recall the name of the plan anymore. I've got a book somewhere in my library written by a former Russian spy who laid out the plan in detail. But we could be watching this happen. That is, we're watching an old Soviet plan come to fruition. And then you put that together with what the Russian spy said?

Yes. I don't know. Strange things are going on. I got two more stories I want to cover before we leave here. This is number 34. Christian leader set to unveil West Bank resolution at Dallas event. The Dallas event is the National Religious Broadcasters Convention that's coming up starting this Sunday. And there will be thousands of religious broadcasters gathered at the Gaylord Hotel in Grapevine, Texas for the convention. And so a group called

the American Christian Leaders for Israel will hold a press conference. They said that they're going to get 3,000 Christian leaders to sign this petition encouraging President Trump to recognize the West Bank as Judea and Samaria and you know where this is going then to recognize Israel as the rightful owner. May not work, Doc, if Mr. Trump is planning to take it.

Right. He may just say, why give it to Israel? Right. We'll just call it West Bank USA. Well, we'll call it Samaria USA. Right. We'll just call it West Bank USA. Well, we'll call it Samaria USA. Right. So anyhow, Troy Miller, the president of the National Religious Broadcaster, said, As organizations that advocate for biblical truth and steadfastly support Israel and the Jewish people, the ACLI and the NRB are taking a stand on this crucial

issue in support of Israel's sovereignty over its biblical heartland. And the last story I want you to see, this is Times of Israel. Leading Hispanic pastor seeks to build firewall against declining Israel's support. Well, that pastor is Sammy Rodriguez. And he's a well-known, well-respected pastor in the Latino community in America. Similar to God pastor, yeah. And he's the founder of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference. He said, he told the Times of Israel that there is a campaign in the United States and Latin America seeking to turn to public against Israel.

And he said his objective is to build a firewall. Says in March 2024, an Axios poll showed that 40% of Hispanic Americans said that the United States should push for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. 39% said the U.S. should not be involved in the conflict at all. In a 2023 American Jewish Committee poll, 41% of young Latinos sympathized more with Palestinians than with the Jews. And only 29% sympathize with Israel. So, Doc, the Zionist movement knows they're losing the Latino base. And so Pastor Rodriguez is laying the foundation to build that wall, that he said this firewall, by bringing young, this

is what I want you to hear, by bringing young Latino pastors to Israel. Here's the brainwashing. This is the indoctrination. In partnership with Bishop Robert Stearns, founder of Eagles Wings Ministry. 38 prominent church leaders from the United States, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Argentina, and Panama were on last week's mission to Israel. Now, look what Mr. Stearns said. We bring them as tourists and they return home as Zionists.

There it is. Yes. Brainwashing, indoctrination. Come on, Pastor. We'll give you a free trip to Israel. Yes. We'll take you on a tour and everything. But when you leave, you'll leave a diehard Zionist.

And you'll go back and convert your church to Zionism. Now, the next quote here is intriguing because it put me on a rabbit trail today that I had to find an answer to. And that is, according to Stearns, who was in Israel with his family during the Hamas attack on October 7th, Eagle's Wings has brought over 35,000 Christians to Israel in its 30 years. Okay. All right. I don't mind people going to Israel. But it's for indoctrination.

Right. Many have been college students from its Christian birthright trips. Christian birthright. That was a whole new term to me today because I knew about Jewish birthright trips that they were paying for young Jews here in the U.S. to go and visit Israel and basically get indoctrinated in Israel. But I'd never heard of Christian Birthright before. So what did you discover? Well, that there is a number of organizations that are doing these, quote, Christian Birthright trip, or Jewish Roots trip.

They'll label it a whole bunch of different ways and everything. My Christian birthright was at the cross. Absolutely. June 11, 1978. And I don't have to go to Israel to discover my Christian birthright. That's right. I can find it in the Word. All I have to do is revisit the cross every day.

So, since the attacks, Eagle's Wings has been focused on bringing young evangelical leaders to Israel, believing that it brings the single largest return on investment to secure Israel's future, according to Stearns. When you invest in a leader, you're impacting his entire congregation. Since the attacks, Eagle's Wings has been focused on bringing young evangelical leaders to Israel. We just said this, it's a repeat, okay. So, is Bishop Stearns,

is he in Israel to promote the gospel? Or is he in Israel to promote the gospel? Or is he in Israel to convert American Christians into Zionists? What is his purpose? He says, we're turning them into Zionists. And that's sad to hear from Stearns. Well, you should be turning the Jews into Christians. That's true. That's right.

Right? Isn't that the reason they should be there? And do you know what the purpose of Eagle's Wings Ministries is, Rick? No. They were the ministry that brought Russian Jews from Russia to Israel. Right. That's that ministry. That's where it started.

That's right. You know, I'm okay with that. I'm fine with that. And they've been around for a while. But that's not their mission now. Not anymore. It's to turn American Christians into Zionists. Yes.

And this is telling to me. This is saying it's not just support that's collapsing among Hispanics. Support is collapsing across the board. They just happen to see that Hispanics is a growth opportunity there. Right. But they're running into problems. That's right. It's hard to, it's getting hard to sell.

