TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - JFK Files Fallout: Armed Man with “Mental Problems” at CIA HQ

Episode Date: March 19, 2025

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screen security incident at CIA headquarters shuts down Fairfax County roads. WTOP says a security incident at the CIA headquarters in McLean, Virginia on Wednesday led to street closures and traffic delays. Fairfax County police said that they are assisting with a barricade incident at the CIA, a CIA spokesperson confirmed to WTOP that a security incident occurred but would not comment further. The NWSA TV9 in Washington, armed man near CIA headquarters, brings large police response. Says a large police response was seen outside the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in McLean. Roads in the area are shut

down due to traffic and the police present excuse me roads in the area are shut down to traffic due to police presence. Authorities are responding to reports of an armed man experiencing a mental health crisis on CIA property. Doc Burkhart's here with me. Yes, sir. In his studio, Doc. I know you don't believe in coincidences. Absolutely not.

But here we are the day after the JFK files are released and we have an armed man with mental issues on the CIA property. Yeah, we have some video. Well, we have some video of what's going on down in McLean and Langley here right now and you see some of the different teams that are assembled around the CIA headquarters. Various roads are blocked. Okay, Doc, I'm not hearing you. Various roads are being blocked and so you see that happening right now here and around the Langley headquarters for the Central Intelligence Agency. SWAT teams are assembled, police are assembled,

traffic is blocked, being rerouted, and so that's what's happening right now. And what police folks, people are saying is someone having a mental crisis on CIA property. I don't know how they would be able to tell since there's so many on CIA property. I don't know how they would be able to tell since there's so many on CIA properties might be having a mental crisis on any given day, but this just so happens after the Release of the JFK files late yesterday evening and so we return with Rick here

Hey, Rick, you can hear me now, right? Yes. Could you hear me? Yes, sir. All right. We had some audio problems. We're in two different studios right now. So Doc, look, it could just be it just happened that the day the JFK files came out, a guy with mental problems wandered onto the property of the CIA? It could be. We could make that that case that it just a random event that happens. But I don't believe in random events. I don't believe in coincidences.

Maybe someone was triggered by the release of the files. Maybe someone says there's more to be released. That was my thought. Maybe somebody inside the agency said, I'm releasing these files. And maybe they're hunting him down. Right. Because as it stands right now,

there was two separate file dumps yesterday evening. First one occurred a little after 7 p.m. Eastern. The second occurred about 10 p.m. Eastern. The total number of documents in the two dumps numbers around 60,000 separate documents. We were promised earlier in the week that there would be the release of 80,000 documents. Perhaps there's going to be more that are going to be released here in the next day or two. We don't know yet, but there were two separate document dumps, if you will, last night that

were made available, a total of about 3,000 files. But inside those 3,000 files, you have about a total just shy of 60,000 documents. For those that haven't seen anything about this yet, here's a link from the New York Post here. What the JFK files have revealed so far, including apparent KGB probe into Lee Harvey Oswald. So that's the headline on the New York Post right now. Rick, have you had any kind of opportunity to review any of the files? I have been. I've been going through them throughout the day as I've been working on other projects.

In this New York Post article, a couple things that stand out. It says a memo dated June 1967 details how a former US Army intelligence officer, Gary Underhill, fled Washington DC in a very agitated state the very day after Kennedy was shot and spoke with a friend about how a small clique within the CIA was behind the assassination six months before he was found dead in his apartment. Right and in another document that was released on Tuesday as well there is a copy of a teletype that US intelligence report dated November 20th in 1991 saying that a KGB official named Nikonov investigated whether Oswald had been a KGB agent. Nikonov is now confident that Oswald was at no time an agent controlled by the KGB, the document

says, but they were aware of Oswald. That is of no doubt, but they are denying whether or not he the KGB had actual control. Well, you know what I see there, Doc, is that the KGB was reading news reports coming out of America saying the Russians killed Kennedy. And somebody in the KGB was saying, hey, did we do it? Does Oswald work for us? And they're doing an investigation to find out if he was an agent. Well, it went on in the New York Post article naming this particular document by Nikonov,

saying that Nikonov doubted that anyone could actually control Oswald, but noted that the KGB watched him closely and constantly while he was in the USSR. The file also noted that Oswald was a poor shot when he tried target firing in the USSR. And Nikonov also noted that Oswald had a stormy relationship with his Soviet wife who rode him incessantly. Most of this is not new information at all. It's been out in previous releases,

just that some portions of this particular document here have been redacted in the past. The redactions have been removed, generally, off most documents. And so, it's interesting to see how this is shaking out. We actually have that document that is mentioned by Nikonov there. This is actually live from the archives at archives.gov right now. And this is that document that we were referring to in the New York Post article, where Nikonov actually gives an assessment on Lee Harvey

Oswald in that he comes to the conclusion that the KGB was not the handler for Oswald, but that they were aware of Oswald before the assassination. And Rick, there are other documents too that suggest that the British were aware of Oswald and Israeli intelligence was aware of Oswald before the assassination of JFK. Yes. And before we go there, Doc, I want to mention that the KGB official, Nikonov, was the grandson of Molotov. Yes, where we get the Molotov cocktail from.

Yes. So you're talking about a bona fide communist, when you can say your granddaddy invented the Molotov cocktail. Anyhow, you mentioned other countries, other intelligence agencies, Great Britain and Israel. And so we're going to get down to, let's see, what was number seven? What are we looking at? We haven't gotten to number seven yet.

This was in one of the batch of documents there, that there was an Italian newspaper that directly accused the Central Intelligence Agency of the Kennedy assassination. And that's included in those documents there. And so this is, you know, multiple governments, multiple agencies, multiple press outlets had come to the general conclusion that whether or not the CIA directly ordered the assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald or not,

they were at the very least aware of Oswald and of his plans and did nothing to stop it. And so- I think you could go beyond that and say... I think so too, but... That there was an active CIA cover-up. Yes. Oh, definitely a cover-up. Definitely a cover-up.

And we're finding, you know, this is a 60,000-page release that we've received so far. So there are thousands of people that are scouring through these documents as we speak right now. They're running it through artificial intelligence. They're pulling out information even as we speak. There's going to be a lot of information that comes out over the next few days, but let me just ask you directly, Rick, are you shocked by anything that you've seen so far? No.

Neither am I. No. I'm not shocked by anything. To me, it's a confirmation of a lot of information that we've received over the years. It's just that now we're actually being able to put agencies and names and be able to label their activities. So much of the documentation so far has really been previously released, but now the redactions have been lifted.

That's the big part right now. Well, while we're speaking about redactions, let's jump down to number nine. CIA tried to force redaction of Israeli intelligence service. Right. So this is a perfect example of what we were talking about before. This particular document that we're looking at right now, we'll have the full page here in just a moment, but we wanted you to see the sidebar notes that the Central Intelligence Agency had on a particular document here. Now previously before this document dump last night, the CIA had no objections to anything

being released in this document except for what was included in the brackets. And in the latest release, the redaction has been removed from the brackets. And in that, you see that what was redacted was the Israeli intelligence service. I'll read this here. In the way of background, the control file was created to give us the opportunity of closely monitoring our liaison with Angleton, who we'll talk about here in just a moment, on a variety of matters which were not reported through the normal CIA channels. CIA directors permitted Angleton to run several intelligence projects, many of them with the

Israeli Intelligence Service. And there was a number of documents that were released where this redaction was lifted and the obvious involvement of Israeli secret intelligence service was in close cahoots with the Central Intelligence Agency on any number of projects, including an awareness of Lee Harvey Oswald. I want to put the photo of CIA operative James Angleton. There he is right there. He basically ran the Israeli intelligence desk inside the CIA. Everything involving the Mossad, Israeli military intelligence, it all went through that man.

He had tight control. He made sure that very few people had access to the information he had. I first came across his name when I was researching the USS Liberty attack. He plays a role in the Liberty attack in the Johnson administration. So he's a notorious, was a notorious CIA insider working for and with Israel. Yes, and he was someone, Angleton was someone that was actually groomed

for the secret, not for the Secret Service, but for secret intelligence work. Even though he grew up, you know, like in Idaho of all places, he was educated at the best institutions in the world, definitely on track to become, during the war, World War II, an intelligence officer, and then was one of the founding officers of the OSS, which later became the Central Intelligence Agency. And so he was a prominent figure when it comes to America's secret intelligence services. And so this man had his hand on anything that Israel had to do as far as connections with anything that we were involved with as far as intelligence services were concerned.

Let's put the full document up on the screen, Doc. Okay, so that should be number 10 there for control. So the sidebar has those notes that we had seen earlier there. And then this particular document written in 67 goes through and explains the cooperation that was taking place between the Central Intelligence Agency and the Israeli Intelligence Services. and the Israeli intelligence services. And it also lays out how Angleton managed the information, not only with Israel, but also the relationship between the Central Intelligence Agency and the

FBI. In other words, he was the control agent on information that was given to the FBI as well. The intermediary, the broker, if you will, of information at the CIA. Other appearances of Angleton's cooperation along with the Israeli intelligence services comes with another document here where it shows numerous times where there was direct confrontation specifically as relates to information revolving around the JFK assassination about Israel having access to information at the very least. At the very least they

had information about the assassination and even had access to information about Oswald before the assassination. So there's a lot here, but a lot that's not surprising. We already kind of knew who it was in these documents before, because these documents have actually been released before. It's just that Israel was redacted out. It makes you wonder, Rick, why Mike Pompeo was so adamant about not releasing this.

Because I'm just, unless there's something I'm not seeing in what has been released so far, I don't understand what the Ballyhoo was about, Rick. I really don't. Well, let's not assume they've released everything. That's right. That's my assumption, that not everything has been released. They've had 60 years to work through these documents, Rick.

