TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - Pentagon Gave Reuters News $9 Million for Social Engineering Deception Study

Episode Date: February 13, 2025

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The revelations about U.S. aid's vast spending are coming at the public like water flowing from a fire hydrant. At times, it's often too much to drink in. The little bit that average citizens are processing confirms what tens of millions of citizens suspected for decades. finance far-left agendas, financially reward obedient bureaucrats, and to crush conservative-leaning news organizations and to prevent them from telling the truth. Nevertheless, Twitter, Truth Social, and other platforms team with news and videos about the massive fraud and waste in U.S. government spending. This is True News for Thursday, February 13, 2025. Let's begin our analysis and commentary of today's news by looking at this report published by the Daily Mail. I'm joined by Rick Wilds. And here's the headline on Daily Mail. Donald Trump demands Reuters return

$9 million payment from the Pentagon for, get this, a social deception study. And this is a legitimate, well, I call it illegitimate, but this is something that's real. It's not made up at all. It's unbelievable, Doc. Reuters news agency paid $9 million through the Pentagon with money from USAID. And on the form itself, it says social deception. How much more plain can you be?

Donald Trump, President Trump, is demanding that Elon Musk recover millions the federal government paid to Reuters over the course of four years for a mysterious social engineering defense program. The years-old contract was discovered by Musk Department of Government Efficiency and reveals that the Department of Defense awarded Thomas Reuter Special Services a contract worth approximately $9.15 million. Now, the contract began back in September 2015 when President Trump was in office and concluded in November 2022. The contract was filed under the Pentagon's Professional Scientific and Technical Services and Research and Development Programs.

A pro-Trump incubator and investing consultant claims that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, also known as DARPA, says the contract to Thomas Reuters was for what they're calling cyber defense. Now, Thomas Reuters Corporation is the company under which the government relations services company, Thomas Reuters Special Services, falls. It's also the parent company of the news agency Reuters. The connection to the media company is likely what led to the outrage from doge doge looks like the radical left reuters was paid nine million dollars by the department of defense to study large-scale social deception give back the money now president trump demanded in a post to his true social account on thursday well i agree do. Well, I agree with him. We need this money back. So, Doc, they had a program for social engineering.

Yes. Changing society. Right. And specifically, Reuters was given $9 million to study social deception. Why do you have to study deception? It's a lie. Whatever it is, if it's study deception? It's a lie. Whatever it is, if it's a deception, it's a lie. But what they were doing, they're studying how to deceive the public. Yes. Through the news media.

We're finding out that the news media, what we suspected for a long time, the evidence is here now. We just didn't know how it was being done. Right. Now we know. And I think we've only seen the tip of the iceberg here on the media enforcement. individuals who earn anywhere from $100,000 to $200,000 a year are worth millions as they work just a few years in government, whether they serve in the Senate or in the House or they work within agencies. How is it that these people can be worth millions of dollars when they only make $100,000 to

$200,000 a year? They're just lucky. It's year? They're just lucky. It's obvious. They're just lucky. Yeah. And I like what Elon Musk said the other day. If these people are making investment decisions and making that kind of money, we should be listening to these people.

Well, Donald Trump said yesterday that today, and it hasn't come out yet, but that today he would be naming specific people that they would be spotlighting as to questionable finances as relates to all this discovery by Doge. Yeah, we've got a short video clip of President Trump making that remark yesterday. That you can have that kind of fraud. You're talking about like, are you talking about what? Wait, wait, wait. Which are you talking? You're talking about with regard to all of the investigations that are going on about this stupidity.

What we're going to do is tomorrow I'm having a news conference. I'm going to read to you some of the names that hundreds of millions and even billions of dollars have been given to. And if you tell me that we should be giving money to those things, those entities, I think you'll probably have to leave as a reporter because you're not very talented. When you look at the kind of money, billions and billions of dollars being thrown away illegally, and there's no chance, I mean, I say it in front of our Attorney General, there's no chance that there's not kickbacks or something going on. When you give millions and

millions of dollars to somebody that stands to look at something for 15 minutes and walks away with millions of dollars, that money's coming back in some form. And that's only one form of corruption. The biggest thing is what they do to our country. They're taking massive amounts of money and spending it on items. I went through a list of 200 expenditures that were made and I found three that looked like they were reasonable. OK, three. And we'll be talking about that tomorrow. We have a lot of stuff. And I want to commend Elon because he's done a fantastic. He doesn't need this. You know, he's abused by you people every day. He's found more things than anybody could find. I think he's got the credibility to do it.

I know he does. And it's his group of people. You know, they started off with 12. I call them 12 geniuses. They started off with 12 and I call them 12 geniuses. They started off with 12 and they went to 20 and 25. And now they're up to almost 100 people are joining to help them because there's a massive fraud that's taken place. Doc, yesterday I heard, I think it was Department of Education, that they had awarded a grant, contract independent contractor one like 1.5 million dollars to observe the department's mailing just watch it just watch it one and a half million dollars didn't say that they were going to come up with a study fix any problem just observe the mailing system of the department.

What we're seeing here, this is the way that they've been laundering the money. Right. We knew they were doing. On paper, it's all legal. Yes. On paper, it's all legal. They're baking the corruption into the appropriations. Yes. And the cronies are walking off with millions of dollars. We've got a lot to go through, a lot of videos. Well, there's a new

attitude in Washington now as it relates to monies being spent, but also there's a new attitude in fighting back against the lawfare that's been going on against Donald Trump over the past, really, the past eight years. And there's a new sheriff in town at the Department of Justice, Attorney General Pam Bondi, late yesterday announced, get this, Rick, that she has filed charges against the state of New York, Governor Kathy Hochul, Attorney General Letitia James of New York, and even the DMV Commissioner, Mark Schrader of New York. We've got this video clip from late yesterday. They're putting out arrest warrants for folks now.

Watch this. We're here today because we have filed charges against the state of New York. We have filed charges against Kathy Hochul. We have filed charges against Letitia James and Mark Schroeder, who is with DMV. This is a new DOJ and we are taking steps to protect Americans, American citizens, and angel moms, like the mom standing right behind me who you're going to hear from in a moment. New York has chosen to prioritize illegal aliens over American citizens. It stops. It stops today. We filed charges. Are they talking civil or criminal?

I mean, the Department of Justice, you said arrests are coming. Are they talking about? I bet arrests are coming. Somebody's going to jail. If they continue, if they persist in harboring illegal aliens in the state of New York and in the state of Illinois, they're doing the same thing against Pritzker, too. Governor Pritzker. Okay. Now, this leads to the next one.

Right. Several days ago, well, actually a week or two ago, there's Mayor Adams of New York. Right. But when President Trump came into the White House uh he issued a pardon for the mayor of new york yes okay on federal charges then you see this article and ordered the department of justice to drop any investigation against him so so there's uh abc7 new york city mayor eric adams maintains his innocence amid department of justice order to drop federal charges. And we got a video clip from ABC Channel 7 New York, and then I'll talk about it.

As I said from the outset, I never broke the law and I never would. I would never put any personal benefit above my solemn responsibility as your mayor. It is worth repeating the facts because many sensational and false claims have been made. So let me be clear. I never ask anyone to break the law on my behalf or on behalf of my campaign. Never. And I absolutely never traded my power as an elected official for any personal benefit. Okay, so Doc, when President Trump pardoned Mayor Adams, my thought was, and I don't think we commented on it. I just remember my own personal thought. I thought, well, the Trump administration wants the New York City mayor's office to be pro-deportation. They're going to let this guy off the hook. He's going to get behind

the roundup of illegals in New York City. And they've solved that problem. Right. But it appears there's more to the story. Yes. Bill O'Reilly appeared on News Nation. And he's got a fascinating theory about why Donald Trump ordered the Department of Justice to drop charges against Mayor Adams and why Donald Trump gave Mayor Adams a presidential pardon. This makes sense. Let's watch. Trump wants to get Letitia James and Alvin Bragg.