Genocide. Yeah. Zionism's over. They will never recover from the disaster of Gaza. Too many people now see them as genocidal. Doesn't mean they're going to go away. No, they'll just rebrand or they'll pop up as something else. All right, well, we're going to pop out of here and go home.

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Okay, support this ministry. Thank you so much. We'll be back on Monday. Watch today's Morning Manna. It's a really good lesson. Okay. It's coming up right now. I'll see you again. Here are two massively important products to have in an emergency. Because it's not a matter of if, but when an emergency will happen to you. With years of experience in survival preparedness, let me tell you, these are must-haves. One, high-quality and nutrient-packed, shelf-stable emergency food buckets.

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We will also go to the Lord's table today at the end of the lesson for Holy Communion so we invite you to have bread and your choice of grape juice or red wine available for the latter part of today's lesson and we will serve the Lord's Supper so what we're doing in 2025 we're devoting Friday to the topic of faith. And so we're calling it Faith Friday. And so, Doc, as I was seeking the Lord about the theme for today, what I heard the Holy Spirit

say was, well, shouldn't you start with the leaders of faith in the Bible start your lesson with the hall of fame who does God point out as

hey here are your examples here are the people you should look up to here are the people you should emulate when it comes to faith. And we have what I call the hall of fame, the faith hall of fame. And it's found in the 11th chapter of Hebrews. And so today we're going to study Hebrews 11, verses 1 through 5. And next week we will pick up at verses 6 through 10. And we'll spend a couple weeks in the 11th chapter of Hebrews.

And it gives us who God believes who God recognizes as the outstanding Saints in all the ages when it comes to faith and why he recognizes them so if we're going to study faith let's study the people God said here here are your examples let's let's pray then Doc can read verses 1 through 5. Dear Heavenly Father, our gracious Father in heaven, Father, we come to you in faith, faith in your Son, Jesus Christ. And Father, we are gathered today to learn more about faith so that we know your Son even greater and deeper and more intimately

and that we know your your greatness father as almighty god come holy spirit teach us take charge of this bible study and enlighten us illuminate our hearts and minds, build our faith, Father, and use this Bible study class to ignite a revival that sweeps many nations. In the name of Jesus, amen. Amen. All right, so if you've got your Bibles here, please turn to the book of Hebrews, chapter 11, and I'm going to read the first five verses here. And just a reminder that at the end of our lesson today, we'll be having the Lord's Supper, and so you'll need bread and either red wine or grape juice to participate, and so make sure you have those available here.

Hebrews chapter 11, verses 1 through 5. I'll read from the King James. Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good report. Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. By faith, Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts, and by it being dead yet speaketh. Verse 5, by faith Enoch was translated that he should

not see death and was not found, because God had translated him, for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God. Praise God. Amen. Verse 1, now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Several weeks ago, we talked about this verse. And I'm not going to spend a lot of time explaining again what this means, the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. What we have is a profound definition of faith, primarily as an explanation of its function and its nature.

Faith is a bridge. It is the bridge between the visible and the invisible. It's the bridge between the present and the future. And it provides certainty where our senses cannot provide it. So. One thing that I want you to see. And I never saw it myself until. Preparing for this lesson.

Is. The connection between Hebrews 11 one. and the second coming of Jesus Christ, the coming of our Lord, the end of the age. It's in these verses that we're going to study. This chapter, chapter 11, connects faith to the return of Christ and the judgment of God on his adversaries. Yes. So faith is the assured conviction, the inner certainty, the inner knowing that God's future promises will be fulfilled.

See, this lesson today perfectly dovetails what we're studying in Romans. Oh, I can see and feel the connection. It's so obvious to me. Throughout Romans, we've been studying that our salvation is totally dependent on our faith and what Jesus did on the cross. Right. And so now we're talking about our faith in the future the promise of god for the future what does it what did he promise us eternal life that his son jesus christ is coming back

and that because we have faith in him and what he did on the cross we shall be caught up in the air and shall be gathered unto God, and we shall spend eternity with him. We have that confidence. We have that inner peace. Faith gives substantial reality to future things not yet experienced and seen faith is faith is not just hoping for something but it is a firm unshakable confidence and trust in God's promises, his character, his words. Faith is believing that you have your request

before it physically manifests in the world of matter. Right. Faith is the basis, the firm ground, the foundation upon which our hope stands. Yes. Without faith, you can't have hope. It's more about what faith does rather than this verse, than the definition of faith. The substance, the essence, the confidence, the assurance. It's about putting to the test. Proving unseen things.

Faith. Faith transforms unseen future promises. Into present realities in our soul. You need to get to the place that you completely trust what God has promised, that there's no inner turmoil, no inner doubt, no inner wondering. You know. You know. God said it.

He promised it. Therefore, it shall happen. So faith anticipates and it experiences future blessings as though they are already present. Yes. Faith gives unseen things a reality in our mind, compelling us to act as though they are physical, tangible. I have things in my life for this ministry that I'm hoping for, believing for, and I stand in faith. I shall have it. I shall have it.

