TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - Pentagon Prepares Panama Invasion Plan

Episode Date: March 13, 2025

NBC News reported today that the US Department of Defense has prepared plans for a military invasion of Panama. We will give you more details later in the show. First, however, there is some movement in Moscow regarding the US-brokered ceasefire proposal to halt the fighting in Ukraine for 30 days.Rick Wiles, Doc Burkhart. Airdate 3/13/25Join the leading community for Conservative Christians! https://www.FaithandValues.comYou can partner with us by visiting TruNews.com, calling 1-800-576-2116, or by mail at PO Box 399 Vero Beach, FL 32961.Get high-quality emergency preparedness food today from American Reserves!https://www.AmericanReserves.com             It’s the Final Day! The day Jesus Christ bursts into our dimension of time, space, and matter. Now available in eBook and audio formats! Order Final Day from Amazon today!https://www.amazon.com/Final-Day-Characteristics-Second-Coming/dp/0578260816/Apple users, you can download the audio version on Apple Books!https://books.apple.com/us/audiobook/final-day-10-characteristics-of-the-second-coming/id1687129858Purchase the 4-part DVD set or start streaming Sacrificing Liberty today.https://www.sacrificingliberty.com/watchThe Fauci Elf is a hilarious gift guaranteed to make your friends laugh! Order yours today!https://tru.news/faucielf

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Don't take the risk. Try my favorite America-loving brand, American Reserves, for your emergency food supply needs. NBC News reported today that the United States Department of Defense has prepared plans for a military invasion of Panama. We will give you more details later. First, however, there is some movement in Moscow regarding the U.S. brokered ceasefire proposal to halt the fighting in Ukraine for 30 days. This is true news for Thursday, March 13, 2025.

Let's begin our analysis and commentary of today's national and international headlines with this late breaking report from Moscow. And I'm going to show you a series of headlines. You have to decide, did Mr. Putin agree to the terms or did not because it's Depends on which newspaper headline you read. Here's the telegraph. I will agree to ceasefire on my terms Then we go to the next one. This is Financial Times London Putin voices doubts over US proposal for Ukraine ceasefire CBS put it this way Putin backs Trump's push for Ukraine ceasefire in principle, but says There are some issues to discuss with the United States

Let's take a look at a Russian publication Putin lists guarantees Moscow wants for 30-day ceasefire Right this I think we're getting closer to the real story here. Right. So, this is Russia Today reporting this. It said that Russian President Vladimir Putin has expressed support for a potential 30-day ceasefire in the Ukraine conflict, but has raised concerns concerning how such a truce would be implemented.

Speaking on Thursday, President Putin warned of potential loopholes and strategic disadvantages. He said, we also want guarantees that during the 30-day ceasefire, Ukraine will not conduct mobilization, will not train soldiers, and will not receive weapons. That's the one I told you. He's not going to allow the US to rearm and NATO nations to rearm Ukraine for 30 days. President Putin said this in a brief press briefing appearing with Belarusian President Alexander Yushchenko in Moscow. The president pointed out that Russian troops are advancing along

nearly 2,000 kilometers of front line and halting military actions could disrupt ongoing operations. Ukrainian forces could use a ceasefire period to regroup, receive more weapons, and train fresh recruits," he warned. These 30 days, he asked, how will they be used? To continue forced mobilization in Ukraine? To receive more arms supplies? To train newly mobilized units? Or will none of this happen, Putin asked? Are we supposed to let them out if they've committed mass war crimes against civilians? Will the Ukrainian leadership tell them to lay down their arms and just surrender, President

Putin said? And then, right there, he's talking about the Ukrainian troops in Kursk, inside Russia. And we mentioned this yesterday. What are they going to do with the Ukrainian troops that are in Russia? He's not going to allow them 30 days to catch their breath They've got them on the run. Yes, and I just can't see Putin saying okay We have Ukrainian troops in our country. We're going to give them a 30-day siesta Right and you know they can catch up on their Ukrainian troops in our country, we're going to give them a 30-day siesta. Right.

And, you know, they can catch up on their... Text messages. Text messages or whatever, you know. Wash their socks, do all that. Not going to happen. And yet he didn't close the door to the ceasefire. Right. So my guess, Doc, is that he's going to

Drag this out for about two weeks, right? Kill as many Ukrainians inside Russia as he can as his troops can kill and Then when he feels like he's got them wiped out then he'll say okay. We're gonna we're ready to sign. Yes if these other conditions are met and the big one is the re-arming of the Ukraine army because NATO is rushing weapons to Ukraine. Mr. Trump has said they're going to resume. I don't know if the US has actually started shipping into Ukraine, but the Russians know that if they give NATO 30 days, the Ukrainian military will have their weapons, their ammo, their artillery replenished. And they'll be good to go for another six months.

Correct. Yes. And I think that we can see a signal with where President Putin is thinking with this because prior to his meeting with President Lukashenko of Belarus, President Putin visited the front lines in Kursk. And so, and here is where he has appeared. So he is saying to his troops and to the military commanders in Kursk that he has their back and that he will not settle for anything along the way. Did you notice that yesterday? He wore a military uniform.

That's right. He was sending a signal. Absolutely. Making it very clear, we're not going to have Ukrainian troops here in Russia one year or another. When you see a national leader put on a military uniform, he's sending a message to other nations, I'm prepared to lead my army into battle. And he did that yesterday. So there was a clear message to the United States and NATO regarding these proposals.

It's a subtle way of saying, we're not going to be pushovers. We're prepared to fight. He did it without saying it in words. Did it by wearing a uniform. So next, let's see. I'm going to go to—one of my notes here, Wall Street Journal. This one was earlier today. Putin aid rejects plan for Ukraine.

So they were setting the stage, lowering expectations. Looks like they're going to turn it down. So when Vladimir Putin came out today with a... Maybe. Maybe. Then that sounded better than it did this morning. Yes. That was the ploy.