That's what this story is all about. Nothing else there. He went after Illinois because he wants to get Pritzker. Hates him. And the way to do that is to deny the states of Illinois and New York the federal grant money. The New York Post reports today eight billion dollars is going to get held up by the Justice Department that would have flowed into New York state, which is running an astronomical deficit here. Okay. So the easiest way to do this is to file civil suits against the governor and the attorney general. Then the question was, why is the mayor of New York left out?

Because he doesn't matter. He doesn't matter. Trump wants to get Letitia James. Hochul is just an ornament. Doesn't have any bad feeling toward Hochul, Trump. But Adams, the deal that was made, I don't know what Adams is giving Trump. I have to tell the audience up front. I don't know and I don't use anonymous sources, but I have gotten call after call after call that said, and all of these people have agendas who are calling it. They all have agendas. And they're saying that Adams knows where the bodies are buried

with James and Bragg. Just throwing it out for your consumption. I'm not reporting it to be true, but it kind of makes sense, right? It's kind of weird that, like, you can say he has no power, but he's in charge of the city,

and when they went after Pritzker in Illinois, they named Chicago, and they went after Mayer. I'm just saying, you know, if you're going after the city of Chicago, you name the mayor. No, Johnson and Adams have no power whatsoever. None. They do what they're told to do.

The real power lies in the state legislature. Now, in both Illinois and New York, the state legislature gives the big middle finger to Homeland Security. Blank you. Maybe Anderson Cooper could articulate it a little more than I am by using some vernacular. But that's what's happening. And the Trump administration knows that these mayors, this is like the utility infielder on the New York Yankees who plays maybe three innings a week. These guys have

no power. They do what they're told to do. The big power is Newsom in California and Newsom's next. Hey, Gavin, they're coming for you. Pritzker is going to get destroyed and Trump will bring down, and I'm going to predict it here, he will bring down Letitia James and Alvin Bragg because they went on a crusade to destroy him. And President Trump is not a forgiving man. There it is. It's sweet revenge. They're going to find a way to indict Letitia James and they're going to arrest her. And they're going to find a way to indict Letitia James. And they're going to arrest her. And they're going to do the same thing with Alvin Bragg. And if they can show conspiracy, a conspiracy among Democrats to destabilize the presidency of Donald Trump and to destroy him during his campaign and put him in prison

totally for politics, then they have a case. They've got a serious case for criminal charges. And I believe, Rick, this is going to lead back to the Biden White House. They were coordinating these legal maneuvers from the White House. They sent a top Department of Justice lawyer, resigned and took a job with the Manhattan DA, Bragg. Right. I mean, who goes from the Department of Justice down to a city-level prosecutor's office? Now, he was dispatched by biden um so i i think uh i think he's onto something that uh mayor adams knows something knows where the bodies are buried and that's why he qualified to get a presidential

pardon so we'll just put that one over on the side and wait and see what happens uh the next one this is um let's see who appears in this one this is carolyn levitt oh yes press briefing so okay let's watch back to doe just for a second earlier the subcommittee headed by chairman marcia taylor green her and her staff uh discovered 2.7 trillion in improper payments to Medicare, Medicaid, overseas, to people who should not have gotten it. Some of this room might have missed that press conference. Can you elaborate on what the president is thinking at this point? Well, again, that's another example. There's a very long list of the fraud, waste, and abuse that Doge is identifying on a daily basis. Elon Musk also

talked about yesterday about social security payments that are going out the door for people who are no longer with us. Unfortunately, I would say that is certainly fraud. There's also a lot of contracts they've identified that, just as a hypothetical example, are a million bucks, but only $500,000 went out the door. So where's the rest of that cash? And so those are the things that Doge is working on every single day. And I would just remind everybody in this room, this is what President Trump campaigned on doing. He's delivering on a promise. She didn't say $2.7 million.

She didn't say $2.7 billion. She said $2.7 trillion was sent in Medicare and Medicaid payments internationally, overseas, to people not eligible to receive it. $2.7 trillion. $2.7 trillion. Now, sometimes we throw these numbers around and we can't put our mind around it. But if you took a stack of $100 bills and you had a trillion dollars, that stack of $100 bills would be nearly 700 miles high. Just $100 bills stacked up together. And so this is 2.7.

$2.7 trillion dollars of medicare and medicaid money how is that listen our total deficit is only 30 trillion and this isn't money that was sent domestically yes it went internationally this is the way the waste part but it's beyond waste rick what if we find out the whole 30 trillion dollar deficit is nothing but waste, fraud, and abuse? It's not waste. Oh, yes. It's laundered money. Yes, that's exactly right.

Okay. Not waste. It's laundered money. How do we know that the people in other countries who received a $2.7 trillion in Medicare payments were American citizens? How do we know that they were humans? Right. How do we know they were people? Maybe all the money is going into one account. Why would even one dollar, even one dollar

of Medicare or Medicaid payments be going outside of anyone besides a U.S. citizen? Why? Because it's laundered money and they weren't making some Medicare, Medicaid eligible citizen. They weren't giving them bonus money. This was laundered money to be pocketed by somebody who was working for the deep state. We've often wondered for decades on

this program where do they get the money for the black ops now we know yes and it's baked into the books as she mentioned um you know she said for example a million dollar authorization but only 500 000 went out where's the other 500,000? It was diverted to another bank account. That's how they're playing this game. There are so many fake bank accounts. Well, fake recipients. Right.

Okay. The bank accounts that are getting the money are very real. But there's so many fake recipients that, well, you know what? You would need AI to crack this code. And that's what they're worried about, that Elon Musk is using AI to find it. Folks, nobody has considered this possibility, that Elon Musk is using AI to blow apart the deep state, that AI is finding the money trail and doing it within seconds. Right.

And one of the ways they did it was through the insane numbering system that they used at USAID. They would assign a payment to go out to a number. All right. And that number was actually in another file that was assigned to an individual or a group or organization or an NGO. But there wasn't a direct connection between the two. That's right. And AI is making those connections now.

Right. I didn't bring the clip, but I saw Maxine Waters. She said, what does Trump and Elon Musk have on us? Yeah, yes, I saw that. Did you see that? I saw that. What have they got on us? Well, Maxine, is that a slip of the tongue? She's worried.

She should be worried. They're all worried. Elon Musk is asking, where did the money come from and in particular he retweeted Wall Street Mavericks and they're asking that question Mitch McConnell has an annual salary of $200,000 his net worth $95 million he saves a lot oh my he is a penny pincher Chuck Schumer annual salary $210,000 his net worth $75 million Elizabeth Warren He is a penny pincher. Chuck Schumer, annual salary, $210,000.

His net worth, $75 million. Elizabeth Warren, annual salary, $285,000. Net worth, $67 million. But she's a socialist. She's a wealthy socialist. Yes. Okay. How did they get the money?

That's a great question. Turn AI loose on their bank accounts. Let AI pursue their investments, their assets, and follow the money trail. AI could figure this out very quickly. Elon already knows. Right. I'm of the belief they already know the answers. They're not even dribbling.

This is coming out so fast, but it's overwhelming. Yes, so much has come out. How long has McConnell been a senator from Kentucky? 30 years? More than that? How long has Kentucky been a state? Been there. But still, I mean, do some quick math on that. Let's say it was 30 years.