60 years. And so who knows what is not ever going to see the light of day, no matter how much we press on this particular thing. And once again, we were promised 80,000 pages. Only 60,000 have been released. Was that just an imaginary number that was thrown out there? Or is there additional information that you had to come out? I feel certain that there are documents that have been withheld.

I'm not going to prove it, and you know what? I'm not going to get upset over it. I have my own opinion. I believe that Israel killed John F. Kennedy, but there were other players involved. There were other fingerprints. They used different assets to get it done. Lyndon Johnson, absolutely involved, but Johnson was an Israeli lackey. He was a secret Zionist. And Israel got Johnson into the White House. He was, Kennedy was not a pro-Israel Democrat. Johnson was. And our policy, America's foreign policy, has been pro-Israel ever since the days of Johnson.

That's right. Democrat, Republican, it doesn't matter. And you want to know why? Because they all can hear the gunshot. That's right. They know, all the presidents have known where the gunshot came from. Right. Israel. Now, there's a Martin Sandler is a prolific writer. I think he's written about 50 books. He's 92 years old now and still writing.

A few years ago, he wrote and published this book, The Letters of John F. Kennedy. And I've got a short video clip of him giving an interview about that book. And he talks about the role of Israel in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Let's watch. There's a very surprising series of letters between Kennedy and David Ben-Gurion, not only the prime minister, premier of Israel, but the founder of Israel, in which they're very angry letters, in which Kennedy is saying to Ben-Gurion, I'm killing myself trying to get a nuclear test ban treaty. I've even got De Gaulle on board and that's impossible. And you keep testing in Demona.

You've got to stop. And Ben-Gurion, thank you, in so many words says, it's easy for you to say sitting in Hyannisport, I'm sitting with the Arabs all around me and you want me to give up a nuclear testing. And Kennedy threatens them, and he threatens them in such a way that Ben-Gurion resigns. And I will tell you that I found articles, not in any crackpot publications,

but in very sophisticated publications saying, forget Lyndon Johnson, forget the CIA, forget Fidel Castro. the Mossad killed Kennedy because they were so upset over what he did to Ben Gurion. So, you know, we got a few little bombshells we throw in there, not proven. Yes, yes, I hear you. I go with his theory.

Yeah, we played a clip yesterday. Roger Stone had posted an interview that essentially said the same thing. And so they hold true to that, and they've had the opportunity to have access to information long before this document dump. And on the one hand, Rick, I'm relieved that we're finally getting this out in the open and we're finally airing this out. On the other hand, it's been 60 years.

There's been a lot of opportunity to wash this through for documents to get lost. There, one important document is the the communication between Lyndon Johnson and CIA Director McCone the day of the assassination that, you know, is supposed to be a smoking gun on LBJ, that's not included in this. And so there are other things that others have brought up in the past, you know, through various books and movies and interviews,

that have not shown up yet. Doesn't mean they don't exist. They haven't been revealed as of yet. And there may be some things that never get revealed. We still have secret files dating back to the days of Lincoln. And so there are some things that the government will not tell us. And that may sound like a bit of a cynical view of the government, but I've been alive

for 60 years. So, whose government is it? Well, since the Kennedy assassination, it appears to be the deep state government. Yes. It's not of the people, by the people, for the people. That's for certain. Now, there are some interesting tidbits that have come up out of the JFK files. One is—and I didn't expect to see this today—is the possibility of chemtrails showing up in the JFK files, that they were actually discussing this kind of activity back in the 60s. We have just a portion here.

A group then turned to a discussion of number 32, agricultural sabotage. General Carter emphasized the extreme sensitivity of such operations and the disastrous results that would flow from something going wrong, particularly if there were obvious attribution to the U.S. He went on to say, however, that it would be possible to accomplish this purpose by methods more subtle than those indicated in the paper. He mentioned specifically the possibility

of producing crop failures by the introduction of biological agents of natural origin. Mr. Bundy said he had no worries about any such sabotage which could clearly be made to appear as a result of whether we're going to blame the Cubans or a natural disaster but that we must avoid external activities such as release of chemicals unless they could be completely covered up. Unless they could be completely covered up. Unless they could be completely covered up. So Doc, this refers to a CIA slash Pentagon project to destroy the agriculture of Cuba.

Yes. And so they were going to release biological and chemical agents that would destroy the crops of Cuba. But General Carter in the Pentagon was worried that they might get caught. And what would the US government say if there was evidence that America destroyed another country's agriculture?

Now, the very fact that they had the discussion tells me that we've done these things. Yes. And we probably continue to do these things. They've just gotten better at covering it up. And the question is have they been doing it domestically as well? If anything the JFK files has revealed is that the Central Intelligence Agency has been active domestically for decades. There's no question about that now. Even though their mandate and directive is international, they have been, let's just

face facts, the Central Intelligence Agency has acted like an enemy agent for 60 years in this country It's precisely what? Dwight Eisenhower warned us about when he left the White House in January 1961 a military industrial complex. And I think President Eisenhower was probably very regretful that he ever allowed the CIA

to become as big as it became under his administration. Remember, he started under Truman as the OSS. Right. And it was a very small agency in the beginning, but it quickly took on a lot of power. You know, one document in here that's intriguing. Yes. This is from John F. Kennedy Jr. Yes. And why this was included in the JFK files is interesting,

because this letter is from 1994. And so we're doing a screenshot here on the screen for those who are watching on video. And so the one thing that you have to admit that the CIA and these intelligence agencies, they have a lot of documents. They write everything down. Whether they keep it or not is one thing. But they processed an envelope postmarked Worcester Mass, 26 August 1994, bearing the hand-printed address of Senator Joe Biden, Democrat, Delaware, U.S. Capitol building,

U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C., 20515. Very specific, a handwritten envelope. And in that handwritten envelope was a handwritten letter dated August 26, 1994, beginning, Dear Senator Biden, you are a traitor. And bearing the signature, John F. Kennedy Jr. John F. Kennedy Jr. You are a traitor.

Now, remember, this was written in 1994. JFK Jr. died in a very questionable plane crash in 1999, five years later. Rick, this is an interesting piece of information that's been brought out of the JFK-5. Are you talking about the son of an assassinated president calling a U.S. senator a traitor? Yes. We don't know why. We don't know what the—what were the grounds? What motivated John F. Kennedy Jr. to call Biden a traitor?

What did he know about Kennedy? I mean, about Biden? He obviously knew something. And how did the CIA get the letter? Well, and this actually, this is the FBI document here. All right, how did the FBI get it? Yeah. How did they get that document?

How did they get that letter? Unless they read the letter before it was delivered to Senator Joe Biden. Now, I thought about that, Doc. Yeah, I think they intercepted the letter. Yes. Maybe not, like they intercept all letters. Yes.

Especially all letters in Washington, D.C. Especially letters going to senators and congressmen. And so, because there could be threats. Look, I'm trying to think from the FBI perspective. You know, it could be a threat. You know, that was during those times, Rick, where they were talking about anthrax and stuff like that in the mid-'90s. And so, it very well could have been that the FBI was going through everybody's

mail in the Capitol at the time. Or they were watching Joe Biden. Now, I'll tell you who went through the mail. The U.S. Postal Service. Friends, if you think the U.S. Postal Service has been reading your mail for decades. For decades. They read your mail. All right? That's a fact. And nobody talks about it. But the post office reads your mail.

And so my guess is, Doc, the post office intercepted the letter like they were intercepting all letters in Washington, D.C. And that one made it to the FBI. Now, Rick, of course this was 1994, August of 1994. JFK Jr. was a rising star. Yes. You know, he was being pegged as perhaps, you know, one day he could be president too. Yes.

Right? So what would prompt the son of an assassinated president, with the potential of becoming president himself one day, what would compel him to call a sitting U.S. senator? A Democrat. A fellow Democrat. What would prompt him to write a handwritten letter to that said Democrat and call him a traitor? What would prompt that?

Any ideas, Rick? That Kennedy had inside knowledge of a deal Biden had made. We now know that the Bidens were extremely corrupt. Yes. They were they were selling out this country for decades. So my years ago, I would I would be stumped. I would be I don't know. I have no idea.

Joe Biden. What good what bad thing could Joe Biden be doing? Now I would be thinking what good thing could Joe Biden do? The man's thoroughly corrupt. His entire family is corrupt. So I have to assume John F. Kennedy Jr. had some very damaging information about Biden, and

it angered him, and he let Joe Biden know it. I can't imagine anything else that would motivate him to send that letter. And it made it in the Hall of Fame inside the FBI's archives. Remember, the FBI and the post office intercepting mail is a great way for human intelligence. So today, they just read your email. They copy your email.

They copy your text messages. But before email and before text messages, you just had mail. Yes. And you had to open, you had to read the contents of the mail in a way that the recipient didn't know that their mail had been read. And folks, they've been doing it for decades. Yes, they've had this technology for decades, either manual or through electronic means,

lighting means. They've been doing this for a very, very long time. They have been gathering intelligence on American citizens for as long as they've been able to do it and are doing it even to this day. And so I ask again, whose government is it? Is it government of the people, by the people, for the people, or to the people? Against the people. All right, let's switch over to, we'll talk about money.

And there's an interesting story that's out today. It's just Coin Telegraph, which is a publication in the crypto industry. US stablecoin bill likely in the next two months. Yes. Says the head of President Trump's crypto council. Yes. So Bo Hines, the executive director of the president's council of advisors on digital assets, said comprehensive stablecoin legislation is expected to be finalized in the next several months,

underscoring the government's urgency to maintain the US dollar's dominance in on-chain activity. Speaking at the Digital Asset Summit in New York here just a couple days ago, Hines said stablecoin legislation is imminent following the Senate Banking Committee's approval of the Genius Act last week. When asked about stablecoin legislation and when it would be passed, Bo Hz said, I think that stables could be on the president's desk here in the next two months.