I shall have it. It will come to pass. Faith is the firm persuasion that what God has promised will surely come to pass. Faith and hope are inseparable. Hope focuses on the future. Faith makes that hope present now, tangible. I hope for eternal life, but I have it now by faith. Faith is the foundation of hope.

Without faith, there can be no confident expectation of God's promises. The Greek word, proof, demonstration, conviction. A demonstration that leads to undeniable certainty, legal proof, compelling assurance of unseen realities. Faith deals with past, present, and future unseen realities. The past, the creation of the world by God's word. The present, the reality of God's kingdom now. The future, the fulfillment of God's promises.

Resurrection of our bodies. Eternal life. All three are present in faith. Yes. And that's the key. Faith itself is the evidence. Faith isn't hoping for the evidence. Faith is the evidence. Faith is the substance.

Now, in the verses coming up, we're going to start talking about the elders. The elders of faith, they lived by faith. They demonstrated its power. And this is over centuries of time. Their lives triumphed over temptation, persecution, trials. They endured

hardship because they were certain of God's promises which they saw as real before physical fulfillment. These elders, how did they get in the Bible's hall of fame? What did they do with their lives that God said, I'm going to write this down for every future generation to read and to know?

I'm pleased with these people. These are the kind of humans that make me proud, make me happy. I see them and I see their lives. What did they do? How did they live? What did they face? What triumph, what battles did they win? So, we're going to see that faith, faith is essential in our life because it justifies us. It sustains us.

Yes. And it enables us to continue to obey despite unseen rewards. Faith justifies us. You are saved. You're justified. It sustains you in your trials and tribulations. And it enables you to continue obeying God because you believe in his promises. Right. Faith is the assurance that the ultimate reality belongs to God, not circumstances. You cannot

function in this world believing in circumstances. Look, get this phrase out of your vocabulary. Well, considering the circumstances, no, I'm not going to consider the circumstances. Consider the faith. Consider the promises of God.

Praise God. You ask somebody, how are you doing? Well, considering the circumstances. I didn't ask about the circumstances. What do the circumstances have to do with anything? Well, I want to tell you about my hardships, my trials, my tribulations. Okay, what has that got to do with anything? Speak who you are in Christ. Martin Luther said,

faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace. So sure and certain that a man would stake his life on it a thousand times. So verse two, we start talking about the elders. For by it, meaning faith, for by it the elders obtained a good report. Praise God. Is your life generating a good report in heaven. That's the question every one of us needs to ask ourselves. So, verse 2 is building on verse 1.

Verse 1 is defining faith. Verse 2 shows that it was historically commended. Yes. Faith is not a New Testament thing. The testimony of the elders refers to the Old Testament

patriarchs, the prophets, the faithful individuals to the Old Testament patriarchs, the prophets, the faithful individuals in the Old Covenant. And, you know, by verse 3, we're going to start to read about these elders, the elders. That it speaks of Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, the prophets. So Abel is the first one that's introduced as an example of faith. Well, really, you get down to it, it Rick God is the first one listed God by faith I know where you go I got a minute up created the worlds by faith by faith God had complete confidence in his word saying light be as you like to say you know let there be light and he had no doubt he's man i i hope it works this time no he just let there be light boom there's the light i love it that's

good let there be a world there it is you know he didn't have to struggle with, he didn't have to struggle with it. He didn't have to work it out. Man, this would take way too long. No, God, by faith. So God operates in the faith atmosphere. That's where God operates. God operates in the faith atmosphere. And when we talk about the elders and their report, they're simply emulating what God said as the standard of faith.

Believe the word. God believes his word. Why shouldn't we? That's right. So notice that Adam and Eve are not listed. Yes. They're not listed in the Hall of Faith. Now, we don't know anything about their later lives,

but they didn't make it into the Hall of Faith in Hebrews. But Abel did. Their failure overshadowed whatever faith they had later. Let me say this again. Their failure was greater than their faith. They may have gained faith later in their lives, but their failure was so great, it precluded God from mentioning them in Hebrews 11.

That's sad commentary, isn't it? That's right. So the emphasis is on those who endured by faith rather than those who fell from grace. They obtained a good report. God personally bore witness to their faith. Their faith was commended, approved, by divine standards, not human standards. Their faith was proven through obedience and perseverance. And this divine commendation, it's repeated in Hebrews 11.

Several more times, 11 verses 4 and 5 and verses 39. It means that their faith was the means of their justification before God. Faith was the defining trait of these elders mentioned in Hebrews 11. It wasn't their lineage. It wasn't their status. It wasn't their status. It wasn't their financial wealth. It wasn't their accomplishments.

They were mentioned because of their faith. Doc, in ministry, you know, ministers think, I have to leave behind a legacy. There has to be church buildings. There has to be things here, Bible schools.