The max he earned from the U.S. government was $6 million over that total course of time. But he's worth $95 million? I mean, maybe he's a master investor, Rick. Maybe he knows, you know, he's cracked the code to stock bond market he should offer a master class online oh absolutely i'd sign up for everybody get wealthy here so uh senator uh his fellow kentucky senator rand paul the kentucky senator who is honest rand paul um he presented some glaring examples of this fraudulent spending, questionable spending. We've got a video. Let's watch. Let me give you just a few examples of what these

unelected bureaucrats are spending your hard-earned money on. $4.8 million went to Ukraine's Public Affairs Office in Kyiv to fund social media influencers. Instead of protecting our own border, $2.1 million was sent to Paraguay to enhance their border security. USAID also funded a group of Ukrainian women-led designers to travel to the Paris fashion show. I don't know about you, but I'd imagine Ukrainian women have more important things to worry about than appearing in the Paris fashion show. USAID spent $2 million on transgender surgeries, hormone therapy, and gender-affirming care in Guatemala. $3 million was spent to promote girl-centric climate action in Brazil. And I'd love to picture what a conversation about girl-centered

climate action looks like. It's like, hey, Barbie, do you know what girl-centered climate change is? Since when do we believe arguments need to be tailored for girls to understand? How insulting to women at large that they think there are special arguments for girls to understand that are different than boys. $25,000 to fund a transgender opera in Colombia. Was nobody in Colombia willing to buy a ticket? USAID spent $32,000 in Peru to create a comic featuring a trans hero to address social and mental health issues. What does that have to do with diplomacy? $20,000 to fund a DEI program for a drag theater in Ecuador. $20 million was spent to produce a new Sesame Street show in Iraq. USAID spent $6 million to promote a project boosting sustainable tourism in Egypt. I guess the

U.S. is now the travel agent for the entire world, since they spent $50 million on Tunisia's tourism, even though it's already one of the most visited countries in Africa. USAID gave $87.9 million to help Afghans farm, and incidentally, farm poppy, the plant from which opium is extracted. As of 2021, Afghanistan supplied 90% of the world's heroin. I thought the saying in the US was just say no to drugs. How about we just say no to wasteful foreign aid? $70,000 for a live musical event to promote diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in Ireland.

State Department paid $330,000 to compile a disinformation index to blacklist conservative media outlets. USAID funneled over $54 million to EcoHealth Alliance, funding the very organization linked to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the likely origin of the COVID-19 pandemic. Disgraceful. $15 million was awarded to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan to distribute oral contraceptives and condoms. There's still a $3 billion fund for Afghan reconstruction that have tried to take that money to pay for other things that the government is spending

money on. And yet there's been resistance by the other side to deplete that fund and say, we're done funding things in Afghanistan. that none or very few of those projects actually exist. I would be in the same camp there. So you could be pulled into this. I'm not saying Rand Paul's deceiving. I'm saying you can be pulled into self-deception by saying look at this ridiculous spending right we're funding a a drag queen opera this is outrageous how do you know it even existed yes what if these are all just made-up projects and the money was just flowing

to these countries where the operatives collected the money and then funneled it back to the politicians. Is that how these politicians end up with 50, 60, 100 million dollar net worth? Is this how the left-wing organizations get so much money to spend on politics? Is this where the intelligence agencies get their black op funds? I don't believe these projects even exist. I would want to go to these countries and find the project. But who has time to do that? The one that stands out to me, and it goes along with the other one

that was revealed last week, is the $15 million to Afghan for condoms. I don't believe it. Really start doing the math on that. We're talking 100 million condoms to Afghanistan. I don't believe it. I don't believe it. I don't believe it either. And same thing, you know, they tried to get Musk and Trump on saying, well, that $50 billion really didn't go to Gaza and the Middle East, but

to Gaza and Mozambique. Well, what's the difference? Why does anyone need $50 million worth of condoms? I heard a week or two ago about it, that USAID paid $45 million for a gas station in Africa. No, in Iraq. In Iraq. No, I think it was in Afghanistan. Was it Afghanistan? Yes.

That didn't work. I'm like, no, they didn't. No, they just transferred $45 million. Right. There's nobody in their right mind would say, hey, we got a good deal here. $45 million for a gas station that's not even open. Yes, it never opened. Right.

It never opened. So nobody's that dumb. But there are people that are devious. Yes. As long as they had an excuse on paper, they could cover their trail. Now, another example of this, recently installed EPA administrator Lee Zeldin, former congressman from New York. He's now in charge of the EPA.

And I see this headline from the New York Post. This came out late yesterday. Lee Zeldin demands return of $20 billion parked at a financial institution by the Biden EPA to dole out to climate groups. Now, he described it as the Biden EPA tossing $20 billion of gold bars off the Titanic, just throwing it out into the ocean. We have a clip of Administrator Zeldin talking about what he is now seeing as he's taking the reins at the Environmental Protection Agency. Watch this. Hi, this is EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin. One of my very top priorities at EPA is to be an excellent steward of your hard-earned tax dollars. There will be zero tolerance of any waste and abuse. An extremely disturbing video circulated two months ago featuring a Biden EPA political appointee

talking about how they were tossing gold bars off the Titanic, rushing to get billions of your tax dollars out the door before Inauguration Day. But gold bars were tax dollars, and tossing them off the Titanic meant the Biden administration knew they were wasting it. Following this revelation, during my meetings with members of Congress, I made a very important commitment to them and to the American people, which I reiterated at my confirmation hearing that if confirmed,

I would immediately get a full accounting. Fortunately, my awesome team at EPA has found the gold bars. Shockingly, roughly $20 billion of your tax dollars were parked at an outside financial institution by the Biden EPA. This scheme was the first of its kind in EPA history, and it was purposefully designed to obligate all of the money in a rush job with reduced oversight. Even further, this pot of $20 billion was awarded to just eight entities that were then responsible

for doling out your money to NGOs and others at their discretion with far less transparency. Just under $7 billion was sent to one entity called the Climate United Fund. I'm sure you and I now have some of the same questions. How do these organizations decide how to allocate funding? How much money have they given out so far and to whom? Are there any former Biden EPA staffers who are now working at these entities?

Let me make one thing abundantly clear. At this point, there is zero reason to suspect any wrongdoing by the bank. Here's my position as EPA administrator. The financial agent agreement with the bank needs to be instantly terminated, and the bank must immediately return all of the gold bars that the Biden administration tossed off the Titanic. EPA needs to reassume responsibility for all of these funds. We will review every penny that has gone out the door. I will be referring this matter to the Inspector General's office, and will work with the Justice Department as well. The days of irresponsibly shoveling boatloads of cash to far-left activist groups

in the name of environmental justice and climate equity are over. The American public deserves a more transparent and accountable government than what transpired these past four years. We take our obligations under the law as seriously as it gets. I've directed my team to find your gold bars and they found them. Now we will get them back inside of control of government as we pursue next steps. As President Trump has vowed, we are going to usher in a new golden age of American success for the citizens of every race, religion, color, and creed. Okay, so they're clawing back the money.

They're getting the $20 billion brought back to the U.S. government. By the way, the Pakistan-owned hotel paid back the money. Yes. Okay. Under protest, but they did pay it back. Yes. They don't want U.S. government, military looking at Pakistan. Right. So they gave back the money. But again, what I'm going to say, Mr. Zeldin, I think, is being too nice.

He's saying they were just throwing the money away. They were just tossing it all over the side like the Titanic is sinking. They're just throwing the money away they were just tossing it all over the side like the titanic is thinking they're just throwing the money over the side they're just wasting money no they were getting as much money into their bank accounts as they could get right because the gravy train was coming to an end. $20 billion can go a long way. Yes. That can fund you to the next election. And that's just one program at the EPA. Yes. And one agency, EPA.

Right. This is going on in all these agencies. Yes. But this is, it's not wasteful spending. It is criminal spending. It is money laundering. Yes. Let's start calling that. There is an spending. It is money laundering. There is an intent to deceive and defraud. Next one.

Elon Musk, he said, look, we've got to just eliminate entire government agencies. Remove the roots of the weed. I mean, he's going down deep. He's just saying you can't fix it. You can't reform it. You can't clean it up. Yes.

Just treat it like a weed. So he appeared by video at the Dubai World Government Summit. You see him on video there at the event. So here Elon Musk is talking to all the world government folks and said, by the way, we're cutting government down to the bone, just letting you know. He said, I think we do need to delete entire agencies as opposed to leaving part of them behind. It's kind of like leaving a weed, Mr. Musk said.