That was the technique. Look at the London Telegraph. President Trump threatens to devastate Russian economy if Putin refuses peace deal. And of course, this was very early this morning too, before any announcements from Russia had come out. So, Donald Trump had threatened to devastate Russia's economy if Vladimir Putin rejected a proposed 30-day ceasefire with Ukraine. The president said on Wednesday that the consequences if Russia snubbed the truce would be very bad but insisted he did not believe that it would come to that.

Wrong language to use. You don't threaten a country that has 6,000 nuclear armed ICBMs pointed at you. You would think not to do that, but... No, if you're going to be in the White House, I don't care which office, I mean which nation, if you're going to be at that level, you don't threaten to destroy another country when that country has the ability to do more than destroy your economy. Right.

Destroy you. You can destroy us. How do you think that came across in Moscow? When an aide walked into the Kremlin and said to Vladimir Putin, Mr. President, Donald Trump says, if you don't sign this deal, he could destroy our economy. How do you think they went across it? Like a lead balloon. You're thinking, really? He's going to threaten us?

He's going to threaten to destroy our economy? It's not the way to bring about peace. If you're trying to bring about a settlement, you don't threaten destruction. It's like saying two people were fighting. I could break that guy's teeth out. I could just knock all his teeth out right now. I don't want to do it. I don't want to send him to the hospital.

I don't want him bleeding. But I could do it. I could go over there right now and bust his teeth out. And then the other person responds, bring it on. You want to bring it on? This kind of talk's got to stop. I know it goes over real big with the MAGA crowd. They love that kind of talk.

But that's not the way you talk as a leader when you're dealing with somebody who's got 6,000 nuclear-armed missiles. I'm going to get emails from people. They're going to send me, you're criticizing President Trump. Yes, I am. Yes, I am. I'm criticizing. Yes, I am. Yes, I am. This is irresponsible talk.

And the reason why you're criticizing President Trump is you're allergic to nuclear radiation. I am. I am. If this was Joe Biden. Yes, same thing. If this was Kamala Harris, I would say, you need to stop talking like this.

I'm not interested in a nuclear war. So you just can't go around threatening everybody. He's going to invade Panama. He's going to invade Canada. He's going to invade Greenland. He's going to destroy Russia. This is irresponsible talk. I didn't vote to invade Canada.

I didn't vote to invade Greenland. And you certainly didn't vote to go to war with Russia. Absolutely. But, you know, when you talk like a bully, eventually somebody punches you in the face, okay? So, I hope he stops it. And if you want to send me an email, go ahead, but here's the difference between you and me.

I am consistent in my thinking in what I say. I don't have a cult follower. I'm not into following somebody like it's a cult. We elect these people, they're humans. They're men and women. They're humans. You've got to hold them accountable for what they say. I'm not in a political cult, not in a religious cult. I got people yesterday who were upset saying, you said President Trump threatened to depopulate

Gaza and move everybody. Yes, that's exactly what he said. He did say that. And people said, but you just, right there it was. There's the video. He said, nobody's talking like that. Nobody's talking like that today, but how about two weeks ago? Yes So you want me?

To adjust my concept of reality. I have to make my reality in line with Donald Trump's reality Because two weeks ago. He was going to depopulate Gaza said it he released a video with a big 90-foot gold statue of himself in Gaza. Did he or did he not? So that doesn't exist now? But I got people angry at me sending me emails. Why are you criticizing him? Because he released a video of a 90 foot golden statue of himself in Gaza.

And then if we say anything nice about Donald Trump... Then we get the other side. We get another group. We get another batch, you know? So... Look, I'm just telling you the way it is. He threatened to destroy Russia. That's not the way to talk.

Especially when you're in peace negotiations, right? We got the video. We didn't, right? We got the video. We didn't play it. Here's the video. Just to make sure that you don't think I'm making it up, here's what he said. With Biden, they wanted to take the whole country, but I think I've stopped that, but we'll see. But yeah, there are things you could do that wouldn't be pleasant in a financial sense.

I can do things financially that would be very bad for Russia. I don't want to do that because I want to get peace. I want to see peace, and we'll see. But in a financial sense, yeah, we could do things very bad for Russia. It would be devastating for Russia. Be very bad for Russia, Rick. So if Putin said, hey, we could do things really bad for the United States, I don't want a historian, but we could do it if we wanted to.

What would we be saying? We would take that as a threat. A threat. A threat to Nukes. If Vladimir Putin said that to us. Isvestia Sergey Lavrov said he doesn't have any interest whatsoever in the opinions of European leaders. On the subject of Ukraine, no opinion whatsoever.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov expressed a complete lack of interest in the opinion of EU countries on the settlement of conflict in Ukraine. He said, quote, I am not interested in their position, honestly. For some time now, it has not been interested their position honestly for some time now it has not been interested at all, Lavrov stated, because they're not a player in the game. No, he doesn't care. They don't know that yet. He doesn't care what Emmanuel McCrone thinks or Kair Starmor. He doesn't care, okay? And he made it very clear, we don't care. You can say anything you want to, but we're not listening.

I want to show you a video. The main thing I want to show you here is not that they had a meeting, so they have meetings all the time. There's a President Putin meeting with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. So it happened in the Kremlin today. I want to show you the video, and then I'm going to replay it, OK? So watch Mr. Putin as he walks in, OK? OK.

This is something I notice every time I see a video of Mr. Putin walking. Now, let's play it again. Watch Mr. Putin closely. Do you see it? Now you're a body language expert, Doc. Watch it one more time. I don't think you need to be an expert to read his body language. What's the body language?

He's confident. Okay, he is, yes. But one more time. Now before you play this time, look at the right arm. Look at the left arm. Ah, I see what you're meaning. OK, we'll watch it again. Watch the right hand versus the left. His right hand is his trigger hand.