There has to be a legacy. God said, no, your legacy is faith. Yes. That's the legacy you leave behind he was a man of faith she was a woman of faith not they built this great church they built these orphanages

even these are good things that's not in any way distracting from the value of those projects. But it's not what you're known for in heaven. What you're known for in heaven is faith. Notice that this faith was the same faith before and after Jesus Christ.

Yes. And that proves its necessity for salvation. Faith stands as a permanent testimony from Genesis to Revelation. You got it, Rick. A lot of Christians miss that. A lot of believers miss that, and they're missing out by missing that.

So, because faith unlocks so much. You know, I find it frustrating at times that modern-day Christians, they'll have no problem believing god for salvation but that's where it ends um praise god for salvation but salvation's invisible salvation is something you can't see some salvation is something you can go out and grab but we'll accept that but we'll are we willing to accept by faith the things that manifest themselves here in reality too like the grace in our lives

living victoriously in our lives healing all these other things that the word of god promises as well um it's interesting that something invisible, faith, will believe for something invisible, salvation, but not for something in reality because we really don't think God will do it. That's really what it means. So what we're learning here

today is that faith has always been the distinguishing mark of God's people throughout human history. Yes. From garden to garden. Yes. Not the law.

Not the temple. Not the state of Israel. Faith. It's faith. God established the law because people didn't have any faith in him. He had to put guardrails up. Faith

is not a new thing in the New Testament. Yes. It's a constant principle in the way God deals with humanity. From Abel to the prophets to the apostles, faith has always sustained God's people. The elders in the Old Testament lived by faith. They trusted God's promises.

Even when the promises were unfulfilled in their lifetime, they went to their graves believing it is true so faith is really a hidden doctrine within the Old Testament it's there if you want to look for it it's obvious when you look for it and yet you've got Bible colleges and seminaries that just stumble over it and never teach it. So some of these elders endured long struggles. Others faced short, intense struggles and suffering.

But what they shared in common was their perseverance, and their perseverance was driven by their faith in God. Yes. So their faith, what Hebrews 11 is telling us is that their faith, the faith of these elders, is an example for us. It's a precedent for us. It shows us how God rewards faithfulness. They were commended. God commended them. He gave them a good report

for their faith before Jesus Christ was born in Bethlehem. Amen. Which proves that faith and salvation have been existing since Genesis.

Jesus didn't introduce anything new. Really, even in the Garden, wasn't the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, wasn't that tree of knowledge of good and evil, wasn't that a test of faith? God said, don't eat of the fruit of that tree. All right, that was his word.

Adam chose at some point not to believe that. Yes. In chapter 12 of Hebrews, verse 1 says, we are surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses. Who's in this great cloud of witnesses? All the saints who went before us, who lived by faith. Cheering us on.

You can do it. Believe God. He said it. Believe it. We did it. You can do it. Verse 3. Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God.

So that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear so now verse 3 introduces creation as the first and the foundational act requiring faith as doc said god was the the leader the example the leader of the pack he said watch this everybody and there wasn't anybody there to even see it yes but it by faith they were there the human race was there he said watch this I'm going to speak a universe into existence without faith you cannot believe, accept and understand

creation instead you will search for the ideas of men such as the big bang theory and darwinism it requires faith to believe in creationism yes and i've said this many times i believe i believe true saints will experience a revival of creationism in the last days. That firm belief in a literal six-day creation will be the hallmark of identifying true disciples of Christ in the last days. Yes, I'm in full agreement on that statement. Book of Revelation says so.

If you encounter a professing Christian who does not believe in a literal six-day creation, then you've got to question their standing with God. How can you believe the promises of God if you can't believe he created the world in six days? Look, and Hebrews 11.3 says this, through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God. God himself framed the worlds by faith. By faith. Yes.

So he had enough faith to believe in the creation of it we we need to have the equal faith to believe he created it yes I and I agree with you Rick I think one of the marks here in the last days is whether so-called Believers actually believe in the literal creation uh i find it frustrating i i'm always frustrated uh i find it frustrating that people will say a man rose from the dead three days after he was dead but they won't believe in a six-day creation right that's right. Which is the greater miracle? I think if we step up our preaching and teaching of creationism, it's going to smoke out a lot of people. They're going to come out and, you know, they're going to come out of the closet and identify themselves. So faith is the evidence of things unseen,

including the creation of the universe. Yes. Because faith enables us to understand what is beyond the reach of our human mind and reasoning and observation. So, faith provides certainty about God's creative power. If you can believe he created the entire universe in six days that he spoke it into existence then you can believe him for anything Lord you framed the world's

I'm just asking for this small thing absolutely doc I early this morning as I was studying my notes, I just stopped and started talking to God. And I said, Father, this creation is not hard for me to believe. This is easy. This is simple. And the reason is you did it. That's all I need to know.

You did it. You were able to do anything. And if a person knows who you are and your faithfulness and your power and your trustworthiness, then it's easy to believe anything that is attributed to you. I'm surprised it took him six days.

It didn't have to take him six days. It didn't have to. He could have done it all in an instant, in a moment. He did the six days for our benefit yes now this what I'm going to talk about this is very important this is where many of us are losing it

every day the words of our mouth there is power in your words your words. Your words are creating your future. Your present is the result of your past words. Oh, that's enough right there to make you pull the cover up over your head and cry.