Right now, the market seems to be underestimating what this bill could do for the U.S. economy in terms of U.S. dollar dominance, in terms of payment rails, in terms of altering the course of financial markets, he said. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bissett said the Trump administration will use stablecoins to maintain the dollar's status as the global reserve currency, which partly explains their renewed sense of urgency

to push legislation over the finish line. We have Secretary Bissett speaking to this stablecoin pathway here recently at the White House. And we are going to put a lot of thought into the stablecoin regime. And as President Trump has directed, we are going to keep the U.S., the dominant reserve currency in the world, and we will use stablecoins to do that. Thank you. Okay, so for those who don't know what a stable coin is, it's a crypto currency coin that

is pegged to the US dollar. It doesn't fluctuate up and down. If you have a stablecoin, if you buy a stablecoin, basically you have the equivalent of a US dollar. So this is fascinating that the US Treasury is going to issue an official US stablecoin. Now, Doc, I like the idea. I was absolutely against the Federal Reserve issuing a digital coin, totally against the Federal Reserve doing it. This is the US Treasury.

This is different. They have the authority to do coinage. Yes. And this is going to open up so many possibilities. I was really giving this a lot of thought this afternoon. What are the possible ramifications of an official US stablecoin? So think of it, it's a digital dollar.

You could say you put $1,000, you buy $1,000, you have $1,00000 stablecoins that have the official backing of the US government. You can move this money around now digitally on your own. You're moving it around. And it's accepted as official money. What does this do to the banks? That's a great question. So I really was pondering this. What's going to happen to the banks?

So I was doing some research and I came across Brian Moynihan, the CEO of Bank of America. And he said, there's going to be a stablecoin, and we may, I want you to listen closely. He said, we, meaning the Bank of America, we may issue one. Let's watch. It's pretty clear there's going to be a stablecoin, which is going to be a full dollar backed type of thing, which is no different than a money market fund with check access is no different than a bank account, really. And so if they make that legal, we'll go into that business.

So you'll have a B.A., a Bank of America coin and a U.S. dollar deposit, and we'll be able to move them back and forth because now it hasn't been legal for us to do it. But it's just then like another foreign currency. The question of what it's useful for is going to be interesting. So what would it be useful for, Rick? Before we go there, he said there'll be a Bank of America stablecoin. Yes. The impression I got is the banks are going to be allowed, depending on the Treasury Department

regulation. I think they're waiting on that. I think they have an idea that the banks will be allowed to issue their own coins. Okay, so there are stable coins on the crypto market now. They've been for years. I don't currently have any. I had some in the past. You know, it was a, when I was dealing with crypto, it was a safe

place to put some money while you're waiting to make some moves in crypto. You just always had money sitting there in crypto and stored in stablecoins. But if the banks are allowed to issue But if the banks are allowed to issue their own stablecoins, you're going to have the Bank of America stablecoin, the Cit picture frame on the wall? There is a bank note. Yes. From the Bank of Vero Beach. Yes. It's an old, it's an authentic note, but the bank that used to be on this street is no longer here.

It at one time issued its own currency before the Federal Reserve showed up. See, that stopped when the Federal Reserve came into existence. Before the Federal Reserve, banks were authorized by the Treasury Department to issue currency. Right. Are we about to see the same thing happen with cryptocurrency?

Is the Trump administration going to pull the rug out from under the Federal Reserve? Is he about to destabilize the Fed with a stable coin? Oh, that's interesting. An interesting twist on that. And so what would be the ramifications of that, Rick, if that were to happen? Well, I think in time, the Federal Reserve becomes irrelevant.

Yes. And actually, the banks could become irrelevant. You know, this could open up that if you get a license from the Treasury Department to digitally mint your own coin, aren't you now a bank? But the impression I got from Secretary Bessent is that the U.S. is going to issue its own stable coin. Wouldn't the banks issuing their stable coins be in competition with the US Treasury stablecoin? Well, I think that's what we have to find out.

And it may be, and I don't know, Doc, it may be that the banks are taking your money and buying the US Treasury stablecoin. What you're holding is a, let's say, a Wells Fargo stablecoin, but it's backed by the US Treasury. I don't know. I think, I'm assuming the insiders know where this is going, but this is going to be big. It's going to change the financial markets this year. What President Trump is doing is he is shoring up the US dollar. Folks, all the concern about the US dollar collapsing,

just get that out of your head. That's not going to happen in the near future. That's not going to happen in the near future. We used to talk a lot about the US dollar collapsing. It's not going to collapse. No. It might be revalued, but it's not going to collapse. It's not going to collapse. Now, Rick, let me ask you this.

And I know we have other stories and everything today, too. But aren't you pegging one fiat currency to another Fiat currency in this what's the possibility that that in two months? They say we're gonna peg the stable coin to gold Let's say That's a real possibility That's I we're headed towards the world is going towards a gold backed financial system I Don't know how they're going to do this. There's talk about the Treasury Department revaluing gold, not the retail price, but

the price that the US Treasuries are pegged at. They're still at a- Like $45 or something like that. Yeah, ridiculous. Right. So, just let's be watching. Yes. All right?

In the coming weeks, something big is going to happen. Let's go to number 20, Doc. Yes, sir. Well, of course, we started talking about the conversation between Donald Trump and President Putin yesterday. And lots of things were worked out between the two world leaders. And as we're moving forward here, it looks like there's going to be some kind of face-to-face

meeting here in the very near future, and will likely take place in Saudi Arabia. You see this headline from TASS on the screen there. Dmitry Peskov did not rule out that the meeting between President Putin and President Trump could take place in Saudi Arabia. The option that the meeting of the presidents of Russia and the U.S. will take place in Saudi Arabia could not be ruled out, but so far there are no specifics on the venue of the face-to-face summit. But this was reported by the press secretary, the Russian leader, Dmitry Peskov, to TOS.

Obviously, that idea has been floated out there, and a lot of the negotiations between Russia and the U.S. have been taking place in the Middle East already. And I think what they're doing is allowing the Middle East leaders to take that role, to give them prominence as well. In other news regarding what's happening between Russia and Ukraine, the RT is reporting there, you see Steve Witkoff there on the screen, Ukraine ceasefire within weeks. A complete ceasefire and Ukraine conflict will likely be implemented within a couple of weeks.

That's according to Steve Witkoff, who you see pictured there. He also said that sanctions imposed by Washington on Moscow—and this is the big story on this—could be relaxed once they reach such an agreement. And we know that's probably going to be where this ends up here, unless something really weird happens, some sort of bump in the road over the next few weeks. London Telegraph is reporting today that in spite of all the talk between the United States and Russia that the UK is going to continue supply of weapons to Ukraine despite President Putin's demands. He says, uh, in that

article, the UK will keep giving military aid to Ukraine despite, uh, Vladimir Putin demanding Western arms supplies to Kiev come to a halt. The EU said this morning it would continue sending military aid to Ukraine, claiming Russia was not ready to make any concessions. What Russia wants is that Ukraine will let all the guards down. That's coming from Kahad Khalas, the EU's top diplomat. Germany plans to release an extra $3 billion in military aid for Ukraine in a major breakthrough after Olaf Scholz, the outgoing chancellor, previously blocked any kind of new financial package.

And so we see a new shift in tone among the European leaders, Rick, that they are still going to maintain that Russia is an enemy of Europe. That's right. And that last sentence you read about Germany, it leads us into this London Times article. Murs, this is Friedrich Murs, he's the man who's going to become the chancellor. He's kind of like chancellor and waiting. So he won a big victory yesterday in the German parliament, what you just mentioned, the three billion dollars in military, three billion euro package, military aid for Ukraine. And what he said was, quote, this is a war against Europe, not only against Ukraine,

it is also a war against our country, which is taking place daily. I'm like, dude, what are you smoking? Yes. What is wrong with you? Russia is not at war with Germany. But if you keep pushing it, you're going to get the war. So Doc, this ceasefire, which still has not been agreed to. And the monkey that's holding this thing up is this issue of the West continuing to send

weapons to Ukraine. Right. The NATO thing is off the table now. I think everyone has come to the conclusion, even leaders in Europe have said NATO is not going to happen for Ukraine. So the two big things right now are NATO peacekeepers in Ukraine. Right. And NATO weapons coming to Ukraine. And the Russians are saying no to both of them.

And if there's anything that's going to stop the peace deal between Mr. Putin and Mr. Trump, it's going to be the Europeans insisting that they keep the war going. So who's trying to keep the war alive? It's the Europeans. Why don't they just get out of it? Let it go. Cut your losses and go home. Fix up your own countries.

I think a lot of it has to do, Rick, by examining the leader. Pride. Well, pride, but also money as well, because you see a number of European leaders, and now the new leader of Canada, are bankers. And the only way the European economy can have any kind of growth, it's not going to be through manufacturing, it's not going to be through agriculture, it's not going to be through tourism, it's going to be in making things that blow other people up. That's the only way they're going to be able to make any kind of money or justify making

any kind of money as they move forward. In order to make things that blow people up, you've got to have somebody to blow up. They've chosen Russia as that target. All right. I'm going to jump down to number 25 to follow up on the point you just made. This is Financial Times today. EU to exclude the United States, Great Britain, and Turkey from a 150 billion euro rearmament fund.

Bottom line is this. The Europeans are going to spend 150 billion euros building up their weaponry and American and British and Turkish companies can't bid. You got it. They want to keep it inside Europe. So it's exactly what you just said, Doc. This is, you know, Emmanuel Macron and others have said we're going to a wartime economy. That's the way they're trying to get their economies moving. We've got to have a big war. We've got to build tanks.

We've got to build rockets. We've got to make ammo. And we've got to do this for years and we've got to scare the daylights out of the people that the Russians are coming. I mean, and who did they learn that from? They learned it from... From NATO. Yeah, from NATO.

