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Episode Date: January 16, 2025

Nikolay Patrushev, the powerful Kremlin insider who some call Russia’s Darth Vader, warned in an interview that President-elect Donald Trump is at risk of assassination attempts by American deep state actors if he tries to end the Ukraine war.Rick Wiles, Doc Burkhart. Airdate 01/16/2025Join the leading community for Conservative Christians! https://www.FaithandValues.comYou can partner with us by visiting TruNews.com, calling 1-800-576-2116, or by mail at PO Box 399 Vero Beach, FL 32961.Get high-quality emergency preparedness food today from American Reserves!https://www.AmericanReserves.com             It’s the Final Day! The day Jesus Christ bursts into our dimension of time, space, and matter. Now available in eBook and audio formats! Order Final Day from Amazon today!https://www.amazon.com/Final-Day-Characteristics-Second-Coming/dp/0578260816/Apple users, you can download the audio version on Apple Books!https://books.apple.com/us/audiobook/final-day-10-characteristics-of-the-second-coming/id1687129858Purchase the 4-part DVD set or start streaming Sacrificing Liberty today.https://www.sacrificingliberty.com/watchThe Fauci Elf is a hilarious gift guaranteed to make your friends laugh! Order yours today!https://tru.news/faucielf

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British troops can lead Ukraine peacekeeping mission despite cutbacks, say, of military chiefs. They insist, Doc, they're going to be able to do it. They're cutting back the British military. They don't have the money to keep the military funded, but that doesn't matter. They're going to put UK troops in Ukraine. It just doesn't make any sense. But the article details just how desperate the UK military forces are. British troops can and will lead a peacekeeping mission in Ukraine despite cuts to the armed forces, senior military chiefs have

insisted. Sir Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron are in talks to put British and French soldiers in Ukraine as peacekeeping forces in the event of a deal to stop the war. Now, it comes as Sir Keir Starmer met with Vladimir Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, on Thursday in what marked his first visit to Kiev since becoming prime minister in July of last year. The French president has met with Mr. Zelensky and Donald Tusk, the Polish prime minister, where he has championed the idea. However, the army source added that putting British and French troops on the ground was not originally a French idea. Translated, it was a British idea. So, putting British troops on the ground in Ukraine, though, comes amid a backdrop of cuts

to the armed forces, which had called its credibility as a fighting force into question. Now, listen to these numbers we're about to give you. The number of Army soldiers fell below 73,000 in May for the first time since the Napoleon War era, as all three military services have struggled to recruit and retain personnel in recent years. Now to give you some sort of idea how many troops that the U.K. currently has, we have more troops at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, than the U.K. has troops. And their entire country. Yes. And yet they have troops to spare to send to Ukraine.

Yes. Okay, so there are two things in this article I see. First of all, what you're pointing out, the UK doesn't even have enough troops. This is the lowest their troop level has been since the Napoleonic Wars. How did that work out? All right. They are in a deplorable condition, okay? They're very, very weak right now. That's issue number one. Issue number two, which is more important, I don't see anything in here where they said, we're going to talk to Vladimir Putin about this idea.

What makes these people think Putin is going to accept British and French troops in Ukraine? He's going to kill them. He's going to kill them. You can call them peacekeepers. You can call them whatever. He's not going to accept one and French troops in Ukraine. He's going to kill them. Right. He's going to kill them. You can call them peacekeepers. You can call them whatever. He's not going to accept one of them.

He's going to kill them. And we don't know what Donald Trump's plan is going to be. But if the deep state war boys talk him into this idea, Mr. Trump is going to be pulled into a tar pit. Right. Because Putin is not going to accept any NATO troops in Ukraine. No. They've lost hundreds of thousands of Russian men in this war for the last three years.

That's what started the war. The idea. The idea of NATO troops in Ukraine. Right. Why would they say, hey, this is a great way to started the war. The idea. The idea of NATO troops in Ukraine. Right. Why would they say, hey, this is a great way to end the war. Let's put NATO troops in Ukraine and we'll call it even. There's no way they're going to accept it. You're going to make Putin, his hair will stand up on the back of his neck.

If you tell him we're putting NATO troops in Ukraine, he will then tell Donald Trump, we're at war with you. And we'll kill them all. This is a crazy idea. And besides, you heard what Nikolai Petrushev said yesterday. We're not talking to anybody else but Trump. Right.

We're not talking to the UK. We're not talking to France. They don't even consider them relevant players. Because Petrushev knows if the U.S. pulls out of the war, these guys are done. Yes. Unless, Doc, they are foolish enough to keep this war going without the United States. Are they that crazy? Are they that crazy they would do it?

I don't know. Would Macron and Stair Carmer? Well, the fact of the matter is, they can't spare. I got the name back. What did I say? Stare Carmer? You may as well call it that. Care Starmer. Would Care Starmer and Emmanuel McCrone, would they dare keep the war going? Well, they can't even, they don't even have the spare troops to do this. I mean, if you've got troops in Ukraine, let's say you sent 25,000, because you have to have a significant number. You've got only 50,000 left to defend the U.K. So are you able to defend the U.K. now?

They're not peacekeeping troops if there's no ceasefire. Right. See, this is the point. Putin isn't going to sign off on a ceasefire. Not with NATO troops. Not with NATO troops. His demands are get your guys out, get your weapons out, get your missiles out, get your tanks, your jets. Get out.

Get away from my country's borders. That's it. And take all the Nazis with you. Because he said they're going to kill every Nazi in Ukraine. He's not going to let any of them live. Doc, if these people think that he's going to, you know, he's going to say, okay, half the Ukrainian army can be Nazis. We'll live with that. No, their plan is to kill everybody that they identify as a Nazi. They're not going to settle it, and I hope

I pray that Donald Trump doesn't fall for this, but this is foolish talk. But Mr. Trump's National Security Advisor is going to do his best to talk him into it. Do we have any clues as to where his line might be? We sure do. So, the incoming National Security Advisor is former Florida Congressman Mike Waltz.

Conservative Republican. As a congressman, pretty good guy, but he was a warmonger. He's definitely a warmonger now. I want to say a warmonger. He wanted war. Yes. I think anybody that wants war is a warmonger. Is that a fair characterization? I would say so. If you want more war, you're a warmonger, not a pacifist. And I've said this before. You crawl through my bedroom window at 3 a.m., I'll show you if I'm a pacifist. You will pacify the situation. I'll pacify them. Their head will be blown off.

I'm not a pacifist, but I'm not an attacker. I'm not crawling through somebody else's window. On behalf of somebody else. On behalf of somebody else, and I'm not giving my neighbor weapons to shoot my neighbor. That's what the United States does.

We've got our nose in everybody's business and we're agitating wars all over the world. You know why? Because we're like this with Israel. It's Israel and the United States. Israel is the American deep state. Yes. Okay. You can't separate israel let's just put it like

not is the zionist war lobby is the deep state of america it has america america's foreign policy and defense policy in its grip and it runs this country. Okay? And Mike Waltz, he dances to the tune that the Zionists play. It's simple as that. And has for a number of years. Has for years. On most other votes, he was good, conservative. Okay, I'm fine with that.

But he sounds like Jake Sullivan. And there's good reason for that. And Jake Sullivan is a Zionist. He's a member of the tribe. We pointed out last week when Mr. Waltz was on, I don't recall, ABC, I think it was ABC television on a Sunday, and he said, you know what Ukraine needs to do? They need to lower their draft age.

Down to 18. He said the exact same words that Jake Sullivan said. Yes. So we read last week that Jake Sullivan and Mike Waltz had been meeting. Okay, that's understandable transition. Sure. But it's more than a meeting. It's an indoctrination.

And it has been going on since November. And maybe. It's an indoctrination. And it has been going on since November. And maybe it's not an indoctrination, Doc. Maybe they've been seeing eye to eye all along. Yes. Okay. I'm going to go back. This is November, shortly after the election.

And this is what Mike Waltz said. I don't even know at that point when this was recorded whether he even knew he was going to be National Security Advisor. It was right the week of Thanksgiving, so I don't know if he had been selected by Donald Trump yet or not. I don't recall, but he certainly obviously was aware that he was under consideration. I have a feeling he was already chosen. But listen to what Mike Waltz said to Fox News in November of 2024. Let's get Zelensky every single thing he needs, getting a commitment from the Eastern European countries to get them those old Russian air defenses, those legacy Soviet air defense systems into Ukraine. And then four, some very clear red lines, Maria, very clear on the use of WMD. All options are on the table, including U.S. and NATO intervention if Putin uses a tactical nuke or chemical and biological weapons.

As long as Biden lets fear of escalation drive his policy, he will continue to give Putin space to escalate. And that's why we've got to make it very clear that Putin will continue to push until he meets Steele. And we have to make it very clear where those lines are. And Biden has to do it in a way that is credible, unlike his predecessor, Obama, who set those red lines and then allowed Putin to get away with it and cross them. We saw what President Trump did with the use of chemical weapons in Syria. He responded with with 59 cruise missiles and cruise missiles and the Assad regime stopped. So those are the types of red lines we have to set.

Oh, yeah, the 59 cruise missiles. Yes. The deep state told Donald Trump, Assad's getting ready to gas kids. Yes. And he fell for it. He fell for it. He fell for it. He swallowed hook, line, and sinker and sent the missiles into Syria. I knew then. That was early in his administration.

I knew then. They already got him. The deep state, they have him already. They can fool him. So Mike Waltz, the new incoming National Security Advisor, former Green Beret commander, respect him for that. Served the country, commander in Green Berets. Served in Congress. Served in Congress, state of Florida.

That makes it even better. But he said all options are on the table. Yes. What does that mean? All options. That means military troops on the ground in Ukraine. That means nukes. That means the use of U.S. nuclear weapons against Russia.

When you say all options are on the table, nuclear weapons are an option. What he just said was, we're going to let Vladimir Putin know all options are on the table. We will nuke you. Now, keep this in mind. I'm going to show you something in just a few minutes. I'm going to show you why this is extremely important that you understand what he just said in November. All options are on the table. See, Mr. Walsh is expecting Putin to bow down and kiss his feet. That's what he's expecting. He's thinking, I'm going to bring Putin into submission. I'm going to make him bow before me. You just watch, Mr. Walsh. We'll all burn up because of you. We'll all be incinerated because of your kind of thinking.

Now, let's watch. Let's look at the next one. This was also Fox News. Same week. Was it the same show or same week? Different show. Different show. Okay.

