TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - Mohammad Schumer? President Trump Says NY Senator Transitioned from Jewish to Palestinian

Episode Date: March 12, 2025

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your ally in emergency readiness. Visit our website and become prepared today. President Donald Trump said today that New York Democrat Senator Chuck Schumer is no longer Jewish, but he's Palestinian. He also retracted his plan to remove nearly two million Palestinians from Gaza. I'm Rick Wiles. This is True News for Wednesday, March 12, 2025. Let's begin our analysis and commentary of today's headlines with this report published by Israel's Ynetnews.com. Trump appears to reverse course on Gaza Plan.

No one is expelling the Palestinians, he said. He made this remark today at a meeting with the Prime Minister of Ireland. Yes. Okay? And I believe his name is Michael Martin. And his remarks contradict what he said on February 4 when he was with Benjamin Netanyahu, and his exact words were, we will flatten it, 1.8 million need to leave.

Did he say that? He did say that. Well, let's listen to what he said today. What about the president's plans to expel Palestinians out of Gaza? Are you discussing that with him and giving him your opinion? Nobody's expelling any Palestinians. I don't know. Who are you with?

I have a voice in America, sir. Oh, no wonder. Okay, voice it. He should be expelling Palestinians. He should talk about how he feels about... Nobody's expelling Palestinians. But he said they had to leave. He said 1.8 million need to leave.

That's not expelling... He said, we will flatten it. 1.8 million need to leave. He said not expel— He said, we will flatten it. 1.8 million need to leave. He said, we're taking control of Gaza. Right. OK, so, Doc, what did we witness here today? He redefined reality, redefined truth today.

Is that part of the Trump processes? Donald Trump has three rules for winning, and that's rule number two. What's the first rule? First one is attack, attack, attack. Second one is redefine truth, redefine reality. And the third one is basically deny everything. And number four is go back to attack, attack, attack. Yes.

Right. So, by his own admission and his writings, he says you redefine truth. Yes. Truth is in the eye of the beholder, so to speak, with Donald Trump. So old truth... Has been replaced with new truth. Old truth was February 4 when he said we will flatten it, 1.8 million need to leave. New truth today is, nobody's talking about removing Palestinians. So which one's the truth?

Today's version? I mean, which one? What do you think? In his mind, today's version is the truth? Today's version is the truth. And you also see that he employed rule number one in this little snippet, too. What did he do? He attacked the reporter who asked the question.

The reporter's just asking a question based on what he said a month ago. Right. Well, that's the world of Donald Trump. Next one, President Trump said New York Senator, Democrat Charles Schumer has become a Palestinian. He's not Jewish anymore. Now, he actually said this. We want you to hear it. Right. Here's Mr. Trump in his own words. And Schumer is a Palestinian as far as I'm concerned. You know, he's become a Palestinian. He used to be Jewish.

He's not Jewish anymore. He's a Palestinian. Okay. What does that mean? Oh, this is also part of rule number two. You can relabel things. And by relabeling things, you can diminish them. For instance, you went from little Marco now to Secretary Rubio.

So he likes labels. And by labeling people, puts them in a box. But the reason he's saying this is because months ago, Senator Schumer, a well-known Jewish Democrat, hardcore Zionist, I'm not criticizing him, that's who he is. Yes. Okay? Everybody knows it. But he criticized Benjamin Netanyahu.

See, because Jews have differences of opinion. It's wrong to think all Jewish people think alike. That's wrong. There are very well-defined groups inside the worldwide Jewish community. And Netanyahu represents one group. Charles Schumer is not in that group. He wants to replace Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel. He said some very critical things about Netanyahu. In Mr. Trump's mind, that's the equivalent of no longer being Jewish. If you criticize Netanyahu, you have left your race. Yes, that's the new truth.

I did post on X, my congratulations to Charles Schumer on his successful transitioning and I said I I affirm his new identity. I have everybody will support it Yes, you know sarcastic Palestinian now. Yes. He's a trans Palestinian now according to Donald Trump But you know There's something there in Donald Trump's words That shows his disdain for the Palestinian people. Right.

It wasn't meant as a label of honor. That's for sure. Oh, no, no. It was definitely a slur. He has disdain for Palestinians. He doesn't recognize them as people. He really doesn't. He obviously holds the Jewish people in high regard, but he holds the Palestinian people in low regard. And I hold both in equal regard. That's the

difference between us. I don't exalt one and belittle another. I say they're all equal. In the eyes of God, they're all equal. But he doesn't see it that way. And so now he's belittling Charles Schumer. It's odd, here I am, I'm defending Charles Schumer. That's how strange this is. I'm coming to the defense of Charles Schumer because Charles Schumer's being malign

because he criticized Netanyahu. But that tells me something about Donald Trump's mind. He is so pro-Israel that if you criticize anything about Israel, he's done with you. Well, Thomas Massey is awesome. Look what he's doing to Thomas Massey. He's going after Thomas Massey. And AIPAC is cheering it along. Of course they are.

Supposedly it's over a budget resolution, a congressional resolution, but it's really about Israel. And so Donald Trump says he's going to primary Congressman Massey, meaning they're going to finance a MAGA candidate in the Kentucky primary in 2026 to defeat Congressman Massey in the Republican primary. Well, we're using that logic. Are we not going to do the same thing to Rand Paul? Because he will vote against the CR2. Well, he may do it. It's very possible and Rand Paul's not a big supporter of Israel either.

I think it's interesting. Thomas Massey has gone from being considered for Secretary of Agriculture back in December to this position now. It's all over Israel. And we see it reflected here in this story too with this labeling that takes place. And so it was an interesting exchange, especially since the Prime Minister of Ireland—Ireland is probably, of all the countries in Europe, they're probably the most pro-Palestinian. So—

Oh, I wonder what the Prime Minister was thinking as he was sitting there. Right. Well, while we're talking about people transitioning and misgendering and everything, there is a new member of Congress who goes by the name Sarah McBride, but Sarah's a man. Right. So, in that picture you see on the screen, there are three men. It may look like one of them is a woman, but there are three men on this screen. Yes.

One's wearing lipstick. Yes. So, at a House hearing yesterday, ended abruptly after an exchange between a Republican and a Democratic committee member over the Republican chairman's misgendering of Congressman Sarah McBride. At the hearing hosted by the Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe, Congressman Keith Self of Texasard McBride. McBride is the first openly trans member of Congress. Let's watch the video. I now recognize the representative from Delaware, Mr. McBride.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Ranking member Keating also wonderful. Mr. Chairman, could you repeat your introduction again please? Yes, it's a it's a we have set the standard on the floor of the house and I'm simply. What is that standard Mr. Chairman? Would you repeat what you just said? I introduced a duly elected representative from the United States of America. Please. I will. The representative from Delaware, Mr. McBride. Mr. Chairman, you are out of order.

Mr. Chairman, have you no decency? I mean, I have come to know you a little bit, but this is not decent. We will continue this hearing. You will not continue it with me unless you introduce a duly elected representative the right way This hearing is adjourned He's a man he's a man in a dress yes, but the Democrats say Your mouth has got to say something your mind and your heart knows not true.

Yes. That's it. And then Congressman Salk said, it's a man. Mr. McBride. Well, we'll see how long this goes, how long it lasts. NewsNation asked a good question a few days ago. Why haven't the JFK and Jeffrey Epstein files been released? A lot of people are asking that question.

Here's Daily Mail. Fury at Attorney General Pam Bondi over no Epstein files. Client list. Update at another, as update, another update looms. What happened to the files? Where are they? President Trump made very emphatic promises. Yes.

I don't know if it was one of those day one promises. He made a lot of day one promises. Well, Cash Patel did say that if he was made FBI director, that Epstein files would be released day one. OK, so he's been FBI director now for what, a month? About a month, yes. So where are the files? She said they're on my desk back at CPAC.

Right, and then they came in a truck later. Of course, they found more. Right, there are no pictures of the truck. Well, she probably told the truth And then they came in a truck later. They found more. Right. There are no pictures of the truck. She probably told the truth because the FBI office in New York withheld files. So we thought, okay, they got more of them. They'll be released. They haven't been released.

She doesn't talk about it. They don't talk about JFK files. Cash Patel doesn't talk about it. They don't talk about JFK files. Cash Patel doesn't have anything to say. What's holding it up, Mr. Trump? It's a great Mr. Trump's holding it up. It's where the buck stops. Let's just say Donald Trump is holding up the release of the files. Who is pressuring him? I think we know. The same people we were just talking about. Yes.

The state of Israel. There's something in those files, Epstein files and the JFK files, that's terrifying somebody. Let me ask you. John F. Kennedy died in 1963. This is 2025. The last Secret Service agent died recently. Yes, just a few weeks ago. Yes. The last Secret Service agent.

Ironically. Yes. Who was there? I think he was the gentleman that climbed over the seat. And he was in his 90s. Right. climbed over the seat. And he was in his 90s. Right. Okay, so there's nobody around left. There's nobody. Who are they protecting?

Maybe a state that's existing. It's not a person. It's a state like the state of Israel. My position for many years is Israel ordered the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and it was organized and carried out by their flunky Lyndon B. Johnson. That's your thesis. Prove Rick wrong. Prove him wrong. Right. Prove Rick wrong. Yes, release the false. But they're withholding the files. Now, Tucker Carlson said something on his podcast several days ago.

I didn't get a chance to play it yesterday. He made a blockbuster, shocking statement that got no publicity. Nothing. It went nowhere. You got to watch it. had no publicity. Nothing. It went nowhere. You gotta watch it. This is about five minutes long. He's talking with Chris Cuomo.

Yes. Listen to what he says. Let me ask you a question that, for some reason, seems to have sunk beneath the waves. The JFK story 62 years ago, the presidents murdered, it's pretty clear that the story we were told isn't true. And it bothers people because it gets to a core question, which is, is the president capable

of making independent decisions? Or is there a threat of physical violence against all American presidents that persists? Well, we know there's a threat of violence because we just watched our president get shot in the head. Of course, but from some, from whatever group has been able to keep these files secret for 62 years.

So my question to you was like, what is that? Why have these been secret for so long? Look, the idea of the deep state to me is a convenience more than it is a convenience more than it is a reality. It's a boogeyman. Why don't they put it out? Because institutions protect themselves, Tucker, as we both know.

Really? And there is clearly information in those files that are gonna make the CIA look bad. Just the CIA? Well, whatever, different agencies. No, no, no, whatever. I mean, let's, I mean, at this point- Well, I don't know, because I haven't seen it. Okay, so here's...

But it could be the FBI, it could be the CIA. Okay, so I've always thought that. And then in January, you know, there was a scramble over who's going to get what jobs in the new administration. And at one point, there was someone who was being discussed for a job in the intel world and a member of the SSCI, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and Intelligence Committee, went to the people making the decision and said, you cannot hire this person because this person

will be certain to push for the release of the JFK files. So this is in 2025, less than two months ago, and you have a sitting member of the United States Senate whose main goal is to keep those files secret. And then you have to ask yourself, what is that? Why? Yeah. Exactly, why? Yeah. Why?