I mean, it's worked for 70 years. But now that the United States is going in a different direction here, notice in the headline again, like you said, the US is out, the UK is out, Turkey is out. They're attempting to restart a wartime economy. But, Rick, they're 10 years away. But, Doc, maybe NATO was so good at the propaganda that these people really believe it. That's a possibility. They actually believe the propaganda.

Now, I'm going to jump back up to 24. This is NBC News. Trump administration considers giving up NATO command. That's been exclusively American since Dwight Eisenhower. Yes. Yeah, this is a big story, and we kind of alluded to it a couple of weeks ago in another article. Now, for nearly 75 years, it's been a distinctly American responsibility to have a four-star US general oversee all NATO military operations in Europe.

All started with the man you see pictured there on the screen, Dwight Eisenhower. However, the Trump administration is considering change in that according to two defense officials familiar with the planning and a Pentagon briefing reviewed by NBC News. The Pentagon is significantly restructuring the U.S. military's combatant commands and headquarters. The two defense officials said one of the plans, under consideration, would involve the U.S. giving up the role of NATO's supreme allied commander Europe, known within military parlance as the SACEUR.

The general now in this role, who also serves as the head of the US European command, has been the primary commander overseeing support to Ukraine in its war against Russia. Now it's unclear how long such reorganization would take place and it could be modified by the time it's complete. Congress could also weigh in on this using the power of the purse should any members oppose any aspect of the initiative. Now the article goes on to quote Admiral James Stavridis, for the United States to give up the role of Supreme Allied Commander of NATO would be seen in Europe as a significant signal of what he is saying is walking away from the alliance.

Now if you recall, Admiral Stavridis served as the head of the European Command from 2009 to 2013, and so he has been in that position there. It would be a political mistake of epic proportions, and once we give it up, they are not going to give it back," he wrote. We would lose an enormous amount of influence within NATO, and this would be seen, correctly, as probably the first step toward leaving the alliance altogether. And I say, let's do it. Yes.

Let's get out. Let's move on. It's over. World War II is over. Move on. Europe, you want to War II is over. Move on. Europe, you want to fight the Russians? Go for it. Do it yourself.

Now, I don't have to worry about Russian missiles hitting the United States. Right. All right? I don't want in it anymore. Let's get out. So I believe President Trump is leading us out of NATO. And we're watching a total reshuffling of the world order in our lifetimes. Amazing.

I want to get about a few minutes left here. I'm going to jump, Lee, I'm going to go all the way down to 32. I'm going to do some domestic political news. So this is Politico. Judge bars Trump's EPA from taking back the $20 billion in climate grants. You know who that judge is? Chutkin.

Yeah. That's old Judge Chutkin. Yeah. So she said, you know that $20 billion that the Biden administration hid in a bank, like on their last day in office, they didn't even have time to give it out to their friends. So they just parked it in the bank and set up a mechanism that somebody outside of the Trump administration would divide up the $20 billion. I mean, it was a slimy scheme.

And Doge discovered it. And so they're trying to get that money back from the bank. I can't believe the bank hasn't sent it back. Yes. What is going on here? You have the Department of Treasury saying, give the money back. And you have a bank saying no.

Well anyhow, you now have this judge, Tonya Chukhin, saying, nope, the money's got to be dispersed. It's got to be given out to the Biden cronies. Doc, they're doing lawfare again. Yes. And going right along with that, another federal judge blocked President Trump's effort to ban transgender troops from military service. So the commander in chief of the military forces cannot issue a directive of who can

and can't serve in the military? This is so unconstitutional. This is a direct challenge to the president's authority as commander in chief. Another federal judge, US district judge Anna Rees, blocking the president from banning transgendered people in the military. Who is also active within the LGBT community herself.

So she's biased in this, okay? So they've issued that injunction against President Trump. She's quoted here saying, indeed, the cruel irony, this is from her perspective now, is that thousands of transgender service members have sacrificed some risking their lives to ensure for others the very equal protection rights the military ban seeks to deny them. That's not the case at all.

The Uniform Code of Military Justice, years ago, established the role of men and women in military service. And it's never been repealed. That's correct. Never been repealed. Another judge said dismantling of USAID unconstitutional. Ordering the Trump administration to reconstitute the USAID Department, bring all the employees back, give them access to their emails, put them back on the payroll.

So once again, the President of the United States, the executive of the executive branch, the guy in charge of the executive branch, cannot say who can and can't work in the executive branch. And some judge, some low-level judge, is going to be able to direct the president on how he operates the executive branch of the United States. It's just incredible.

Yes. I want to jump down to 36. President Trump calls for judge and deportation legal battle to be impeached. This is the judge that said you can't deport the criminal gangs. I was like what are you talking about dude? He's deporting violent murderers. Yes. And a judge says you can't do that. And he even attempted to stop the plane going to El Salvador with the trendy Aregua gang members, Rick. And Donald Trump responded to this. We touched on this yesterday.

He called this judge a lunatic, a troublemaker, an agitator. And Donald Trump went on and said, this man was not elected, I was elected. I was elected, not this judge. So we have a follow-up on that doc, Wall Street Journal, number 35. U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts publicly criticized President Trump. And he had no reason to stick his nose in this at all. He just did this out of, not to protect justice, is the right thing, but making some sort of political statement.

He said, for more than two centuries it's been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision. Robert said Tuesday in a statement, the normal appellate review process exists for that purpose. Well, the normal appellate process is not working. The normal appellate process is corrupt. That's why Donald Trump has been in this position because the judges get in there. The judges have been politicized. That's right. And they bring their political agenda to it.

They're not judging the law anymore, Rick. They're establishing law. Yes. They want to be president without running for president. Is there a solution to this, Rick? I have several. Let's start with Chief Justice Roberts. President Trump released the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Yes. There is a name of a passenger on the Epstein-Lolita Express, the name John Roberts. And it's not the John Roberts at Fox News. We don't know who it is. I don't think it's John Roberts at Fox News. But we don't know who John Roberts is, but he was influential enough to get an invitation to ride on the Lolito Express with Jeffrey Epstein.

I mean, the average citizen didn't get those seats. You had to be somebody powerful, influential. How many John Roberts do we know that are powerful and influential? I want Chief Justice John Roberts once and for all to answer the question, did you ride on Jeffrey Epstein's jet? If you did resign from the Supreme Court, President Trump will get to fill your seat. Right.

So there's solution number one. Number two, Florida Governor DeSantis proposed a solution, and he posted this on Xtoday. Congress has the authority to strip jurisdiction of the federal courts to decide these cases in the first place. The sabotage of President Trump's agenda by resistance judges was predictable. Why no jurisdiction stripping bills up at the onset of this Congress. Good question. Very quickly the Congress could just pass legislation saying the courts have no jurisdiction

in any of these issues. That's constitutional. It can be done. But I have an even better one. And I've been proposing this for years. The United States Constitution only requires a Supreme Court. That's right. The Constitution says the Congress may establish federal courts.

Well, then the Congress may unestablish federal courts. That's right. The Congress should pass a bill abolishing the entire federal court system and then establishing a new system where President Trump gets to appoint 100% of the judges. If the Republicans had any backbone, which I don't have much confidence that they would ever do something that bold. But change this country. Get rid of these judges. Get rid of them.

Just deplatform the federal judges. Yes. Pass a law and kick them out. You know, doge them. That's right. There's our you know, doge them. That's right. There's our new term, doge them. And as a matter of fact, Elon Musk kind of touched on this a little bit here the other day. He said, you know, it's really remarkable that a number of these federal judges,

either their wives or husbands or their children, have nice, cushy jobs at a lot of these NGOs that are under scrutiny through USAID and other departments. And so what happens? You get a federal appointment as a judge, and then your wife or your son or your daughter or your husband, they get a nice federal appointment or a nice nice cushy job at one of these NGOs that just is the recipient of billions of dollars to USAID and other departments. Yes.

Now, last few things, I want to jump down to number 42. This is for Israel. This is for Israel. This is today. Major protest in Jerusalem as Netanyahu seeks to fire Shin Bet chief and renew the Gaza War. Yes. So protests have broken out. The Shin Bet chief, this is the kind of the Israeli FBI.

This is the guy that says he's going to tell the truth about Netanyahu. This is happened. This is the guy that says he's going to tell the truth about Netanyahu. This is today. Look at the Israeli police beating the Israelis. Yes. Nothing like Israeli-on-Israeli crime there, Rick. Imagine how they treat Palestinians. Now, look at this. This is Israeli-on-Is on Israeli here.

You'll see them actually beating protesters. Just incredible video that's coming out as a result of this. This is all in protest against Benjamin Netanyahu and his policies. Shin Bet, director, has been directly accusing Benjamin Netanyahu of corruption. And now... And Doc specifically, financing Hamas. Yes. So, additional footage here from the protest.

Netanyahu, you see the police stomping on people, beating people. It's just incredible. Now, here's... That's Tel Aviv.. Now here's an aerial view. Crowds estimated around 40,000, Rick, 40,000 assembling in downtown Tel Aviv in protest against Benjamin Netanyahu. Okay, something's happening in Israel. Yes, when Bibi's in trouble, people die. That's true. That's the pattern. When Netanyahu's in political trouble, somebody's going to die. And what do I mean? Oh, he's going to start a war somewhere.

Right. Somebody's got to die to get the attention off of his trouble. Let's go up now to number 41. IDF says troops operating in Gaza. Defense Minister Israel Katz warns of total destruction. Really? What's left to destroy? That's right.

I mean, how do you destroy rubble? Doc, he said in here, there's going to be total destruction and ruin. He said, Israel will operate with strength you have not yet seen. That's what he told the people in Gaza today. Yes. What are you going to do? Plow the rubble under? So Netanyahu's in trouble.