You want me to say it again your present is the product of your past words that's right you want to change your future change your words God said let there be light and there was light he didn't grunt he didn't squeeze his hands together and close his

eyes and grimace and go oh I hope this works I went open up my eyes I hope there's light yeah it's like oh let there be light who he didn't have to do it three times why he knew that his words would produce the result of what he desired he said let there be light and there was light Psalm 33 says by the word of the Lord

the heavens were made he spoke and it was done that's it that's right rhema the Greek word rhema God's spoken command is the direct agent

of creation Jesus Christ as logos the divine instrument in creation the word so Hebrews is reinforcing that Jesus Christ was the means by which the worlds were framed. You read in Hebrews chapter 1, verse 2. Let's talk about the world. The worlds that were framed, the worlds that were created. The Greek word, I believe, ahion, I guess the way to say it, ahion. I don't have my lexicon up right now, so I okay it's a I o n a s and I believe it's pronounced a a he hon now the King James translates it as worlds but the Greek

definition is ages right times times it refers to the course of time, space, history, and age, a cycle. How about that? A cycle of time. So it really says that God created the ages. Created time. Through faith, we understand that the ages were framed by the word of God. That actually takes on a bigger meaning. So,

that Greek word, it's derived from a primary root word, a Greek word, meaning continued duration. Right. It's where we get our word eon today. Yes. And where we get eternity. Yes. That comes from the word, it's A-I-O-N. The Greek is A-I-O-N. So.

It says that he fashioned, he framed, he said in order with his words not with his hands God framed the universe the ages, time he framed it with his words he didn't use his hands he made man use his hands he made man

with his hands he did not speak Adam into existence yes he made Adam Adam was handmade and placed in the garden he wasn't created in the garden

he was placed in the garden that's right. And God breathed into, he breathed, God's breath went through Adam's nostrils. And God imparted a living soul into Adam. Into the body. He created a body with his hands. And then he breathed a living soul into Adam's the body. He created a body with his hands, and then he breathed a living soul into Adam's physical body. And that one breath by God goes on today. What do we have? Eight billion

people in the world right now, not counting those that have passed away. That single breath by God still breathes in all of us to this day. That one breath. Hebrews says things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. The visible universe that you and I live in

did not arise from pre-existing matter. God did not rearrange matter. He spoke it into existence from nothing. There wasn't matter just laying around in piles, and he goes, I I got to do something with this matter no he he spoke matter into existence how do you create something from nothing by faith yes see goddesses said, God is the ultimate example of faith.

He said, he's saying to us, look, I don't expect you to be able to do this, create a whole universe, but you can change your life. Out of nothing. Out of nothing, you can speak from you can take nothing and turn it into something with your words and your faith. Amen. Wow.

You getting anything from this, Doc? I am. I'm getting blessed myself just teaching it. So if God formed the universe from nothing, he can bring about transformation in your life. What are the two things? Faith and your words. Faith in God's promises

and words that line up with God's promises. I'm going to say what I said earlier. Your present is the product of your past words. Amen. You had faith in the words that you spoke. Might have been negative faith, but it was faith. What is belief? Belief is thoughts energized with emotion.

I can say something, and if I have no emotion in it, there's no belief. But if I say something that's got emotion connected to it, I've turned it into belief. And most people have negative belief. They're speaking negative energy, negative emotions into their words. Their words are packed, energized with negativity. And then they wonder, why nothing going right in my life?

Because you don't say anything right in your life. You know, the basis of unbelief really is what Satan said to Adam and Eve in the garden. Surely God hath not said. Surely God hath not said. Unbelief is saying God didn't really say that. Or I don't believe God said that. Or God said it, I don't believe it. That's been Satan's. Or I don't believe God said that. Or God said it, I don't believe it.

That's been Satan's, that's been his gig ever since, Doc. He's never dropped that one. Everything he does is to tell people you can't believe God. Look, some of you, you'd be better off if you just shut your mouth. I'm not even talking about speaking positive words. Just stop talking. Your life would improve if you would just stop talking. Because you'd quit going backwards. Right.

At least you'd neutralize it, stabilize it. But if you want to change your future, change your words today. Hallelujah. Make a determination today. You're not going to say anything negative and critical. I absolutely cannot stand to be around negative, critical people. Oh, it's torturous. It's just

torturous. I got to get out of the room. It drains all the energy and faith and hope out of you. There are people who can walk into a room and just suck that room empty of faith and hope and positive belief they have so much negativity in them so much criticism

first thing coming out of their mouth is usually slander against somebody else. Right. That's usually the first thing out of their mouth, slander against another person, and they're usually slandering somebody who has faith. So what do they want to do? Diminish that person's reputation. That's Satan speaking through that person

to diminish the reputation of a person who is speaking by faith. So faith enables us to comprehend creation because it can't be done with natural reasoning. The only way I can comprehend creation is by faith. I don't know how God did it. I don't know. He did it by his words.