Were they even alive? Of course, no one was alive. I was 62 years old. Yeah, I know. And by the way, the institution, no one could even tell you who the CIA director was. And do you remember the name of the CIA director? John McCone, I think, 1963, but that person is like completely lost to history except to specialists.

And the CIA has already been through 50 years ago, the church committee hearings, 1975, where we sort of know that they're sassing people, dosing people with acid, all this stuff, it's like, the CIA has already been discredited. So if you're telling me that six weeks ago, a member of the United States Senate was trying to keep someone out of a job

in order to keep these files secret, that is to protect the CIA. I don't believe that for a second. So what do you think it is? I don't know. But this is, I mean, there's no one at the CIA who was involved. Actually, yeah, who's involved in the Kennedy assassination.

There's no one in America who's involved in the Kennedy assassination. So here's what I know. First of all, I don't believe that the CIA has been completely discredited. I believe in the institutions. They have to be checked. You know, the media used to be in the business of checking the institutions. Now we're in the business of like defending them tacitly because we have a president that

attacks them all the time. But the, so Mike Pompeo gets in there. He's in charge of the CIA. Trump says, I'm releasing the files. Right. Okay. Somebody says something to Mike Pompeo that he then goes to the president of the United States and says, you can't release these things.

And Trump acknowledges it. Now, do I believe that Trump did it under threat? No. I think that Trump just decided that whatever he was being told made sense. But it's, it's, and I'm not even speaking of Trump or Pompeo, who's a very sinister person. And you're absolutely right, Pompeo was the driver behind that. But who was driving Pompeo?

I mean, it doesn't actually make sense, the story. It doesn't make sense. And by the way, we, we have the file numbers of most of the files that have not been disclosed. So it's like Trump issues an executive order on January 23rd saying you're gonna release this stuff. They kind of can't not release it. And yet now it's the first week of March and they haven't released it. So pressure is currently being applied

on the administration not to release those files. It seems that way. By whom? I don't know. Some like mid-level analyst at CIA who just doesn't wanna discredit the institution he works for, I don't think so. Like, what is that?

I don't know. Who is pressure? I don't believe it's the Rockefellers, the Pope and no whatever. I'm not even- I don't believe that either. I'm not even guessing. All I'm saying is we can say with certainty that there is a force acting on these people,

very serious force, to the point where they're embarrassing themselves because they promised they'd release us and they haven't. Look, I don't disagree with the- What the hell is that? I don't know, but it's not just that, right? Now we get this weird story about the Epstein files. Like who even cares?

You know what I mean? Like who, I want it released. I believe in transparency. I think it's the route to trust. And it's not just because I'm in the media, it's just common sense. But AG Bondi, I don't have any reason to be anti-AG Bondi. And she says she's gonna release the files.

And I don't even care that they released them to their pod people. I mean, I thought that was stupid, but I mean, that's fine. They wanna do what they do it. They're playing to preference, okay. Now, then there's a story about, well, the New York FBI, they hid all the files and then we're gonna have to get them. We're gonna fire this guy who's supposedly,

by most accounts, is a pretty solid guy that they had quit. Well, where are the files? Neither one would say the word. No. Chris Cuomo, definitely not going to go there. He knows not to say that word. And Tucker wants to say it. But he wants someone else to say it.

He wants someone else to say it because he's afraid of what's going to happen to him, that he'll be deplatformed. Yeah. Well. Right? Hey, Tucker, I'm still waiting on the Las Vegas Shooter expose that you're going to release. You said it on a Friday, on a Monday, you're back to the same old script. Mm-hmm. So

And they know they can't say anything they know it because they'll get deplatformed. They'll get worse and deplatformed All right, you you can have your life taken away from you. Yes I mean it's so obvious that it is a foreign state, a foreign state that has immense deep tentacles inside the USA. Is it China? Is it Russia? Is it Germany?

Yeah, if it was Russia, these had been released already, if it was Russia. Right. If the Russians killed Kennedy, they would want it to come out. Right. So, there's only one country. It's the state of Israel. Yes. And why would Israel want to kill John F. Kennedy?

Over Demona. Nuclear, nuclear weapons. Yes. Kennedy, they didn't have nuclear weapons at that time. Kennedy was blocking them. That was one of the things John F. Kennedy was adamant that Israel should not be a nuclear power. And with Johnson they had a free path all the way through. That's right. Because he was a closet Zionist going back to the 1930s and 40s Who he mentioned he asked the question who was the CIA director when President Kennedy was shot?

I don't even know it was John McCone. He mentioned the last name. Oh, he did McCone John McCone John McCone And I thought it was interesting Before he was CIA director McCone's job. He was in charge of the Atomic Energy Commission Before he was CIA director, McCone's job, he was in charge of the Atomic Energy Commission. That's interesting. And so my mind immediately jumps to the connection between Israel and nuclear and the Atomic Energy Commission. And there were accusations, of course, that the state of Israel had stolen plans from the United States.

I don't know if it was from the Atomic Energy Commission or not, but I would be shocked if it wasn't at this point. Well, I know they were given access to Los Alamos, and that access was provided by Texas Senator John Tower. So the Israelis were all over our secret. They still are today. Yes. But they're our greatest ally in the Middle East.

If they're our greatest ally, what do they do for us? Do they protect us from anybody? Do they provide any sort of special benefit to us? Do they supply a significant amounts of oil or uranium? What makes them our greatest ally other than we just give them that label? Years ago I interviewed a guy who had written a book about a famous Hollywood movie mogul You know produce not an actor, but like a producer right studio studio Yeah owner, you know and that he was so the book was this guy was a secret Israeli spy

And nobody knew it when he was he was powerful and big in Hollywood imagine that an Israeli spy in Hollywood And anyhow he wrote a book, an excellent book. The author is Jewish. I interviewed him. It was a very informative interview. But at the end, I said something about this Hollywood man being a traitor. He goes, no, I don't think he was a traitor. I said, wait a minute, you just wrote a book

that he was a spy. He goes, yeah, I know, but Israel's our ally. He wasn't a traitor. And I said to him, let me ask you something. If you and I were best friends, best friends for years and years and years, and you came home from work one day, and I was in your bedroom rummaging through your dresser drawers, am I still your best friend?

And you got real quiet. And that was the end of the interview. Okay? What do you mean, your best? They're our ally. You just wrote a book that they're spying on us. So the Epstein files. Who else would Jeffrey Epstein work for?

If he wasn't an Israeli agent, who was he working for? Bulgaria? Right. The UK, France, Russia? Let's talk about his girlfriend, well not his girlfriend, his handler, Jislin Maxwell. The daughter of Robert Maxwell. Maxwell is not her name. Yes. That's not her real name.

Her father, you know, who went by the name Robert Maxwell, a billionaire, was an Israeli spy. Yes. His name was not Maxwell. Right. He took on that Anglo name to fit into Great Britain. And he was such an effective Israeli spy, they buried him on the Mount of Olives. Israeli spy. They buried him on the Mount of Olives. And five Mossad chiefs, ex-former Mossad chiefs, attended his funeral for a guy who wasn't an agent. Not bad, huh? So who else did Epstein work for? Where are the video files? Where where all the videos that he recorded years and years and years powerful influential american men having sex with a little girls where are the videos kiss

who's got the videos dec like they don't never heard of such thing right the new york city police said that when they rated his man Manhattan office, there were thousands of photographs in the safe of little girls. Where are the photographs? The FBI took them. Right. And we saw images from Epstein Island of the FBI hauling off boxes and boxes and stuff from Epstein Island, right? Where's all that at? Where is all, where are all the files?

You know what? We're grownups. We can handle the truth. We really, really can. Just tell us who it is, and just tell us—just show us the facts. Because the entire political landscape would change if they told the truth. And right now— What happens if we're told Israel carried out the assassination of a US president?

I think we could handle it. I really, really do. I think we could handle it as a nation. Would we still remain loyal to Israel? No. Right. How could the American people remain loyal to Israel? You then see them for what they are. Murderous thugs. In this particular situation, it would also put the Trump administration in a bad position because they've aligned themselves with Israel in a much bigger way. And Epstein. Now they're telling us the reason why the Epstein files haven't

been released is they're under review because of national security concerns. Their words, not mine. National security concerns. What could the national security concerns be from something that's 62 years? Are you talking about Epstein or? Epstein. Epstein. Yes.

Well, those are the ones that- National security concerns. Are you talking about Epstein or? Epstein. Epstein. Yes. Well, those are the ones that? National security concerns. Who's on that list that's a national security concern? A lot of people. So Tucker Carlson said that back in January there was a person who was being considered for a high level intelligence agency job. I don't think he said whether he indicated a man or woman.

But a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee Blocked it. Blocked it. And said, you cannot confirm this person, because he or she will push for the release of the JFK files. Yes. A member of the Senate Intelligence Committee went into action and said, we've got to block this appointment

to protect somebody, to protect a state. Who was it? You know who the senator was? Tom Cotton. Tom Cotton. Now, he denies it. Yes. But Tucker Carlson hasn't retracted the accusation.

Tom Cotton's a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Yes. He is a raving Zionist supporter of Israel. Senator Cotton, who are you really working for? Who do you really work for? People who voted for him, you need to reconsider. Yes. Okay. Let's move on here. We'll go to the war in Ukraine. Wall Street Journal's number 10. U.S. to restore military support to Ukraine after it agrees to ceasefire. Trump administration said it would immediately lift a pause on intelligence sharing and military support to Ukraine

following high-level talks with the U.S. officials that led Kiev to agree to a 30-day ceasefire. The ceasefire plan, contingent on Russian acceptance, envisions opening negotiations between Kiev and Moscow on halting the war, according to a U.S.-Ukraine joint statement issued Tuesday. London Telegraph, Secretary of State Rubio, Ukrainian territorial concessions part of U.S. peace plan. Yes.

Now, the Ukraine could cede territory to Russia as part of a peace deal, the U.S. Secretary of State has said. Asked whether territorial concessions were discussed in the talks between the US and Ukraine. Marco Rubio said, well, we've had conversations. He urged Russia to accept a truce proposal that the US had agreed with Ukraine, adding that Washington would speak to Moscow about it today. The Telegraph quotes, if they say no, then obviously we'll have to examine everything

and sort of figure out where we stand in the world and what their true intentions are, he said, noting that there is no military solution to this conflict. Russian sources earlier had said that Vladimir Putin would find it difficult to accept the proposed truce with Ukraine while his troops are advancing on the front line. Okay, so let's talk about that. There's no guarantee the Russians are going to accept the ceasefire proposal. And here's why. Everything halts, everything's frozen for 30 days, including Russia fighting Ukrainian

troops that are inside Russia. Right. Think about that. They have to agree to allow Ukrainian troops to continue operating inside Russia. They're not allowed to shoot them during those 30 days. Which I find it difficult for Russia to accept. That's what I'm trying to tell you, Doc. During those 30 days. Which I find it difficult for Russia to accept that. That's what I'm trying to tell you, Doc.