So a lot of Palestinian kids are going to die this week because he's going to bomb and bomb and bomb because he's angry. And he's got to get the attention. This is what got him in so much trouble. But it's not going to be limited to Gaza this time either, is it? No, because number 47, then Yahoo says larger and more powerful warfront could develop in the West Bank. So what you saw in Gaza is going to be even worse in the West Bank. And when we say West Bank, folks, we're talking Bethlehem. We're talking Nazareth. We're talking biblical sites.

This man's evil. Let's take a look at 48. I got to get a drink of water, Doc. Okay. This is Jerusalem Post here. What's happening right now is what they're calling Cuttergate. And a businessman admits to passing funds from a Qatar lobbyist to Feldstein. Now, who is Feldstein?

Well, Israeli businessman Gil Berger transferred funds from a Qatari lobbyist to a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's media team, who you see pictured there, Eli Feldstein. Berger admitted in recordings published by KAN's Rishat Bet on Wednesday. The on Tuesday evening by Channel 13's Baruch Kara. According to Baruch Kara, Feldstein ceased receiving his salary from the prime minister's office back in April of 2024 after failing a security background check. However, he continued working for the prime minister until October of 2024, when he was arrested on charges of leaking a classified document to the German newspaper

on behalf of Netanyahu in order to relieve public outcry over the Hamas killing of six hostages in Rafa. Now, according to Baruch Kara, the Qatari government effectively paid Feldstein's salary during that period from April to October, Rick. At the same time, he worked alongside the prime minister, serving primarily as his liaison to military reporters.

Feldstein's attorneys confirmed on Wednesday that, yes, indeed, he had received funds from Berger. The funds Feldstein received from the businessman whose recording was published were for strategy and communication services. Feldstein provided to the prime minister's office and not for Qatar. was published were for strategy and communication services Feldstein provided to the prime minister's office and not for Qatar. Feldstein's attorneys explained it was a temporary and partial solution by elements in Netanyahu's office to a difficulty they encountered regarding

Feldstein's salary payment from the prime minister's office without any impact on the identity of the service recipient, the prime minister, the attorney said. All right. So the bottom line is, Eli Feldstein was Netanyahu's, one of his propaganda meisters. And one of his jobs was to leak documents to help Netanyahu's image. Yes. So he got pushed out of the office.

It's off payroll. Netanyahu arranged for Qatar, an Arab country, to make a salary. Incredible. There are calls in Israel today for Netanyahu's arrest over this issue. Imagine if that was here in the United States. Let's say that we had the president and his White House spokesperson was getting paid, let's say by Venezuela. Just any country out there, but let's say it's Venezuela. And that had occurred over six months,

but everybody thought they were just on salary in the president's office. You'd have a scandal. Of course you would. You'd have a really big scandal, Doc. But this is just typical business. Netanyahu. Netanyahu.

He's crooked every single day. Alright, one more story. Let's go down to number 51. Las Vegas Review Journal. Tesla cars set on fire with Molotov cocktails. That's right. Tesla terrorism is underway, Rick. Yes. Authorities said damage at a Tesla service center in Las Vegas on Tuesday, including cars set ablaze, had some of the hallmarks of terrorism. Some of the hallmarks, Rick.

We talked about Molotov at the beginning of the show. That's right. In the KGB files. Now, what are the hallmarks of terrorism? Well, setting fires on purpose to destroy property. Las Vegas police said the person who used Molotov cocktails and shot rounds into the vehicles at the Tesla collision center in Las Vegas were still on the loose

Tuesday afternoon. Those dastardly deeds. Video that captured the attack showed someone dressed in black, damaging at least five Teslas, two of which were engulfed in flames about 2.45 in the morning Vegas time. They also wrote the word resist painted on the front doors of the business where they were located. At least three gunshots were fired into cars. The multiple vehicles were destroyed in the attack.

I pointed out yesterday, Rick, I thought it was ironic that they use Molotov cocktails, bottles full of gasoline, to attack electric vehicles. A green car, yes. So if this was an isolated incident, you'd just write it off as crazy. Yes. But it's not isolated and Attorney General Pam Bondi said she she do she labeled it domestic terrorism. Yes and said that there will be steep consequences

Number 55 Vancouver the Vancouver International Auto Show, banned Tesla from exhibiting at the show. So, now we're going to politicize car shows. Well, their excuse, Rick, is for safety reasons, but we know the real reason. Wait a minute. What you're saying is that you can't guarantee the physical safety of the people attending your show. Yes.

So you're going to kick people out who are exhibiting at the show. That's right. But it's really, the real reason is they just want to get rid of Tesla out of the auto show, make a political statement. And the final video I want to show you, Scott Jennings over at CNN, he's their token conservative. The only person at CNN you would want to watch. That's right. The only person with a brain works at CNN. I hope he gets paid a lot. This guy, Doc, Scott Jennings, he owns a public relations firm. That's his specialty, PR.

I don't know what his political aspirations are, but I'm telling you, in my view, this guy should be on the Republican ticket in 2028. Well, his name has been floated for Mitch McConnell's seat in Kentucky. Oh, I forgot he does live in Kentucky. He's from Kentucky, and so his name has been floated around. Oh, there you go. Every time he shows up on CNN, I guess CNN just likes pain. I guess they just like getting beat up every night,

because every time Scott Jennings opens his mouth, he's got some sort of smack down on some liberal blowhard there on CNN. Well, it doesn't take a lot of effort. No, it doesn't take a lot of effort. No, it doesn't. But he just does it in such a forward way. And just without it, let it bother him at all, without him having to think about it. So they were having a discussion about the Tesla fires.

And of course, the lefties are smirking and grinning. Late night TV hosts are making jokes about it. Isn't this funny? People are burning Teslas. This was what was going on in CNN and Scott Jennings got fed up with it and he went after them. Let's watch. So, doubtful it's Republicans attacking Tesla dealerships around the country.

It's pretty wild, actually. The other night, Donald Trump said these are domestic terrorists. Everybody laughed about it and scoffed at it. That video looks like terrorism to me. I mean, it's obviously an organized, coordinated effort, however people are communicating with each other, to do this to people around the country who chose to buy a Tesla at some point in the past, many of whom I'm sure were Democrats who bought them in the first place, all because their entire political worldview is ruled by their emotions.

And that's the American left right now. It is one angry mob after another willing to take things into their own hands up to and including keying, firebombing, and otherwise vandalizing cars and car dealerships and charging stations. It's outrageous, it is terrorism, people ought to be put in jail and left there for a very long time and be taught a lesson. So when they do it to a Tesla dealership,

it's really bad, but when they do it to the halls of Congress, we should pardon them. Is that your position? No, I've never. Are you okay with the 10-year-sage part? I know you haven't been around for a while, so let me educate you about my position about January the 6th. I'm so sorry. Let me educate you. You don't need to pay for that. You don't need to be condescending to me, so let me educate you about my position. You want to attack me? Let me finish.. Let me finish it. Let me finish it. Let's do this January 6th and then near it. I'm sorry you're getting emotional.

Yeah, I'm sorry you're a condescending person who hasn't been paying attention to what I do. So here's the issue. I didn't support what happened on January the 6th and was one of the first Republicans to call it out. I don't support the pardons. I have repeatedly, just like my friend Ashley here, said that no violence in our political system

is acceptable. But this right here, what's going on with a guy who helps our country, who runs successful companies, who doesn't have to be doing this, and now one of his companies is under systematic terroristic threat and violence all over the country and people seem to be laughing about it or fine with it, it's outrageous. I've sat at this table and had people say, we should cut Elon Musk from the government totally. He rescued our astronauts today.

Is that what we want? The treatment of this guy is outrageous. These people who are doing this need to be found, put in jail and made an example of. The ironic thing is that most of these electric cars were bought by Democrats. Yes, yes. They wanted all of us to buy them. And now if you buy one, they'll burn it. So crazy.

Hey, we don't think things through, do they, Rick? No. And Doc, I don't know, yesterday, if you mentioned the rescue of the astronauts. Hadn't happened by the time we had ended the program, but they had already left the International Space Station. By the time I got home that evening, they had made it to the Gulf of America. But it is awesome that they were rescued and that SpaceX did it. But the real story is SpaceX, Elon Musk made this offer to the Biden administration. Got turned down.

And they were turned down. Yes. Over politics? Yes. You're telling me that the Biden administration allowed American astronauts to be stranded in space for nine months over politics? That's crazy. Somebody ought to be held responsible.

Who, who had, um, who was in control of the auto pen that day? Who told Elon Musk, no thanks. And what was your plan to get those astronauts back? Just what was your plan? You didn't have a plan. You left the White House in January 20 and they were still floating in space. Just like you abandoned Americans in Afghanistan. Well listen, the Biden administration was lost in space for four years Rick. So, but. You know Doc, I can tell you, you know, there, there are days, uh, and it

was that way in the first Trump administration, there are days that I get very frustrated with him and go, what are you doing? You know, just what, bring it down, bring it down. Okay. But on the worst day of a Trump administration is far more desirable than the best day of a Biden administration. That's true. Thank God those people are gone. Thank God they're gone.