He had already been selected by Donald Trump to be national security director. All right. So he'd already been tapped. So he knew what the job he was going to get. So he was doing the talking head tour. And he's talking tough. Yes. He's letting everybody in the world know.

Yes. I'm the gunslinger. But, you know, during the campaign, Donald Trump sought to differentiate himself from the Biden administration. We're going to, you know, we'll solve this in 24 hours. That's not what they're saying now. No. And even back then in November 2020, this past year, ramping up to the new administration, Waltz is saying, you know what, we're going to continue the policies of the Biden administration. He sure is. Let's watch.

And I also want to be clear on one thing, Julian. Jake and I, Jake Sullivan and I have had discussions. We've met. For our adversaries out there that think this is a time of opportunity, that they can play one administration off the other, they're wrong. And we are hand in glove we are one team with the United States in this transition and Mike Walzer what? one team hand in glove hand in glove

you mean the Trump foreign policy is going to be the same as the Biden foreign policy? suckered again doc I wasn't sucker. I knew what we were going to get. It's the same. I can't say it.

You know what it is. Okay. But you vote for them. You think maybe this won't be the time they do it to us again. Maybe they're telling the truth this time. Maybe the Zionist war lobby won't have that much power in this next administration. Guess what? It's the same thing.

Same thing. And I'm going to show you when we get to Mr. Rubio. I'm a supporter of Mr. Rubio. He's a senator here in Florida. He's great on pro-life and a lot of issues. But he likes to blow things up, too. Yeah, he wants to blow things up for Israel. Yes.

He's very devoted to Israel. So what we're hearing is incoming National Security Advisor Mike Walz is saying that he and Jake Sullivan have been meeting their hand in glove, their one team, meaning there's not going to be any change of policy. Right. So the Russians know this. Because I saw Putin, and he said, this is a year ago, Putin said, it doesn't matter who wins in America in the elections. The same power structure remains in power. And he's right. And so they're not fooled by all this stuff.

They know, okay, they're going to say all these things in the election. But after the election, they're going to remain the same. Because the deep state, which is the Jewish war lobby, is in control. Now, let's go to the next one. Reuters. I hope I'm not upsetting people. Folks, I'm just telling you the way it is. I'm just a realist.

I voted for Mr. Trump. Who am I going to vote for? Joe Biden? I mean, there's your choices, right? You hope you get the best. You hope that he doesn't fall for this stuff again. And at times he talks like he's not going to do it. And then the people around him say, oh, yes, we are.

And they know how to guide him, manipulate him. Yes, that's the most frustrating part right there. They know how to guide him, manipulate him. Yes, that's the most frustrating part right there. Yes. They know how to drive him. And he falls for it. It's like a bridle on a horse. Yeah, he falls for it. Pull him this way, pull him that way.

But the horse thinks he's in charge. Yes. So this is Reuters. Trump advisors concede Ukraine peace deal is months away. Donald Trump said in the campaign he will end the war in 24 hours. What does that headline say? It's months away. If we're saying months, we're talking years.

Actually, what they're saying is the negotiations are months away. Okay, go ahead. Let's read it now. So, advisors to President-elect Donald Trump now concede that the Ukraine war will take months or even longer to resolve. A sharp reality check on his biggest foreign policy promise to strike a peace deal on his first day in the White House. Two Trump associates who have discussed the war in Ukraine with the president-elect told Reuters they were looking at a timeline of months to resolve the conflict, describing the day one promises as a combination of what they're calling campaign bluster and a lack of appreciation of the intractability of the conflict and the time

it takes to staff up a new administration. Now, those assessments dovetail with remarks by Mr. Trump's incoming Russia-Ukraine envoy, retired Lieutenant General Keith Kellogg, who said in an interview with Fox News just last week that he would like to have a solution to the war within 100 days, far beyond the president-elect's original timeline. Yet even Kellogg's extended deadline was way, way too optimistic, said John Herbst, a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine who is now at the Atlantic Council think tank in Washington. A quote from the article says this, For this to work, Mr. Trump has to persuade Russian President Vladimir Putin

that there is a downside for being intransigent, Herb said. Now, if you recall in the run-up to his November 5th election victory, Mr. Trump declared dozens of times that he would have a deal in place between Ukraine and Russia on the first day in office, if not before. But in late October, he made a subtle shift in his rhetoric and began saying he could solve the war very quickly. And since the election, Mr. Trump has walked back his rhetoric even further, often simply saying that he would solve the conflict without offering a timeline. But you see how this keeps getting extended.

I know things happen. I know things come up. You make a promise, and then the guys on the other side do everything they can to thwart the promise. But the reality of the situation is everyone knows you could not solve this in 24 hours. Because now you've got opposition in Europe. You've got opposition here in the U.S. He could have solved it in 24 hours. If he so chose. All it would take is pick up the phone and call Putin.

Right. Let's work it out right now. Let's stay on this phone call until we have a deal. I mean, if he was purchasing a piece of real estate in Jersey. How would he do it? He'd stay up all night if he had to, if he were buying land. Right. We're not going to end this call until we have a deal.

He'd push through. There'd be give and take. There would be firm negotiations, but they would get a deal done. Okay. What's the one attribute Mr. Trump wants to be recognized having? What's the one attribute?

He would like people to perceive him as having that attribute. I'm not sure. Strength. I see that, yes. Strength. He wants to be seen as a strong man, a very strong leader.

That's admirable. You've been elected to the presidency of the United States of America. We want a strong man. Yeah, we don't want a wimp. So he wants to be seen as strong. Okay, that's okay. But what are the deep state psychological warfare manipulators doing to his mind? They already have their PSYOP teams assigned to Trump.

Have you considered this, folks? That the U.S. military intelligence Israel-Zionist war machine has PSYOP agents assigned to Donald Trump. And whose motivation, they don't want the war to end. They need it to continue. That's what I'm saying. So if your agenda is to keep the war going, and a new sheriff is in town who wants to end the war like today, you have to come up with a strategy that fits his thinking to change his mind.

Without him understanding that he changed his mind. What the psyops guys are going to be telling Donald Trump. Look, see, we don't think about that these guys have strategies to use psychological operations against the President of the United States. Like they did in the first term. Yeah, they manipulated him in the first term. But they were also attacking him

in the first term. Same people. They had their own people pretending to be their friends, and they had their own people being his enemies. And they were gaslighting him the whole time his friends were his enemies yes so they assign psyop team come up with a strategy for us to convince donald trump to stay in the war

but he doesn't perceive himself as making a decision to stay in the war. So to me, without me running it through my AI computer, I don't, you know, I would have to run this through. To gameplay the scenario? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I'm joking. But it would look something like this. All the advisors tell Donald Trump, Mr. President, we are with you to end this war.

We are on board to help you end this war in Ukraine so you can get on with your agenda. What's that say to President Trump? His whole team is with him, right? Right. But secretly, they're not with him. Secretly, they're going to move him inch by inch to their agenda. Now, Mr. President, you know what your supporters really admire about you? Your strength.

You know what your enemies fear about you? Your strength. Your friends and your foes know that you're strong. What are they doing now? They're talking to his ego. Right. And he'll just lap it. He'll lap it up like a dog in a bowl of warm milk.

So you take him from there and you say, Mr. President, we, your advisors, we want you to maintain your position of strength while at the same time trying to end this war. We want you to end this war. And they're lying the whole time. They're lying and they're lying and they're lying. They don't want to end the war.

They want to get Mr. Trump to delay and delay and delay because they're telling him the way for you to win is to maintain your strength and bring Putin into submission to you, Mr. Trump, Mr. President. You've got to bring Putin into submission to you. You can't let him have the upper hand on you. You can't even allow him to be equal to you.

He has to bow before you. You have to show you're strong. America's strong. Nobody tells America what to do. That's the advice they're going to be giving him. What they're going to do is they're going to convince him to stand up to Putin. And to tell Putin, if you don't accept my plan,

I'll continue this war. I'm going to give you a plan and I'm going to give you so many days to accept it. And if you don't accept it, I'm going to keep the money flowing. I'm going to step up the delivery rockets. Who, who would, who did we see yesterday? You said, oh, it was Pete Hague Sec. Right. The guy that they're going to put in as, as a defense secretary. And what did he say last November? We need to secretly ship missiles to Ukraine and do it faster and more missiles

and do it secretly. They've got their, see, Hegseth is a raving Zionist. He's a little Zionist puppet. He'll do anything the Zionists tell him. He's been indoctrinated. He's ready to ship the missiles. He can't wait.

He can't wait. He'll be the guy that signs the order. Mr. Hegseth, did you ever hear of the Iranian Contra scandal? What was the scandal about in the Reagan administration? They were moving weapons secretly. Yes.

To the Contras. And Mr. Hegseth said on Fox News he would, at that time he wasn't designated, but he said we ought to be secretly moving weapons. He's going to do the same thing. If the Democrats would have gotten their way, they would have impeached Reagan for secretly moving weapons. And they certainly tried, didn't they?

They tried. So what I'm telling you is Mr. Trump is extremely vulnerable to psychological warfare tactics to drive him into a tar pit that he can't get out of. And then the war. Doc, instead of this going for a couple months, if I'm right about this, the U.S. is still going to be in this war by the end of 2025. Yes.

What did they say? They had a plan for 25 and 26. Yes. They don't plan to quit their plan. They plan to pull Donald Trump into their plan and convince him. But there's one thing to consider. The Russians might have another plan. Might?

They have another plan. Yes. Their plan is they're going to crush the Nazis in Ukraine. They're going to eliminate all Western military influences in Ukraine. And they're going to launch hypersonic missiles. They are not going to back down. That's all there is to it. So let's take a look at this next story. I found this. This is a Russian website. I've never seen it before until today. It's kind of a blog.

Not only say it's a blog. It's not a blog. It's a news. Aggregator. Aggregator. How would I describe it? It's kind of an independent Russian military defense news type of. The Russian deagle? Yeah, yeah.

Okay. So now look at this story here. The time of the strike is determined. And what is this, Belusov? Yes, one of the members of the uh military command okay general belusov received an order to uncover the hazel in kiev okay now this is uh this is google translation of russian that's why it's a little bit of an English glitch in this. So this is how it came out when I used Google Translation of this Russian article.