If you don't remove the roots of the weed, then it's easy for the weed to grow back. But if you remove the roots of the weed, it doesn't stop weeds from ever going back, but it makes it harder. So we have to really delete entire agencies, many of them, Musk said. And basically what he's saying, I can't guarantee you that these agencies won't appear, come back to life in a future administration but we're going to make it harder for them to be able to do this again um so doc this isn't donald trump isn't doing something radically new the democrats and news media want you to think that this is an extreme agenda.

Oh, yes. That nobody's ever done anything like this before. Well, I want to go back to the mid-1990s. In fact, it's September 1997. Here is Bill Clinton and Al Gore. This report tells us how to cut waste, cut red tape, streamline the bureaucracy, change procurement rule, change the personnel rules, and create a government that works better and costs less. I've read it, and where it says the president should, the president will.

Among the 800 recommendations, eliminating 12% of the federal workforce, merging some government agencies like the FBI, the DEA, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, closing hundreds of government offices outside Washington. That sounds like the Trump agenda. Yes, and the full video there had a segment from Barack Obama. Barack Obama had proposed deep cuts to the federal government too. But these guys found out, hey, we can make a lot of money from the federal government. And they all did. The Clintons did. The Gores did. The Obamas have. I mean, they found a way to monetize their political agenda.

Yes. Next one. This is from a congressional testimony with Michael Schellenberger, independent reporter. And he's talking about how this money is being used to finance disinformation, censorship, and lawfare. Against the American people. against the american people watch this you say in your testimony um psyop tactics being used by the u.s and uk military against the american people that is really scary stuff reading that could you elaborate because i think the american people need to hear i mean they need to hear about this. Yeah, I mean, we now know what happened, which is that basically after the war on terror, the United States used counterterrorism, counterinsurgency, counterpopulism tactics first in the Middle East as part of the Arab Spring uprisings, then in Eastern Europe as part of the color revolutions, using social media to foment revolutions against places that we wanted regime change,

and then using censorship in places to repress conflicting opinion in places that we were trying to stabilize. Those tactics were then turned against the American people after the populist revolutions of 2016. First, you saw Russiagate, this wild conspiracy theory that President Trump was somehow controlled through a sex blackmail operation by the Russians. But then we also saw a very elaborate effort to do exactly what they had done abroad, creating small committees of experts to decide what the truth was and demand censorship on the basis of it. But I also mentioned there's also these proactive influence operations,

the most dramatic of which is the Hunter Biden laptop, severely illegal, but we also saw in the mobilization of the intelligence community. And now in the latest article that we published today, we have documented that the Agency for International Development has overseen basically a takeover over the last decade and a half of independent investigative journalism in Europe and around the world through OCCRP and supposedly independent journalism organizations with an eye to basically controlling the information and controlling the major news media that do investigative journalism. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And Mr. Chairman, thank you so much for the work that you have done over the last couple of Congresses on this issue. Mr. Schellenberger, can you explain how you traced USAID funding

that served as the basis for whistleblower report in 2019, which led to the impeachment of President Trump? Sure, well, you may remember that the so-called whistleblowers in the White House was actually a CIA analyst, and in that whistleblower's complaint, which led to the impeachment, one of the central pieces of evidence was created by a USAID-funded and controlled organization called the OCCRP. And we have another piece out today about how it participated in the Russiagate hoax as well, creating essentially very important information leading to that so i mean you have in usa id a much larger fund of money and a much broader strategy for information control that included censorship but also as i mentioned taking control of investigative journalism um really worldwide i mean its ambitions were you know amazing so yeah

i mean that's a that's an agency when when we saw that get shut down by doge i thought that was completely appropriate if there's something in there that it was doing that's valuable then you could refund it later but my view same thing with CISA death penalty for organizations that participated in violations of the first amendment like CISA cyber security is an extremely important function it shouldn't be contaminated and and undermined by censorship activities I think it's always been known that our government has funded the change in administrations if we we can say it politely, of other governments. But isn't it borderline treason when the taxpayer is when organizations entrusted with protecting our country are now undermining our own government?

Absolutely. I mean, if you're trying to do regime change illegal, if you're weaponizing DHS, FBI, uh sisa that's that's treasonous regime change activities redirected you know that you developed abroad that we developed abroad for regime change directed against the american people and the and our representatives i mean it's shocking and we still haven't dealt with it as a country mr schellenberger you mentioned that usaid which has been in the news of late spending uh taxpayer money and all kinds of stupid things is also involved in the censorship effort i want you to just elaborate on that a little bit because this is going on as we speak i want you to elaborate on that for the committee if you would yeah i mean i think it's important to understand that usaid viewed this very holistically and it's important if you look at the hundred buying laptop case which is an extremely important case to

understand because the fbi was weaponized then a weaponized the aspen institute to brainwash the entire media it wasn't just that they censored it it was that they changed the perception of the laptop they they they created the perception that it was something other than what it obviously was and that's what these guys are trying to do these are called information operations and usaid has been in the process of taking over so-called independent investigative journalism around the world, and at the same time then training NGOs how to demand censorship. For example, Mr. Aaron's organization has been working to train organizations to so-called flag misinformation behind the scenes. By the way, it's one thing to criticize somebody publicly, which we should all be engaged in. But this thing where you're skulking around and secretly –

We do that all the time. Yeah, that's what open democracy is. This thing of going out and secretly flagging information behind the scenes and demanding censorship, that is such a – that's completely an abomination. That is not what our democracy is about. You're saying USAID, your investigation, is now engaged in this pre-bunking kind of concept and process that they did with the laptop story in the fall of 2020. And it's the exact same approach as well, where often what they're doing, for example, with USAID, OCCRP, is that they're leaking intelligence from the intelligence agencies. And not like WikiLeaks, where they just dumped it I think probably too much without the proper redactions but they're strategically leaking it and then manipulating places like the guardian and the new york times to publish certain stories and control the whole

investigative news process and we saw this from from yole roth's testimony he testified during these weekly meetings that they communicated federal law enforcement communicated to us there was going to be hack and leak operations before the presidential election, likely in October. We had these repeats, so what's going to happen, when it's going to happen, and then they said here who it's going to involve, that there were rumors that the hack and leak operation would involve Hunter Biden. So they set them all up. And then Shazam, they set them all up because they had the laptop and they knew what was coming. And when it happens, everyone buys into what the 51 former intel officials say. So, Doc, this program started 1999, basically a two and a half man organization. Myself, my daughter was my office manager, and my son was a part-time production manager because

he was in college. And so he would work a couple hours a day in producing the program. That was the entire organization. We grew. God blessed us. We have been through many battles and overcame every one of them. But when we got to the years of Barack Obama, things started to get weird. Things got weird. That's when the black SUVs were parked outside my office for six months. I remember that. That's when they broke in our office almost every night.

I'm not kidding you, folks. This went on for many months, six, eight, nine months. They broke in our office almost every night. I'm not kidding you, folks. This went on for many months, six, eight, nine months. I don't remember. They were breaking into the office, folks. They really were. They were breaking in, and they weren't taking anything, but they were gaslighting me. They wanted me to know that they were in the office. For example, our church at that time, the building had an attic ladder in the ceiling. Well, an attic door in the ceiling.

That's what I mean. In the middle of the ceiling. In the middle of the ceiling. We had, what, about 15-foot ceilings in that particular building? Yes. You couldn't touch them. You had to get on a tall ladder. Right. You needed a big ladder. You had to have a big ladder. But it pulled the door down, and then the ladder would fall down. I'd come into the office at 7 in the morning, and the ladder's down. Yes. From the attic.

Right. So this went on for quite some time. Black SUVs parked in front of my office with a driver in a suit, sunglasses. We'd sit there all day. Yeah. All day. In the hot sun. In the hot sun.

I got to the point I used to go out and knock on the window and say, hey, I noticed you've been out here a long time. You want me to get you some water? Sometimes I took photographs of their license plates. But they were meant to intimidate, and they were intimidating guys. These guys looked like federal agents. They looked like thugs. I don't say federal agents. They looked more like thugs, thugs in suits. Bonebreakers. It got to the point I went to the sheriff's office and told them what was going on. And I said, if I'm in my church office one night and somebody opens up the door and walks in, what am I allowed to do? And the deputy looked at me and said, Pastor, you're in Florida.