They're more corrupt and more inept now than what we knew when they were in power. How many people knew that they they abandoned astronauts in space? Did you ever hear stories about it? No, not at all and no plan to bring them back That was like that was the most frustrating thing. Well, you know, they've been up there for a while Well, are we getting them? Are we gonna shoot another rocket up and you know, bring these folks home Didn't have any idea what to do. That's how incompetent they were. Yeah, okay We got to go. We're over time. Thank you so much. Rick. I'm glad you're feeling better today. I am I am Thanks everybody who prayed appreciate it. I heard you cough a little bit doc. Don't get what I had I'm trying to avoid it. All right, that's I can and so elderberry and zinc

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I'm reading from the King James this morning. Verse 13. For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die. But if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, you shall live. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear, but ye have received the spirit of adoption. Whereby we cry, Abba, Father, the Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit that we are

the children of God. And if children then heirs, heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ, if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together." God bless the reading of his word today. Amen. Verse 13, for if ye live after the flesh ye shall die, but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body he shall live." Very simple. A life dominated by sinful desires ends in death. Spiritual eternal death, separation from God There's not much more to say that's what it means. Yes, plain and simple

This is the inevitable fate of Unrepentant fleshly pursuits So living according to flesh always results in spiritual death, eternal separation from God, the loss of eternal life. The spiritual death is a natural consequence of sin and a divine judgment. So verse 13 is warning all believers of the very grave serious outcome of persisting in a lifestyle dominated by sinful desires because it's incompatible it by sinful desires because it's incompatible with living a life in Christ. Paul said we are to mortify the deeds of the body. Yes. That means actively put to death sinful behaviors and desires. And the word mortify there is more than just to kill or to put to death but to best way to describe is with enthusiasm with you know to make sure they're completely dead. I use the

illustration, remember the old raid commercials when we were kids, Rick? Yes. Where what did raid do to bugs? They killed, it killed bugs dead. It didn't just kill them. That's right. It killed bugs dead. And so when we talk about mortify, you mortify the sins of the body, it not only kills them, it kills them dead. Well, it's a very strong language. You're not to have a flippant attitude about it. Yes. You are to mortify. You are to kill, slay, put out of existence fleshly desires, fleshly behaviors. And this is an ongoing process of rejecting the influence of your fallen sinful nature. That old man always... But it's not even us that does it, because Paul here says, if ye through the Spirit, ye mortify the deeds of the body. You know, there are a lot of

people who go into kind of a self-flagellation mode. They'll punish themselves, they'll do everything they can to, you know, try to, you know, wreck some sort of evil upon themselves. Without the Spirit of God, there will be no conquering of sin in our lives at all. It's got to be the Spirit of God. We can't kill sin in the flesh. We can't kill sin in the flesh, but through the Spirit we can mortify sin in the flesh. Amen. We just keep coming back to the same theme. We can't do anything apart from God. Amen. So as Doc just said, believers cannot achieve victory over sin through their own efforts. The mortification, the killing dead of sin,

is possible only through the Holy Spirit, who provides the power, the guidance, the conviction that we need to subdue the sinful tendencies of our body. And to have that kind of dependence on the Spirit requires us to remain in close fellowship and communion with God. The Spirit, the Holy Spirit enables us to overcome the power of sin and the consequences of sin. And when we mortify the deeds of the body, we experience freedom from sins dominion. Amen.

And that provides us assurance of victory over spiritual and internal death. And that triumph is the hallmark. Of the Holy Spirit's work in your life. Of all the things the Holy Spirit is doing in your life. What ranks up at the top is enabling you to mortify the deeds of the flesh. Number one, objective of the Holy Spirit. I don't think most of us think that way, do we, Doc? No, we really don't. We really don't.

And yet at the same time, the mortification of sin in our flesh is really that first foretaste of the resurrection of our bodies too. Because Paul in verses nine through 12 here touches on that in that one day our bodies will be resurrected. Right now your spirit's been resurrected. But one day your body is going to be resurrected. And then he picks up here in verse 13, you mortify the deeds of the body, but that's your first foretaste of that resurrection body that you're going to live in later on.

Amen. So the Holy Spirit gives us victory, triumph over fleshly deeds, and that breaks sins hold on our life. And this liberation comes to us only through grace. I want to emphasize that putting sin to death is a lifelong journey. It's not a one-time act. This is not something you check off your list. So, got that done. No, you're going to be dealing with this your entire life. Yes. But Paul comes to the conclusion here, one of two things is going to die. Either

you or your sin. Something has to die here, and it's either you or your sin. Mm. Something has to die here, and it's either you or your sin. And through the spirit, we mortify the sin. We mortify the deeds of the body. There's nothing more tragic There's nothing more tragic than to see a person who confesses to be a Christian who is unaware that he or she is a slave to a sin. And nothing you can say or do can wake up that person. I think we've all seen it in our lives. Yes. And here's why. This is why they don't let go of it. Mortification requires the

believer's active participation with the Holy Spirit. Yes. believers active participation with the Holy Spirit. Yes, the spirit provides the power, but the believers must submit to the power. Amen. Does the believer must. Intentionally resists sin. The believer must intentionally cultivate holiness desire it seek for it If that's not present the Holy Spirit can't mortify the deeds of your flesh amen, it's not going to do it for you

Give you all the tools all the power that you need, but you have to do it. You can't do it on your own, but you can't do it without the Holy Spirit without you. He's not going to overrule your will. So it means partnering with the Holy Spirit, taking deliberate steps, having an active role in the process of mortification. Now, each of us, we bear responsibility for rejecting fleshly living. We have a moral responsibility to reject sin and live according to the Spirit, and we will be held accountable for our actions and our choices. Because the call to mortify sin is a commandment. It's not a suggestion, it's not an option. It requires intentional obedience. This

responsibility to mortify sin reflects the seriousness of following Jesus Christ. Yes. The reality of living as a new creation in Christ. It's a duty in your new identity. If you're going to be a citizen of the kingdom of God, then you have to do what the kingdom requires. So, mortification, the killing of fleshly desires. Yes. Is a tangible evidence of righteousness. If there's no active mortification, then what righteousness do you have in your life? The fact that you're actively killing sin is the proof, the evidence that you are pursuing holiness. Yes.

It doesn't say you're totally free. It just says you are moving in that direction. You're actively working to go in that direction. So it's a daily transformation. And nobody is exempt. Yes. Nobody. Think of the most righteous person you know. Maybe you said grandma, that she never missed church. She was always there when the doors were open. She prayed every day. You heard her praying on her little table back in her bedroom, praying for you. As righteous and as sanctified as she was, she also had to mortify the deeds of her body. That's right. I don't even want to think that way about my grandma.

Man, doc, you just tainted picture of my grandmother. Well, for me, it just says grandma and I were in the same boat. No, I'm kidding. No, you're absolutely right. You're absolutely right. And she'd be the first to admit it too. That's the thing about my grandmother. Yes. Oh, yes. I'm the most sinful person I know. I can actually hear my grandma say those words.

That's good. A Spirit-led life of mortification of fleshly desires is the proof of true salvation. Amen. It is the authentic witness of each believer. It's the evidence of genuine faith, salvation in Christ, because it reflects the power of the Holy Spirit to work in you. This verse is meant to assure us that living by the Spirit results in eternal life. So this life is not only a future hope, but it includes the present experience. We should have spiritual joy and peace and vitality. Yes.

in peace and vitality. I want to get down to verse 14. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. Being led by the Spirit marks believers as adopted sons and daughters. This adoption is a divine gift, not a human right, you've been brought back into God's family. We were estranged, we were outside of His kingdom, and He brought us back in and declared us his rightful sons and daughters. Amen. With all the privileges of being a child of a king. But what's the what's the earmark of that sonship being led by the spirit? Being led by the spirit. Not your declaration of it. Not that's a part of it. Not your saying that you will, that's a part of it.

But actually being led by the Spirit. Yes. And being led by the Spirit means mortifying the deeds of the body. Yes. So there's an expectation there of the believer that they, if they're being indwelt by the Spirit, then there should be a mortification of sin in their life and there should be the production of Spirit fruit in their life. Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, kindness, mercy. Paul, which says, against such there is no law. It's not against the law to love. And we can't do that without the Spirit of God.

You can't be a child of God, led by the Spirit, and be mean at the same time. Yeah. You can't be a child of God, led by the Spirit and be vicious or bitter or unforgiving or any of those ugly characteristics of Satan. Those are those are traits of the devil. Yes. And so being led by the Spirit is the mark of a true believer. And if you're led by the Spirit, you will have the fruit of the Spirit. And your words and your thoughts, your actions will be in alignment with the Holy Spirit.

We all get grumpy at times. We all are tired at times. Sometimes we're under pressure. Those are exceptions. Your normal default mood should be graciousness. It has just to be happy, joyful, speaking kindness. It'll just be happy, joyful, speaking kindness. Rick, have you ever worked with raw clay in making something or anything like that?

A piece of pottery or anything like that? Oh yeah, raw. Not the kind of clay you buy at the hobby store. No, yeah. When you go out and dig it up. Yes. And you know that you take that clay and you got to wash it first and get as much of the impurities off of it as you can and then you throw it on the wheel. And

it's not ready to be made into a pot yet. When you throw it on the wheel it's not ready because you've got to work that clay and work all the impurities out. You got leaves that are stuck in there, little rocks, and the only way to do it is that the potter has to dig his hand into that clay and work that clay up and keep reforming it and keep rolling again and again. Every once in a while he has to stop the wheel and, oh, there's a twig and does it again and again. Every once in a while he has stopped the wheel and, oh, there's a twig and does it again and again and again and again. Imagine if the clay said, I'm tired of all this. I'm tired of all this kneading and everything. I want to be a pot. I want to be a vase. I'm ready. And the potter says, you're not ready yet because he can't make anything out of you until he works those impurities out of you. That's right.

It's the spirit that's mortifying all those impurities out of you. But if you're being worked by the spirit, if you're being led by the spirit, as the scripture says here, you are that prized possession. You are that prized vase or pot that's being created. You are the child of God. But the evidence of it is the Spirit working and getting those impurities out of you.

Amen. Praise God. You're absolutely right, Doc. And it means submitting to the Holy Spirit and saying, please, do it. Yes. I want to be perfect in your eyes. And one of the reasons why the potter has to work the impurities out is because, and I remember in art class in high school, this happened, where if there's any kind of impurities

in there, when it goes through the fire, it'll break because of the impurities in it. There has to be a consistency in the clay throughout the entire clay, everything. If there's a rock or a twig or somehow they got missed and it's still in there, it'll show up in the fire because you'll have a cracked pot. You don't want to end up being a crack pot, right? No, no. But the crack pots have impurities, right? But the fire will reveal the impurities. The fire will reveal the impurities, and most likely you won't survive the fire if you have impurities.