So what it's saying is the time of the hypersonic missile attack on Kiev has been set. In other words, they've set a date. What day? been set. In other words, they've set a date. A wet day. And so the first part of the article talks about the most recent attack-em attacks. Attacks on Russian military and oil and various

infrastructure inside Russia using U.S.-made attack-ems and British storm shadow missiles. And it goes into detail how many missiles were fired in the past couple weeks, which were in direct violation of Putin's nuclear doctrine. So it's telling you, hey, the Kremlin said, you guys keep doing this. It's our new policy to crush you and then it says that general belusov was given a an order from the kremlin right and a date to deliver a hypersonic missile attack on the city

of kiev right and it tells you that it gives you the general time of the attack. And there's a direct quote from the article that we have here. It says, insiders even report that the head of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Andrei Belousov, was ordered to uncover the Ereshnik or Hazel in Kiev, even the time of the impact is determined. According to gossip, that's not quite the right word in English, but according to sources. It should be according to sources. The Kremlin is preparing a Hazel strike for February if Z, Zelensky, continues his provocations. The Ukrainian Telegram Channel cartel is claiming.

All right, so i want to correct myself i identified mr bolusov as a general he's the new fairly new minister of defense he replaced general shagoo right uh so this is the minister of defense So he has issued the order to strike Kiev with a Hazel hypersonic missile in the month of February. What did we read a couple days ago? The guy on the Russian TV news show, he said, Hazel hypersonic missiles are going to fly in three or four directions. That's right. Yes. At the same time. I think that's what's coming in February.

This is what I see happening. I hope I'm wrong. I hope it doesn't play out like this. I think Mike Waltz is going to go in there in the White House and just utterly PO Vladimir Putin. I think they're going to really tick him off. General Kellogg, who is Mr. Trump's ambassador, you know, his envoy to solve the war. Again, I said when he appointed him, you don't appoint a general to negotiate a peace settlement. You send a general to enforce a surrender. The way Putin saw it was, you're sending a general to me?

You're bringing surrender terms. I'll send you packing. You send me a diplomat. You send us somebody that Sergei Lavrov can sit down with and we work out a deal. You send a general, we fight.

I mean, Doc, if the Sheriff's department sends a counselor over to your house, Mr. Burkhart, can we just sit down here and work out this situation? Or if they send a SWAT team. With badges and yelling. So which one makes you more likely that you're going to negotiate? Well, of course, the counselor. So Mike Walsh, I'm telling you, is going to get in Putin's face.

He's going to be belligerent. General Kellogg's going to lay down the law. They're going to be telling Mr. Trump, we've got to talk to him like this. The only thing Putin knows is a fist in his face. That's what they're going to do. We've got to put our fist up in his face. You negotiate with Putin with a fist in his face. The problem is going to be whether Mr. Trump says, you're right, you're right, do it.

If we're fortunate, Mr. Trump's going to say, you people are crazy. If we're fortunate. If we're fortunate. He's going to say, you people are absolutely out of your mind. You're going to start a nuclear war. So we got the same people in power. Just a different person going to be sitting in the big chair. But the same people are controlling the scenario.

So what we're seeing here is Putin is going to, if they push him, and you know, Great Britain's going to keep sending the storm shadows. Yes. Because Keir Starmer wants this war going. Macron wants it going. They're not going to ask Donald Trump, hey, what do you think about us sending more missiles to Zelensky and giving him approval to blow up, say, the Crimea Bridge?

They're just going to do it. Right. For what purpose? To infuriate Putin so that he strikes hard. And now we go back. What did Mike Walsh say? All options

are on the table. Right. Which, like you said, includes nukes. So what Mike Walsh said on Fox News in November was, if Putin hits Ukraine hard, our policy is all options are on the table. I'm telling you, the deep state, which is the Zionist military lobby,

the warmongers, they are going to push Putin to do the very thing that is required to get Donald Trump to fight Russia. Instead of us having peace in February, we're going to be ramped up for war. Right. And why did we vote for Trump? Because he was going to take us out of the war. Remember?

In 24 hours. If you ask any MAGA person out there, what about Ukraine? It's going to be over in 24 hours. And Donald Trump's going to get us out. In 24 hours. Which he could do if he wanted to. But his advisors are saying, it's foolish, Mr. President. That's foolish.

You're going to give away the store. That's a foolish action. But it's not foolish. He had to cut the losses as fast as he can and get back to the United States and build this country. Yes. But he's going to be pulled into the quagmire,

into the Vietnam. The Ukrainian Vietnam. The fact of the matter is all the military developers and contractors, Rick, they're making big money off this war. Trillions. In the U.K., in France, and the U.S. There's no way they're giving up that. They are not giving that up. That's right. And so they're going to fight just as hard to keep that money rolling as they had to get it.

What was in the very first term? They were terrified that Mr. Trump was going to make peace with Vladimir Putin. And so what did they do? They called him a Russian stooge. And they created the russia hacked the election thing and for for four years they kept that going that was the deep state gaslighting donald trump you tried to make peace with russia we bring you down we'll impeach you they impeached the man twice yes And the one was over a phone call to Zelensky. Yes.

Okay. Do they want war? Look at this next article. In Sweden, the government prepares the public for possible conflict with Russia. So now Sweden and Denmark, or was it Sweden and Finland? They joined. the public for possible conflict with Russia. So now Sweden and Denmark, or was it Sweden and Finland, they joined NATO this year. Sweden and Finland. So what does Sweden get as a NATO member?

You guessed it, war. And guess, now. That's the bonus prize. So look at this headline, Sweden is preparing the public for war with Russia. Yes. Let's go to the next headline, and it'll the public for war with Russia. Yes. Let's go to the next headline and I'll show you what war looks like. Sweden's burial associations prepare for war. I'm not kidding you folks. I saw this article today. It actually came out in late December and the Swedish burial association is under a mandate because there's a law.

There's a law that they have to have so many cemeteries ready for burial, for burials of Swedish citizens. And they're afraid they don't have enough. They don't have enough because there's going to be a war. So now what are they doing? They're now building cemeteries to prepare for all the dead bodies. You want this war mentality? You want the Zionist war lobby to continue?

You just, this is what you get. This is the insanity of bowing down and submitting your nation to the Zionist war lobby because the defense industry is owned by Zionists. It's the defense contractors, all the major companies. It's owned by a handful of Wall Street corporations that are basically all members of the tribe. Yes.

And until you break that power, you're going to be in war. And I'm sorry to tell you, Mr. Trump is deeply controlled by that lobby. Deeply. It's his greatest weakness. Let's read what the burial associations say. So burial associations in Sweden are taking proactive measures to secure enough land to bury thousands of people in the event of war.

Folks, they don't have enough burial plots. Think about that. This initiative follows recommendations from the Church of Sweden's national secretariat aligning with crisis preparedness guidelines from the Swedish Civil Contingency Agency and the Swedish Armed Services. The decision by Sweden to join NATO in escalating tensions with Russia and the Baltic Sea have brought a new urgency to these preparedness efforts. According to the Church of Sweden provisions, burial associations are mandated to ensure the availability of sufficient land to bury approximately 5% of the population within a parish if the need arises.

You know, that's the most depressive preparedness news I've heard in a while. That's morbid, isn't it? Yeah. Don't get water. Don't get food. Don't get batteries. Get your burial plot ready. Isn't that what they're saying?

That's exactly what they're saying. So in their mind, preparedness is to be buried. So over here in America, I'm trying to get Americans to buy some buckets of dehydrated food and a water filter. Can you do something to get ready for this war? What you should be doing is stockpiling the Word of God in you, running to the cross, getting as close to Jesus as you can get. But in the natural side, you should be stockpiling food and ways to survive. And over in Sweden, they're telling people, forget the food. Take a dirt nap. You just need a burial plot.

Doc, this is strange. And Europe thinks it's going to win a war with Russia With that attitude I mean if you're going to go to war Go in I mean just say We're going in And we're going to kick the Russians

You tell the Russians You guys need the burial plots Yeah But no Now folks What would Patton say What would Patton say to a country that's building burial plots? You guys are a bunch of losers.

Yes. You've already lost. Because Sweden's not been in a war. What's the last war Sweden was in? Probably back in the 1500s. Probably one Viking fighting another Viking. I don't know. I don't know either.

I don't think they were involved in World War II or not. I don't know. I don't know either. I don't think they were involved in World War II or not. I don't know. I don't think so. You don't think of the Swedes as a war-like country. But, hey, you joined, you let your politicians get you in NATO, now you're going to be in the war. Now you're building more cemeteries.

Isn't this wonderful to be a member of NATO? So, hey, while I'm talking about it, American Reserves has a special that started today. Any water filter system you buy, you will receive two free filters.

And that goes for any of the systems, including the fluoride filters. And that goes for any of the systems, including the fluoride filters. So if you buy a water filter system and you order the fluoride filters, you get two free fluoride filters. So whichever ones you buy, okay, they'll match it. You get two free filters from American Reserves. This goes on to January 24. So AmericanReserves.com, it's a really good offer. You should always have those extra filters. It's always good just to have some. Look, things can change so rapidly and the climate can change. When I say the climate, the political climate can change and suddenly things that you thought you could just order and get it in a couple days. Right.

Might not be, may not be available for years. Years. years. I keep telling you, I listen to these old 1930s, 1940s radio shows for entertainment, and I learned so much, Doc, especially the war years. I never really understood how much rationing, a rationing, I always called it rationing. I thought that's what it was too. No, they always called it rationing. Okay.

I heard, you know, that's what I, wait a minute, I thought it was called rationing. No, they were talking about rations, okay? I don't know where we changed the term. But as I listened to those shows and their PSAs and their comments, they're talking about the rationing and how long that they've gone.

Just people on the radio shows talking about how long they've gone without certain items. See, we don't think about that. You know, I heard one 1940 something radio show, and the host was doing his public service announcement for the Pentagon or, you know, whatever. Was it the Defense Department then or still the War?

Department of War. Still War Department at that time. And look for leaks of gasoline. And to close those leaks because those drops of gas were hurting the war effort. That's how serious this was. See, we don't know about this stuff. We just don't know about it. Because there's nobody in this... How many people are still alive that were in World War II?

They'd be in the upper 80s. 80s? They're in their upper 90s now. If they were fighting in the war. If they were in the war fighting. There could be some... You're right, there could be some. There were children.

Okay? But we have no idea how much, what the sacrifice was for people who were back home during the war. And what I'm telling you is the situation in America can change overnight. Yes. And suddenly items that you thought you could get, you won't be able to get until the war is over, assuming you're still alive. And then just even natural events, Rick, can create havoc in supply chain. I mean, we've got people living in tents in western North Carolina to this day, in tents.

We've got people out in California, now 15,000. Doc, I got a phone call late yesterday from a person you know with me telling me about a business person I know in California. And this lady has 15 people living in her house right now. All of them lost their homes. Wow. They all lost their homes. And she's taking on 15 people in her house. So she's feeding 15 people.