Yes. He's a KGB spy. Do you understand? His gun is on the right side. He could pull that gun any time he wants. He never swings that right arm. Never. I've watched this man for years. He never swings the right arm. That is a great observation, Rick.

He's ready to draw his revolver. Okay. Just a little observation watching these guys. I think you're on the money there. That's good. Well, President Trump had a visitor at the White House today. Mr. Wutah, Secretary General of NATO, flew in today for a crucial meeting with President Trump. This is zero news. The purpose of the meeting is to convince President Trump to stay in NATO.

That's basically it. That's basically the meeting. He wasn't to coordinate anything. No, he says, hey, we need you. Please stay in NATO. Mark Rutte is as smooth as you. He's just smooth. He's different than Ian Stoltenberg. Mark Rutte, he's just as smooth as warm butter. He's educated. He's got style. He's got

manners. He was well-groomed for a job like this. You could tell for decades, he was well groomed for a job like this. You could tell, like, for decades, he was being prepared for a job like this. He's a different breed of cat than Ian Stoltenberg, who basically was a banker. But anyhow, he had to come—he rushed to, you know, to DC today to convince Donald Trump to stay in NATO. Financial Times in London, Poland's president urges the United States to move nuclear warheads to Polish territory.

What else can you think of the start of war? He got up in the morning and said, you know what we need dear? His wife said, at breakfast. Well, they're eating breakfast. Yeah. He said to his wife, sweetheart, you know what we could use in this country? Nukes. Nukes.

That would make us safe. Poland's president has called on the US to transfer nuclear weapons to Polish territory as a deterrent against future Russian aggression. This request is likely to be perceived as highly provocative. No kidding in Moscow. Andrzej Duda said it was obvious that President Donald Trump could redeploy US nuclear warheads stored in Western Europe or the US to Poland. A proposal the Polish president said he recently discussed with Keith Kellogg. had stored in Western Europe or the US to Poland. The Polish president said he recently discussed with Keith Kellogg, US Special Envoy to Ukraine. He said, the borders of NATO moved east in 1999,

so 26 years later, there should also be a shift of the NATO infrastructure east. For me, this is obvious, due to said interview with the Financial Times. I think it's not only that the time has come, but that we'd be safer if those weapons were already here. So Duda, who's also the supreme commander of Poland's armed forces, echoed Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk in saying that the country could alternatively get better protection from President Emmanuel Macron's idea to extend France's

nuclear umbrella to cover European allies. Well, I already know what the response from Russia will be if we park nukes in Poland. They're going to be pretty upset about that. And they're going to look at that as a violation of the promise that NATO had made that they would not advance the boundaries of NATO after the fall of the Soviet Union. But why keep a promise, Rick? All we have to say is what we've said many times on this program. Put it in perspective, and you can understand the Russians viewpoint, just imagine that Russia has put nuclear-armed missiles in Mexico. Right. On the border with Texas. What else do you need to say? It's done.

What does that mean? You plan to nuke the United States. That's the only reason why you have them there, right? That's right. And so the Russians aren't dumb, and they know this, and they're prepared. I'll be honest with you, the Russians are prepared to burn the world down. They've said it. Yes. If there can't be a Russia, there won't be a world. And they mean it. They love their country that much.

They're that loyal and devoted to their country. Their mindset is, if there's not going to be a Russia, love their country that much. They're that loyal and devoted to their country. Their mindset is, if there's not going to be a Russia, there's not going to be Mother Russia, there ain't going to be nothing. And they think it's the end of time anyhow. They think Christ is coming back and they're fighting Antichrist. That's right. So they don't care if they burn us down. They think they're burning down Antichrist. Americans just have no idea how the rest of the world sees us. And then there's Looney Lindsay. Look at this. Graham proposed to Europe to create a nuclear

deterrent force for Russia. I'm telling you, that man should be in a straight jacket. I mean, he ought to be in a straight jacket. I guess he's being haunted by the ghost of John McCain every night, because he is just toting that line. He posted on X, said this, question for Europe, why not create your own nuclear deterrent force by modernizing the British and French stockpile and placing tactical nuclear weapons strategically

throughout Europe? This is what Ronald Reagan did in the 80s. Instead of matching the Soviets tank for tank, Reagan introduced ground launch nuclear-tipped cruise missiles as a means of defending Europe. I would encourage our European allies to think like Reagan when it comes to defending the continent against Putin and Putin wannabes. It worked for Reagan.

It will work for Europe. The difference between the Reagan era and the current era is if you start scattering nukes all over Europe, you have shortened the delivery time to less basically than five minutes against Russia. In a conflict with the US and Russia, you have some time. You have maybe 15 to 30 minutes if there's some sort of nuclear exchange that kicks up.

But if nukes are parked all over Europe, Russia's gonna look at that as a direct threat against them. And a first strike capability against Russia. They're not gonna allow a first strike take capability. No. By any means. It's just not gonna happen. You're going to have a nuclear war.

And they're gonna take out Europe before Europe ever gets a chance to put nukes there. It's just not going to happen. You're going to have a nuclear war. And they're going to take out Europe before Europe ever gets a chance to put nukes there. These people are dangerous. Lindsey Graham, what does he do for South Carolina? I'd like to know. It seems like he's doing everything he can for Ukraine and Israel. I mean, South Carolina. It's the only two countries he—

Tell me what he does for you. Right. Give us a list of achievements, South Carolina. Tell me what he does for you. Right. Give us a list of achievements for South Carolina. I mean, give me some pork. Something that he's done for you. I just, I don't know. I'm just so frustrated with these politicians. Let's see. Number 16. This is CBS News. President Trump wants to invoke wartime alien enemies act This is to round up The violent Illegal immigrants that are in the United States, right? Okay, so, you know he was he was

Starting to take them to Guantanamo, right and a federal judge stopped him Starting to take them to Guantanamo. Right. And a federal judge stopped him. Okay, so now I'm switching over where I'm defending President Trump. Okay, see I'm not schizophrenic. I'm stable. When I like him, I say it. When I don't like it, I say it.