I just know he did it. That's all I need to know. If he could speak Jupiter into existence, and all of its moons, certainly I can trust him today to do what he promised me. There's not one planet out there that's wobbling and wandering off

and doesn't know what to do aren't you glad imagine the whole universe was just chaotic just just things out there floating around everything is held in place by God's Word he said well what about the asteroids? Well, he's got that under control too. He knows exactly where they're going. He set them on their trajectory. So the universe was framed by the word of God and that reinforces his authority over all things. Now, you get back into the Greek philosophers, you know, Plato and Aristotle.

All these people were told, you go to college, you got to study Plato. You got to understand Aristotle. Why? Well, they were really smart. You've got to study what they said. Well, they contradicted God. Why would I want to study them? They believed in eternal matter.

They believed that matter existed eternally no God existed eternally and he created matter from nothing but you say that in college the entire biblical narrative is built on faith in God as the creator. Yes. This hit me so hard today, doc. It's critical. It is critical. The relationship between creation and

faith. Faith in God's creation power is the basis for faith in salvation and his divine promises. How can you believe for salvation and

eternal life if you can't believe that God is going to give you these things created the world in six days. If God could bring the world into existence from nothing, he can resurrect the dead. Yes. And if he can't create the world in six days, the reverse is also true. Then you have to question his ability to raise the dead. That's right. So if God could bring the world into existence from nothing,

he can solve your problems today. Glory. Glory. Now do you understand why this lesson is important? Why understanding creation is so important, believing creation? What problem are you facing today?

It's tiny. It's microscopic compared. God got, you know, one day just said, today. It's tiny. It's microscopic compared. God got, you know, one day just said, you know, there's just nothing but me. I'm going to speak to nothing and make something.

He can speak to your nothing. You may be in a state of nothingness right now. Hallelujah. Glory. You may be saying to God, God, my life is nothing. Okay, I can work with that. Hey, I've worked with nothing before. That's right, and I've made beautiful worlds.

Faith in creation lays the foundation for trusting God's work, including redemption, resurrection, eternal life. So just as the world was made from nothing, we are born again

into new life by God's power now we get to uh verse four through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of god so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. We're going to be getting to Abel. And Abel is the first one recorded as an example of faith. Doc, am I, verse four, yes.

Verse four is, I think I read the wrong scripture. I did. Verse four is, by faith, Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying on his gifts, and by it he being dead yet speaketh. So Abel is the first human recorded in the Bible as an example of faith. Abel's faith predates Abraham's faith. Abraham looked to Abel for inspiration.

Faith stories had been handed down from previous generations where did where did abraham get the inspiration for faith from abel you know when abraham went to sund school, they were talking about Abel. Right. And even Jesus commended Abel. Yes. In Luke chapter 11, it basically called Abel a prophet. Jesus did.

Abel was the first prophet. And so we don't know what the instruction was that God gave Abel. We don't know the particulars or anything like that, but we do know that Abel obeyed. And he had faith in God. That's right. He knew who the creator was. He knew about the garden. He didn't enjoy the garden, but he knew about it. So Abel's worship, his faithful worship, and his sacrifice became the basis for God's commendation about Abel.

And to this day, the Bible speaks about Abel's faith. Generation after generation knows about Abel. And to this day, the Bible speaks about Abel's faith. Generation after generation knows about Abel. So what made Abel outstanding? How did he get mentioned in Hebrews chapter 11? Well, we got to go to Genesis 4, verse 4, 3 and 4. As time passed, Cain brought an offering to God from the fruit of the ground. And Abel also brought some of the firstborn of his flock and of its fat. The Lord respected Abel and his offering. Why did the Lord respect Abel and his offering and not his brother Cain and Cain's offering? Cain brought the fruit of the ground. He brought a basket, a fruit basket.

Abel brought the very firstborn of his flock and of its fat. Is God a meat eater? Was Cain a vegan? What's the explanation for this? Abel's offering was superior because it was offered in faith. I'm going to show it to to you Abel's faith in divine revelation and the coming Redeemer the Lord Jesus Christ shaped his offering what do you mean Abel believed there was a Messiah coming? Yes.

Yes. That's why he brought a firstborn from his flock. The fruit of the ground, the vegetables and the fruits, they were totally acceptable. There was nothing inferior about Cain's offering. But God says Abel's offering was superior. Why? Abel's offering included blood. Yes.

Here's another thought on that too, Rick, in that when Adam and Eve were cast out of the garden what was what was the i don't want to call it punishment or curse that was placed on them but what was the command that god put on adam and eve that you will till the ground you'll work the ground yes and so Cain did that but Cain did what was expected the medium the minimum that was the minimum he did his job and brought the fruit

of you know just what God had already commanded Abel brought more why by faith yes so some visible sign of divine approval occurred. God demonstrated to both Abel and Cain that he preferred Abel's offering. something had to happen because Cain

went berserk because his offering was rejected yes he's jealous later in Leviticus chapter 9 verse 24 fire came out from before the Lord and consumed the burnt offering and the fat upon the altar.