She's taking care. I mean, they've got their pets. Can you imagine what this is like? It must be crazy. So for those people, life has changed. I saw a statistic the other day. I don't know if it's accurate. I saw it in an article that maybe 50% of all the homes were uninsured.

Oh, man. I can believe that because they've made a really big deal about that. Doc, it's deliberate. They depopulated it. Yes. You understand? They depopulated L.A. Those people will not be able to come back. They won't have the money.

Guess what? They still owe the mortgages. Yes. They still owe the taxes. They're doing the same thing to folks in western North Carolina too. Houses are destroyed, but they still have to pay the mortgage and the taxes, mortgage and property taxes on destroyed property. Well, they're in a tent. They're living in a tent because the government hasn't done anything with them. And then some people were put in hotels, and I was listening today, I heard a congressman or senator from North Carolina say that just before Christmas, FEMA was evicting people just before Christmas. Yes, that's true. But not illegal immigrants that are in hotels.

But what we're trying to stress here is that life can change within days. Two weeks ago, there was no California fire. Life was good. A week before the hurricane, people were enjoying life as usual in western North Carolina. Life was fine. They had no thought of a disaster. A week later, their lives are totally turned upside down. Yes. A week later, their lives are totally turned upside down. Would being prepared with food, water, emergency plan, emergency supplies, would that have been a good idea?

Or are we pessimistic like the Swedes in saying, well, I'll just dig a hole in the ground and die? Yes. So, Doc, a young man, and again, you would know who it is, a young man from here in Florida, a week or two ago went up to North Carolina to help. He got hired by a contractor to help remove debris. He's been sending me pictures on his phone of what it looks like in North Carolina. When he got there is when the blizzard hit. I mean, literally, as soon as he got there, the blizzard hit. But before he left, I had him come over to my house.

And I don't remember how many buckets. I gave him a lot of buckets of food from my own personal supply. I said, take these. And if you find families that are without food, just give these buckets to them. You don't have to ask me. Just at your own discretion, give those buckets. He texted me the other day during the snowstorm.

He says, hey, Rick, I hope you don't mind, but I'm way back here in the mountains, and the snowstorm. He says, hey, Rick, I hope you don't mind, but I'm way back here in the mountains and the snow is here. I can't get anywhere to get any food. I've cracked open a bucket and I'm eating it. This stuff is delicious. He says, man, am I glad you gave me that food. All right, so he didn't expect to be in a situation where he couldn't get food.

Yeah, that's a good point, yeah. But he had buckets of the food that we sell. And he said, this is a lifesaver to me. Thank you, and it's delicious also. So he was telling me, you know, what his favorites were and everything. Be prepared. Be prepared. Donald Trump is not going to end this war the way he

promised unless he can override his own advisors but he did it again why. Because the people that get appointed are beholden to the Zionist war lobby. It's just that simple. I'm going to prove it to you here. Let's talk about Greenland. I found this in Denmark's TV2 news. Trump has not withdrawn the threat, says the prime minister. Doc, this is a huge issue in Denmark. Yes. And the prime minister says, no, he's not backed down. Yeah, she had a long phone call with him yesterday.

Yeah, he wants Greenland. Now, in this sense, Mr. Trump's strength is, you know, it's admirable. But she doesn't have any nukes. That's right. I mean, what are they going to withhold from us?

I don't know. What is the Dane supply to the U.S. that we need? I've had good Danish Gouda cheese. I mean, I've had good candy. I'm trying to think what else. I don't know what they send to us that we need. That's a great question. What do they send that we need?

They're nice people. wonderful people. But she's really troubled, and she's telling her country, basically, I don't know what to do. He's not backing down. He wants Greenland. So Prime Minister Mette Fredrickson now elaborates for the first time on what she spoke with incoming U.S. President Donald Trump about on Wednesday. These are not reassuring messages, one must understand from the Prime Minister. So on Wednesday, the Prime Minister had a 45-minute conversation with Donald Trump at a time when the incoming president has emphasized his desire to buy Greenland. Mr. Trump has refused to deny that there could be economic sanctions against Denmark. A couple of quotes here from this article from TV2 Denmark. The prime minister was asked if she can deny that Donald Trump will make good on his threats to possibly take military action.

She said, we are not in a position where we can say what is happening from the American side. We can explain what we do from the Danish side and what we recommend, but I cannot issue any guarantees for the Americans, she said. So the prime minister was asked whether the situation around the U.S. and Greenland is more or less or just as tense after the phone conversation with Donald Trump. She said, we are in a serious situation and we have been through it for a while. We are in the process of doing everything we possibly can to handle it as wisely and as well as possible. It's not the case that we assess a single conversation or event in relation to whether we move forward or backward, she said.

Now, I could have saved us a whole bunch of time there in reading all that and saying, folks, we're losing this deal. Yeah. And now, the thing that came out just a little while ago, Doc, before we came in here in the studio, she said, we're thinking about building a military base in Greenland. Excuse me. What, you're going base in Greenland. Excuse me. What, you're going to defend Greenland from the United States? But that's her latest proposal.

We're going to build a military base in Greenland. We're going to show President Trump we intend to hold on to this island. In the Russian news, they're quite shocked by President Trump's land grab. I don't think they saw this one coming. So Greenland has been wanting independence. There's only 55,000 people on the island. Doc, that's about the population of the city, Vero Beach.

Vero? It's 100,000. The city or the county? The city limits of Vero. It's a little over 100,000. It is 100,000? Yeah, it's just spread out a lot. Is it? Okay. I thought it was just... It's city proper here. Yeah, you're probably right. Probably 50,000, 55,000.

Right. So, that's all that's in the entire island of Greenland, the biggest island in the world. So the Russians were supporting independence. You know, they want Greenland to be independent. Right. They wanted to get away from Denmark because Denmark's part of NATO. Now, this has caught the Russians by surprise. They now believe Greenland should stay part of Denmark because they're afraid the U.S. is going to get Greenland.

But if the people of Greenland vote to join the U.S., isn't that the same as Donbass voting to join Russia? Yes. Or Crimea voting to join Russia? But the U.S. deep state would have to acknowledge that what the Crimean people did was legitimate. Right. But they won't do that. But they will rule that the Greenlanders voting for joining the United States, that's a legitimate vote.

Yeah, rules-based order. And I'm sure we'll send electronic voting machines there to make sure it's a fair vote. And park a carrier group off the coast carrier group off yes embark a carrier group i'm gonna go through some headlines really quickly here wall street journal house speaker johnson removes the intelligence committee chairman this is a big story yes uh mr johnson the speaker of House, abruptly removed the chairman of the committee responsible for overseeing America's intelligence agencies, making the move with the backing of President-elect Donald Trump. In ousting Congressman Mike Turner, Ohio Republican, Johnson is sidelining a lawmaker who has been one of the most vocal and consistent advocates

within the Republican Party for conventional national security views, including the war in Ukraine. Now, you think, wait a minute, he just got rid of a Ukraine war hawk. That's a good sign. But I don't think that's the reason for it mr turner was also a advocate of the fisa the secret court warrants right that allows this secret court to spy on you and me right he's a big supporter of that yeah which is fisa warrants were used against donald trump now when the democrats do you know who the ranking Democrat was on that committee? I don't. Adam Schiff.

Oh, really? Adam Schiff and Mike Turner were best friends. On this case, Donald Trump is right. He pushed Turner out of that committee. This was a good one. He pushed Turner out of that committee. Now, I good one. He pushed Turner out of that committee. Now, I haven't seen who is going to be replacing Turner. No.

Had you? I don't think they've announced it yet. Well, now, another replacement that they've made, this was yesterday, Rick. I don't know if you saw this. Thomas Massey, who is very pro-Trump. And anti-Israel. Right. He's been removed from the House Rules Committee.

Yes, because he was the only Republican to vote against reelecting Speaker Johnson. Right. That's the way the game is. You vote against the Speaker? You get the Speaker stick. You do. And you may be moved, your office may be moved down to a broom closet. Right.

Because I remember back in, into November, 1st of December, his name was being tossed about as secretary of agriculture. Yes. But that balloon went flat. Yes. Well,

because he's anti-Israel, anti-Zionist, and the Zionists were not going to allow Donald Trump to appoint him. No way. No way he was going to be appointed. I'm going to jump through some stuff and I'll catch these other articles tomorrow because they take more time. Lee, let's go to number 16. This is Sky News. Marco Rubio, the incoming Secretary of State. Look at the date. Marco Rubio says China will invade Taiwan by what date? 2030.

There we go. 2030. When will the big, when's the grand finale of World War III? Sometime around 2030, 31, 32. I'm going with 32 just because I want to stretch it out as far as I can go. It scares me, Doc, it could be 29.

There's no guarantee. We're in the war cycle. So Mr. Rubio told the senators who were grilling him in his confirmation hearing he expects China to invade Taiwan by 2030. I got a couple sound bites here of Senator Rubio, soon to be Secretary of State Rubio. Let's watch the first one. SEN.

How are you going to explain that to your average American, that we need this all-sides-society approach? And to your point exactly, that we need, it needs to begin here at home. And so that people from my state, Nebraska, will understand and get on board. If we stay on the road we're on right now, in less than 10 years, virtually everything that matters to us in life will depend on whether China will allow us to have it or not. Everything from the blood pressure medicine we take to what movies we get to watch, and everything in between, we will depend on China for it. They have come to dominate the critical mineral industry supplies throughout the world. Everywhere in the world, they've now established critical

mineral rights. Even those who want to see more electric cars, no matter where you make them, those batteries are almost entirely dependent on the ability of the Chinese and the willingness of the Chinese Communist Party to produce it and export it to you. So if we don't change course, we are going to live in a world where much of what matters to us on a daily basis, from our security to our health, will be dependent on whether the Chinese allow us to have it or not. That's an unacceptable outcome. Good.

He will be a very good Secretary of State with the exception of Israel. Right. He can't see straight when the topic of israel's there he won't do anything for the palestinian people it's all israel israel israel israel yes okay that's that's that's the only negative i have about marco rubio but he'll be overall he'll be a very good secretary of state next one this is uh uh he said at some point we got to deal with China. When the politician says you got to deal with the country, what's that mean?