I'm consistent. But there are some that don't like it, that you're not- So I make both sides angry. So right now I am applauding President Trump. Dear Rick, why? Here they come, all right? This is a good thing. So he's invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.

It's going to be done tomorrow. To authorize the summary deportation of some migrants to Guantanamo Bay, according to CBS News, the 227-year-old law gives presidents the extraordinary power to order the arrest, detention, and deportation of non-citizens who are over 14 years of age and come from countries staging an invasion or predatory incursion of the United States. Those subject to the Act would not be allowed to have a court hearing or an asylum interview since they would be processed under an emergency wartime authority." So, he's declaring, he's declaring, isn't this partial martial law?

In a way, yeah, it's the first step into it. Instead, they would be eligible to be detained and deported with little to no due process under Title 50, the section of the U.S. Code, Housing, War, American War, and Defense Laws. So, hey, if that's what he's got to do to round up these violent gangs, do it. Okay? I don't have any problem with it. I don't have a problem with it either. The law is on the books the books can be used. The problem

that we've had for the years under Obama and under Biden is we've basically given full American rights to anybody that decides to invade the border. We've given all the rights of US citizens, given them full rights of US citizens, I mean, whether we say it or not, they've done it, including all the benefits that even Americans don't get. That's right. Doc, I've been doing this podcast for 26 years. For 26 years, I've been talking about illegal immigrants coming across the border. Right. Donald Trump is the only president in the 26 years who's actually stopped it.

All the others talked about it. They talked about the immigration crisis. They have all these terms that our immigration laws are broken. Yeah, they're broken by people coming across the border. Republicans and Democrats, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, they all promised to secure the border, and yet none of them did it. Right. But Donald...

You have to ask why. Right. Because the policy was to let the border open. it. Right. You have to ask why. Right. Because the policy was to let the border open. Yes. Okay. Donald Trump is the only president who has actually enforced the laws and to shut down the border. So I applaud him for it.

I stand with him. Now I'm going to swing my schizophrenia. I'm going to swing back and forth. I'm going now. I'm going to criticize Donald Trump, okay? At least you're warning people now. I gotta, yeah, I gotta put something up on the screen. So you tell me, if you disagree, do you tell me,

hey Rick, I'm all for invading Panama. Here's NBC News. Trump White House has asked the US military to develop options for the Panama Canal. The White House has directed the U.S. military to draw up options for increasing the American troop presence in Panama to achieve President Trump's goal of reclaiming the canal, according to U.S. officials familiar with the planning. Quote, To further enhance our national security, my administration will be reclaiming the Panama Canal. The officials said that the U.S. Southern Command is developing potential plans that vary

from partnering more closely with the Panamanian military to the less likely option of U.S. troops seizing the canal by force. The officials added that whether military force is used depends on how much the Panamanian military agrees to partner with the US. It's like we have more bullets than you. Do you agree? Would you like to partner with us? The commander of the US Southern Command, Admiral Alvin Holsey, presented draft strategies to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth this week. According to two officials familiar with the planning, Secretary Hegseth is expected to visit Panama next month.

All right. President Carter signed a treaty, and I opposed that treaty. See, I can go back in time. I opposed the treaty. Even as a young man, I was a teenager at the time, no one could explain to me why we were doing this. What was the purpose of it? How did we benefit from it? And I'm just a dumb kid from Missouri. I'm asking you, what is giving the Panama Canal away do for us?

President Carter did it. Yes. Okay? He signed a treaty. Treaty is a treaty. You can't break treaties. Now if President Trump can prove that the Panamanians broke the treaty, then yeah, now you've got a legal...

But do you know who bought control of the Panama Canal? The companies that have the... All right, so they're... Hutchison Wampo is a Hong Kong company. Right. They weren't always Chinese. They became Chinese. They were bought out by the Chinese. No, Hutchison Wampo is a Hong Kong company. Yeah, I know that I mean Lee Kexin was right It's Chinese. He's Hong Kong. Hong Kong is China. Okay Well was then they don't back then except that the Brits had control of it. Okay, so Lee Kexin was a billionaire and his company

Hutchinson Wanpo got the contract right to manage both ends of the port. On the Caribbean side and the Pacific side. If you've never been to the Panama-Latino Canal, it's something you've got to see. Spectacular. So just weeks ago, was it Black Rock? Black Rock bought the contracts from Hutchison Wampo. I didn't even know they were for sale. Apparently somebody at Hutchison Wampo said, you know what?

It'd probably be wise to get some money out of these contracts before the Marines show up. That's right. All right. All right. So, who got control of the canal? Who? Black Rock.

And who's Black Rock? Probably the biggest financial dark entity that you can imagine. Dark entity? And we need not go into names okay so another another group got control of the Panama Canal okay but I believe we're gonna end up with a military presence in the canal yes now whether it's an actual invasion force or something like that that's yet to be seen. But we are going to have a military presence in the Panama Canal from this point forward.

You bet your bottom dollar on it. Or there's going to be another Noriega rounded up and put in prison. What did President Noriega do that made George Bush invade Panama? George Herbert Walker Bush. What did Noriega do? Did he cheat him on the cocaine? I mean, what was it? Do you remember?

No, I don't remember. What did he do? The images I have from back in those days were we had US troops who were blasting music at Noriega's mansion. But what did General, or President Noriega, what did he do that that constituted the level of response of a US military invasion? He got somebody mad. I always guess that he cheated somebody of the drug money.