You can shoot. I said, thank you. That's all I need to know. And I went that day and I did true news and I announced. First, I published the photographs of the vehicles. I put them online. I wanted everybody to see, this is for real. Then I spoke directly to the people who were gaslighting me, and I told them, I said, your days of coming in this building at night and gaslighting me, it's over. I went to the sheriff. He said, if you come in the building, I am within my legal rights to shoot you. So this is what I'm telling you. One of these nights, might not be tonight, might not be tomorrow night, but one night, I'm going to be sitting in the middle of the building in the dark with a shotgun. And when you walk into this church, I'm going to blow you to pieces, and they're going to

have to scoop your body up with a shovel and a bucket. And you know what? It stopped. Never happened again. Then the intimidation changed, and it became the censorship, the ADL, and the various Jewish groups trying to censor us, calling our vendors, calling all kinds of people, pressuring people to shut us down. We went through all that. Look, Doc, have we ever got our hands on the actual documents in these social media organizations and government agencies? Have we ever got our hands on them?

We got a great lawsuit. Because they were, that was racketeering. Yes. They were coordinating to do something criminal to us. To shut us down. To destroy us. I'm telling you this because we've been through it.

When I hear these things, all I'm thinking is, wow, it was a lot worse than we knew. And it was a lot deeper, a lot more in the forest, a lot wider than we knew. They were going after a lot of people. So I'm enjoying watching this happen, and I hope Elon Musk and Donald Trump continue to dig deep and expose it. Some good news here. Kash Patel, his nomination to run the FBI has cleared the Senate committee. It means it's going on to the full Senate that his nomination would be confirmed. And that vote will probably be next week at this point.

Right. Oh, once he gets his hands on the FBI, Doc. Oh, my goodness. We think we're shocked now with USAID. Wait until he gets inside the FBI. Robert Kennedy was confirmed today. He is now the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Now, before the vote, New York Senator Chuck Schumer proudly said,

all Democrats will vote against Kennedy. Why were they against Kennedy? Well, they saw him as a traitor to the Democratic Party. Yes. But he saw them as traitors to the Democratic Party. Right. All right. Let's watch Chuck Schumer. In fact, Mr. Kennedy might be one of the least qualified people that Donald Trump could have chosen for the job. There are so many others who would have been better. I'm very proud that every single Democrat will oppose Mr. Kennedy's nomination, because

Democrats know better than to elevate a conspiracy theorist to the top healthcare job in the country. I know some of my colleagues feel the same way privately. In fact, if the Senate held a secret ballot today, I'll bet Mr. Kennedy would never come close to becoming confirmed, and that many, if not most, Republicans would vote against him. I think most likely most Republicans would vote against him if there were a secret ballot. But sadly and unfortunately for America, Republicans are being strong-armed by Donald Trump and will end up holding their nose

and voting to confirm Mr. Kennedy. What a shame. What a travesty. Mr. Schumer, is that if the Senate had a secret vote, and they could vote on Robert Kennedy, they would vote against him. But they're afraid to do it because the people in their state would come after them. That's right. Because Bobby Kennedy is popular. That's what Schumers really say. Yes.

He's too popular. But if we could do it secretly, we'd take him down. But the people are watching us, so we can't do it. I want to show you a video that we we used last fall this is bobby kennedy talking about his prayer what he wants to do with his life since 2005 i spend 30 minutes praying every day when i get out of bed. And I— And my prayer is this. I ask God for 19 years to put me in a position where I could end the chronic disease epidemic and bring health back to our children. And in August, God sent me Donald Trump.

Well, his prayer came to pass today. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was sworn in as the new director. This just happened? Yes. This happened at the White House just a few minutes ago, actually. And there he is being sworn in. Do you think he'll go to the office of the HHS first or the National Institute of Health?

Or the FDA. He has so many options available to him. Well, Fauci's office. I have a feeling he's going to go to Fauci's office. Fauci's not there anymore. They shut down the Fauci Museum also. There was a museum? Yes. Trump shut it down. No, I'm kidding. There was a Fauci Museum at the NIH.

Wouldn't you want to go on a vacation trip to D.C. and go to the Fauci Museum? What, are they going to have little tortured puppies in there? Bobby's in. So is Tulsi Gabbard. Yes. Director of National Intelligence. Yeah. And after she was sworn in, she had a statement of gratefulness and thankfulness for President Trump. And we'll share that with you here. Mr. President, first and foremost, I just want to

say thank you from the bottom of my heart for the trust that you have placed in me to fulfill this critical position as Director of National Intelligence at any time, but specifically during this time. Unfortunately, the American people have very little trust in the intelligence community, largely because they've seen the weaponization and politicization of an entity that is supposed to be purely focused on ensuring our national security. So I look forward to being able to help fulfill that mandate that the American people delivered to you very clearly in this election to refocus our intelligence community by empowering the great patriots who have chosen to serve our country in this way and focus on ensuring the safety, security, and freedom of the American people. As you've said, Mr. President, this is what I've

dedicated my life to, and it is truly humbling to be in this position, to serve in your administration, help to rebuild that trust, and ultimately to keep the American people safe. Last thing I'll mention, that in your National Prayer Breakfast speech, you made a statement about your legacy of wanting to be remembered as a peacemaker. I know that I can speak for many of my fellow service members who are here today, veterans, Medal of Honor recipients, how deeply that resonates with us. For those who volunteer to put their lives on the line when duty calls, but to have a president, commander-in-chief who recognizes the cost of that sacrifice and ensuring that war is the last resort, not the first. So thank you for your leadership on behalf of my friends here and all who wear the uniform. We're grateful. Thank you.

Congratulations. It is amazing, absolutely amazing to behold what's happening. We have somebody at the top of intelligence who thinks like us. They're not the enemy. The National Intelligence Director is no longer an enemy of the American people. Yes. And Kash Patel is next. And I don't know if you've seen any of Linda McMahon and her testimony in the Senate the past day or two.

Man, she is taking them to task. She's going to be the education director. And one of the senators said, if we're shutting down the Department of Education Democrat, why do we need a director? He said, because someone needs to do it the right way she was uh under the first trump term she was the uh over small business ministry so she has experience here so uh one more 22 the kennedy center in washington dc has a new chairman of the board donald j trump he fired the of directors. He appointed a new board of directors and the new board of directors elected him chairman of the board of the Kennedy Center. First time in history

Kennedy Center, obviously established after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, but there's never been a sitting president on the board, certainly not the chairman of the F. Kennedy, but there's never been a sitting president on the board, certainly not the chairman of the board. I'm eager to see what kind of shows appear at the Kennedy Center. Not going to be drag queen shows, but we'll see what kind of stamp Donald Trump puts on the Kennedy Center. I want to close with, I found this photograph

from 1959. I like looking at history stuff online. It's a typical family. 1959, dad, mom, two boys, a pot roast. You can see the roast beef, the potatoes, the carrots. There's happiness on everybody's face. Right.

The kitchen looks just like the kitchen in my grandparents' home, 1959. I would have been six years old, Doc. That's very, very realistic. That's what America looked like in 1959. That's a snapshot of this country. What's different? It's not a single mom. It's not a drunk dad.

It's a happy dad and a happy mom and two happy children. With abundant food. With abundant food and a nice home. And they're happy. That's America in 1959. You know why? Because at that time we were still one nation under God. At that time, we were still one nation under God.

America was a different country, a different culture in 1959. Our society had, at that time time stability and a strong moral code. In 1959, the all-American family that you see in this photograph could have purchased an ounce of gold for $35. Why was gold so inexpensive gold was affordable because the u.s dollar had not been devalued through wasteful government spending what we've just spent an hour talking about what we just talked about for an hour is why the dollar is not worth what it was in 1959 and another reason is because our society was stable. That's why gold was $35. The dollar had not been devalued and the society had not been destabilized.