You're going to have to have a war. Let's watch. Well, let me first say, indeed, I've been strongly worded in my views of China. Let me just point out they've said mean things about me, too. And I'm not sure they're fans of mine in that regard. My role now as the Secretary of State is to lead the diplomatic wing of the country. And that will involve engaging them. The fact of the matter is, in a mature and prudent conversation, and I would expect that they at the end of the day are also mature and prudent practitioners of foreign policy. They've got a billion people and nuclear weapons and a large economy. We have 400 million people, the largest economy in the world in nuclear weapons. And it

is in their interest, our interest, and the interest of the world for two great powers to be able to communicate. In fact, despite everything I have said, I have consistently throughout my career said that it is that geopolitical balance between our countries that are in balance, developing in balance, that is the greatest risk to global security and prosperity because that could quickly trigger not just a trade and economic conflict, but an armed one, which could be catastrophic. Never in the history of mankind

have two powers like the United States and China ever faced off in a global conflict and the outcome would be catastrophic and we should want to avoid it and so should they. So the bottom line is this. Yes, we are going to have to deal with China. They're too big and too important in the world and they're going to have to deal with us. And my goal is that it is dealt with in a way that furthers our national interest.

What cannot continue to happen is that China continues to assume all of the benefits of the international system and none of its obligations. So Senator Rubio has resigned as the senator from the state of Florida. He had a very safe seat. He was never going to be defeated here. Right. And today, Governor Ron DeSantis appointed the new senator, who is Ashley Moody, the Florida attorney general. The current attorney general.

Our current state attorney general. She will now become Senator Ashley Moody, the Florida Attorney General. The current Attorney General. Our current State Attorney General. She will now become Senator Ashley Moody and resign. This is Mrs. Moody. She'll be a very good senator. I'm sure she's a Zionist. She would not have gotten a job, but on everything else, she's going to be a very good senator, a strong conservative. And, of course, the former attorney general and, you know, Pam Bondi.

Pam Bondi was the attorney general of Florida. So she's now going to be the attorney general of the United States. So Florida is getting well- We're rolling here. You know, we're rolling. I want to show you a video. This is Mrs. Moody talking about the Biden administration's policy of allowing millions of illegal immigrants to cross the border. To give you an idea of what kind of senator she'll be. The actions of this president, who time after time, when we would win in court, would slightly change the policy, even changing the name of a policy, thinking that would let them get around the law to bring more and more people into the United States.

They would use terms that they said were legal immigration when it was illegal. And of course, the surge and the encouraged surge into our country promoted more and more illegal immigration. And you can use whatever number you want. I've heard 11 million to 20 million over the last four years. Let's take the 11 million number. 11 million people pouring into our country in the last four years if that was a state that would be a larger population than 42 of our states that's just people the amount of fentanyl that flooded into our country killed half a million americans just in the last four years the number one killer of working age amer Americans, fighting-age Americans is fentanyl. And how do I know that this lethal substance is

purposefully being pushed into our country? Because China uses it as a bargaining tactic and this administration let them do it. The courts say on one hand the federal government has all the authority and when they drop the ball and don't do their jobs, they tie our hands from doing our jobs, and when we try to push back in court, they say we can't do that. That is incredibly dangerous. It's tying our hands and our feet and pushing us into the water. There's no chance of survival. For the sake of Floridians, for the sake of Americans, we've got to get started right now. These guys have to have the resources and the law to go out and do their jobs and start detaining legally folks that are committing crimes against our citizens and pushing them out.

And they have to have the ability to do it in the state. The law gives us the ability to help the federal government in all of these matters. I am so proud of the leadership of this state we have led throughout this crisis and we will lead in fixing it. And most importantly as a wife of a law enforcement officer, let these folks do the job they swore an oath to do. To keep you safe, to stand on that line between good and evil, between chaos and order, allow them to enforce the laws that you the people have said want to rule in Florida.

You get an idea what kind of a senator she'll be. A law and order senator. Yeah, law and order. She was the attorney, is the Attorney General, resigning now to become U.S. Senator. The person that we expected to become the U.S. Senator was Laura Trump, the wife of Eric Trump. But then she took her name out of consideration. We don't know why. And she had several key endorsements, I think. A lot.

Quite a few. Quite a few. And then she decided she wasn endorsements, I think. A lot. Quite a few. Quite a few. And then she decided she wasn't going to do it. Max Blumenthal. I love this guy. He attended Antony Blinken's last press conference as Secretary of State. And he got more than a question in. He got about 300 questions in

within about two minutes. Before they hauled him out. Before they dragged him out of the press conference. This is Max Blumenthal. 300 reporters in Gaza were on the receiving end of your bombs. Why did you keep the bombs flowing when we had a deal in May? We all knew we had a deal. Everyone in this room knows we had a deal, Tony, and you kept the bombs flowing. Why did you sacrifice the rules-based order on the mantle of your commitment to Zionism?

Why did you allow my friends to be massacred? Why did you allow my friends' homes in Gaza to be destroyed when we had a deal in May? You helped destroy our religion, Judaism, by associating it with fascism. You waved the white flag before Netanyahu. We'll have the time to take questions at the end. You waved the white flag before Israeli fascism.

We'll have the time to take questions at the end. Your father-in-law was an Israel lobbyist. Your grandfather was an Israel lobbyist. Are you compromised by Israel? Why did you allow the Holocaust of our time to happen? How does it feel to have your legacy be happen? How does it feel to have your legacy be genocide? How does it feel to have your legacy be genocide? You too, Matt. You smirked through the whole thing every day. You smirked through a genocide. Thank you.

And what was your question? He got it said. I didn't know that about Blinken's father and grandfather. They were both lobbyists for Israel. Yeah, and his father-in-law was Robert Maxwell's attorney. His father-in-law? Yeah. Was the attorney for Robert Maxwell the father of just Lin Maxwell? Yes.

The handler of Jeffrey Epstein? Yes. Oh, what a small world. It is a small world when you're blinking. Okay, I'm going to show you 2017. This was the official Trump inauguration portrait. Yeah, it's like your kindergarten picture. Yes.

You're happy. You showed up for school the first day. But this goes in the archives of the United States government. This is the official portrait of incoming President Donald Trump 2017 on January 20, 2017. Now let's take a look at this year's official portrait. It could be. Why not? That's it.

That's the official portrait? Yes. Are you kidding? No, that's it, Doc. Oh, my goodness. They released it today. What does that say? It has a whole different mood to it, doesn't it? It says, don't mess with me.

He's like, I'm not here to be your friend. Don't mess with me. I's like, I'm not here to be your friend. Don't mess with me. I'm going to get things done. I'll knock heads. I'm serious. That's the official White House portrait for Inauguration Day. Okay, so yesterday I suggested Mel Gibson and Sylvester Stallone for governor and lieutenant governor of California. Was that yesterday? That was yesterday.

Just yesterday. Okay. What do we have here, Doc? Number 25. All right. This is, and Donald Trump posted this on True Social earlier today. He said, it is my honor to announce Jon Voight, Mel Gibson, and Sylvester Stallone to be special ambassadors to a great, very troubled place, Hollywood, California. They will serve as special envoys to me for the purpose of bringing Hollywood, which has lost much business over the last four years, to foreign countries, back bigger, better, and stronger than ever before. These three very talented people will be my eyes and ears,

and I will get done what they suggest. It will again be, like the United States of America itself, the golden age of Hollywood. So what do you see in that? What do you see? That there's going to be a shift in Hollywood, a big shift. Do you think Donald Trump is privately suggesting to Mel Gibson and Sylvester Stallone and John Voight, you need to rescue your state? Yes.

And it starts with Hollywood because, really, the Chinese control Hollywood. The Chinese do. They overtook the Jews? Well, they're the ones with the money right now, Rick. More money? More money than the Jews. Oh, I want to show you something else. Lee, go back.

So I made that prediction yesterday. That's right. Governor Mel Gibson, Lieutenant Governor Sylvester Stallone. Or Mayor Sly Stallone, whatever. Yeah, whatever. Whatever works. You also had another prediction. I made another prediction that Donald Trump would attend the 2025 Victory Day Parade in Moscow,

celebrating the defeat of Nazism in World War II. Coming up in May. Folks, I saw this today. I sent it to Doc right away. Look at this. Yes. Newsweek. Putin expecting mystery big guests from U.S. for Victory Parade.

Doc, that's scary. Big guests? Who could that be? The article goes on to say, if it's Trump, it's great. Without denying or affirming that it was Donald Trump. I didn't know. That came out today. That's right.

It came out today. That's scary. Both of those. Two of them, one day. Okay. One more I, one day. Okay. One more I'm going to show you regarding the L.A. fires. This is a part of a news report from CNN. I just want you to see the part where they were talking to an L.A. firefighter.

Let's watch. Not long before deadly wildfires broke out in Los Angeles, firefighters were sounding the alarm about major staffing shortfalls inside the city's fire department. Our senior investigative correspondent, Kyung La, digging into the story for us. Kyung, a new CNN analysis backs up those concerns about staffing. Tell us more. You know, we've heard sort of the back and forth about fire budgets involving the current mayor, but this is an issue that precedes this mayor. This is years in the making. The fire department has warned of dire consequences, saying that they need more

money, they need more firefighters, and they warned of this as recently as last month. At that commission meeting, you said, it's dire, someone will die. It's eerie listening to your words because that's what occurred. So it's... Let me just take a minute. Sorry. Fire Captain Freddy Escobar. You're not supposed to make me cry. 35-year veteran of the Los Angeles Fire Department wishes he'd been wrong. And this had not happened.

For years, the LAFD union president warned that a disaster like the Palisades fire could happen. And while the cataclysmic weather conditions were historic, Escobar also blamed something predictable that hurt the firefight, money. This is a woefully understaffed fire department. We're either going to have a fire department that's going to reflect 2025 or we're going to have a fire department that's going to reflect the 1960s. A CNN analysis shows out of the 10 biggest cities in the nation, Los Angeles ranks ninth when it comes to the number of firefighters per resident. And it shows. Millions of dollars in rescue equipment is just sitting in a lot, unused, because the fire department can't afford to hire the mechanics to repair it. LA's fire chief said in a recent memo, the fire department's staffing levels were

half the size of what they should be. If we cut one position, if we close one station, if we close one resource, the residents of Los Angeles are going to pay the ultimate sacrifice and someone will die. Just last month, fire personnel packed an L.A. Fire Commission meeting, begging the city to rethink the budget. These cuts came at exactly the wrong time, with calls for services at an all-time high and our firefighters at their breaking point. We are straining our department's resources beyond the brink, and we cannot continue on this path. Very tragic. Look at that parking lot.

Full of fire trucks. Broken down mechanically. The city doesn't have enough money to fix the fire trucks. Can't even hire the mechanics. But they sent, what, $50 million to Israel? And they donated fire equipment to Ukraine?