And when all the people saw it, they shouted and fell on their faces. 1 Kings 18, 38, then the Lord's fire fell and consumed the burnt offering, the wood, the stones, and the dust, and it licked up the water that was in the trench. Did fire fall from heaven and consume Abel's offering? No fire came down and consumed the fruit basket. So God's approval meant that Abel's faith was credited to him as righteousness Abel had faith that somehow he was going to get out of the curse his father and mother brought on

him right somehow God's going to bring a solution there's a savior coming and in that yeah and in that process there had to be blood abel came to that so you know that was the difference between the sacrifices so abel abel had to come to that that point and recognize I need a Messiah. I need a Messiah. Notice that the verse, verse 4 says God had respect unto Abel and his offering. Yes. Abel was accepted first, his offering

second. Yes. You got to catch that one. The heart, the that one the heart the offering of the heart came first the physical offering of the firstborn of the flock that's second to God God values the worshiper

more than the worshipping it's always about the heart worshipper more than the worshipping. It's always about the heart. Yes. So Abel's faith led to his justification, and that made him a forerunner of righteousness apart from works. Now do you see how this fits with Romans? Abel understood the book of Romans. And it hadn't even been written.

Yes. So Cain's offering was an external religious ritual without faith. Right. A more excellent sacrifice than Cain. He acknowledged God as creator, but he showed no dependence on him for redemption. See, that's the key right there. His brother Abel knew he needed to be redeemed.

Cain said, I need to come and worship God with an offering. That's good. Nothing wrong with that. But his brother said, not only do I need to come and worship God with an offering, but I need an offering that expresses my faith that I am going to be justified and made whole and right before God. That's why God accepted his offering. Yes. Cain's offering lacked a sin atoning element.

It lacked faith. And it lacked faith. So Cain represents ritual without righteousness and what's really amazing I know we're limited on time but what's really amazing about Abel even after Cain killed him the faith of Abel

was speaking from the ground yes think about that the faith of Abel was speaking from the ground. Yes. Think about that. The faith of Abel was speaking from the ground. His blood was shouting from the earth. Yes. John said in the New Testament, John said Cain's works were evil

because they were not offered in faith. Again, he didn't do anything wrong. It's that he didn't do anything right. Yes. He brought an offering, but there was no faith. And God said it's evil. And this is why I tell people from time to time, and I need to step it up, and I need to make this more clear.

Don't send a donation to us. Send your donations to the United Way. You know what? Your donations are evil. What do you mean? If it's just a donation for me to report the news, give your money to your paper boy down the street. You come to us with an offering of faith

for the preaching of the gospel. If it's no faith, then your works are evil. Because God killed, he marked Cain because his offering was evil. He marked him worship is only acceptable to God when it's rooted in faith true religion begins with faith based sacrifice first Abel

then Abraham then the Mosaic Law then Christ now the murder of Abel by his brother Cain is the first recorded murder it's the first murder based on persecution

it's the first murder based on righteousness it's the first murder motivated by jealousy over a church offering. First murder of a prophet, too. Yes. And as Doc said, Genesis 4, 10 says, the voice of your brother's blood cries unto me from the ground. Well, you know what

we'll pick up next Friday we'll start with verse 5 and we'll talk about Enoch okay let's go to the Lord's table let's go to the Lord's table by faith in faith eating his flesh drinking his blood by faith

the faith that on the last day he will raise us up eating his flesh, drinking his blood by faith, the faith that on the last day he will raise us up. Praise God. As Rick said, we are about to enter into the Lord's table here this morning, and so if you have bread and either grape juice or red wine available, we're going to ask for the Lord's blessing on those elements of the Eucharist here in just a moment, give you an opportunity to gather your things together. Rick hit on a theme today, and it's all by faith. It's all by faith, ladies and gentlemen. And when we enter into the lord's table we enter it to buy by faith what

is that faith is it just faith and bread or juice no it's faith in what christ did on the cross and by his resurrection that is really what the lord's table points to by faith we're believing this and because we believe this we're doing these things. And so if there's any question in your heart today about where your faith stands as far as your relationship with the Lord, then I ask you in the name of Jesus to prayerfully just say to the Lord today, Lord, I believe. Help thou my unbelief. Help thou my unbelief. Help thou my unbelief. If it's falling short in any way, if it's falling short through neglect or disobedience or unresolved conflict in your life, hate in your life, whatever it is, now's the opportunity to say, Lord, you've pointed these

things out in my life. I need to change my ways. I need to repent. I need my mind, my spirit to be changed. Last night in our migrant church prayer meeting, we talked about personal revival and personal renewal. It is all by faith. It is all by faith. We cannot fix this. We cannot offer enough bulls and lambs to cover all of our sins. The only thing we can truly do is say, by faith, Lord, like Abel, I believe blood is required.