And they've been making a lot of progress in the past two weeks, pushing the Ukrainians out. You know, one of the things they did, I didn't even say this to you the other day, they were moving commandos through a gas pipeline. I saw that story. Did you see that? Yes. Obviously, no gas going through, but the commandos

were wearing gas suits. And they were moving through the pipeline. And got up behind Ukrainian lines. Yes. Popped out of the pipeline. Kind of like Red Dawn, isn't it? Yeah. There's Russians.

You've got to watch where they'll pop out at. But for Vladimir Putin and the Russian military deep state establishment in Moscow, this one's going to be a hard nut to swallow. Okay? Yes. Because they've—and the second reason is Mr. Trump has agreed that he will start the flow of U.S. weapons to Ukraine during the 30 days. Yes. You know whose plan this is?

This is General Kellogg's plan. This is what he proposed last year. This is his plan. And the Russians know it. And they know where General Kellogg is leading them. If they say no, General Kellogg, which he already said in his plan last year, if the Russians turn down this plan, we start the war again.

And we hit them hard again. So General Kellogg is leading Donald Trump down a path that's going to have him entrapped in a war in Ukraine. The very thing he said, he was going to end. He's allowing General Kellogg to set up this scenario. It's almost like General Kellogg wants the Russians to turn it down. He's a NATO man. Mr. Trump put one of these guys in his administration and said, here, here's your assignment.

He's going to get snookered again I'm not so sure the Russians are going to accept it doc. I Don't think so either Rick at this point and then I would be shocked if they did then general Kellogg's gonna go to Donald Trump And say you you have no other choice but to supply long-range missiles To Ukraine and let them hit downtown Moscow. Watch. I hope President Trump doesn't fall for it, but right now it looks like he's being set

up for it because he's got a deep state guy, General Kellogg, running this ceasefire operation. But you've got to go back a year and read General Kellogg's plan. It's falling step by step. And he has an alternative scenario. If the Russians reject the plan, then we resume the supply of weapons and we increase it. So I'm not certain this war is going to wind down. Well, then you have Vladimir Zelensky coming out with making statements today, we are not ceding territory.

Right. You've got Marco Rubio. But you've got your team that just agreed to it. Yes. And Secretary of State Rubio saying territory is part of it. Yes. So both sides want to sabotage peace. Zelensky is impossible to deal with. Even President Trump said yesterday, he said the

Russians are easier to work with than the Ukrainians. He's frustrated with it. I just hope he doesn't allow General Kellogg to snooker him in pushing him into a corner, where he says, well, if you don't attack Russia now, you're going to look like a Russian stooge. That's the deep state argument on Donald Trump from 2016. That's been the entire argument the whole time. With the fake dossier and all that stuff, it was always, you're a Russian stooge, Russian stooge. So he's being set up again. You bomb him, prove to us you're not a Russian stooge. Give Zelensky those missiles. I'm really concerned about it. I was hoping this thing was going to wind down, but the offer is not as attractive as

what we're learning right now. I think the Russians are going to turn it down. They know that if they sign this for the next 30 days, the U.S US Pentagon is going to rush weapons to Ukraine. Then at the end of the 30 days, you're back to fighting. Ukraine's been rearmed. Right now, the Russians have them on the run. What's the advantage to the Russians to let the Ukrainians be rearmed. Right. In fact, it would be to their advantage to draw out the ceasefire agreement as long as they could,

you know, not agree to it, just kind of chat about it, talk about it as long as they possibly can. That's what I think they're going to do. But that's probably only going to go on maybe two weeks. Max, I would think, at that point. If President Trump resumes the weapons flow and this ceasefire proposal dies, and President Trump gets pulled into this quagmire, you better just wave goodbye to Kiev, because I think Putin's going to flatten the city. I mean, obliterate it. And then what is Donald Trump going to do then? Okay, you just pushed him to the point that he completely obliterated the entire city

of Kiev. What's your next move then? Mr. Trump likes to talk big. He's going to push Vladimir Putin to submit to him. Putin's not submitting to anybody. Putin's just as tough as Donald Trump. He's not bound down to him. But Mr. Trump, he likes to think everybody will submit to me. I just talk tough.

I threaten people. They'll bow down to me. You're not going to threaten Putin. He's got 6,000 ICBMs with nuclear warheads. You're not going to threaten him. He's just very level-headed, doesn't get flustered, but shark eyes. And he'll just say, eliminate Kiev. Or he might just say, take out a US military base. Right.

Because everybody now admits it, including Marco Rubio. They've said this has been a proxy war between the US and Russia. Even Rubio said it. And so the cat's out of the bag. Everybody knows that's the truth now. We can actually say it and not get deplatformed. Right.

And Lindsey Graham yesterday said, if the Russians turn this down, we've got to sanction them. I don't remember the exact words, you know. No, sanction them with what? Yeah. But he's hoping that they turn it down. Yes. Because he's frustrated that this war is coming to an end. So we're not out of the

wood yet, folks. And then you got moves like the next one from Europe. This is from Le Mans, France. European countries face growing pressure to seize frozen Russian assets. Political leaders are increasingly saying they want to use the $210 billion of euros that are frozen assets of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation to continue to finance military aid to Ukraine. So this is 210 billion euros that the Russian Central Bank had parked in European banks. And so when the war started, the Europeans seized it. They just, they froze it. They didn't, it's frozen.

It's, technically they haven't seized it. Right. They just won't let the Russians. But they have stopped it. But the Russians can't withdraw it. But the Europeans can use the interest off the money. To give it to Zelensky. So now there's talk that they're going to just seize it.

Just go ahead and seize the 210 billion euros. But they've got legal problems. That's right. Because if you seize that, then you're in direct violation of international agreements and treaties. Because the money is the property of the central bank. So what you're saying now is that any central bank, your assets are no longer protected. Right.

It's not really your bank. That's right. So somebody could seize the assets of the US Federal Reserve or the Bank of England. Yes. There's no protection anymore. Politico reporting France is warming to the idea of seizing Russian assets in Europe. Yeah, and this actually story is about a week and a half old. And you see the previous story, they're not only warming up to it, they're hot for it. A quote from the article that you're seeing on the screen,

their French ministers publicly rejected the possibility of doing that for legal reasons as those assets are the property of Russia's central bank. Economy Minister Eric Lombard told France Info that as France is not directly at war with Russia, these assets cannot be seized as this would be contrary to international agreement. And so like he said, Rick, there are legal hurdles to this. They be contrary to international agreement. And so like he said Rick there are legal Hurdles to this they'd have to declare war right to legally take the money Sergey Lavrov, you know, I would the other day was it you somebody sent me a note and said

Judge Napolitano was on his way to Russia. Yeah, to the Kremlin. He really was. He was there, and he interviewed Sergey Lavrov. Judge Nap, right there at the top of the screen there. So there were three people, three bloggers, Mario Nafal, who has a podcast on X, former CIA analyst and co-founder of veteran intelligence professionals for sanity, Larry Johnson, and of course, Judge Andrew Napolitano.

So they had an opportunity to interview Sergey Lavrov, which I think lasted for like two hours. I got a real small clip, but listen to what Lavrov mentions. He talks about Christian values. Watch. Of course. First question. Mr. Minister, it's a pleasure to speak to you, sir.

The first question I have is, as I speak to people here in Moscow, there's a perception that the US has changed. They're describing the US completely differently under President Trump. Do you think the US as a culture, not only the perception, but do you think has it fundamentally changed and their perception of Russia and President Putin? I think what is perception of Russia and President Putin? I think what is going on in the United States is a return to normalcy. The United States has always been the country of two big parties who competed between themselves, who changed ownership of the White House. But the division during my years in the United States,

which is starting from 1981, I've been there several times, serving for a long period. Compared to that time, the division now is absolutely striking. On that occasion, the main dividing line between the Democrats and the Republicans

was more taxes, less taxes, abortions, things which would be part of a normal Christian life and within this Christianity values the entire politics were built. Arguing with each other but within the values which everybody accepted. With the introduction of neoliberal ideas, neo-con ideas, but mostly neoliberal ideas, the divide became deeper, wider, and culmination was the first election of President Trump, The culmination was the first election of President Trump, which he himself admitted was a surprise to him and he wasn't really getting ready.

Now he is ready and it is clear how many, 49 days yet and such a rich agenda is already thrown into the public domain. So this split motivated, first of all, by the departure from Christian values, by the leadership of the Democratic Party, in my view, by promoting without any limits the LGBTQ whatever comes next. You know, same, I mean, one WC for any gender. I once found myself in Sweden where the OSC was conducting a ministerial meeting and it was in a stadium, especially arranged for the ministerial meeting and I wanted to get out

and to go out and saw WC sign and I asked the guy who was accompanying me whether this was gents or ladies, he said everybody. I don't want any of my friends to experience this themselves. So this, and this is just of, a tiny manifestation of those divisions. So there you have the Secretary of State of Russia. What is freaking him out about the United States and Europe? It's just gender craziness. Right. He's like, I don't even want my friends to go there and have to use a restroom that women are using.

That's their perception of the West. You guys have lost your minds. You don't know your gender anymore. Right. So, but you have nuclear weapons. We're dealing with a nuclear-armed nation that has lost its mind. That's how they're perceiving us. Very interesting answer to his question. Quickly, I want to do some financial news. CBC Canada.

Canada hits the United States with tariffs on $29.8 billion worth of goods after President Trump slaps levy on Canadian medals. And so, Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc said that President Trump's attack on the Canadian industry is unjustified and unjustifiable and that he is inserting disruption and disorder into the world of trade. We've got a short video from CBC Canada. Together, we will do what we must do to protect Canada's economy. With these most recent tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum, the U.S. administration

is once again inserting disruption and disorder into an incredibly successful trading partnership and raising the costs of everyday goods for Canadians and American households alike We will not stand idly by while our iconic steel and aluminum industries are being unfairly targeted Today I am announcing that the government of Canada following a dollar-for-dollar approach, will be imposing, as of 12.01 a.m. tomorrow, March 13, 2025, 25 percent reciprocal tariffs on an additional $29.8 billion of imports from the United States. This includes steel products

worth $12.6 billion and aluminum products worth $3 billion, as well as additional imported US goods worth $14.2 billion for a total of $29.8 billion. The list of additional products affected by counter tariffs includes computers, sports equipment and cast iron products as examples. These tariffs are in addition to Canada's 25% counter tariffs on $30 billion of imports from the United States in response to US tariffs put in place on March 4th. Good to know where all the cast-iron pots are going.