Now, at that time, we shared, as the American people, we shared a common moral code based on Christian principles. And because our society was stable, the price of gold was stable too. So today an ounce of gold, I checked before I came here to the studio, Doc, it was $2,952 an ounce. That's $48 shy of $3,000 per ounce. Now, last summer, a Bank of America analyst predicted gold would reach $3,000 before the end of 2025.

But we're only in the second month of the year, and it's only $48 away from $3,000? Yes. I personally think it's going to go beyond $3,000 this year. But the Bank of America analyst in that article last summer, he called gold the ultimate perceived safe haven. So with everything going on in the world today and in this country, doesn't it make sense to own gold? We've entered a new inflation cycle that has ravished hardworking Americans' purchasing power.

This inflation cycle is not going to go away for 10 to 15 years, in my own personal opinion. We're waging wars, and there's instability across the globe, and President Trump is trying to settle these things, but there are other people that want to fire him up. He's challenging their source of money. So personally, I believe strongly in safeguarding my personal money and savings with precious metals like gold and silver. And I want you to learn why. All you have to do is call 844-960-GOLD or visit truenews4gold.com to learn about my partners over at GoCo. They're a great company. They're top rated, impeccable customer service.

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your protein bucket today remember american reserves means food security good morning everybody welcome to morning manna we are gathered here today on this thursday to study the word of god we're in the book of romans we're in the fourth chapter and today it's uh verses 18 through 25 we'll finish up the fourth chapter today tomorrow is faith friday and monday we will begin chapter five of the book of romans let's pray wonderful gracious father father thank you for being our father thank you for your word which is true father our faith is in your son Jesus our faith is in your word our faith is in you you are the God of the universe the only God and your word

is true so father we have gathered here to learn about truth we ask the Holy Spirit to teach us now in the name of Jesus amen amen and so what passage would you like for me to read Rick oh excuse me Romans 4 18 through 25 okay all right so if you've got your Bibles, let's go ahead and turn to Romans chapter 4 here. And let's pick back up here at verse 18. So let's follow along. I'm reading from the King James

and you read the translation that you're comfortable with and everything and follow along with me here. Verse 18. Who against hope believed in hope that he might become the father of many nations? Talk about Abraham here.

According to that which was spoken, so shall thy seed be. And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about 100 years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb. He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief but was strong in faith

giving glory to God and being fully persuaded that what he had promised that being God he was also able to perform and therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness now it was notuted to him for righteousness.

Now it was not written for his sake alone, but that it was imputed to him, but for us also to whom it shall be imputed. If we believe on him that raised up Jesus, our Lord from the dead, who was delivered for our offenses and was raised again for our justification. Folks, you've got the basic of Christian doctrine right here. This is it.

Amen. Verse 18, Who against hope believed in hope that he might become the father of many nations according to that which was spoken, so shall thy seed be so abraham's faith stood firm even when natural circumstances offered no hope it's really important to understand his hope was not based on natural circumstances.

That's right. In fact, natural circumstances was shouting, there's no hope. Right. Natural circumstances said, Abraham, you're 100 years old. Natural circumstances said, Sarah's womb is dead, has been dead all her life. Why would it be alive at 90 years old?

Right. That's what natural circumstances say. But the Bible says Abraham was fully persuaded. Fully persuaded. Because he had a word from God, and the word from God was all he needed so he trusted in God's promise the promise was so shall thy seed be that was the promise so shall thy seed be trusted in that promise against all human odds. So his belief

exemplified a hope rooted in divine power, not in visible, excuse me, visible evidence. So he's demonstrating the essence of true faith. So Abraham's confidence was anchored in God's unchanging nature, in God's ability to fulfill his word.

It didn't matter what he was hoping for. The only thing that mattered was that God said it would happen. So Abraham believed that God's promises are sure, guaranteed regardless of physical circumstances in Genesis 15 promise that Abraham is that his offspring would be as numerous as the stars. That's right. You and I are some of those stars. That's right.

We're that. We're that seed. We're that seed. You ought to get up every day and just walk around and say, I'm the seed. I'm the seed. I'm the seed. Get that the seed, I'm the seed.

Get that in your head. It took me years to really understand that, Rick. Yes, the Christian Zionists want you to believe that only the Jewish people are the offspring. But the word of God says the offspring represents all who believe in the promise. The promise is the Messiah. The Messiah is Christ. And so you are heirs to the promise of Abraham. When God told Abraham, your offspring will, it's like, look up in the sky.

Look up there, Abraham. See, God was changing. First, God was changing Abraham the way he thought. He changed his name from Abram to Abraham. Then he changed the way Abraham thought. He said, I want to give you a picture, Abraham, of where this is going. You see those stars up there? Can you count all of them?

Well, your offspring coming from this promised child I'm giving you, there's going to be more offspring than there are stars. So every night when Abraham looked at the stars, he remembered the promise. That's good. I like that. I can just imagine him laying

out. And you and I have been out in Jordan and the desert at night, and just to look up at the sky, and it's like, where did all these stars come from? You know, we live here in North America, and we have such light blindness at night, but you get out in the desert, and you see stars you you're just like going I didn't know there were that many stars and yet Abraham was seeing this every night and God's saying look up there see all those stars see all those guess what your seed I'm gonna make more seed than there are stars. Yes. The faith going in you today. Yes.

God gave Abraham a mental image of what the promise would look like someday. So, the promise pointed to a spiritual family that included all who share Abraham's faith.

That is the Christian church. Yes. The body of Christ. Now, Abraham's trusting God grew stronger. As he waited for the fulfillment of the promise. His faith didn't grow weaker as time went by, it grew stronger. Yes. So genuine faith not only withstands delays, but genuine faith is fortified by delays and trials and tribulations.

Yes. It only gets stronger. Yes. Yes. Verse 19, 419 and being not weak in faith he considered not his own body now dead when he was about a hundred years old neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb now notice here Rick that Paul doesn't go into detail about Hagar and Ishmael all this other stuff here he doesn't mention it doesn't talk about it it's not important to this

discussion it's not what is important is paul's emphasis on the faith of abraham the faith of abraham produced isaac the faith of abraham produced isaac through sarah the promise of god was it perfect in that journey to get there? We could go back and forth on that. But Paul doesn't dwell on that. Paul says, look at Abraham's faith. Look at Abraham's faith. And that's the way we've got to approach it too.

It may not be perfect, but his faith grew along the way. Yes. Abraham's faith not only remained strong, but it became stronger. Despite the impossibility of God's promise. Who was he going to talk to about it? Who was he going to tell? Hey, you know what? Did you hear the good news? Sarah and I are going to have a baby.

You know, that got the village talking. Can you hear the people saying, well, abraham you want us to plan a baby shower when's this baby going to be born did he tell other people we don't know but if he did they chuckled they laughed behind his back because physical reality said there's no way. This guy is delusional. He's lost his mind and his old age.

The phrase, about 100 years old. That's to say, this situation is impossible. Yes. And the deadness of Sarah's womb is saying that no child could be born apart from a divine intervention.

It's not physically possible. But they believed. And Abraham's belief shows us that true faith can overcome doubts and natural impossibilities.

Yes. doubts and natural impossibilities yes you know we have a member of our staff Brandon and I'm not going to tell his entire story but they have a beautiful little daughter but when she was in Britta's womb, the doctors were telling Brandon and Britta, you should abort this child. This child's going to be deformed. She has a rare deformity. This is very serious. Very few children are born with this, and if they're born, they don't live very long. Brandon refused to budge. Yes. It was the most amazing stand of faith I have seen in my lifetime. He refused to budge.