Ukraine? You're not going to convince me this wasn't deliberate. Hey, I mentioned yesterday at the end of the program our desire to attend the 2025 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. This is where we go every year to learn about what the globalists are doing, what they're planning, how they're going to change technology to change human society. It is one of the most informative technology conferences in the world. I always come back just stunned at what I heard in four days in Barcelona. And so yesterday I told you that our budget for this year, and this is keeping it as tight as we can, but for registration, which for five people, just to get in the door, just the tickets for five people, $12,340. Those are your tickets.

That's how much it costs, folks. Folks, you know, it's a serious show. And they have a price to weed out everybody. All right? They don't want the general public there. Airfare, right now, if we bought the tickets today for five people, $7,000. If we bought it today, if we delay, that could double. Where it really gets expensive is in housing.

The cheapest hotel I could find was $600 per night. $600. That's the cheapest one. Five rooms for five nights, that's $18,000. Now, we usually stay in Airbnb. We rent private homes. They're farther away. We have to travel by subway.

It takes a lot longer, usually 30 to 45 minutes of travel one way just to get to the convention site. But we save a lot of money. This year, last year we paid, I think it was $4,000 for five, six nights in Barcelona. It was okay apartment, wasn't anything glamorous. It was a place to sleep at night. It just all was for us. We're just there to sleep at night. That's it. this year, the prices are averaging about $10,000. Today, I found an apartment a little bit farther away, maybe another 10 blocks away that we'd have to travel.

Right. Okay. But I can save $2,000. Okay. Okay. But I can save $2,000. Okay. Okay. And it would bring it down to about $8,000 for the room. It's actually about seven something, but when you put the taxes on it and everything, it'd be about $8,000.

Okay. We'll save about $2,000. If we act on that right away, we can save $2,000. Food, pretty cheap. Five guys for five or six days, somewhere around $1,500. You say, wow, $1,500 in eating for a week? Well, just add it up. You go to a restaurant.

Twice a day for five days. With a group of guys twice a day. We don't eat three meals. We eat two. Right. Because at the convention, first of all, we're too busy. And second of all, a hot dog's usually about $15. Yes.

And I'm not going to pay $15 to eat a hot dog. I'll just wait until evening, and we usually eat dinner somewhere around 8 or 9 p.m. And I'm convinced that a member of our team got sick as a result of eating there. Yes. We had sickness there. That's right. We had a member of our team got sick as a result of eating there. Yes, we had sickness there. That's right.

We had a member of our team left, had to go to a hospital. Yes. We had a lot of sickness at the one. You were sick. Yeah. I was sick. A scary one. When I got to, when I left Barcelona, I went to, by myself, I flew to Iceland.

Right. And when I got in Iceland, I had a high fever. Man, I was sick. That trip from Iceland, I felt sorry for the person beside me. I can't do anything about it. I tried to keep a blanket over me. I was sick. I had a high fever.

Man, I was weak. I wasn't feeling good. Oh, it's glamorous to do these trips. Oh, yes. It's just glamorous. But you put this all together, ground transportation, probably about $500. Okay. We ride the subway, but you do have to do Uber from the airport.

We got too much gear that we're carrying, luggage and everything. Anyhow, it came out to about $30,740. I saved $2,000 in housing today. That brings it down to $28,700. And yesterday, we had $4,000 in donations yesterday. So that now means if you subtract the $2,000... 24-7 to go? 24-7. Okay? Folks, 24 people giving $1,000, and we have our budget met, and we don't have to think about this anymore. 24 people giving $1,000. If you can't give $1,000, can you give $100? Somewhere in there, some of you can give $100 and some of you can give $1,000. Let's make this happen as quickly as possible.

The sooner we book things, the more we save. That's right. And the moment I have what we need, I will tell you, and I'll cut it off. I don't do fundraising after that. I give you my word. When we have a project, when we reach the goal, I cut it off. Because to continue to raising funds after that is unethical. I agree with you.

And the Lord sees it. And he'll take it out of your pocket somewhere. And there are ministries that do it. Oh, I know they do, but I'm not going to do it. The Lord meets our need. And right now, what we need is $24,700. There are people out there watching me right now. One person could write a check for 24-7. Two people could write checks for 12,000.

Okay, whatever God puts on your heart, let's make this happen. We need to be there, and we will be the only media organization in the world representing the kingdom of God at the biggest technology conference in the world. It really is, Doc. It is the biggest technology conference in the world. We will be the only ones there representing the kingdom of God. That's why it's important for us to be there. So there's our phone number, 800-576-2116. If you want to send a check, it is P.O. Box 399, 399 Vero Beach, Florida. The zip code is 32961. And of course, you can give at truenews.com or faithandvalues.com. And Doc, let's see, today's Thursday, right? So tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern, you and I are having a prayer meeting about the microchurches that we are organizing this year.

We're on the move. We're on the go this year. And so one of our primary goals this year is to organize microchurches all over the world. And so we will have a prayer meeting digitally online tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern at faithandvalues.com. So if you're already on Faith and Values, you'll see the announcement coming up in the main channel. I'll give an update an hour beforehand just to remind everybody. But if you're not a member of Faith and Values, you can become one easily enough to go to Faith and Values and join up, and you can be a part of the prayer meeting tonight as well. That's at 8 p.m. Eastern Time, where we will be praying specifically for our microchurch project

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No codes, no hassle. Just choose your system and enjoy the added value and benefits. Don't miss out. Visit AmericanReserves.com to take advantage of this unbeatable deal. Available only from January 16th through January 24th, 2025. Good morning everybody. Welcome to Morning Manna. We welcome you to this daily Bible study. And beginning in January 2025, we are studying the Book of Romans. We're in the first chapter. And today we're looking at verses 21 and 22. We might get to 23. You know what, Doc? Let's do our best to get to 25 because tomorrow tomorrow is

faith friday and then on monday i want to start a new section the last section of of chapter one so we're going to go a little bit faster today in these verses because all week we've been taking our time going maybe two verses per day so today let's let's go uh verses 21 through 25. yes dear gracious father this is a wonderful day and we praise you for it father you. You are our God, our Father, our Maker. You are everything, Father. And we thank you. We thank you that we are gathered here in good health to study your word, Father, because you desire that we be in good health and that our soul prospers, Father.

Well, our soul will prosper when we feed on your word. And so, Father, we ask the Holy Spirit to take charge of this morning, man, a Bible study. And feed us, Father, from your word and teach us and illuminate our hearts and minds. In the name of Jesus Christ, amen. Amen. All right. Doc, if you could read verses 21 through 25. Yes, sir.

So if you've got your Bibles, please open them up to Romans chapter 1. I'm starting with verse 21, reading from the King James this morning. Because that when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful, but became vain in their imagination and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man and to birds and forfeited beasts and creeping things wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lust of their own hearts to dishonor their own bodies between themselves

who changed the truth of God into a lie and through the lusts of their own hearts to dishonor their own bodies between themselves, who changed the truth of God into a lie and worshiped and served the creature more than the creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. Amen. Okay, so yesterday we studied 21 and 22. So we're going to start today at verse 23. I want to talk to read the passage so you get the full context of what we were studying. So Romans 1 verse 23, and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man and of birds, four-footed animals, and creeping things. So, Paul said, humans traded.

They exchanged God's glory for things on earth that have no glory, that are corruptible. They rejected the creator in favor of creation. And that means that mankind

has fallen into idolatry. It is, it speaks of humanity's descent into moral and spiritual degradation. God's eternal, unchanging nature cannot be compared to anything in creation that he made. That's right. His glory refers to his divine majesty, his holiness, his indescribable perfection. When we talk about the glory of God, that one word just describes all of those things. His majesty, his holiness, his perfection, his goodness, just everything about him is all summed up in that one glory.

And this is the essence of what we are called to do. The purpose of man is to glorify the Lord. Yes. That is our purpose. Obviously, we are called to proclaim the gospel. There are things that we're called to do. But our main purpose

is to glorify God. Proclaiming the gospel is part of glorifying him. But we are to constantly speak of his greatness, his glory. We are to magnify him, exalt him in front of unbelievers. It's because his glory is beyond human comprehension and it cannot be confined to physical forms and shapes right and yet man is always trying to come up with something that they can glorify yes it could be art it could be construction buildings it could be empires political empires it could be science inventions anything anything but God And every attempt to depict God through images is a distortion of his true divine nature.

So this verse is telling us that humanity traded God's infinite glory for finite perishable images why because they're spiritually blind and they're in a state of moral rebellion uh doc paul mentioned four um i guess you would say hierarchies descending hierarchy of creation I'm glad you noticed that you want to talk about it? Go ahead you've got the

those four things you talked about corruptible man, birds four-footed beasts and creeping things and that's actually the reverse of the creation account. So it continues to descend. So if man continues in this, he'll continue to descend lower and lower and lower in his creation of what he worships. And so I think it's interesting that you have the green movement nowadays,

which people that adhere to it, hey, I'm all in favor of picking up trash and clean water. So don't misunderstand what I'm going to say. But there are people who worship the earth in the green movement. They have replaced God with the earth, with creation and everything. And they'll value the life of a snail darter over human beings. A snail darter, you know, is a really tiny little bitty, itty bitty fish or a specific plant or specific worm. These people will value the lives of a plant or a worm above that of mankind.

And they believe it. I mean, they adhere to it. That's their religion. And I think that's, and you've seen that all down through history. It wasn't called science in the past. They just worshiped the earth, nature, the things in nature above man. And so these are all symptoms of the rejection of God, rebellion against God. And if allowed, it continues to descend in that worship.

So, Doc, as you were speaking, I thought about something that happened in the year 2000. There was a United Nations summit in Johannesburg, South Africa. The main player was a canadian a very wealthy powerful influential canadian he's passed away he's no longer here his name was maurice strong i remember that name oh doc he was a leader of the globalist movement maurice strong if you want to take notes you can look this up after the class you'll see that i know what i'm talking about on this if they

still have it on the internet they may have purged it from the internet but this was a united nations meeting and they introduced what was called the earth charter It was a constitution for planet Earth It was actually a Gaia worship. Yes the goddess Gaia GAIA yeah, and that the idea that the earth itself has a Personality and that the idea that the earth itself has a personality and that personality is gaia

yes and doc in that united nations meeting in in 2000 they had this elaborate religious ceremony and they had a procession now we're talking thousands of people were there this wasn't like a little meeting at the holiday end there were thousands of leaders from around the world at this event and they had a procession just like you would have a procession in a church they had a procession and they carried out the Ark of the Covenant. And in it was a new Ten Commandments. Look it up. It happened in the year 2000. Look up Marie Strong, Earth Charter, Ten Commandments.