Yes we do. Canada. So this is, but this was a dollar for dollar tariff reaction to this. It's different than the Premier Ford one yesterday. So what do you think about this, Rick? Well, on a personal level, I want to say we have a lot of Canadian supporters. We have for 26 years. I've always had Canadian supporters from the beginning of this ministry, okay? And faithful faithful backers, supporters of true news. And then living here in Vero Beach, Florida, we have a lot of Canadians that spend their winters here.

Yes. You're coming down usually in October, late September, early October, and here through — generally through Easter. Yes. There are a lot still here right now. So we're quite comfortable with the Canadians here. We look forward to the Canadians showing up. I just want our Canadian ministry partners, people to watch us, people to come here to

visit. I just want you to know that we love Canadians. There's nobody here. I mean, I don't like this. I don't like this fighting between the US and Canada. It just seems unseemly. Like, who fights with Canadians? I don't know anybody that wants to have a fight

with a Canadian. Canadians are like the nicest people on earth. Why are we fighting? I don't like the outbreak of violence in hockey. I just like this. This is not... President Trump didn't... He didn't give Canada an opportunity.

He gave them an ultimatum. I don't like this style. I don't disagree with his purpose of what he's doing. He wants to balance trade. I'm okay with that. But his style, you would think, I mean, it started with mocking Justin Trudeau, okay, and then it went on and on and on to the point that Trudeau resigned, okay, so to Donald Trump Hey, I want another one took him down But he didn't reach out to Canada and say hey, I've got some differences here I got a I got some problems The normal way countries work things out, that's why you have a state

department, that's why you have a commerce department. Your diplomats meet and you present in private meetings. Here's our, these are our issues. We're friends. Let's work this out. You don't go to this level until the negotiations have failed. But Mr. Trump starts with a fistfight. The way he starts negotiations is he sucker punches you in the face. Attack, attack, attack. It's always attack, attack, attack. Rule number one.

That's rule number one. That's his style. And the Canadian minister said he's introduced chaos and disruption. That's sestal. Yes, attack, attack, attack. That's chaos. Everywhere Mr. Trump goes, there's chaos and disruption. That is not by accident, it's by design.

He creates the storm. He likes to be the storm. Because what that does is it changes alliances. People start questioning the alliances they've had before. They question, is our enemy really our enemy, or do we have a new enemy now? Right. And can we partner with old enemies?

Right. And while everybody is adjusting to this new climate, Donald Trump is saying, hey, I live in the storm. Yes. Well, I never in the storm. Yes. Well, I never forgot the story where he told the photographer. There was a photographer waiting, famous photographer waiting for this appointment to photograph Mr. Trump. And he's at his designated place.

And he looks down the hallway, and he sees this huge crowd of people surrounding a man there's arguing and shouting and and cheers and all kinds of stuff going on and and he realizes the guy in the center's present wasn't a president at that time Donald Trump and so when they got alone he said Mr. Trump how do you operate in a storm like that? And Mr. Trump got up close to his face and said, I am the storm. Well, see, that told me, when I read that story, this is the way he operates. He creates the storm. He does his best work in the storm.

Everybody else is rattled. Yes. Everything's moving. Right. The ground's shaking. But he shook the ground. he does his best work in the storm everybody else is rattled everything's moving the ground's shaking but he shook the ground but i don't like it i don't like it i don't like

i wonder canadians and other were friends and and a lot of americans don't like this this fighting euro news like this fighting. Euro news. EU strikes back against US steel and aluminum tariffs retaliatory package. Here is Ursula von der Leyen. I just got too many names. Ursula von der Leyen. Yes. OK. Ursula von der Leyen. Yes. Okay. And she said, she gave her, she made her remarks

that we deeply regret what's happening but we're going to fight back. Here it is. The trade relations between the European Union and the United States are the biggest in the world. They have brought prosperity and security to millions of people, and trade has created millions of good jobs on both sides of the Atlantic. As of this morning, the United States is applying a 25% tariff on imports of steel and aluminum. We deeply regret this measure. Tariffs are taxes. They are bad for business and worse for consumers. They are disrupting supply chains. They bring uncertainty for the economy. Jobs are at stake. Prices are up. Nobody needs that on both sides, neither in the European Union nor in the United States.

The European Union must act to protect consumers and business. The countermeasures we take today are strong but proportionate. As the United States are applying tariffs worth $28 billion, we are responding with countermeasures worth €26 billion. This matches the economic scope of the tariffs of the United States. Our countermeasures will be introduced in two steps, starting with April 1st and fully in place as of April 13th. In the meantime, we will always remain open to negotiations. We firmly believe that in a world fraught with geoeconomic and political uncertainties, It is not in our common interest to burden our economies with such tariffs.

We are ready to engage in a meaningful dialogue. I have entrusted Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefković to resume his talks to explore better solutions with the United States? So, a week or two ago, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer was in the White House and he was all kissy-kissy with President Trump and he was delighted to be there and everything. And then Mr. Trump slapped tariffs on Great Britain. And Mr. Starmer doesn't really know what to do. He's got a puzzled look on his face He looks like a puppy that got kicked in the pants in the seat

This is number 18 London Times. He said all options are on the table All right. Well, I mean we're using nukes Yeah, what is all options, but I got a short video from GB News Great Britain News, and so a member, actually the leader of the Liberal Party, Ed Davey, was challenging Prime Minister Starmor during the question and answer time in the parliament. And you can just see Mr. Starmor's face. He doesn't know how to respond. Let's watch watch care storm over here This big turning to international issues

Can I congrats congratulate the prime minister on helping to secure the restoration of US military and intelligence support for Ukraine? But can I press him on progress? Persuade president Trump against damaging metal tariffs already hitting British industry. The Prime Minister knows that we on these benches believe he must be more robust with President Trump, like the Europeans and like the Canadians. So will the Prime Minister fly out to Canada as soon as possible to show their new Prime Minister and the Canadian people that Britain stands with its Commonwealth allies against Trump's threats and against Trump's tariffs. Canada is an ally and a very important ally too and I've

spoken to our allies on many occasions about the situation in Canada. On the question of tariffs, obviously like everybody else, I'm disappointed to see global tariffs in relation to steel and aluminium. But we will take a pragmatic approach. We are, as he knows, negotiating an economic deal which covers and will include tariffs if we succeed. But we will keep all options on the table. Some other news real quick. I'm a little bit over time. CNBC, Salesforce pledges to invest $1 billion in Singapore over the next five years in a

big push for artificial intelligence. Salesforce was a big player at Mobile World Congress last week, and they were promoting Agent Force, which is agentive AI. We're going to talk about that here in a moment. But the CEO of Salesforce, Mark Benioff, spoke to CNBC about this billion dollar investment in Singapore. I wonder how President Trump feels about Salesforce spending a billion dollars in Singapore. Well the Salesforce did pledge to invest 500 billion dollars in the Stargate project here in the US.

So I guess it's okay. So was it that much 500? Yes. Salesforce? Mm-hmm. 500 billion? Well, I don't know. Or 500 million? The project itself is 500 billion.

Yes, the whole project was $500 billion. In fact, I went back and I pulled a video from World Economic Forum in Davos a month or so ago, and the CEO of Salesforce was being interviewed. World Economic Forum in Davos a month or so ago, and the CEO of Salesforce was being interviewed. I want you to listen to the very last sentence, what he said to the CNBC reporter, let's watch. When you saw yesterday the announcement about the AI infrastructure, 500 billion,

what do you make of that? I think it's the beginning of trillions. I think that you're just seeing the very beginning of what will be the one of the biggest investment levels in the history of the world because this is an opportunity for us to completely transform how we do everything. You're relishing this and there are some like myself who are thinking, no, slow down. Yeah, well, that's why we chose our respective careers. That's right, you're a reporter. That's why I'm a billionaire. That's right. It's all in the choices we make. I want to show you something here. If you give me maybe 10

more minutes, okay? I'm over my one hour mark. I don't like going too long here. But we talked a lot last week in Barcelona about agentive AIs. First time I'd ever heard of it. Last year, I heard agentative AI. Generation, something that can generate,

AI that can generate creative content, videos, art. I get that. That's easy for me to understand. I came home, and I told you this before, several days after we returned a year ago. I was asleep and the Lord spoke to me in my sleep and he told me to study genitive AI. I heard that very clearly and he also told me AI will be inside people. Now that flipped me out, but I heard the Lord say that they're going to put AI inside people.

It wasn't a dream. He was talking to me. I remember asking him, because I couldn't understand how would AI get inside. I remember him explaining it to me, and I remember my mind was trying to understand. I couldn't grasp it as he was speaking to me. I couldn't grasp it as he was speaking to me. Fast forward to this year. Last week, we're in Barcelona. Ray Kurzweil from Google says, by 2030, your physical phone will no longer be in your hand, your phone will be inside you. And AI will be inside you too.

Then I realized, okay, that was Jesus talking to me a year ago, telling me they plan to put AI inside humans. And a year ago, they started talking about AI employees a year ago. But it didn't have a label then yet. Now it has a label. And that label is Adjintive AI. Yes.

So what they said last year was there will be two classes of employees, human and non-human. That's all I heard human and non-human But I captured that that was amazing. I came home and told our staff about it this year This concept was everywhere and they've labeled it a gentive AI meaning agency agent agent AI AI agents. And what that simply means is AI that runs on its own,

operating like a person, they have agency. Yes, but you'll have agents that have a digital human form talking to you, okay? I'm gonna play a couple clips from last week. This first one is me saying, 2025 will be the year of agentive AI. The thing that I am going home totally convinced is going to happen this year is a Gent of AI. It started last year when I was here at Mobile World, Paul and I, we were here at the dock and I was in a session where,

and I don't remember the speaker, he said, within two years, all successful companies will have two classes of employees, human and non-human. That woke me up, and I immediately began researching, what is this guy talking about? And I discovered that they were talking about basically avatars, virtual agents. And so today I was in a session, Paul was with me, Eric, we heard the presentation, saw it.

There was a man who was speaking said, what you're going to see today was born one year ago in this convention. So my guess is he was in the same meeting I was in. He heard the same prediction. Within two years, all successful companies will have two classes of employees, human and non-human. And he went to work and he invented, he developed. And what he showed us today is a game changer. All the other stuff I'm hearing about, okay, that's a sci-fi material

that may come true 10, 15, 20 years from now. But agent of AI is here now and it's going to change the way you live and work this year. And by, I would say by next year, most of you watching me right now, your companies, whether you own the company or you are working for a company, I would say by the end of next year, you're going to have virtual assistants working with you. That's how certain I am about it. My confidence about this and excitement is, I want Paul Benson, when we go home to Florida, start building it.