I don't know. That's just my guess. Oh, yeah. You know, and you know this better than anyone, Noriega gave his life to Christ in prison. I interviewed the evangelist who led him to Christ. So I know for a fact that he did come to Christ because I interviewed the man that prayed for him, visited him in prison repeatedly, and then led him to Christ. So General Noriega is a brother in Christ.

He's passed away now, but he's with the Lord. This announcement just came out today. President Trump fuels rumors about impending Epstein files released with major announcement. All we know is that he's going to the Department of Justice tomorrow to make an announcement. I guess he's going to announce that he's going to release the files, but he already did that. Right. But he's going to go there to make an announcement that he's going to release the false how much just release them you already made the announcement right I don't need another press conference just

produce the false they're protecting somebody something someplace somewhere someplace. Somewhere. Somewhere. Somewhere that's not here. I would say it's Israel. But we'll see what he says tomorrow. Oh, here's the next story. Folks, I, look, almost like at the point where I was just so fed up with commenting on news, because it's a Almost like at the point where I was just so fed up with

commenting on news because there it's a it's a no-win You can't win in this. This is a game you can't win it If you're fair if you're fair you can't win at this because if you just tell the truth and you're fair imbalance You'll You'll just be pounded by people on all sides. On both sides. Because where we're at in American politics, it's so polarized. You have to take a stand. You have to take a stand and you can't think with a brain.

You're either far left or you're far right. There's no middle. There's no middle. There is no middle. Although there's a lot of people in the middle. But they don't know where to go. They don't know what to do. It's you're either far far right, you're MAGA all the way, or you're far far left, and you're out there with Maxine Waters and AOC.

That's it. And if you disagree with someone on the right, also you're for Maxine Waters? No, no, no. If you criticize Maxine Waters, oh, so you're for Trump? That's the parameters that we have now. And they make you choose a side. They make you choose. Both sides do it.

Yes. It's really not both sides. It's the people at the top that are running both sides. That's the way that they maintain control. So look at this story, Wall Street Journal. Trump family has held deal talks with Binance following crypto exchange guilty plea. Okay, so let's build the story here for our audience so you understand where we're at on this.

Representatives of President Trump's family have held talks to take a financial stake in the US arm of crypto exchange Binance. According to people familiar with the matter, a move that would put President Trump in business with the firm that pleaded guilty back in 2023 to violating anti money laundering requirements. Now at the same time, Binance's billionaire founder, Jianping Zhao, who served four months in prison after pleading guilty to a related charge, has been pushing for the Trump administration to grant him a pardon.

People familiar with the matter said, Zhao known widely as CZ remains Binance's largest shareholder. Now these talks began after Binance reached out to Trump's allies last year, offering to strike a business deal with the family as part of a plan to return the exiled company to the US. So it's unclear what form the Trump family stake would take if the deal comes together

or whether it would be contingent on a pardon. The people said that the possibility include the Trumps taking the stake or the deal going through World Liberty Financial, a crypto venture backed by the Trumps that launched in September. Now, some of the people familiar with the matter said Steve Whitkoff, longtime friend of Donald Trump, who is now his top negotiator in the Middle East and for the war in Ukraine, that he's been involved in the talks for a deal.

So an administration official denied Whitkoff's involvement, said he's in the process of divesting from his business interest. President Trump has increasingly blurred the boundaries between the presidency and his business ventures. His family has been profiting from his election victory. This is Wall Street Journal saying this. First Lady Melania Trump signed a $40 million documentary deal, and President Trump is seeking

tens of millions in financial settlements from companies he had sued years earlier, much of which has gone to fund his presidential library. But pursuing a business deal involving a felon, seeking a pardon from his administration would be an unprecedented overlap of his business and government. A stake in Binance US would also be a striking

expansion of the family's crypto endeavors as President Trump signs a series of executive orders that benefit the industry. Now, if we take the name Trump and we replace it with the name Biden, would you be upset about this story? Yes, and I'm upset with Trump in it. This is one of the sleaziest things I've ever seen. It's sleazy. So if this is all true, Wall Street Journal, the Trump family is negotiating to take a financial stake in Binance crypto company, its founder, billionaire founder, Zao, went to prison and is seeking a presidential pardon.

So, is the cost of the pardon the agreement to sell part of his company to the Trump family. That is corrupt. That's corrupt. That's corrupt. That's absolutely corrupt. And it's impeachable. That's an impeachable offense. It doesn't matter who's president.

Absolutely. Even if there's not a pardon involved, it's slimy, Doc. Whatever happened to the days of a blind trust? Do you remember those days? Am I that old? Has that gone out of style? I remember the term, but I've never seen it actually practiced in my lifetime. It used to be, Doc. It was just common, a person running for office.

It was assumed that they would divest of any... If they had... Not that they would divest. Or park it somewhere where they couldn't have access to it while they're serving. A blind trust was they would put their family business holdings into a trust and the reason they called it blind is it because a trustee would run it for them while he or she was in office and the office holder had no idea whatsoever what the trustee was doing. Right. That way there could be no hanky-panky, you know making deals like this. This is so sleazy out in the open corrupt What else is and Steve Whitcomb is he's got time to do this too

How are you doing Ukraine he's doing Gaza oh, yeah, I'm doing Binance, too. In between. Unless the goal with Witkoff is to look for these deals in every situation. Yes. Let's make Gaza the resort capital of the world. Let's turn Ukraine into a mineral gold mine. Precisely. This ought to be shut down right away. Look, I was uncomfortable with Mr. Trump still selling his sneakers and his watches after he's in the White House. I understood before.

I'm like, OK, you're selling your Trump watches, your Trump sneakers. The election hasn't been held yet. And even after the election, I thought, surely they're going to stop on January 20th. No. You can still hear him every day. Get your Trump watch. Get your Trump sneakers. People love them everywhere. They're talking about the Trump, I mean, how Donald Trump talks.