So, for as many are as led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. Praise God. This is a privileged status. It is a gracious act of God. It signifies that we are no longer strangers, nor servants, but sons and daughters with full access to their heavenly Father. And yet, Paul said he was a bond servant. He knew he was a son, and yet yielded to the Spirit and said, I will be a slave to my Father.

He took it to another level. Yes. So to have the role of sonship, which means male and female. It means that we have a personal, intimate, loving relationship with our Heavenly Father. It gives us access to Him, to experience His care, His guidance, His presence. to experience his care, his guidance, his presence. Just like I said earlier, before we started the lesson, you know, last night as I was recovering from this, this head cold and chest infection,

I was saying to my Heavenly Father, I'm so glad that you are my personal physician, that I can go to you first. Yes, I go to the doctor right away. My heavenly father, you're the supreme doctor of the universe. We have this relationship. When you are a son or daughter, you can go directly to God. I don't know what the protocol is in heaven for angels to access the throne and talk to him. But I know that a son or daughter can walk past the angels and go right into the throne room. Yes. That's the privileged position that we have. So those who are led by the Spirit are no longer under the dominion of the flesh or bound by

sin and the Spirit empowers us to overcome those sinful desires. And we're brought into this intimate personal relationship with God, who now takes us in as son or daughter. It is an amazing privilege. It really is beyond comprehension. At times when I meditate on it, when I'm just quiet before the Lord, I'm just meditating on that my Father, my Father is the creator of the universe. Just the fact that you can say my father.

Yes. I mean just to utter those two words, my father. Yes. Because it wasn't always the case. You know kids like to brag about their parents. They find something to brag about. But when you can brag, my father just happens to be the creator of the universe. You know him as God, but I know him as Papa father Yes And and Paul goes on here said not just father not just positionally as father but Abba father Abba daddy

Yes That's the Eric Aramaic word for daddy In Arabic it's baba. In Aramaic it's aba. But it means daddy. It doesn't mean father, it doesn't mean dad. It means daddy. It's the most innocent childlike name that you can give a father.

It speaks of sweet affection and love for the father. So the Holy Spirit liberates us from fleshly bondage, gives us our freedom, we're no longer slaves, and then transforms us into sons and daughters. And it's done with our active participation because we have to be mortifying the deeds of the flesh. But the Holy Spirit is working with us, enabling us to do it, and transforming us as we show the effort. And so there's a renewal process that's always underway

when we are actively engaged with the Holy Spirit. When we're not, He brings pressure. Being a child of God comes with immense privileges, divine protection, divine guidance through life, the promise of eternal inheritance. As children we have access to God, we have his love, we have his care, we have this intimate relationship. I don't know when we were distributing Morning Man on national television, I'd get feedback by people saying, I object to you calling God your Papa. That's irreverent. I remember those emails. Yes. Yeah. And I felt sorry for them. Me too. Yes. I felt sorry for them because they were in a legalistic religious mindset. Yes, they believed in God. I'm sure they were living a good life and going to church, doing everything, but religion was preventing

them from embracing their their Papa. They were in a spirit of a bondage instead of a spirit of adoption. Yes. They're afraid of him. Well, we suppose that fear of God, you know, you should should be fear your daddy, all right? You get out of line, he's going to put you back in line. Okay. But that's different. You know, he's doing it out of love. Out of love. There. Right. Not, not because you fear him, but because he loves you. That's right.

but because He loves you. That's right. So the leading of the Holy Spirit provides us with the assurance of our salvation and it confirms our identity as God's children. And that confidence allows us to live boldly and joyfully knowing that we are eternally secure in God's love. Your father's not going to abandon you. He's not going to reject you at some point. You stay in fellowship with him. You're not going anywhere. He's not going to leave you. You have that peace of eternal salvation. I think

the only people that fret about their salvation are those who are not walking Because, Sonship, Daughtership inspires a pursuit of holiness. And that is your way of showing your gratitude for God's grace. What can I do to please you? What's he going to say? Be holy. That's what pleases him. Amen. Next verse. Verse 15.

For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear, but ye have received the spirit of adoption, again to fear, but ye have received the spirit of adoption whereby we cry, Abba, Father. So we escape the spirit of slavery that brings fear and condemnation. We have freedom from fear. We're delivered. We're liberated from legalism. We're now adopted into God's family. We have full rights and privileges as a member of the Divine family. We can cry, Abba, father, daddy.

Sweet, innocent, childlike expression of love and affection for your father, and it displays a trusting personal bond. You have an intimate relationship with your father. The law brings bondage, but the spirit brings freedom. The law brings bondage, but the Spirit brings freedom. And the Spirit, when we're free, the Spirit enables us to express childlike words to our Heavenly Father, and calling Him Abba, daddy, Papa, whatever, whatever term you want to use, that's your your way of saying to your father, I love you, you are my Papa. The spirit enables you to say that. Yes. If you're unable to say it, you're still, you've still got some religious bondage.

How would you feel if your son and daughter couldn't call you dad or mom? you dad or mom? I mean, imagine your children are 20 years old and they still haven't called you dad or mom. What would you be? If they were calling you, Doc, if they were calling you Mr. Burkhart. I mean, you're 20 years old. Why do you call me Mr. Burkhardt? I'm your dad. He he desires you to call him Papa. Yes, call him daddy. He desires it. God is not his name. That's that's the title that's on his business

card. Yeah, I never had to address my dad as Oh, great father of the Burkhart family, the one who is the preeminent plumber of Brunswick, I come before you now, and ask of you $10 for gas for the vehicle which you have provided for me. No, I said, Hey, dad, can I borrow $10 for gas? That's the relationship I had. I didn't have to, even though I could have, I could use all those titles and everything, but would it helped in the $10? I don't doubt it. He probably said, what's wrong with you?

Raymond, what's wrong? Talk to me right. Now God's what he does for a living. That's on his business card. That's his title. Right. That's for people who don't know him. That's right. Oh, they call him Mr. Bear Cart. Yes. Yeah, right. Are you a plumber? Yes, that's my title. Yeah. So, the Holy Spirit secures, confirms our place in God's family. And that gives us the assurance of our salvation. It gives us the encouragement we need every day. It gives us sustaining

power during times of adversity. The Spirit inspires holiness and gratitude. And so when we address God as Father, Papa, whatever, it's a joyful response to His divine love. The next verse, verse 16. The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit that we are the children of God. Yes. The Holy Spirit confirms believers, you and me, as God's children, through an inner witness. You know it.

Yes. You know it. The Holy Spirit aligns with your spirit. And now there's a double testimony. You express that you are a child of God and the Holy Spirit says, Amen. Amen. I'm in agreement. There's a harmonious, reinforcing affirmation of your position in Christ. And what that does, the witness of the Holy Spirit deepens your personal family bond with God.

Amen. Doc, it hasn't been that many years ago that I crossed the line from addressing my father as well. I can tell you the stages. I don't know where the years were. I've been a Christian since 1978. But for many years, I dressed him as God. I prayed as, oh God.

Then there came a period of time I addressed him as Holy Father. It hasn't been that many years ago that I started calling him Papa. Took me a long time. Yeah, and you even took heat for it. But he, and what did it? I just, at some point in my life, I became intimately aware of his love of me and his kindness towards me and that I wasn't just another number, I was just another human. And that intimate relationship began hasn't been that many years ago. I don't even remember 10, 12, 14 years, but there was a change.

And so if you're not there yet, don't look. Just try it. Just try it. If you're not there yet, just today, say, Yes. Papa, daddy, I want to talk to you. Okay. No lightning bolts are going to come down and strike you for calling him Papa Daddy, I want to talk to you. Okay? No lightning bolts are going to come down and strike you for calling him Papa or Daddy.

Yes. In fact, arms of love are going to come down. Just watch what happens in your life. Just watch what happens in your life. See, the fear of condemnation fades. It fades away as you deepen your intimate relationship with your father. deepen your intimate relationship with your father. The closer you get to him, the less you deal with the fear of condemnation. Your understanding that your father isn't going to condemn you. He's going to love you. You'll get to the point where you can

confess to him the most deeply personal intimate things that come from way down in your soul and you can talk to him about it and he's not going to go are you serious yes is that really what you're thinking i mean he doesn't that's not the way he reacts Is that really what you're thinking? I mean, that's not the way he reacts. I've had moments, very intimate personal moments with God where I was alone, and he did heart surgery on me. Where the Holy Spirit was taking me back decades in my life, showing me things and saying, Rick, what was that?

Express it to me right now. It was totally by the Holy Spirit brought up memories in my life that I had completely forgotten. That's your loving Father. He was doing heart surgery. He is a kind, kind Father. So the witness of the Holy Spirit reflects that we have a changed identity through God's grace. Yes. We were slaves. We were slaves. But we're not slaves now. We've been adopted.

Amen. We were chosen. It wasn't even natural birth. We were chosen. We were sought out. There was a process to bring us into the family. Yes. You were that coin that was missing, and the woman swept the house looking for it. That's right. You were that treasure in the field. And he bought, purchased the whole field to find that one treasure. That treasure was you. You were that pearl, a great price. You were. Yes. He sought you out. So, Doc and I are in agreement that the standard interpretation of the parables are wrong.