I want it. I want it in our organization. It's a game changer. It's going to absolutely change the way we run our organization. So that was last week. All right. And then Paul Benson explained the role of agentive AI.

Let's watch this one. Agent, agentive, agent, agency, it's where this comes from. What they're creating are virtual agents that will do a lot of the routine mundane tasks that you do every day. And it'll just take over and do those things, but it does a lot more. Paul, you want to explain to our audience what you and Eric and I witnessed today? Yeah, absolutely. So I would think of it as just like you described, Rick, there's lots of examples, but take one repetitive task that you do every day.

That's one agent. So you would create one agent that specializes in doing one thing, you give that agent a name, and then it's able to run autonomously, and you give it access to your data, whatever pieces of data it needs to perform that task. Then it's there for you to interact with it whenever you need to, or for it to run periodic jobs based on a schedule. The example that we can play for the audience today

has multiple agents that can actually not only just interact with you, but can interact with each other. This visual example really demystifies it. I just want to agree with everything you just said because there is a lot of hype here. But what we've seen in the last year and at this conference is that the technology

is actually catching up and it's right at the cusp of being available and will be pushed into every enterprise, especially enterprise. What this means for consumers is that you're going to start seeing a lot of human, previously human roles are going to start fading into agentic roles. And with agentic AI, it'll begin to blur the lines between interacting with humans or interacting with an agent. You can call for tech support and you'll have a conversation and it's going to get so realistic that you'll be halfway through conversation and realize that the agent you've been talking to is an even human. So that's just a couple couple examples of what's coming. I've got two more videos, and then we'll wrap it up here.

You saw in that segment where Paul was talking, you saw a brief clip from the presentation that Paul and Eric and I attended. That's the one that blew me away, Doc. So we're going to show you a part of a much more complete view of that that presentation. This is it so this is what number 2027. Yes. So this is where the presenter was interacting with his AI agents. Right. Having a financial discussion. He was having a financial discussion.

This is just, you know, he was giving us a demonstration of what this is like. He puts on his AR headset and then his agents appeared to him. Let's watch. So what you're seeing here is a little prototype where I came kind and choose some of the agents that we have at Moody's. I'm going to choose all of them. Why of the agents that we have at Moody's. I'm going to choose all of them. Why not? And now we have my friends.

And what has been happening in the stock market lately that could affect my investments in us-based companies. Now the agents are thinking about my question. We have this guy here, Christine Ken. I'm checking the latest news and events related to the stock market that could impact your investments in US-based companies. Please hold on for a moment. Recently, there have been several key developments

in the US stock market that could impact your investments, tariff deadlines, and trade tensions. The market remains volatile due to ongoing tariff. Stay tuned to these developments as they could affect various US-based companies across different sectors. That's not entirely true, Super News Agent. From my sources, the fact is that some companies are showing resilience despite these broader market issues.

For example, companies in the energy sector have been outperforming due to rising oil prices. So when we were talking earlier, and I should point out, the title of this session is the web is dead. The web is dead. The worldwide web is dead. The worldwide web is dead. That's what they were saying. You are not going to be searching the worldwide web. In fact, I wrote down one line, Doc, and he said, you will not ask, is there an app for this?

Instead, you will say, is there an agent? You're not going to look for a website. You're not going to download an app. You are going to ask an agent. And folks, I'm telling you, this is, of all the stuff I've seen, this is the one that's going to change your world immediately. Many of you are going to be using these virtual agents by the end of this year. You're going to stop using the World Wide Web.

You're going to stop using the World Wide Web. You're going to stop downloading apps. You're just going to go straight to an AI virtual agent. You know, Doc, the first time Paul and I went was 2017, and we told the audience about 5G. Right. 5G is coming. And we got intense blowback. People said, I will never use 5G. I want you to look at the corner of your phone right now.

Right now, everybody look at the upper right hand corner of your phone. What does it say? Generally, 5G. 5G. You're using it. People are telling me now, I will never use agents. OK, check back with me in two years.

You probably already are and you don't know it. Right. Yes. But this is going to become part of your work day and then it becomes part of your home life, okay, where you will have agents that will be assigned to various tasks. A manager, an executive is going to come to work in the morning and have a meeting with his agent team. They're going to be working during the night while you're sleeping.

And when you arrive in your office, your agent team is going to give you a briefing on what happened during the night. What got accomplished. Before you talk to anybody, any humans on your team, you're going to have team meetings. And each member of each human member of your team is going to bring their agent team to the meeting.

And they're going to interact with each other. They're going to talk to each other while you're sleeping. I don't know if you noticed in the video, I know you noticed, but I'm speaking to our audience, did you see the two agents talking to each other and disagreeing with one another? And the folded arms, or their thinking, their thinking. Right. Right. Okay? I thought it was interesting, the other one, I'm sorry, but you're wrong.

Yes, right. If you could- How can an agent that's been programmed be wrong and one be right, and yet they were having that conversation? Yes, and that's what it's going to be like at the workplace. Lee, if you could play that again, and let my microphone on just for a few seconds, OK? So Paul and Eric and I, we were seated to the far left, where that last agent on the left,

we're down there on that far end. Right. All right. So I'm telling you, this thing blew me away. All right, so I'm telling you, this thing blew me away. This is so far out, what I'm seeing right now. I knew, okay, we're not in Kansas anymore. Toto, we got to get home. All right, this is not Kansas. And this isn't some far off super technology that's year down the line. This is now.

Yeah, it's right now. This is right now. This isn't some singularity that technology that's year down the line. This is now. Yeah, it's right now. This is right now. This isn't some singularity that's going to pop up. No, they're selling it. They had to show selling it. Yes. They had major exhibits.

They were selling this technology. All right, I got one more video. One more, OK? I found this today. His name is Vishen Lakayani. Yes. He is a Malaysian entrepreneur. He started a company called Mindvalley.

I think it's worth like a hundred million dollars. And he in this presentation is describing to his audience, Agenda of AI. He does a fantastic job describing what it will do. Here he is. Going to go. So right now, we are in the age of Generative AI. So Generative AI is chat, GPT, mid-journey, you're generating music, art, text. We're coming to agentic AI.

Agentic AI is AI that can actually think like an employee. It can solve complex problems without human intervention. So you can go to your agentic AI and you will soon be able to say, listen, I run a real estate property company. I need a really interesting post to showcase my newest development. The AI will go analyze all the pictures in your Google drive, pick the best pictures, which are going to create the best response, write a caption, come up with three different ideas, post three different ideas on TikTok, analyze the data, generate the video,

generate the voice, generate everything, and then see which one has the best response, and then turn that into a Facebook ad, put that ad on Facebook, tap into your credit card account, go and deploy money to Meta to pay for the ad, analyze the results of the ad, decide if it should kill it,

expand it, tweak it, optimize it, then get back to you in 48 hours and say, here's my report. And it'll do it better than any human employee. And it'll do it at maybe $100, the cost. We're going in an age of instant results. You've heard of software as a service. We're about to enter results as a service, RAAs. But that's just the beginning.

Powerful. You don't have to like it. My job is simply to tell you, it's here. That's why we went to Mobile World. That's why we go to technology conferences, to let you know this is where the world is at right now. This is where they're going. Doesn't mean we like it. Doesn't mean we're promoting it.

It just means this is reality. Right. I shuddered when Ray Kurzweil said, the phone will be inside you. AI will be inside you in five years. I go back to the Lord telling me years ago, have it built by 2030. What was it? This ministry. Have it built by 2030. Get your work done by 2030. The world changes in 2030. They're bringing in a lot of new technology by 2030. It's going to be a different world.

For your children who are born at that time, it's going to be normal. They won't know anything else. It's just normal. Right. Okay. Anything else you want to say before we turn the lights out? No, I'm just going to say there are some people, there might be some members or audience that are apprehensive about us even talking about.

Oh, I know that. We get the emails. I understand it. I understand it, but our job is to tell the Church where the world is going right now. How is the Church going to survive in this environment? We have an assignment from Jesus Christ to go into all the world and preach the gospel. The world is changing. Right.

Now, there are new dimensions to this world. New dimensions to the world. The good thing is, we know that the world is speeding up and Christ is coming. Right. Yeah. Jesus Christ is coming. Jesus Christ is coming. There's the hope, our hope of glory, that our Lord and Savior will be here, and He will remove us from this world.

But in the meantime, we have to live and operate in it and maintain our purity in Christ, and not be tainted by this stuff. It's going to be all around us. Jesus said that the last days, if the Father did not cut the day short, no flesh would survive. No flesh. I always thought he meant nuclear war, biological war. It may be technology. It may be that they're changing the DNA of the human race. And if God doesn't cut it short, there will not be any pure humans left.

The day of the Nephilim returning to the world. What did God do the last time the Nephilim were here? He flushed it. He flushed it. The next time, He's going to flush it with fire. All right, we've got to go. We appreciate your support. Make a decision to back this ministry in 2025. We're on the cutting edge. There's no other ministry out here doing what we do.

We are on the cutting edge. I didn't run into any other ministries in Barcelona. We had it all to ourselves, folks. I just want you to know that this is a different, it's a unique ministry. And the Lord will bless you for supporting us, I guarantee it. You need this year and next year and for the years that are coming, you need to operate in faith. You're going to need faith more than you've ever used faith.

You're going to need faith. So if you've never used your faith in the past, now you better start learning. This is a ministry that's going to teach you how to use your faith, okay? We're going to stretch your faith, expand your faith, challenge your faith. You'll be a stronger Christian for it. Got to go. Love you so much. See you tomorrow. issue. Here are two massively important products to have in an emergency. Because it's not a matter of if, but when an emergency will happen to you. With years of experience in survival preparedness, let me tell you, these are must haves. One, high quality and nutrient packed shelf stable emergency food buckets.

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here with us today to study the Word of God. What a delight. What a privilege. It is a privilege that we are able to gather remotely from many nations and be together through technology. Probably about 20 nations represented right now in this live real-time class at 8 a.m. So our home is faithandvalues.com. And if you are watching or listening by another method, which we make the Bible study available throughout the day, we invite you to join the real-time class, faithandvalues.com, and we meet at 8 a.m. Eastern Time Monday through Friday. We are working our way through the book of Romans. We're in the seventh chapter, and today we're going to tackle verses 13 through 20. Let's invite the precious Holy Spirit. Almighty God, our Father in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Father, let your kingdom come. Father, we wait for your Son. We wait for His kingdom to be

in full manifestation, knowing that we are in the kingdom right now. But we desire the full, complete, total manifestation of His kingdom, which shall come on the final day in the resurrection of the saints. So Father, your sons and daughters have set aside one hour today to learn about your son's kingdom and all the benefits you have bestowed upon us because of the sacrifice of your son Jesus Christ on the cross at Calvary. So come Holy Spirit, take your place at the head of the table and direct this class and bring forth truth and understanding and revelation so that all of us would be edified and built up and made strong for the days ahead that we would bring glory and honor to you, Father,

to your Son, to his kingdom. In the name of Jesus, amen. Amen. Well, good morning, everyone. Glad to have you here with us on another edition of Morning Manna. As Rick mentioned, we are continuing our study in Romans chapter seven. We're going to pick it back up on verse 13 through 20 today. So if you take a moment to turn there, what we've done up to this point is Paul has set out the terms of that transition from the old covenant to the new covenant here. And so that's what it's brought us up to today. Now we talk about the practical application of that here in the rest of chapter seven. He's been talking about the relationship between

sin and the law and everything up to this point. And now he's gonna talk about where the rubber meets road. How do you live this out in the real life? And so picking back up in verse 13, it reads from the King James, was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid, but sin that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good, that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful. For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin.