But Lord, you provided that blood sacrifice for me. Heavenly Father, in Jesus' name right now, we now we just ask you lord to search our hearts lord as we prayed last night search me o god and know my heart search me o god know my heart lord in those areas of our lives where we have fallen so short uh because we chose not to believe your word or we neglected to believe your word Lord I pray in the name of your sweet son Jesus that you would increase our faith Lord that you would give us the faith required to believe you for the impossible lord to believe your word lord not only just for salvation but also for healing for our bodies for provision in our lives for peacefulness in our hearts and in our minds all these things are available through faith in your

word and lord oftentimes we fall to the world's devices or sometimes even the devil's devices trying to solve issues or trying to come to terms or trying to figure you out. But Lord, you live in a faith atmosphere and you're inviting us to operate in that same

realm, that same atmosphere. You believe your word, Lord. Let us believe your word as well in jesus name amen and amen well if you've got your uh uh if you've got the elements of communion right we're going to pray a blessing over uh those elements right now and uh enter into this so pray with me if you would almighty god in your mercy, you gave your only begotten son, Jesus Christ, to suffer death upon the cross for our redemption. And he offered himself and made once for all time a perfect and sufficient sacrifice for the sins of the whole world. He instituted this remembrance of his passion and death, which he commanded us to

continue until he comes again. And so, Father, we ask you to bless and sanctify with your word and Holy Spirit these gifts of bread and wine that we may partake of his most blessed body and blood. Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed once for all upon the cross. Therefore, let us keep the feast. Hallelujah. On the night that he was betrayed, our Lord Jesus took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, Take eat.

This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me. Amen. Hallelujah. Praise God. Hallelujah praise God the body of our Lord Jesus Christ which is given for you preserve your body and soul to everlasting life

this is the bread of heaven take and eat in remembrance that Christ died for you after supper Jesus took the cup and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, saying, Drink this, all of you, for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is shed for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins. Whenever you drink it, do this in remembrance of me.

Praise God. Hallelujah. Glory to God. The blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, which was shed for you, preserved your body and soul to everlasting life. Drink the cup of salvation in remembrance that Christ's blood was shed for you and be thankful. Behold the Lamb of God. Behold him who takes away the sins of the world. Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb. This sacrament

is the gift of God for the people of God. Feed on him by faith, by faith, by faith, with thanksgiving that Christ died for you. We feed on him by faith. Yes. Praise God. Great teaching today, Rick. Really, really, really. It was a great teaching today. So many comments today. People saying, first time I've heard this talk like this today.

So, by the way, we welcome everyone that's here today that's live with us for Morning Manna. For those of you that are listening on various social media channels later in the day or on repeat, we invite you, if you can, to join us live every weekday morning, 8 a.m., for Morning Manna. But if you can't, we do make this available for you to listen at your convenience, watch at your convenience. It requires the same amount of faith.

Yes. And I want to point out something. I'm not teaching anything new. I appreciate people saying, I've never heard this before. I'm not teaching anything new, and Doc isn't teaching anything new. We're just teaching what used to be taught a hundred years ago. That's all we're doing we're we're studying the word of god and and studying the the bible scholars and commentators from 100 to 200 years ago and this was the way they taught. That's right.

Something's happened in the modern church. It's another religion. It's another religion. But what we just did, Holy Communion, we ate the flesh of Jesus and we drank his blood by faith. See, this is where people get into fights and accrete denominations and everything. Well, is that really blood? Is that really? It is by faith.

By faith it is, yes. I don't know what you see, but I see by faith it's the flesh and the blood of Jesus. He said so. He said, this is my body. This is my blood. By faith, I said so. He said, this is my body. This is my blood. By faith, I believe it. I don't need to do a scientific analysis of it. He said it is, and I accept it, and I believe it by faith. Amen.

And he said, if you eat my flesh and you drink my blood, I will raise you up on the last days. How do I know my body's coming out of the grave he said if you eat my flesh and drink my blood right i believe it faith is the evidence by faith you know i know it's not going to happen this way but when he returns, you know, if an angel knocked on my grave and said, Rick, why should he call you out? Because I believed by faith. That's all you need. Good enough. Angel goes, hey, come on up.

That's what we're looking for. Right answer. That's right. You got the right answer. But, hey, that's not going to happen that way. But the way we're living right now and the way we're talking, it's we are giving the answer every day. Amen.

Because we don't know what day is our last day. So make sure that today, if this is your last day, make sure you're living with faith. Amen. Even if you didn're living by faith. Amen. Even if you didn't live by faith yesterday, make sure you live by faith today. Amen. All right, we got to go. Good morning.

Thank you. What a great week we've had on Morning Manna. And we invite you to be here Monday morningay morning bright and early 8 a.m as we continue chapter 6 in roman so read ahead meditate on the word of god over the weekend spend some time with the lord this weekend okay he's uh been wanting to hear from you lately and so he passed a word on to me and wanted to let you know. He likes the fellowship. In the garden. He'd like to talk with you this weekend. In the garden. Amen. Praise God. Alright, ladies

and gentlemen, we love you very much. Thank you so much for being here. You're a blessing to us. I pray that we're a blessing to you. God bless you, and we'll see you on the Monday edition of Morning Manor.