That was his little girl, and she was going to be born, and she was going to be physically healthy, perfect, nothing wrong. Guess what? She was here the other day running around on our floor in my office. She's a miracle child. She is a miracle child. She is a miracle child. Because physically, there

was no hope, but Brandon hoped against hope. He stood. He stood, and he claimed the word of God, and he never budged. He never doubted. He wouldn't flinch. Amen. He wouldn't flinch amen he wouldn't were the doctors wrong no i don't think they were wrong at all

i think god did a miracle in the womb right god healed that child in the womb right and Brandon never denied that there was an issue he didn't say well she doesn't have that no he said God can overcome it that's right that's right so

Abraham's faith is was unwavering and that's a model for all of us he never doubted he didn't flinch he didn't rethink he didn't say well maybe God didn't say that to me maybe maybe I imagined that maybe maybe that's not in the word maybe that maybe I'm misinterpreting the Word of God nice Abraham stood he stayed right on course and said I'm not budging God said we're gonna have a baby and not only if we're gonna have a baby but the offspring is going to be greater than all the stars in heaven amen in the sky

to his testimony he got what he said amen um verse uh 40 420 excuse me he staggered not at the promise of god through unbelief but but was strong in faith, giving glory to God. Amen. He didn't waver. He didn't falter. Even when the promise seemed impossible, he chose to trust God rather than succumb to doubt. And not only did he trust God,

he glorified God. Instead of growing weaker his faith became stronger and his ongoing trust in God deepened his reliance on divine power and promises by the time that baby was born

nine months later, Abraham's faith was so solid. I mean, at what point did Sarah's body start to show she's with child. How many people came over to Abraham's tent to see a pregnant because nobody had ever seen in history of mankind. She's 90 years old and she's she's 90 years old, and she's with child,

it just made Abraham's faith stronger. He never doubted. He directed his attention to the certainty of God's word rather than the visible challenges around him that the contradicted god's word god's word said this physical reality said this he chose to believe the word. He refused to give in to unbelief. He resisted doubt.

His faith became more robust, more resilient. And this trusting God glorified God because he acknowledged God's greatness and reliability to everybody he met. spoke about god's goodness his faithfulness to fulfill his promises yes so he encouraged himself into faith it's like dav David encouraged himself you know if Abraham needed a faith boost he just found somebody and said hey did I tell you about the day God told me my wife's gonna have a baby yes you've told us well I've seen have you seen Sarah lately yeah I think she's bloated she has a tapeworm yeah she's got a tapeworm she ate too many onions

she doesn't have a baby Abraham get real that woman needs to see a doctor oh Abraham's like no God said she'd have a baby that's a baby inside her nobody was going to budge him off the word he based his faith entirely on God's character

God's unchanging nature God's sovereign ability to fulfill his promise this is what it all comes down to do you believe God do you believe him you know I've mentioned to you I've been for the past couple months every night I've been watching old black-and-white videos of you know what they call the healing evangelists they weren't healing evangelists they were just men and women who believe God and And I've been watching the miracles, I mean, amazing miracles, things I've never seen in my lifetime happen.

And I was talking to Doc about this yesterday. I've been observing each different minister used by God, whether it's A.A. Allen or Oral Roberts or Catherine Kuhlman, whoever, R.W. Schombach. The common denominator in all of them is they truly believed God would heal the people. They didn't have a stick. They didn't have a gimmick. They believed. Before the people ever got up to the stage for prayer, those

ministers were convinced that person's healed. They believed. And the more healings they they saw the easier was to believe God you know doc after after the 100th cancerous tumor fell off somebody when do you start believing yes after the 500th deaf ears opened up when do you you start believing? So no, every time they saw God heal somebody, the minister's faith grew stronger. It got to the point like this is, this is already done. Yes. In fact, you see people who get healed before the prayer

and the minister will start laughing say god already healed you i don't have to pray for you you're already healed your faith made you whole when you when you came up here god healed you as you walked up here it's faith in God. And that faith is a form of worship. Because you're giving God the glory he deserves. Amen. Healing miracles and signs and wonders in church meetings, they're not to be entertainment. It is for the glory of God is God healing his mercy is healing people who have serious

problems but he's also doing it to give himself glory so that the unsaved in the audience are watching it and say, truly, there must be a God. Right. So. Verse 21. And being fully persuaded that what he had promised, he was able also to perform praise god fully persuaded fully persuaded entirely convinced not the slightest doubt that God could and would fulfill his promises. So, are you fully persuaded today? Are you fully persuaded?

Abraham was. Abraham was fully persuaded. Amen. See, there's two things. Could God do this? Number things. Could God do this? Number two, would God do this? You have to come to the place where you believe that, yes, for both of those issues. God could do it.

He has the ability to do it. And yes, he would do it. It's his will once you get those two things settled there are no limits anything that's within his will will happen yes if you have faith and belief there are many people who don't get healed it's's God's will to heal them, but they don't believe. They might even go get in a prayer line, but they're hoping that the preacher believes for them.

Yes. No, the preacher's there just to agree with your faith, to help you, help you be encouraged to have faith in God that's why I noticed a a Allen every almost every time he would ask the person do you believe God can person, do you believe God can heal you? Do you believe God will heal you? Do you believe when I pray for you, your eyes are going to open, your cancer is going to disappear?

He would ask them, do you believe? And if they said, well, I hope so. No, that's not enough. Do you believe? He wouldn't pray until they would say yes i believe so abraham's confidence was wasn't based on human ability it it was it rested entirely on god's character faithfulness omnotence, all of which were unchanging. That you can count on him any second of the day, any day, any year, it doesn't matter.

God doesn't change. His character is the same. The Jesus that made blind people see 2,000 years ago still makes blind people see today because he hasn't changed. Yes. He has not changed. The only difference is he is in heaven. And his spirit is in us on earth.

And he expects us to be his hands and feet on earth, and he'll still do the healings. But he needs you. I heard Tommy Osborne ask a group of pastors, he said, what can God do without you and your church? What can God do without you? Yes. Not with you, but without you well what tommy was t.o osborne what he was asking was do you see god doing anything without going through people

he's working through people he needs people to believe he needs people to lay hands on people he needs people to pray for others he needs people to build churches to build men he needs people if he didn't need people he works through people who have faith that's the system that is his system he works through people who have faith faith is the currency in heaven that gets things done. So Abraham, his full persuasion,

reflected a conviction that God's promises are reliable and certain to come to pass. He knew that God could and would accomplish whatever he said. And so being fully assured, Abraham honored God. And this unwavering belief acknowledged God's greatness. And that showcased how trusting God's promises brings glory to his name. Look how well Abraham did in his faith. Amen. How many years, Doc, since he lived?

4,000, 5,000 years? And we're still talking about his faith. We're still talking about it. An old guy out in the desert in a tent that got his wife pregnant when he was 100 years old. We're still talking about him. He did pretty good, didn't he? Abraham did well. Okay. Abraham did well okay his faith in God

his trust in God was not it was not confined not influenced by natural logic human understanding he believed God had supernatural power to bring

into reality into fruition whatever word came out of his mouth he believed it verse 22 and therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness

we're back to where we were we were at days ago And therefore, it was imputed to him for righteousness. Oh, we're back to where we were at days ago. This imputed for righteousness. Abraham's faith, not his works, was reckoned to him as righteousness. This is the core Christian doctrine of justification by faith. This is it. You get this down, you understand the centrality of a Christian faith

of salvation through Christ. That the imputation of righteousness from heaven, from God, is an act of divine grace. That Abraham didn't earn it through deeds. God graciously gave it to him because of his trust in God. See, Abraham, because of his trust in God, he got a twofer.

He was declared righteous and he got a baby. Right. Because he trusted in God's ability to fulfill what he promised that was the basis of his justification that demonstrates that that the nature of saving faith complete reliance on God's character and promises so by believing in God's promises Abraham glorified God what is the chief end of man to glorify God by God and to love him forever enjoy him enjoy him forever yes they're not two separate things they're one that's right um so abraham set in place a precedent for all who believe this is a model for every believer that God's promises are for all

who place their faith in him the foundation of Abraham's faith was his total confidence in the reliability of God's Word he was fully persuaded that God could and would do what he promised verse 23 now it was not written for his sake alone that it was imputed to him so this shows that this account it was written this is what was written this account of abraham's justification by faith was not recorded just for ab Abraham's benefit amen it was recorded for the benefit of all who would follow Abraham in this walk of faith for us also yes so Abraham was the the Explorer he's he was at the tip of the sphere. He's the first one in. He opened up the way for everybody else to follow. That's really the way to see it.