For that which I do, I allow not. For what I would, that do I not. But what I hate, that do I not, but what I hate, that do I. If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good. Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. For I know that in me, that is in in my flesh dwelleth no good thing. For to will is present with me. But how to perform that which is good I find not.

For the good that I would I do not, but the evil which I would not that I do. Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me You okay Rick that's another riddle day, isn't it Paul's riddles By the way, obviously the Romans could handle it so yeah, they did they understood what he was talking about I Notice your screen is not on tonight today behind you Yeah, I don't know the TV's on but I'm not getting a signal and so okay. All right

I don't know what's going on. So no more people smarter than me. All right well We may need somebody smarter than me to teach this today. So please, please jump in here, doc. Verse 13 was then that which is good made death unto me, God forbid, but sin that it might appear sin working death in me by that which is good, that sin by the commandment might become exceedingly sinful. Oh my, the English, modern English, did then that which is good become death to me? Certainly not, but sin that it might be shown to be sin, worked death in me

through that which is good, that through the commandments sin might become exceedingly sinful. I think what Paul's saying here is the law is inherently holy just in good because it reflects God's nature. It's designed to bring, to guide humanity towards righteousness and not to bring about sin or death. Sin uses the law, which is good, as a platform to provoke rebellion and deep in guilt. See, that's like, that's what it's saying.

Sin uses the law. Yes. To provoke rebellion against God. So Paul is saying it's not the law that does this. It's sin that's doing it. But sin uses the law to do this. Because there would be some, and that's popped up throughout time, that would say that the law was a bad thing.

And this pops up every once in a while in Christian history, every couple hundred years, all these, there's no new doctrines out there. They're just old doctrines recycled, old heresies rather recycled. And part of it is by calling the law bad. And I'm not in that camp. I believe the law was good. In fact, Paul says it here in verse 12,

the law is holy, the law is just, the law is good. But if it results in my death, does that make it bad? No, it's sin that's using the law that results in your death. That's what he's trying to get across there. Okay, so here's my, tell me if this analogy is right. So if there's a law that says it's illegal to jump up and down, but there's a trampoline and somebody gets on and jumps up and down. Whose fault is it? It's not the rule. Did the trampoline cause the breaking of the law?

Or did somebody say, I'm going to use that trampoline to jump up and down? Right. So if the rule is don't jump up and down and the trampoline is sin in this case, then even sin itself doesn't cause the breaking of the law until you get on the trampoline. Well, I was saying if the trampoline was the law. Oh, the law would be the rule not to jump up and down. The trampoline would be that which would tempt you to break the law. Okay. But you still break the law. Yes.

The trampoline didn't make you do it. And certainly the rule didn't make you do it. So the law magnifies sin. It reveals its true evidence. It's true nature. Right. He says that sin by the commandment might become exceedingly sinful. So not just sinful, it's really sinful. It magnifies it. The law exposes the sin's destructive tendencies, its capacity to defile corrupt humanity. So once again we're looking at this as the law, the commandments, acts as a mirror. So you have God's holiness, but when we're looking into the mirror, we're seeing humanity's failures.

And then that creates a golf, a division between divine righteousness and human sinfulness. And now humans have to find a way for redemption, which is the purpose of the law. It's pushing them towards a savior. the purpose of the law. It's pushing them towards a savior. So death is the result of sin's manipulation of the law, not the law itself. Right. There you go. So you can't say that the law makes men miserable, that it is meant to just bind people, it's to send man to death and send man to judgment. That's not the purpose of the law. The purpose of

the law was to bring mankind to a point of utter helplessness and utter despair and throwing themselves on the altar, because needing the mercy of God. But it's sin that takes that now and produces the misery in our lives through sin and the ultimate death, physical death, and then eternal death at judgment. So if you were a non-sinful person, the existence of the law would not matter. Right. But the Bible says all have sinned and come short of the Lord. Therefore all are in violation of the law. Yes. Yes.

Again, the law was meant to guide humanity towards salvation, towards righteousness, but sin twists its purpose. And it uses the law to bring about guilt and condemnation on fallen men and women. That seems to be the crux of this verse. But the law is always pushing people. The eventual goal is you need a savior. You're unable to keep this law. You need a savior. You're unable to keep this law.

You need a savior. Verse 14, for we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin. So the law is divine in origin. Yes. Its spiritual essence emphasizes that it governs not only external actions, but inner, moral. That's right. And spiritual life of humans. And he says, we know this. This isn't like, well, this is theory, or I suggest, or it's my opinion. He said no,

we know that the law is spiritual. And so if the law is spiritual, then all the outward trappings of the law, you know, are just extensions of what really matters. And every Jewish person in the world ought to take this to heart, it's what's inside. It's in the heart. The reason why I say that is most Jews today do not believe that the internal spirit of man makes really any difference in our eternal play of things. Dennis Prager is a great example there. Dennis Prager would say,

that's only our actions that condemn us. Christianity says, no, it's the heart. And Paul is saying this as well in verse 14. We know, we know that the law is spiritual. It begins spiritual. It begins in the spirit before it ever comes out, you know, manifested in this world today. So that Paul is making the case here in our argument. Here's a fact that we all know, we all agree on, the law is spiritual. Yes. By the way, Doc, did Dennis Prager ever recover?

Yes. Yeah, he's doing okay. He's back doing his uh radio show and everything Yep Uh, so now he said he said uh, but i'm i'm carnal Meaning fleshly i'm carnal he acknowledges his carnality His his inherent weakness of human nature. He's saying, my humanity in its fallen state is dominated by fleshly desires and sinful inclinations and I'm incapable of meeting of meeting the laws spiritual demands on my own. Yes. So here's the great apostle saying, Hey, I'll just let you in on a secret.

I'm carnal. Yeah. I mean, he's already told us that he coveted. Now he's saying I'm carnal. I'm fleshly. Sold. Sold under sin. What does that mean, Doc? That this nature of ours, this human nature, this fleshly nature of ours, is still bound to a sinful world and a sinful process.

It has to come under subjection to the spirit. Before we were saved, it didn't make any difference to us. It didn't matter that we were bound or not bound. But after we come to know the Lord, after we have that revelation of knowledge that we are the children of God, that's when we recognize, hey, this flesh that we live in, and that we just live in it, folks, we're just using it for now. This flesh, though, does have a tendency to lean towards sin. That's the way I like to put it, to lean towards sin. It's not obligated to sin, but it leans that way. And so, Paul recognizes that, that we live in a curtain of flesh, and this flesh can fail. Once you get a realization of that,

that yes, this flesh can fail, it's not an excuse to sin, but it gives us, now we can recognize how sin enters in. Doc, sold to me indicates that there was a transaction and there was a buyer and there was a there's a buyer and there's an owner that humanity was sold that Adam Adam literally sold us by his sin he He surrendered his position.

He was to have dominion over the world. I mean Satan saying I own these people. Yes. If you've been sold and there's somebody who owns you. And Satan is the one who says I own these people. you. And Satan is the one who says, I own these people. So where was the transaction to me was in the Garden of Eden. Yes. That Adam gave up his dominion. And there was a transaction. And Satan took control of the human race.

And now we are enslaved to sin. And if that's the case, not only was dominion of the earth and everything on it now under came under subjection of Satan, but our bodies themselves came under that penalty. Satan can still lay a claim on this flesh because the only way that that is broken is by death. That's why the resurrection is so important to us, Rick, is that this body, this fleshly curtain that I live in right now. In order to finally be free of sin and finally be free of the bondage of slavery here on earth by my flesh is broken by death. And then I'm raised to new life in a changed body, not a new body, but a changed body. It's still my body, but it's been changed. The resurrection is essential to our faith. Without it, we're dead.

We remain in bondage forever to sin because our flesh is bound to it. That bondage, those chains have to be broken. Praise God, Jesus breaks the chains and we get resurrected with Him in the final day. Amen. So this bondage illustrates the inability of humans to break free of sin, to achieve freedom or righteousness independently. They must have divine intervention. Again, we go back to the concept that we've been teaching

here in Mourning Manif since the beginning. We are unable to save ourselves. Our salvation required an intervention from heaven. And we could only be saved by faith and we didn't even have the faith. God had to give us the faith to believe for the salvation. Amen. That's how lost we are.

Completely, totally incapable of saving ourselves because we were unable to live up to God's holy standard. And by revealing sin, the law highlights the failures of mankind that require grace and redemption. There's a tension between the spiritual nature of the law and the carnal desires of the flesh. This conflict, it underscores the depth of the human struggle with sin and the need for divine assistance to align your life with God's law. If you are struggling or if you have struggled in the past since becoming a Christian, do not allow Satan to put condemnation on you. The fact that there's a struggle says you're winning. It says you're winning.

Yes. That's what it says. It says you're winning. Because people who are submitted to Satan don't have that struggle. No. It's the people that have submitted to Christ that have to deal with the struggle because Satan is trying to pull you back down into the pit. So in this verse, Paul is making a candid admission of his personal struggles with sin. And so he's being transparent. And to this day, thousands of years later,

we're seeing Paul's transparency. And so for me, I got to look at it and go, well, wait a minute, if Paul struggled, then all of us are gonna struggle. Yes. Then all of us are going to struggle. Yes. Because even those who seek righteousness are not immune to the influence of sin. God gives us a way to escape temptation. He gives us a way to deal

with failures. It's called repentance. Praise God. The way you deal with temptation is you submit to God, you resist the tempter, the tempter flees. If you sin, you repent quickly as fast as you can and get over it and move on. And don't beat yourself up that you made a mistake. Verse 15,

for that which I do, I allow not, for what I would, that do I not, but what I hate, that do I. But what I hate, that do I. It might help maybe another translation on that one. New American Standard says, for I do not understand what I'm doing, for I'm not practicing what I want to do, but I do the very thing I hate. There you go.