You'll find stories. See, that's man worshiping the natural order. Right. They were setting up a religion to worship the earth and call the earth Gaia. They wanted us to believe that the earth has a spirit. Yes. And they worship that spirit. It's idolatry. It sure is.

But it's because they reject God's sovereignty. And they elevate themselves above God. They elevate his creation above the creator. They worship the creation and not the creator. But God is eternal. He's unchanging. He's perfect. He is free from decay and corruption.

But things on earth are corruptible. They decay. They change. They die. We come from the dust. We go back to the dust. Why did he make us that way? Well, he knew we were going to become a rebellious people. He said, I'll just, once you guys rebel, I'll just have you go back to the dust from where i met gotcha you'll just turn into dust so idolatry distorts humanity's understanding of both god and themselves and it leads to immoral practices and it decays society.

Any society that has idolatry will decay. Yes. And two things that are always present in a society that has idolatry, or it could be home, it could be a family, it could be home it could be a family it could be anybody a group an organization if there's idolatry two things are present witchcraft and sexual immorality they always follow idolatry yes because once you start worshiping a false god you've opened yourself up to every evil thought and practice right why is that because rejecting god leads to spiritual blindness, and then people become incapable of recognizing truth. And when they worship false gods, it simply takes them deeper into rebellion and moral corruption and decay. Yes.

It's a never-ending descent to the bottom. You're never going up, you're always going down once you get into idolatry and paul says that the act of exchanging god's glory for his incorruptible glory and exchanging changing it for corruptible idols Paul says it deserves God's wrath in other words you've you've asked for it you're going to get it and and you know when I when I read the, whether it's the Old Testament or the New Testament, I see God as being extremely patient, long-suffering, tolerant, pleading with people. Don't do that.

Come back to me. But there are certain things that God just says, that's it. Idolatry. He's a jealous God. When you start worshiping a false God, you've crossed the line. And you're going to get smacked. the other one is to allow people to attribute to you godlike attributes right and start treating you like a god

what happened to herod the people were the people were worshiping him as a god, and his stomach filled up with magnets. Oh, what a way to go. So the Greeks and the Romans, they worshipped humans. Yes. Egyptians, the Egyptians and so forth. So the list, birds, animals, creeping things, as Doc said, echoes the creation account in Genesis, except it's in reverse.

What was the instruction God gave Adam in the garden? Subdue creation. Take dominion. The descendants of Adam turned around and said, we're going to worship the creation. Yes. It was never meant to be worshiped. It was meant to be subdued. To take dominion over the creation. Other types of idolatry we all know. Wealth, possession, status. Educational status status financial status political status all these things can become idols yeah i think it's interesting that still one of the number one television programs today is american idol we don't even hide it. We create idols. We create them.

We have these music contests and everything. Perform an idol. Yeah, but the purpose is to create an idol. And so we're worshiping humans. Yes. We have movie idols, film idols, musical idols, sports idols, celebrities. We worship celebrities. If you don't believe me, I mean, just go on social media and see. Who do most Americans talk about?

They're talking about their celebrity idols. Right. And it's not limited to Hollywood either. You can have political idols as well. Yes. And this is not criticism of Donald Trump trump but some of his supporters idolize him and if donald trump contradicted jesus christ they would go with donald trump am i telling the truth yes i'm telling the truth

um another form of idolatry are various isms humanism is a self-centered philosophy it elevates human reasoning above the word of god That's idolatry. Science and technology are idols. So we have to guard ourselves against anything that elevates something or somebody above God. And that can include family members. You can have people that literally idolize members of their family and would disobey God if necessary to maintain a relationship with a family member. Yes.

Verse 24. Therefore God also gave them up in the lust of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves this verse verse 24 marks a turning point in paul's argument he has detailed humanity's descent into idolatry now paul explains that god's judgment is revealed through abandoning people, idolaters, to their idolatry, to their sinful desire. He gave them up. That is judgment.

God gave them up. He withdraws his grace and turns them over to their sin where there is now no hope for repentance, restoration, and salvation. And they reap the consequences of the rebellion. Verse 24. Yeah, go ahead, Doc. And it's interesting that this, you know, it goes on later on to specify this in verse 27, but that the direct result of idolatry usually is not just immorality, but sexual immorality.

Yes. Various perversions, whatever you want to say. And I'm not limiting it to homosexuality. I'm saying adultery to, you know, pedophilia, all these different things. They are, they're not the cause. They're the symptoms of what's already occurred. What's already occurred is the idolatry. And as a result, God has withdrawn his grace, and Genesis 6, 3 says, my spirit shall not always strive with man just before he flooded the place, and likewise, you know, he will not always

strive with man. There are times where, and it says right here plainly, verse 24, God gave them up. God gave them up. That should be the four most frightening words in the Bible. God gave them up to their own lust, to their own perversion in their life. So when you see all this perversion around us, this is not the cause of God's judgment. This is God's judgment. Yes. So yes so doc i said a few minutes ago two prominent marks of idolatry are witchcraft and sexual immorality yes so what we have here in verse 24 is paul has been talking about idolatry now he switches he makes a turn and he says your idolatry has led you to sexual immorality to the lust of your hearts to uncleanness that your body should be dishonored among themselves.

See, there's the connection between idolatry and sexual immorality. Look, pornography is idolatry. You're looking at naked people when you're looking at pornography you're idolizing them you're idolizing the sexual acts in the film right that is idolatry and so the idolatry leads to you know the the lust of the hearts are the lust of the heart is connected to the idolatry and the sexual immorality and the uncleanness in your body it's a very dangerous area to be in because there is a point where god says i will give you up i'll give you up i'll turn you over to the lust of your heart. Yes.

So when God gives up on somebody, that is an act of divine judgment. And he withdraws grace. And he allows that person to reap the consequences of their sin and rebellion. Amen. God's abandonment is a judicial act of punishment. It can come on upon an individual. It can come upon a group of people. It can come upon a city.

It can come on a nation. It can come on a nation. It can come on an entire world. And that's what happens on Judgment Day when Christ comes back. He gathers unto himself those who have faith in his son. And he gives up on everybody else. That's the divine judgment but this also takes place every single day in the lives of people around the world and they're not even aware that god has withdrawn

his grace from them that's right and when God withdraws his grace from you, you can't be saved. It doesn't mean God causes people to sin, but he withdraws his hand and he says, sin is what you want to do. Go for it. There it is. Just that's what you want. That what you desire you don't desire me

you don't desire my righteousness you don't desire my son my spirit you don't desire my church my kingdom you desire your sin there it is go for it i'm not gonna i'm not gonna hold you back anymore right because his grace is a restrainer. Constantly trying to restrain people from their passions. Yes. And he just allows them to pursue their natural inclinations. You know, we've got a couple people on our chat here, Rick. So, well, unless they repent, of course.

But I would disagree with those folks. At this point, you're beyond repentance. You can't repent at this point. Right. And you may say, wait a minute. Are you saying they can't be saved? Yeah, I'm exactly saying that. Yes, they cannot be saved when God gives them up.

Yes, because we can only be saved if the Father draws us. That's the only way we're saved anyway this is really important this is a really important point to understand theological point you and i cannot save ourselves we have nothing to do with our salvation other than saying yes to god's spirit when he beckoned us and said, I'm offering you salvation. You can't save yourself. You can't say, well, maybe later I'll decide to repent and get saved. Not if God takes his grace from you, you're lost forever. If God has given up, he's not coming back. Who's going to save you if God has given up on you? Super God?

Is there Super God? You know, the regular God gives up on you, but then Super God can come and save you? There is no Super God. It's God. And when he gives up on a person because of their persistent rebellion and sin it's over they cannot be sick they can go to church if they want to but they're not saved god gave them up appears three times romans in roman channel chapter one verse 24 the we're studying, verse 26 and verse 28.

That speaks of a progressive, stages of progressive moral decline. Now, see, this is hard stuff for today's modern Christians to understand, but the old preachers understood it. Matthew Henry said, God's wrath is shown by allowing sinners to plunge deeper into sin. You know who Matthew Henry was? Well, look him up if you don't know who he is. He was preaching that hundreds of years ago. God's wrath is revealed by allowing sinners to go deeper into their sin. That's his wrath. He just said, go ahead, jump into it, dive all the way to the bottom. I'm not doing anything to help you now. See, it's a point where God gets so fed up with people's rebellion.

He walks away from them. Yes. That's alien to today's modern seeker friendly Christian church culture right because we're told God is love and when you

constantly spurn somebody's love they will eventually walk away from you it is a form of divine justice somebody's love, they will eventually walk away from you. Right. It is a form of divine justice where the sin itself becomes the punishment for sin. Yes. It just builds on itself after that.

It's like a snowball going downhill. Except it's a snowball headed to hell. So, the heart, what does the Bible say about our heart? It is deceitfully wicked. Oh, yes. Above all things,

the Bible says. The heart is deceitful above all things. And we are told to guard the heart because from it flow all the issues of life yes it's not talking about your beating heart in your chest it's talking about the center of your being. It's where you reside, at the very core, the heart of your being. Right. And the Bible says it's seefully wicked.

That's why yesterday I was saying, you know, for years I was told, Rick, you gotta be more like jesus every day i tried for years i get up in the morning i'm going to be like jesus today and by by the time i went to bed i was i was rick again i guess isn't working you know why because the heart is the source of all wickedness I can't be a better Rick

there will never be a perfect Rick because Rick is a sinner and when you come to recognize you are a sinner and you deserve hell you deserve it because you're a sinner you deserve it i deserve it see people don't want to accept that they don't want to accept that they are a sinner and

they deserve hell right oh we've done some bad things but not not hell bad, right? No, we're sinners. That's right. And we don't get better. We don't clean ourselves up. We don't become nicer and all this stuff. No, we submit to Christ. Yes. And we let Jesus Christ resurrected, the resurrected christ we allow him to live inside of us suppress our our true selves

that's why that's why we're baptized in water it's it's burying the old man yes satan's always calling to you hey let your old man come out yes now you may you may be thinking to yourself well if everyone's like that if the whole world is condemned what hope is it well the hope is christ the hope is christ and we are still commanded to go into all the world and preach the gospel whether they are reprobate or not we're world and preach the gospel. Whether they are reprobate or not, we're called to preach the gospel. And if they continue to reject the gospel, God will harden their heart,

just like he hardened Pharaoh's heart. And so it's within God's purview and sovereignty and his inclination and his will or whatever you want to call it to save you. All right, so let me just ask you this. If there was no church, no Bible, no rules from heaven, what would you do this week you don't have to tell me

just be honest with yourself what would you do if there were no guardrails right if there was no speed limit how fast would you drive yeah what would you do no restrictions on anything

what would you do you know what you would sin that's what would you do? No restrictions on anything. What would you do? You know what you would do? You would sin. That's what you would do. It'd be Las Vegas every day. You know why? Because our hearts are deceitfully wicked. Yes. the lust of their heart refers to their inner desires that drive their external actions.