They're talking about the Trump watch. They're selling out. The guy's in the White House, and he's hustling watches and sneakers. It's sleazy. Okay, send me your emails. Look. Your Rick. He's going to, Trump family is trying to make as much money as they can make in four years.

Okay? I don't care if you like it or not. They plan to make us... Look, the Bidens were just...they were corrupt. Oh man, were they corrupt. They were corrupt. But the Trumps... See, the Trumps would say, well, we're not corrupt,

we're doing it out, we're not corrupt. The Trumps would say, we're not corrupt, we're doing it out in the open. The Bidens were sneaky. We're not sneaky, we do it out in public. That would be their response. But they don't see anything wrong with this. I mean the first Trump administration Kushner and His wife

Yael Ivanka were in China selling US Citizenships passports. Yes. Oh Rick that's not true. Yes, it was true on that Absolutely was true. Yes, it is true. We were reporting on that. It was true. Absolutely was true. Oh, well, I've done enough damage to us today. CNBC, Trump threatens about 200 percent tariff on French champagne and other liquor. This is the post he put on True Social.

He said, the European Union, one of the most hostile and abusive taxing and tariffing authorities in the world, which was formed for the sole purpose of taking advantage of the United States, has just put a nasty 50 percent tariff on whiskey. If this tariff is not removed immediately, the US will shortly place a 200% tariff on all wines, champagnes, and alcoholic products coming out of France and other EU-represented countries. This will be great for the wine and champagne businesses in the US.

I don't have a problem with what he's doing with tariffs. I'm OK with it. I'm okay too. I would have approached it differently. I would have privately met with national leaders and say, hey, look, I'm going to be honest with you. Either we rewrite the deals here privately and get this straightened out, or this is what I'm going to do. I don't think he did that. I think he just went straight, pulled out the six shooter and started

firing. Attack, attack, attack. Attack, attack, attack. Yeah. Number one. Yeah. Which is to stir up a lot of trouble. See the whole world right now stirred up. Because we're taking Finland, we're taking Canada, we're taking Panama, we're putting tariffs on everything. We're gonna destroy the Russian economy. One man's doing all this. Well now here's a shocker. This'll knock you down.

DW News in Germany. COVID pandemic likely unleashed by a lab. Is this 2025? Yes. This is according to Germany's BND, that's their big spy agency, their CIA. So it's okay now to say what we were saying in 2020 and being deplatformed for it. Germany's foreign intelligence agency, the BND, concluded that the outbreak of the worldwide coronavirus pandemic in 2020 could have been triggered by an accident at a Chinese laboratory. German media reported Wednesday. According to the reports in German newspapers,

the BND based its conclusion on analyzing material from the public domain that it collected during an investigation. This is the material, some of which came from the Wuhan Institute located in Wuhan, where the pandemic started, indicated that some risky research methods were used there, compounded by breaches of laboratory safety rules. The paper said that there was evidence that the Wuhan researchers carried out so-called gain-of-function experiments. My, my. That probably involved Dr. Fauci, in which natural viruses are manipulated. Some research can cause changes in the way

viruses cause illness, its transmissibility, and the type of host it can affect. Now, listen to this. I'll go back up to the front, the beginning of this. The virus could have been triggered. Then we get down to the bottom. The newspaper said the BND reached its conclusion as early as 2020, giving them the likelihood rating of 80 to 95 percent, but the assessment was kept from the public. Then it's been kept. 2020. Okay. It says the assessment was kept from the public then. It was kept from the public until now. Yes.

Five years. So what changed? What's changed that now we can come out now the intelligence agents, German intelligence can come out and say it just out it was it came from China. Um, they inoculate themselves Against their own lying. Right. Yes, we did lie, but we told you later we lied. We told you the truth about our lie. Yes. There you go. Which means if this is German intelligence, that means all the... They all know it. All the intelligence agencies knew it. Every single one of them. And yet, we're the bad guys.

They destroyed people's lives. They destroyed people's lives. People that questioned the story. Their livelihood, their careers were destroyed. Their reputations were destroyed. They made us follow arrows on the ground in grocery stores. But I'm talking about the attacks on the reputations of men and women who told the truth. They destroyed lives, knowing that the agencies were lying

and the people were telling the truth, which makes them triple liars. And then they wonder why we don't trust the government. Yeah, because we tell you the truth every five years. So what are you lying about this year that you won't tell us till 2030? Wait till you see this next one, BBC. Amazon rainforest was cut down to build a road for the UN

climate summit. The climate summit that's not taking place until 2030. This is so bizarre. Look at this. So this is the Amazon rainforest. And they're building this big, giant super highway in order for there to be travel to the COP30 conference here in a few years.

It takes a while to build a road, folks. And it's gonna take them five years to get this road built in time for that summit. But the hypocrisy of the climate activists having a climate summit and then basically wrecking the rainforest. So which is it, folks? Which is it?

Is it okay or not okay? And did you trade carbon credits for it? I don't even know what carbon credits are. But you know, they're just hypocrites, right? Yes, they are. Want to encourage everybody to look at the price of gold today. Yes.

It's just when I left my office a little while ago, it was just under $3,000. I don't know where it's at right now. Just right, yes. It's a couple of dollars shy. What is the number right now? $2,997.30. $2,997?