Amplified puts it this way, it says, for I do not understand my own actions. I'm baffled and bewildered by them. I do not practice what I want to do, but I'm doing the very thing I hate and yielding to my human nature, my worldliness, my sinful capacity. I think we can all sympathize with Paul. So the things I do, I don't understand why at times I'm sinful. I don't understand it. Sometimes I'm sinful and don't even know I'm being sinful until afterwards, until the Holy Spirit convicts me. But Paul's saying, I end up doing the things I hate.

He says, Paul says, I end up sometimes doing the things I hate. Yes. Wow. So I guess we could say that Paul's struggle, his inability to understand his own actions reflects the irrational deceptive nature of sin. Paul's saying, I know what's right, but I find myself doing what I hate to do, because sin has a power that clouds my judgment sometimes.

Sometimes it overpowers my will. Does it make you feel good? I don't say feel good, but does it encourage you to know that Apostle Paul wrestled with sin throughout his entire life? Yes. Because a lot of these preachers today, they want you to believe that they're super, super clean, super clean, super, you know, righteous. And yet there's poor Paul saying,

I can, man, I end up doing stuff I hate to do. And there are some that even teach Rick in on the fringes of the charismatic movement that after you're saved and filled with the Holy Spirit, you don't sin anymore. That there's no sin in you. Well, positionally, in the Spirit, that's the case. But in the flesh, and Paul's being real here, this is real-world stuff here.

He said, folks, sometimes I do stuff I don't even understand why I'm doing it. You ever feel that way? You're just walking around and you do something stupid and you don't even realize it's stupid until afterwards because it's our nature. It's the very nature. But the fact that we do have the indwelling of the Holy Spirit makes us aware of that and then we can deal with it. Before we had the Holy Spirit, it didn't make any difference at all.

We didn't care. We could sin and say whatever the consequences. But now we have the Holy Spirit which says we need to correct this. We need to move on from this. And Paul is, you know, just expressing the frustration that there were probably people in Rome that were telling, you know what, you need to be absolutely perfect or you're not really saved. Paul's not saying that at all, is he? He's saying, listen, I've sinned. I'm telling you, I've sinned because I'm still bound by the flesh as a slave to sin. It's not forever, but in this life I'm bound. Doug, isn't this false teaching that we're going to be perfect or we got to get rid of all sin, and that isn't that what drove people, you know, the the monastery movement? Yes. Where men said, I just got to go up on a mountain and live by myself because I can't live right. Yes, that's part of it.

And then there was the self-flagellation movement. There were people, I just read yesterday an article where archaeologists dug up a grave of a Christian woman, I'm trying to think about the fifth century, and they were just puzzled by the iron rings that were around her, her body. And they said they could only conclude that it was some form of self-punishment.

Yes. And part of it too, Rick, is that in the first three centuries, Christianity was under extreme persecution. And of course, martyrs were exalted for dying for the faith. As well, they should be honored. Whether they should be exalted or not, that's another issue, but they certainly should be honored. But then along comes Constantine, and Christianity becomes basically the law of the land. Suddenly there's no more persecution of Christianity, and yet in people's minds, well, you have to die and suffer for Christ in order to be redeemed. And that's where the self, the monastery and the self-flagellation

movement started kicking in too. That there had to be something we were doing in the flesh to be approved by God. See how easy it is for this to enter in? And people even do it today. Some people do it, I'm not saying don't fast, but some people do it with fasting. Some people do it with the way they dress, or any number of things, whatever is required in the flesh to make us appear more redeemed than we really are. Yes. So at the heart of this verse, Paul is describing a deep internal

struggle between where his actions contradict his spiritual desires. Yes. He's so how do you reconcile this. He's longing to do good and yet he periodically failed and was didn't have an answer for it himself. Other than to say that sin is an enslaving force that overrides human will. And it causes people to act contrary to their intentions. And that shows us how strong the power sin is, how, what a pervasive deep grip it has on humanity. deep grip it has on humanity. Really. I mean, what is it, Doc? Sin? What is it? I mean, in the universe called sin. It has power.

Yes. But the power is not eternal Rick. That's right. Eternal the blood at the power right there the blood the blood the blood the blood the blood the blood of Christ breaks the power. breaks the power. So this is a universal condition of mankind even after salvation, a battling sin, sometimes failing to align your actions, your words, your thoughts with God's standards. Again, if you are struggling today, if you have had failure in the past since your salvation, condemning yourself and stop letting others condemn you.

Because that's a primary way Satan brings constant punishment to you. Yes. He's got somebody in your life who says, I remember what you did back in 19, whatever year. I remember. You said you were a Christian and you weren't. You have those people, I have those people.

We have them. And it's Satan speaking through them. He is the accuser of the brethren. And the people that do that are the most sinful people you will meet. They're so full of sin and they cover it up by pointing to other people's sin. That's how you know if somebody's sinful. A person that's always pointing to somebody else's sin. Because they're using that to cover up their sin. I, throughout my walk with Christ, I have known of moral failures of people who are in the church, people that I knew, and I kept quiet about it.

I didn't go around saying, hey, let me tell you what so-and-so did. I know this is a fact. I didn't do that. My response needed to be to provide grace to that person and encouragement that they could recover and to provide love. So I'm not here to condemn. Isn't that how you want people to treat you? Yes.

Or do you want somebody to say, I'm gonna tell everybody what I know? Well, that's the person that's a sinful person. Yes. Because they're covering up their own sins. By attacking others. By attacking others. Does that mean we never call out sin? Of course not. Sin has to be called out. But that doesn't

mean that we have the opportunity to make that a weapon in our own hands. And you call it out privately. Yeah. Okay. God calls out sin. He goes to people privately. He gives them plenty of opportunities to make things right. When God exposes somebody's sins, it's the last step. So don't, for a lot of people, it's the first step. They just go straight to, I'm going to destroy you. I'm going to humiliate you. I'm going to tell people. That's not God's

way. Let me share a story real quick here, Rick, about the bondage of sin. I had a friend, a good friend from Bible college. He was a pastor in Kansas, and And for years, nobody knew it, but he knew it. He struggled with pornography. But he's pastoring a church. And so this is a situation where anyone else would say, well, you just need to resign and take care of your sin. But that makes it very difficult to do because if that's your career, if that's your livelihood, you're not only putting yourself out there, you're also putting your family out there

too. I'm not making an excuse for sin. That's right. I've been saying this. However, in the denomination I was a part of at one time, they made it extremely difficult for anyone that was struggling with any area of their life, whether it's pornography or anything else, for there to be a pathway for redemption and rehabilitation.

Because if you went to somebody and said, I'm struggling with this particular issue, the first response was to take you out of the ministry. Unless of course you were a bit higher ranking than others. There always seemed to be exceptions to this rule. And so what did that lead to? That led to people not saying anything at all and remaining bound in their sin for years.

And once again, I'm not making any excuse for sin or anything like that at all. I'm just saying you understand the struggle that the bondage of sin places upon you. That on the one hand, you're stuck, you're a slave, and yet if you expose your slavery, you're condemned. And even if the sin was not revealed, the pastor's resignation prompts people to speculate and gossip.

So what was it? Why did he resign? There must be something wrong. Right, so it's a no-win situation. Verse 16, but if what I don't desire that I do, I consent to the law that is good. King James, if then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that is good.

So Paul's admission that his actions contradict his desires is an acknowledgement that the law is good. And that he agrees with the law. He agrees with the law. He's not against the law. He's saying, I just can't keep it. So he's acknowledging the law is holy. It's just, it's good, it's divine, it's the standard of righteousness. It's like a law breaker in court saying to the judge, your honor, I respect the law. I broke the law.

If obviously you're guilty, if you say that in a courtroom, but you immediately prompt the judge to be merciful to you. Because if you went into the courtroom and say, I don't care about your law. I do what I want to do. The judge is going to say, well, I I do what I want to do. The judge is going to say, well, I'll do what I want to do. Guess what? I'm going to lock you up. Yeah, right. But if you come to the bench or to the court to the judge and say, your honor, I broke the law. I did it. I recognize that the law in this case is wholly just and good. I broke it. I have no excuse. I could say I don't know why I did it, but I did it. I broke the law,

and I'm deserving of the punishment of the law. I want to do better, your honor. There'll be compassion. even on the human side, there'll be compassion. Dr., some years ago, a man who was very close to this ministry, I haven't seen him for years, for many years, he was very, very close to this ministry, would come to visit once or twice a year, good man, really good man.

But on a matter of principle, he objected to the income tax and had very convincing arguments that the income tax was illegal, it was unconstitutional, it had been illegally adopted. I mean, it was a convincing story. And so he stopped filing his income tax forms. Well, what do you think was going to happen to him? So the revenuers came for him, all right? And they were about to lock him up for years. And he came to see me and I told him, I said, brother, I admire your courage and I admire

your principle, but in this matter, you are wrong. Your argument is right, but your actions are wrong. The Bible says to pay your taxes, whether they're just or unjust. Yes. All right. And and I told him, I said, you know, I'm in agreement with you on principle. But they're going to lock you up. And what does this do for your wife and children? You're going to be in prison for five to 10 years over. You're making a stand about the taxes. 10 years over you're making a stand about the taxes. And this had gone on in court. They were bringing him in and out of court and somehow, somehow Doc, he was,

he was averting, he was escaping the federal prosecutors, the tax collectors. He would maneuver and get out of the court trial and they'd come back with another trial. And this went on for like two years and they were getting fed up with it. And of course he was like, well, see, I'm winning all these things. This proves I'm right. They know I'm right.

I said, yeah, they may know you're right, what you're saying, but they're going to lock you up. Why? Because they know you, if they know you're right, they're going to make sure you go to prison so nobody else knows you're right. And so I told him, I said, look, here's what you got to do. He had another trial coming up. I said, you need to go in there and you need to be humble.

And you need to say to the judge, your honor, I have used your courtroom to wage a political battle that I should have done with our Congress. done with our Congress. And I apologize, and I won't do it again. Well, you know what, Doc? He did it. He did it. And the judge was so taken back by his humility.

The prosecutors were shouting, lock him up. We want him to go to prison now. And the judge said, no, I'm not sending this man to prison. And he looked at this man and said, I'm going to give you a payment plan. Would you promise me right now you will keep this payment plan? And he said, yes. And the judge said, then we're going to work it out. This man is not going to go to prison.

He's going to pay his taxes. Okay. When we break the law, we go before the judge. Either you're rebellious or you're humble and contrite. God resists the proud. But gives grace to the humble. To the humble. When you break God's law,

know that the judge is gracious. He's fair. Oh, he's fair. But he's gracious to the humble. But he resists the proud. You go into his courtroom denying you ever did it, justifying what you did, refusing to repent.