Their external actions are coming out from the desires of their heart. Yes. Do you understand? We need salvation. We need it. We need to be saved. We need to be saved. We need to be saved. It's not like, well, it's a good thing, or I feel good about it.

No, we need salvation. Why? Because we're already condemned. Yes. I need this book. I need the rules in this book. I need the fear of eternal damnation. I need to think about a lake of fire. I need a Holy Spirit in me saying, Rick, don't go there.

This is the way I desire you to walk. I need it. Why? Because I'm a sinner and I'm saved by grace, not by my goodness. I'm saved by God's grace, who is perfect. And by his grace, he declares us sinless. We're sinners and yet he declares us sinless we're sinners and yet he declares us sinless when we are in christ but we're talking about people who have consciously deliberately rejected god right look you're not going to go you're not going to be in this situation as long as you're walking with christ right these verses refer to people who deliberately, consciously reject God. And the fact that you're here on this Bible study

is first of all, an example of faith that you're reaching out to God, that you're reaching out. I want to know more. I want a word from God today. The fact that you're here on this Bible study says that. And if you reach out to God, God will reach back out to you. We're talking about those folks that no longer reach out to God,

that say, I don't need God. What's God anyway? I'm God. I can do whatever I want. There's no repercussions in the afterlife. I can be whatever I want to be, do whatever I want. There's no repercussions in the afterlife. I can be whatever I want to be, do whatever I want to do, have sex with kids, with animals, with the same gender. It doesn't matter. There's no rules for me. Think about, I mean, I can't even, even you know pedophilia we we have a we have a major problem we have a pandemic of pedophilia

how does somebody get to the point that they lust for a child how i don't know it it's so bizarre i don't even want the thought in my mind. I don't even want to think about it. It just is so reprehensible to me. How did they get to a place that they have sexual lust for a child? What do you do to get to that place? Notice that Paul said, "'God gave them up in the lust of their hearts to uncleanness,

that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves. Yes. He's talking about their sexual activity among the people. They're being dishonored. Their bodies are being dishonored their bodies are being dishonored as they are having sex with various people look i don't know if there's anybody in this bible study who is committing adultery or fornication adultery is you're married and you're having sex with somebody outside of your marriage.

Fornication is you're not married and you're having sex with other people. I don't know if there's anybody in this class. I hope not. But if you are, these verses are for you. Because your bodies are being dishonored and you risk the wrath of god coming upon you yes i you know in another bible study i don't have time today i can show you i can show you that repeated prolonged sexual immorality has a death penalty I can show you and I'm talking physical a physical death penalty amen there are people that die early in life because of their sexual behavior.

And when he speaks of being dishonored among themselves, their bodies dishonored among themselves. Every time you're having sex with another person, your soul is connecting to the soul of the other person that's why that's why sexual sexual relations is is confined to just married people because it is a union of two souls you cannot have sex with another person without having some type of union of two souls. So think about all the people that you've been with. Have you ever asked the Lord to cleanse you of all of those previous relationships, to cleanse your body? Has it gotten quiet in here doc no I think people are understanding what you're saying Rick it's very clear all right so dishonor their own body refers to sexual immorality

it degrades human dignity. People disgrace themselves through impure, unlawful sexual practices. Between themselves means mutual degradation in sinful acts. The phrase dishonors their own body refers to sexual immorality. That degrades their dignity. People disgrace themselves through impure unlawful sinful sexual practices

and so when people were when they go into idolatry they fall into immorality it just it just comes together that doesn't mean you got a Buddha in front of you and that's what you know no and I know it doesn't matter what the auto is once you go into idolatry you're opening yourself up to sexual immorality that's the message here in these verses. So eventually, when people persist in this kind of behavior, they resist the Holy Spirit. Repeatedly resist the Holy Spirit over years and years and years. God finally returns the rejection. You rejected God, he now rejects you. His restraint is removed. People are now free to pursue their lustful desires,

which just brings more judgment on them. You still hearing me? Yes. Yeah. You're no dropouts now. Okay. All right. So one of the punishments for persistent sinning is the freedom to sin more.

That doesn't make sense. But it's biblical. It's a judgment. One of the punishments for persistent unrepentant sin is the freedom to continue sinning. In other words, you just sealed your fate.

Yes. You just sealed your fate so so tragic it is um doc when i was young man there was a there was a there was an older man in our community who was a broadcaster owned radio stations and everything. But he was known as a Christian broadcaster, although his radio stations were not religious.

OK. But he was well known in many. Several states, OK, in that region, and he would make his rounds in the churches and he would drop really big contributions when I say you know five ten twenty thousand dollar checks this is this is 30 some years ago that's a lot of money right he was wealthy and he was generous to churches. But the Lord showed me something about that man. His gifts were to appease God for his sexual immorality. Every preacher knew that this man was a philanderer. I think he was on his fifth wife at that time, but he wasn't even faithful to her.

He had girlfriends all over the place. And yet there was not one preacher who would confront him. Yeah. Why? Because he would bring a big check to them when he visited the church. What was he doing? He was buying off. He was buying off the pastors.

Don't you dare correct me. Here's a check. Nobody would ever confront him. God allowed that man to see that he reached a point where the Lord didn't deal with him anymore that's what I'm saying these these idolaters are they have been turned over to to their sin they're not just people outside the church sometimes they're inside the church so one of the punishments for sin is more sin when people deliberately willfully reject god he allows them to experience the consequences of their actions

sort of like in the wilderness when they had the uh abundance of quail and they filled themselves up on quail and then god said all right you broke my rule about the quail i told you what to do here choke on it yes really and and ten thousand you know tens of thousands died from it yes so while eating the While eating the thing that they lusted for. They wanted chicken meat. They were tired of eating manna. We want a chicken sandwich. Quail filet. Quail filet, yeah.

But it cost a lot of people their lives, didn't it yeah so the most terrifying judgment is for god to leave people to their own sinful desires yes why because we're responsible for our actions. When people deliberately reject God, at some point, he will deliberately reject them. Yes. Again, that's contrary to what is taught in today's seeker-friendly churches where they want you to believe that oh god he can get over your sin he's he's a loving god he's you know just like abortion oh america we've killed 70 million of his babies oh he's not that upset about it no he's not that he he stopped counting decades ago he stopped counting when we

killed a million babies really no he knew every soul and he knows every soul now because all those little souls are with them romans 1 25 they exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worship and serve the creature rather than the creator who is blessed forever. So Paul outlines humanity's spiritual downfall in very stark terms. They exchanged the truth of God. What did they get in return? A lie. They said, hey, dear God, we'll give you back your truth.

We'll take Satan's lie. That's what people do. So it is a complete rejection of God's revelation. And it is a willful embrace of falsehood the phrase god's essential nature it refers to his eternal power his divine nature his glory so the truth was clearly revealed through creation and our conscience again as we studied earlier in romans romans chapter 1 humans have no excuse for the rejection of god because he gives us creation

and he gives us a conscience the lie idolatry sinful lust physical pleasure that's the lie that satan offers and people make they make a transaction it is a transaction um we got one more verse don't we I think actually we just read down to 25 today and so okay good anything else you want to add doc because I know we're

almost 930 no as we pick back up on our study on Monday we'll pick back up on verse 26 there tomorrow it's faith Friday and we want you to be prepared for faith Friday up on our study on Monday. We'll pick back up on verse 26 there. Tomorrow is Faith Friday, and we want you to be prepared for Faith Friday. And Rick will be teaching on faith, and we'll be doing this each and every Friday. And so I want you to come expecting for God to meet whatever need that you have in your life, whether it's a physical need, a financial need, a family need, whatever it might be.

Bring your need as well as your faith. And let's believe God to teach us something new on faith that will activate us and get us into that faith mindset and to be thinking faith. Today, when Rick told me that he wasn't feeling well my first inclination was I'm praying in faith that God will touch him right now and you know not not wavering just say God just I know you're gonna touch him I just know it and so I want you to come expecting tomorrow to receive something from God, the faith you need to see your need met. Amen.

Were we too tough today? Rick, it's the word of God. How can you be tougher than the word? I know people don't want to think of God as giving up on people. But because we've been taught that God is out there looking for us. He loves us. He's searching for us. We're a lost coin.

We're all these other things. But there comes a point in time where mankind has rejected God so much that God says, I can't work with this. Yes. I just can't work with this. And their fates are sealed for eternity, not just in this life, but in the life to come. Because in the life to come, there's eternal separation from God. You're just starting it early. early you know doc uh when i was a young christian um it was common for preachers to preach hard tough messages

and you know as a young man i i went to church for the purpose of the preacher stepping on my toes i needed it i needed the preacher to be tough i i wanted the preacher to step all over my toes i wanted to get up and go i need to repent i got to go home i got this sermon has stirred me you know i wanted i craved ser crave sermons that would bring me to conviction. Why? Because you wanted to be clean. You wanted to be clean. I wanted to meet the Lord's standards, his approval. But today, you know, I think many of you know, you can't find a church where people people where the pastors will dare speak the truth because they're afraid they're going to offend somebody

and so who are they offending they're offending God who called them to preach so they're offending God that's what we have 352 people who stayed with us we're half hour late because of of uh what

happened this morning and by the way those of you who are not members of morning manna and listen later you don't know what happened and i'm not going to tell you now because it's too late that's right if you'd been here you would have known what happened. That's right. Only the 353 people that are here right now know what happened. All right. We got to go. Yes. So tomorrow, Faith Friday. Don't forget that.

Tonight, we're also doing the prayer meeting for microchurches, 8 p.m. Eastern Time. You'll be watching for that as well. Until tomorrow morning. Remember, communion tomorrow as well. So be prepared for that. We love you very much. God loves you, but he hasn't given up on you yet.

If you're here, he hasn't given up on you yet. You don't have to worry about it. That's right. But there are those we need to preach the gospel to because God is reaching out to them and he's using us to do it.

God bless you. We love you. We'll see you on the Friday edition of Morning Manor.