Yes. Just $2.70 away from $3,000. Yes. Okay. There's the phone number for Goldco 844-960-GOLD. 844-960-GOLD. I've told you before when I graduated from high school actually the year I graduated gold was $35 an ounce. A few years later it escalated to $40 stock. When I was in my early 20s it was $40 an ounce. Today it's $3,000 an ounce. Did gold go up in value? No. The dollar went down in value. The gold coin is still the same. It's the paper money that's worth less. What is gold going to be next year, the year afterwards? Well, it means the dollar is going to decrease and decrease

and decrease. It's inflation that decreases the dollar. And so that's the reason to invest in gold. It is to preserve wealth. It's not a money, I don't see gold as a way to, you don't speculate on buying gold. Hey, if I buy it next year, it's going to be this. Okay, you can play that game you want to. The main purpose for gold and precious metals is to preserve the wealth that you have so that inflation doesn't eat it away. And that's why I recommend that you seriously consider

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Or, if you've got your phone handy, there's the QR code. Hey, our last story, I can't miss this one. I saw this, this was TV5 in Memphis, Tennessee. This is one of these stories like okay. I gotta watch this okay a Man was accidentally shot in bed by his dog By his dog yes The dog shot him the man was in bed and his dog shot him while he was in bed Let's watch it. This TV 5 Memphis, Tennessee. Well, we can't make this one up a canine culprit a bizarre

case out of Frazier today, a man telling police he was hurt after he was accidentally shot by his dog. Thank you for joining us. I'm joy right and. And I'm Joe Burks. The family of the man who was shot claims it was his pit bull puppy named Oreo. The dog allegedly got his paw caught in the gun, right there at the trigger. Action News 5's Stephanie Douglas has more.

According to Memphis police, the victim says he was shot just before 4 AM.m. Monday in Frayser. He told officers while he was lying in the bed with a woman, his dog jumped up, got his paw stuck in the gun's trigger, the gun went off, and a bullet grazed his upper left thigh. Police say the female friend left the home, taking the gun with her. Well Memphis police say the man was treated for his wounds there at home then sent on to the hospital. The man's family says both the victim and Oreo are doing just fine. A quick reminder, MPD encourages gun owners to use gun locks

when storing your gun. You can get a free gun lock at any Memphis Police precinct. There's so much material there I don't even know where to begin. Why was the gun in your bed? Well, I mean the dog should have been practicing good gun safety. That's true. I mean obviously he has not gone through a certified gun safety course or he would have known how to accurately and safely handle his firearm. That's true. So I had something similar to that that happened to me 30-some years ago. A dog shot you? No, it wasn't a dog, but I'll tell you.

Let's see. My son Jeremy was junior high. Okay. So Chris, my daughter was probably, maybe 10th grade, something like that. And it was in the evening, maybe 5, 6 PM. Susan and I were in the kitchen preparing dinner. Right. And the kids were in the living room watching TV. Okay.

All of a sudden I hear a gunshot. I mean really loud, a gunshot in the house, which obviously startled me. And I darted around the kitchen into the living room. And Carissa, who was sitting on the sofa, she said, Dad, you know, it came from there. She's pointing at the window. You know, the big window facing the street.

I'm thinking somebody is a drive-through. Excuse me. A drive-by shooting. That's what I'm thinking. Somebody just shot through our window. I said, what did you see? She said, fire. I saw a fire flash right here.

I said, show me where? Because I'm thinking through the glass. I ran over and I'm pulling the curtains right. I'm looking for the bullet hole There's no bullet hole. She goes no. It's down lower. I go where she goes under the window. I said How far she goes all the way down there as she's pointing at the electric heat register, okay? So I pulled the panel off and dock the the So, I pulled the panel off and docked the elements in the heat register. There was a section of them that were twisted. There was a bolt that went through them.

And I found a slug. I found a 22 slug in my heat register. So how'd it get there? So I'm having the same thought. I'm standing there puzzled. How did I get a 22 slug in my heat register? And then the thought came to me. Earlier, an hour or two earlier, I remember going into Jeremy's bedroom. Reminder, he was junior high at that time.

And I saw one of my 22 shells in his bedroom. Okay. And I was going to question, why do you have one of my 22 shells? He shouldn't have had it, all right? So I went into his bedroom and it was gone. So I called him and said, Jerry, come here. Did you have a 22 shell here? He goes, yes, dad, it was here.

I said, where is it? He goes, I don't know. I said, you didn't move it. He goes, no, sir, I didn't move it. I said, then who moved it? And then the culprit came out. The culprit ran down the hallway. A ferret.

A ferret. Carissa and Jeremy had a ferret. And I put it together. The ferret went in and got the bullet thinking it's a peanut and hit it in the heat register. And it heated up, it exploded. And I'm standing there thinking, my obituary would have said Rick Wells was shot and killed by a ferret.

I don't want to go this way. I don't want to be. The headlines on that. I don't want this on my tombstone, you know? Killed by a ferret. But that's true. That ferret carried a bullet in its mouth and hit it in an electric heat register and it heated up and it exploded.

In our living room. So, you know, I'm not going to be too hard on that guy with his dog jumping in his bed shoe. Oreo. Yes. But you shouldn't have a gun in your bed, a loaded gun in his bed. Oreo. Yes, but you shouldn't have a gun in your bed, a loaded gun in your bed. Okay. All right, that's it. Thank you so much. Hope I didn't make too many people angry.

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And we come together five days a week to study the Word of God for one hour, which is an amazing thing to behold. So many people gathering together daily to study the Word of God. We hope that this teaching ministry spreads and grows and expands throughout the world. We are in the book of Romans and we're in the seventh chapter. We're just about halfway through the book. And you see today's Thursday, so it is Thursday, right? Yeah, it's Thursday. Okay, I want to make

sure so tomorrow's Faith Friday, we will be talking about faith. And then on Monday, we will begin chapter eight. So today our verses are 21 through 25. Let's pray. Oh, wonderful Heavenly Father, Father, we love you with all our heart, mind, and soul. Father, thank you for loving us. Father, we desire to know more about you, your Son, your kingdom, your Spirit. And so we invite the Holy Spirit to take his seat at the head of the table of this morning man of Bible study and to teach all of us about your kingdom, about your son, about you, Father, your ways, your principles, your heart, your mind, everything,

Father. We desire to know about you in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. And we are continuing our study in Romans chapter seven here, and we're going to pick up at verse 21 here this morning, give you an opportunity to turn that in your Bibles here today. Always a privilege here to join together with saints from all over the world to study the Word of God. And indeed, you are saints. If you've confessed Jesus Christ to save you, you've been baptized in water, in obedience according to the scriptures, then you're a saint. You don't have to wait for the Pope to declare you a saint. You're already a saint with him, with the Lord.