He's going to lock you up. But if you go into his courtroom with your head bowed and say, Judge, the law is just. The law is good. The law is good. The law is holy. I have violated the law and I ask for your mercy. Judge, you're going to work out a plan. So what we're learning here in Romans is that the law is law. It's going to be the law until Christ comes back. There's no law after Christ comes back. Right. Because there's no sin, there's no death. The law is here until Christ comes back. And we won't have sinful bodies either. No sinful

bodies and no devil. No demons. All this stuff goes away. But Jesus said the law, I didn't come to abolish the law, I came to fulfill the law. Not one jowder tiddle this law is going to disappear as long as the earth exists. So that the law is in effect until Christ comes back. The moment he comes back, the law ends. The moment he comes back, the law ends. And those who have lived by faith in his grace, accepted the grace of God by believing with faith in the name of his son and what his son did on the cross to liberate us from the law. See, we're sold to sin.

But Jesus came 2000 years ago to liberate us from that enslavement. And when you believe that he did it and that we're free, and you apply faith to that belief. Praise God. Then you appropriate all of the grace that God offers. And now you're in Christ and when you're in Christ,

you're not a law breaker, you're a law keeper. So you gotta stay in Christ, cause He kept the law. So get inside Christ, get in there. Get in as close and snuggle up as close as you can with Jesus. He kept the law. You and I can't keep the law. You and I can't keep the law. So Paul agrees with the law. And so what we're reading in this verse is

his agreement with the law reflects the witness of his conscience that affirms the validity and the goodness of the law. And even when his actions contradicted his will, his conscious conscience aligned with the law's demands. Right. Again, it's like going into a courtroom saying, look, I, the law is right. I violated the law. So there's this ongoing universal human struggle to live up to your moral aspirations. Because there is this, Doc, isn't, you could compare sin to gravity. Yes, that's a good illustration. It's always going to hold you down. As long as the earth remains, there's gonna be gravity.

I wanna fly, I wanna float. But gravity holds me down. Someday I'm gonna fly. I'm gonna fly away. But you're bound by gravity. I'm gonna fly away someday. When Christ comes, I'm flying away. But right now, there's gravity.

And sin is holding us to this sinful world. Paul had, he had the desire to obey. But his actions speak of the pervasive power of sin that overrode his intentions. Verse 17, I better move on here. Now then, it is no more that I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. Or modern English, so now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells is almost identical. Very simple statement. So sin is portrayed as the ever-present force residing inside all humans, dominating our flesh, influencing the actions of our will. Again, it's like spiritual gravity.

Right. Now, this isn't an excuse to sin. Nope. Okay. Now, this isn't an excuse to sin. Because the docetists in the 2nd and 3rd century started teaching that we had two natures. One was the spiritual nature, and one was the human nature that we had. And because we had that human nature, it was allowed to sin. But the spiritual man was redeemed by the blood of Christ. Paul is just using this as an example. He's not saying, it's some other piece of me that sins. It's not some aspect of me that sins.

I'm still sinning. I'm the one doing it. But I can say I'm doing it because sin dwells in me. In other words, there's no excuse. You can't just say, well, I'm redeemed spiritually, but it's okay for me to sin or to do that which is evil, to break the law. There's no excuse for that at all. It's still you doing it. He's not denying his accountability. Correct. He's simply saying, folks, sin is more powerful than you realize.

It is forever present. It has a powerful influence on every person. And it is only through the Holy Spirit that we are able to resist the power of sin. Yes. That's why you got to become friends with the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is here to help you. Verse 18, for I know that in me, that is in my flesh, dwells no good thing, for desire is present with me but I don't find it doing that which is good. Again we know he speaks of the flesh. He's speaking of the the the seat in our being, the seat, the core of our human nature that's weak and sinful you know Doc I've told you there there have been times in my life where I've said to

God just show me where sin is that in me let me get a knife and cut it out where is it that resides in us? I think this is what Paul was dealing with. Like it's in me. Is there a surgeon that will remove it? If only it was that easy. But it's not. It's like a disease that has invaded the entire body. Yes. What do you cut? You invaded the entire body. Yes. What do you cut?

You cut the whole body. The only cure is death. It's worked its way through the entire body. Sin has permeated the whole world. Animals die, plants die, because of sin. They haven't sinned. Your dog doesn't sin. Your cat doesn't sin, but your dog and cat die because of the sin of producing any goodness. It's incapable of ever aligning with God's will.

Your flesh is set on default sin. It just goes there. It's like a car that's out of alignment. Hey, this thing's always moving to the right. Yeah, that's his inclinations out of alignment. It wants to go off the road to the right. That's the way we are. We come out of our mother's womb, out of alignment.

Our inclination is just go to sin. The alignment is when we are born again. Now we can drive the straight and narrow path, but we still have that inclination We need Constant assistance of the Holy Spirit to keep us from veering to the right or left But the Lord knows that that power is inside of us but praise God he sent his spirit Jesus said I'm not gonna abandon you.

I'm leaving, but I'm not gonna abandon you. I'm sending the Holy Spirit. You're gonna need the Holy Spirit. Make it your desire this year to deepen your relationship with the Holy Spirit. He's your best friend. He is your best friend. He's standing by 24-7. Hallelujah. To assist you. Glory.

There are times I've been in situations that just seem so hopeless. I got I don't know what to do. I don't have a solution. I don't know what to do. And I'll just say that to God. Say I don't know what to do. I'll just say that to God, say, I don't know what to do. Would your Holy Spirit please solve this problem for me? Sometimes within minutes an idea will pop in my mind. I'm like, there's a solution.

There's a path. Did that come from the Lord? Did He just answer my cry? The Holy Spirit is there to help you. It's the devil who's telling you there's no solution. You're hopeless. You're stuck. You can't get out of this. But the Holy Spirit's there saying, no, I can make a way where there is no way. He specializes in it. Get down to two more verses here. Verse 19, for the good that I would, for the good which I desire, I don't do, but the evil

which I don't desire, that I do. I just see Paul just sitting somewhere, just sort of kind of his head and his hands going, why did I do that? going, why did I do that? And then he took a quill dipped it in some black and wrote it down. Wrote it a letter and, and, and, and admitted to everybody. It didn't just talk about this out loud, but wrote it down and said, wrote it down. Romans need to hear this. Yes.

but wrote it down and said, Romans need to hear this. Yes. So what Paul just said in verse 19, for the good which I desire, I don't do it. But the evil which I don't desire, I do it. The struggle of humanity. He encapsulates the universal struggle, the tension between the regenerate will which desires to obey God. See, you've been regenerated by the Holy Spirit. Your regenerate regenerated will truly desires to obey God, but your sinful nature is still in you and it

desires to obey Satan. Yes. And so there's this ongoing battle with the flesh that never goes away until you leave this world. I mean, we're repeating, but it's underscoring the incapacity of humans to achieve righteousness on their own. That is the theme. And it goes back to the sermon on the mount. Blessed are the poor in spirit. Jesus is talking about the people who recognize

what Paul's just describing. Woe is me. I'm a sinner. I can't stop sinning. And Jesus said, hey, when you get to that state, you realize that's who you are. You are blessed. You're happy. And the very next one was blessed are those who mourn.

What are they mourning about? They're mourning over their deplorable state. All this is leading to a recognition that I need a savior. I can't do this on my own. I'm in a heap of trouble spiritually. I can't save myself. I can't stop sinning. I can't save myself. What am I supposed to do?

I wanna live right, but I can't. You need a savior. You need a savior. And after you believe on the savior, you need the Savior's Spirit. And God's okay with this. He knows you're going to struggle. He says, I've made provision for it. Praise God. I made provision for it. Praise God.

I made provision for your struggle. I sent my spirit. I mean, people think the main purpose of the Holy Spirit is for people to talk in tongues. For me, the main purpose of the Holy Spirit is to help me get through the day, regardless of what language I'm talking. If I can't live right in English, tongues aren't going to help me. Right! I've seen that, Doc. I've seen that in churches. I said, you see somebody and

you say, you know, that person, their private life is not good. And yet they're the biggest tongue waggers in this church. Why don't you learn to walk right before talking in tongues? I think that stuff in church, okay. I don't say it, but I think it. church. Okay? I don't say it, but I think it. I'm not impressed by your tongue wagging, all your tongue talking. I want to see how you walk. One more, verse 20. But if what I don't desire that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me. So we're back to this theme. Sin is universally indwelling.

It's a pervasive force in all humans. It's a driving influence. It pushes people to actions that they really don't wanna do. So Paul's distinguishing his true spiritual self that's aligned with God's law from the sinful actions dictated by his flesh. And he's reiterating this internal struggle that he dealt with throughout his life To teach us about the persistence and universality of sin

Thank God that Paul put this in writing Or we would have thought Paul was perfect. Yes. But Paul made sure that the entire church for all time would know he wasn't perfect. But he was saved by grace. Hallelujah. Just like you and me. Yes. Grace provides the power to overcome sin and to live in alignment with God. Smear it all over you. Just rub it all over you. Get all the grace you can get. Just scoop it up,

handfuls and rub it over you need it. And when you're, when you're greased down with grace. Just all over. Yep. It's so hard for the devil to catch you. That's right. Did you just, Grease with grace. Grease with grace. You just slip through his fingers.

Cause you, you got so much grace on you. He'll get to the point he doesn't even like to try because it's embarrassing. All right, Doc. That's my lesson today. That's a great, great lesson today, Rick. We're going to finish up chapter seven tomorrow. And so Paul comes to the conclusion of this here as we proceed on to the end of the chapter here. And then you're going to see a big transition

as we move into chapter 8, and that'll be on Monday that we'll move into chapter 8, because Friday is Faith Friday. And so we'll have a teaching on faith, and so be prepared for that. Any last words before we sign off for today Rick? No I'm just looking at the comments and I appreciate the kind comments because I'm being very transparent teaching Romans is difficult for me. I can't wait to get out of this book. But you know what I guarantee you'll always come back to it now. I know. You'll always come back to it. Remember what Roman said? Oh, I know. I know that. I know that. It really is a book I've avoided for years to study

because I just found it complicated. I've't know how I got something else easier to study than this. All right, I'll go to something else. Okay. Yeah. Something flashier. Yeah. Yeah. But you know what? Paul felt it was important enough to write it down and to send a letter to the Romans to explain all this. And then the Lord felt compelled to include it in the canon for us to have today. And so it's teaching us, you know, it's one thing to say I'm saved, but how does that really work? How does that actually, what's going on? What's the mechanism of it? And Paul does a great job in laying that out here in the book of Romans,

because if you take Romans out of the New Testament, I mean, you've got a big hole in New Testament teaching. And so it is a great book to study, even if it's hard to trudge through at times. But I see in the comments people saying it's helping them with their own personal struggles, and that's what this is meant to do. And to make it clear, we are never perfect. Just like Paul, Paul was saying, hey, the thing that I would do, I don't do. The thing I want to do, I don't do. You know, it works both ways. And the same thing in our own lives, too. We're not

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