Abraham was at the very front of the army of faith. Everybody else was behind him. Now, you talk about a pioneer. Yes. A pioneer of faith. There was nobody in front of him. What a view he got. A view of God. Nobody in front of him. What a view he got. A view of God.

Nobody in front of him. Abraham was in the front. And he's still in the front today. We're still following him. 4,000 years later, we're following Abraham. Yes. him yes his righteousness from God came entirely from his belief not his deeds can't underscoring this this is the message in Romans that we are saved by faith. Saved by grace.

Saved by grace. Faith in God's promises. So, Abraham's example reassures all of us today that justification is rooted in trusting God. This promise is for everybody who believes.

God credits faith as righteousness. Therefore, none of us should question our salvation. if your faith is in God in the work his son Jesus Christ did on the cross that is what imputes God's righteousness to you so don't let Satan cause you to doubt your salvation don't ever wonder am I really saved have I did I lose my salvation if your faith is in and what Christ did on the cross then you're saved our faith our salvation comes by faith in Christ. Not our deeds, his deeds. He did the deeds. He went to the cross.

He paid the price. Verse 24, but for us also to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus, our Lord from the dead so now we get the principle of faith is that is not confined to Abraham's experience it's extended to all who trust in the resurrection of Jesus Christ if you believe in the resurrection of jesus christ if you believe in the resurrection of jesus christ he's going to raise you from the dead on the last day so this belief is the foundation of the christian faith

the core message of the early church was the resurrection wasn't a rapture i mean today the message coming out of churches is the state of israel and the rapture the core message of the early church was the resurrection faith has always been the means by which righteousness is credited and the resurrection is crucial in this belief because it validates God's promises it demonstrates his power over life and death and that gives us the assurance of justification so we go back to the same theme righteousness is not credited through human effort or adherence to the law, but solely through faith. Yes. And it reassures us that our faith in God who raised Jesus from the dead aligns with Abraham's prince example. By believing in the power to raise Jesus,

believers bring glory to him because we now affirm his sovereignty, his faithfulness, his redemptive authority. Yes. One last verse, verse 25. Who was delivered for our offenses and was raised again for our justification. This points to the death of Jesus Christ on the cross

as the substitutionary atonement. He was delivered up. It was a voluntary sacrifice. Necessary for the payment of sin. Right. And Paul makes it clear now. I just gave you the example of sin. Right. And Paul makes it clear now. I just gave you the example of Abraham's faith. We now operate in a different dimension here.

Paul is saying that we also believe by faith, but now that faith is reckoned by confession of the sacrifice of Jesus. That is how it is imputed to us now. It's not the same as it was with Abraham. Abraham didn't have the cross. He didn't have the resurrection. We do, and Paul's making that very, very clear here, that this faith now, it is the faith of Abraham, but Abraham longed for that day. Remember Jesus said, Abraham longed for that day, that day where the cross would have happened, the resurrection would have happened. And so, and I believe that by faith, Rick, Abraham saw all of that saw the sacrifice of jesus saw the resurrection uh because jesus made reference to it but paul is making direct here you can't just say i have faith no it's

faith he says if we believe on him that raised up jesus our lord from the dead who was delivered for our offenses and was raised again for our justification in other words faith in christ is essential now it is essential it is the faith of abraham yes so the resurrection was not merely an event. We say, well, we believe in the resurrection. Well, of course we do, but there's something deeper in it. The resurrection of Jesus Christ was a divine confirmation from God in heaven that Jesus' sacrifice on the cross was accepted in heaven. Yes. The resurrection is the proof of the acceptance.

Praise God. Hallelujah. And that means God accepted that the penalty for sin had been fully paid, if he had not accepted that the penalty for your sin and my sin had been fully paid, Jesus would not have been resurrected. That's a powerful revelation. The resurrection is the proof that God said the sins are paid for praise god so our justification hinges on the resurrection because it proves that sin and death have been conquered and that we believers are now counted as righteous in God's sight, just as Abraham was.

And so we, the resurrection validates that Jesus triumphed over death. That we have the assurance of eternal life that the power of sin is broken and the way of reconciliation is open sin is broken reconciliation is open god is saying come come, come, come to me. Come quickly. I mean, it's obvious that we all know the death and resurrection of Jesus were not just random acts. It was the central part of God's plan to redeem humanity. And this is at the core of what Paul is teaching to the church in Rome. That in Christ's death, God's justice was satisfied and is satisfied today.

It's still satisfied. The payment stuck. Glory. I'm glad. God's not saying, hey, guess what? There's been 2,000 years more sin we need another we need more blood no

the blood of Christ shed once was enough for all the sin of the world he was sacrificed once for all time. We don't sacrifice him every week. He was sacrificed once. When we have the Lord's Supper, as we will tomorrow,

that is a memorial of his one and only sacrifice. We're not crucifying him again. We're not sacrificing him again. That's right. So, we've got a two-fold work. Atonement and justification. And that's

a demonstration of God's perfect balance of justice and grace so any last words Doc because I think I'm just going to repeat myself well but I would just say again that Paul makes

the connection now between the faith of Abraham and faith in Christ. Remember who he's writing to here. He's writing to the church in Rome, which was probably mainly Jews in Rome, maybe a few Gentiles, but obviously probably mainly Jews that were congregating together. And obviously some sort of message had gotten to them that maybe they could still do the works of the law and still do those things and consider yourself justified. But Paul, throughout all of chapter 4 here,

has made the strong, firm, doctrinal case, and that's what this is. You've learned doctrine in the past week that the faith of Abraham today is translated to faith in the resurrection of Christ there is there's no way you can separate the two anymore not you can't and so what Paul is essentially saying is, if you want to be saved, you have to believe in the resurrection of Jesus Christ. That's the foundation of faith. That's the very basic foundation of all faith. Everything else is built on that.

And as we get over into chapter five, Paul goes a little bit deeper here, explaining things like, well, what exactly is justification? And what happened to all that sin that occurred between the time of Adam and the time of Christ? He explains all that in chapter 5. And so, but he has to get through this first. He has to establish that foundation of faith first before we can go into, alright, how is this actually

applied in our lives as we get into chapter 5? So it's going to be exciting on Monday when we dive into chapter 5 here. Because tomorrow is Faith Friday, Rick. Yes. But we've been talking about faith all week. That's right.

And it's the Lord's Supper tomorrow also. That's right. And tonight is prayer meeting for our microchurches. Yes, sir. 8 p.m. Eastern Time on the East Coast. So come and join us. So we'd love to have you with us tonight as we pray. So do you have a theme for tomorrow yet, Rick?

No. Faith. Faith. All right. I like that theme. I'll be talking about faith. I'm waiting on the message to come. I don't have it yet.

Well, praise the Lord. I'm sure it'll be a good one. So, ladies and gentlemen, we're going to sign off for today. We appreciate you being with us here on Morning Man Alive. And we invite you to come back here tomorrow for our Faith Friday and our Lord's Supper celebration tomorrow. We'd love to have you here with us live if you possibly can. We've been pushing about 400 this week. So, we're slowly seeing our numbers increase again.

And so that's always an encouragement. And we bless you and thank you for taking time out of your schedule to be with us. And for those of you who aren't able to join us live, I pray that Morning Man is a blessing to you and that you apply these principles from the word of God in your own life. Any final words before we sign off, Rick?

Be blessed. Enjoy the day. All right, folks. We've got to dive into the news once again. And so be praying for us. Pray for this ministry. And we'll see you tomorrow on Morning Manna on Faith Friday. God bless you.