We are the pearl of great price. that the parables speak of God searching for his sons and daughters. Willing to give up everything, pay the ultimate price to get it. Verse 17, and if children then heirs, heirs of God, and join heirs with Christ. And if children then heirs, heirs of God, join heirs with Christ. If so, be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. Wow. Now we're not just brought into the family, and we're not the red-headed stepchild of the family

either. We are brought into full equality into the family. Joint heirs with Christ. Think of the impact of that. You are a joint heir with Christ. Paul further dives into this in 1 Corinthians 15, where it talks about on the final day, where Jesus finally kills death itself. And then the kingdom, Christ gives up the kingdom back to the Father, and the Father turns around and gives the kingdom to us, as joint heirs. So, Doc, are you saying that we inherit everything Jesus inherits

Yes, everything that's so we get it all the same thing he gets That's so radical Wow Are we living that way no When do you inherit everything that Jesus inherits? When you become a child of God? Amen. I think I said it the other day, I was here Monday, I started struggling with this cold last Friday and I said, I think it was Sunday night to the Lord, your word says that by His stripes we are healed. If my Savior allowed the Romans to whip Him and put stripes on His body so that I would be healed, then I want my healing. If he paid that kind of price for me, if he loves me that much to provide a benefit for me, then I am claiming the benefit. I'm not going to allow the benefit to go unclaimed. When somebody has paid such an extreme price for me to have something

and then not appropriate it. That is ingratitude. Yes. This joint airship isn't something that we acquire later. This isn't, you know, at the end of the journey. This joint heirship is now, right now. We're joint heirs now, if we're being led by the Spirit of God. If we're the children of God, we are joint heirs right now. And as I like to say, if we can get that down in our gizzard, it'll transform the way we look at things.

Okay, so let's look on the earthly level. King Charles, he's got two sons, William and Harry. In the king's mind, one son is living right and the other son is living wrong. Right. Okay. Which son is going to inherit everything that King Charles has? Gonna be William. Because Harry put himself outside the kingdom.

Kingdoms. Yeah. That's one of the dumbest things I've ever seen a human do in my life. You're a prince, and you yourself from your father the king. So in William's mind is he wondering whether he's going to inherit his father's kingdom? No, he's assured of it. Yes. It's already His. It's already His. Think of yourself as a daughter or son of a king. Not just any king, the king, the king of kings. Everything that Jesus inherits, we inherit with him. And have you noticed here over the past year or so that when they're addressing William, that they name his titles,

and you talk about titles quite a bit, we don't have time to talk about today, but now they've added a new one to it, the future king. Oh really, I have not noticed that. Yeah, I picked up on it here last summer that they've been adding that little tag on. And I don't know if they're doing that for Harry's benefit or for what benefit there or if that's something that they've done in the past that maybe I've just never noticed before. But they will say and future king

uh in addition to all the other titles that he has they may have done it with charles but mama lived so long they got tired of saying it future king sure future kid mama's not her mom's she's not going anywhere, all right? Just study, study what Jesus inherits. You and I inherit the same thing. We share it with him. Hallelujah. He did it for us. He was already the son of God.

He didn't have to come to earth. He already had it. Not only did he come to earth to save us from our sins, but he came to earth to share with us his inheritance. Praise God. Wow, it's a double blessing. We should be satisfied just to have our sins forgiven But no, there's more You know like the TV commercial but there's more but wait there's more wait What's more you get to share the King's inheritance more. You get to share the king's inheritance. This is a divine entitlement, a profound privileged. It's a shared privilege. But union with Christ means we share his glory, all of His benefits, His kingdom,

but it also says we share in His suffering. Yes. Don't like to read that part. No. We like the crown, we like the throne, we like all the trappings of royalty, but are we ready to share in what identifies Christ and that is his suffering. But that suffering, sharing in the suffering of Christ is what forms this tight, intimate, inseparable bond. Because Jesus says now, he's looking at you going,

wow, you're willing to suffer for me? I suffered for you, but you love me so much, you're willing to suffer for me? That's when you develop the most intimate relationship with Christ. There's different types of suffering. None of us want to request suffering. And yet... And generally you don't have to. Right. But suffering increases the relationship. It intensifies the bond. And you will be a stronger Christian at the end of a period of suffering than you were before you went in. Because suffering aligns you with the redemptive work of Christ. Yes. You know, Rick, over the years, and you've known veterans that have served in World War II, in Korea, and Vietnam. And there is a certain, the best way to describe it,

brotherhood among soldiers, sailors, and airmen that go through shared experiences, such as going through specific battles in World War II, or Korea, or Vietnam, that they share, if you will, in that suffering. They have a unique bond and a unique experience that others just can't express, that others just can't understand. And how, I saw a video the other day of two soldiers from Korea that were reunited after decades, had never seen each other since they left the service

back at the end of the Korean conflict. And the video showed them meeting again for the first time like 60 years. And they just started weeping. They just started weeping in each other's arms. You know, they were hugging each other and everything because they had a shared suffering that they had, a shared experience that they both went through.

That's the kind of intimacy that Christ is looking for us to share in that, if you will, that foxhole experience that we have with Christ. When we talk about suffering, we don't mean being late to the chicken buffet at the restaurant. Real suffering means that there's a cost to following after Christ. There's a cost for speaking up for Christ. There's a cost for standing up for the Word of God. That's the fellowship of his suffering that we're talking about here. Doc, it's interesting you used the analogy of soldiers

because just this morning, I think it was in the London Telegraph or maybe the Times, there's a story about a British World War II hero who died this week at age 105. Was he the last one to know Winston Churchill? Is that the story? Yes. Yes. He had been, he was shot down four times over Germany. Wow. Okay. I mean, that's a tough old bird,

but one of the things he said in that article, doc, I just read this this morning. At age 105, he still would not talk about his fallen comrades. He told the reporter, it's who died on the battlefield with him. Out of respect, he said our relationship was it was too the bond was too special. I can't talk about it. That's what we're talking about here. Where Jesus says, you're on the battlefield with me. And there's a bond that forms between you and the Lord that nobody can understand. You can't explain it to anybody.

There are no words. Only expressions looking in his eyes, him looking at you. That's the talk. You communicate by the expression of love and devotion and faithfulness to each other. He looks at you and you look at him and you both are saying, I love you with all my heart. I am committed to you. I would die for you.

And when Christ sees that kind of love and commitment, your your relationship with him goes to another level. And the promise of eternal glory will sustain you through any hardships in this life. Because you know what has been promised to you. You know you will share in his inheritance and you're determined, absolutely determined to fulfill your mission. So we have an exalted standing in Christ as children. We are heirs of God, joint heirs with Christ, heirs of God the Father and joint heirs with Christ the Son. We're united in His suffering and we are destined for His glory. We have the promise of the inheritance, God's kingdom, eternal life, divine presence.

And that comes to us through sharing in the trials of Christ. It's a path in this life that transforms pain into purpose. Praise God. It promises victory. This call to endure is fueled by our hope. It inspires resilience in us. It assures us of eternal destiny because we have this promise of being co-heirs. Praise God. All right, that's it for today. Amen. And you made it all the way through, Rick. How about that? I did. So, praise God. And this is a great passage because once again it just confirms

that we are to be led by the Spirit of God in all things and the earmark of the believer. How we know that we are sons of God is that the Spirit of God bears witness with us that we are the children of God. If you don't have that convincing in your heart, ladies and gentlemen, now I suggest that you spend some time today, get along with God, and get that confirmed in your heart. Because the Spirit of God will confirm with you that you are a child of God.

If you're a child of God, then you can also confess by faith that you're a joint heir with Christ. That's the promise of the Word of God. You do not have to live in defeat. You're not the redheaded stepchild in the kingdom of God. You are a joint heir with Jesus Christ. It excites me, Rick.

I don't deserve it. I certainly don't deserve it. But if I deserved it, it'd be something I'd work for and it wouldn't be a gift anymore, would it? But God deserves us to live up to what has been given to us. Amen, that's right. He deserves it. Jesus deserves our allegiance. God deserves us to live up to what has been given to us. Amen. That's right. He deserves it.

Jesus deserves our allegiance. Hey, one, I got a request. A member of our team, Brandon, apparently has what I had. So he texted me early this morning, said he was very, very sick. It sounded like the same thing. I don't know if I gave it to him or he gave it to me.

But he's very, very sick. His name is Brandon and I'm asking you our morning manna class to pray for him today. Like you prayed for me yesterday and I felt your prayers and I felt the gradual recovery come upon me throughout the day. And I'm asking you to pray for Brandon today. Our whole team, we're all vulnerable. Okay. The enemy wants to take us out. I mean, the more he can split us up and keep us from being at our very best, he's slowing down the ministry. That's his goal, that's his plan. So we have to circle the wagons here, okay? And protect every member of the team.

So pray for Brandon today that he has a quick recovery. Thank you. Praise God. And on that note here, I'll also be praying for Rick for him to fully recover as well. And I'll always be praying for this ministry to know that you do. Well, we thank you for joining us today

on this Wednesday edition of Morning Manna. We invite you back here with us live tomorrow morning, 8 a.m. here on the East Coast and around the world, live with friends and neighbors from usually a dozen or more countries every single day that join us for this live Bible study. You can also listen to past episodes, past editions of Morning Manna by visiting faithandvalues.com, becoming a member there and accessing all the different lessons that

we've had in Morning Manna over the past couple years. We'd love to have you check that out as well and also if you can to be with us live each and every weekday morning at 8 a.m. Hey Doc, Tim said let's pray for Brandon right now and absolutely let's close by praying. Our Father in heaven, our Papa, we come to you in the name of Jesus Christ, our Savior and our healer. He is our chief physician, our healer. And so we come in His name and His title as physician and healer. We come on behalf of Brandon, and we ask you Father to touch Brandon's body now and expel all infections,

viruses, bacteria, germs that have penetrated his lungs and respiratory system. Father, deliver him from this sickness sickness restore his health now and And raise him up father so that he's back to work tomorrow in the name of Jesus Christ Amen, amen praise God. God bless you and be sure to tune in on the next edition of morning manna