So you get the express lane with him. Praise the Lord. Roman chapter seven, verse 21, picking back up here, I find then a law that when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man. But I see another law in my members warning against the law of my mind,

bring me into captivity to the law of sin, which is in my members. O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from this body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord, so then with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin. And verse 21, I find them a law that when I would do good, evil is present with me. First thing I noticed, Doc, is that he said a law, not the law. Right.

Is there a difference? I mean, when you say the law, I think we all know we're talking about the Mosaic Law. I know that some translations translate that word there as principle instead of law. Yes. I'm glad to see you did your study. Good. Yeah. All right. You studied. Good. That's where I was going. So a lot of commentators, there's a lot of commentators say that this is a principle. Yes. The term a law represents a consistent principle that governed Paul's inner conflict, where evil was resisting his desire for good.

It's a tendency. I think of it as a tendency, a constant tension in Paul's life that whenever he desired to do good, inside him was an opposing force that was always present wanting him to do wrong. Yes. So which one is the real Paul?

The desire to do right or the desire to do wrong? It's his fleshly carnal nature that desired to do wrong things. It was his spiritual nature that desired to do the right things. So there was a constant tension in Paul's life that whenever he desired to do good, to do the right thing,

there was something in him opposing him. He had a war inside of himself. And there's an opposing force of sin that was always present in Paul's life and in your life and in my life. So the question I asked was which Paul, which one was the real Paul? The Paul that wanted to do right, the Paul that wanted to do wrong. Well, the Paul that wanted to do right was his spirit.

The Paul that wanted to do wrong was his fleshly nature. was his spirit. The Paul that wanted to do wrong was his fleshly nature. And we are spirit, God is spirit. Our spirit will rule over our flesh. Yes. That is the essence of victorious Christian living. Did you tell your flesh? Let me tell you who's in charge here. The spirit is in charge. Mind, mind fall in line with the spirit. Flesh fall in

line with the Spirit. Yes. And before Christ, none of that existed. Before Christ, flesh ruled. The flesh ruled. You had no choice about it. There was no, I'm going to try to be good. No. The flesh is ruling. There's none good. No, not one outside of Christ. And so this is what's changed here in that the struggle that we're in is proof that Christ is doing his sanctifying work in our life. The struggle itself proves it. Yes. Because beforehand there was no struggle. You were a prisoner. You were a casualty of war. And I want to reiterate what I said yesterday. Satan wants you to believe that the conflict is proof that you're bad.

It's just the opposite. Amen. The conflict is proof that you are resisting evil. But he'll turn it, he'll turn it on you and try to make you feel guilty, try to put shame on you. Oh, if you were as good as you think you are, you wouldn't be wrestling with these desires. Now the truth is, the fact that you've broken free

from Satan's control is the evidence that you're resisting free from Satan's control is the evidence that you're resisting the temptations. So some Bible commentators interpret the word law as conscience, aligning with God's moral standards but resisted by sinful tendencies of the flesh. Paul's conscience aligned with his desire to obey God, but it was resisted by sin. So he's identifying a constant principle in life.

Whenever you desire to do good, evil is inevitably present. And so there is this duality in our nature. Our spirit is in alignment with God, but our flesh is in opposition to God. to God. Evil is not just external, it's internal. Sin is not just external, it's internal. It's in you. And it will be in your flesh until the day you leave your flesh. And it will be in your flesh until the day you leave your flesh. And praise God, when Jesus comes back and the resurrection takes place, we get a body that's new, that doesn't have these fleshly desires. We get a glorified body. Yes.

And we're back to where it was in the beginning in the garden of eden in a body that won't die it won't corrupt i mean adam and eve had a glorified body i believe that yes it was untainted by sin it didn't die until sin came in to existence and that incorruption was still so great adam lived hundreds of years yeah 900 and so you know it still had its power in the body, but eventually that waned. But we get a glorified body. We, this body gets glorified. I heard I shall see God.

I heard RC Sproul say one time, dog, that somebody questioned him and said, uh, Dr. Sproul, why are you so hard on Adam? Why don't you give him some grace? Don't you think God gave him some grace? And Dr. Sproul said, yeah, he gave him grace. He allowed him to live 900 years. Yeah, that's a lot of grace. So, Paul's will to do good reflected his lives, and it seeks to prevent us, to stop us, to hinder us from doing good. Again, don't let Satan put condemnation on you. The fact that there is struggle is proof that you belong to God. And just remind the devil of that. He always wants you to feel down, to feel bad about

yourself, to condemn yourself. He doesn't want you to see who you are in Christ. But once you understand these principles like we're studying here in Romans, you can say to Satan, Hey Mr. Devil, let me tell you something. Yeah, there's a battle going on, but righteousness is winning because because I belong to Christ and you will never bring me back into sin. You know, lay it on him. He wants you to feel like you're defeated. But you're not defeated, you're victorious. Amen. What Paul's talking about is a shared reality for every believer.

There is an ongoing tension between spirit and flesh. It's kind of like your mind is in the middle mediating. So that's why your mind has to be renewed by the word of God. That's right. And praise God, that's what this class is doing, five days a week, one hour a day, renewing your mind. Praise God. Giving your brain a scrubbing. Getting down in the nooks and crannies there. That's right. Getting down in the nooks and crannies there. That's right.

So sin is an ever-present indwelling force within human nature, and it resists the spiritual aspirations of every believer. We'll go down to verse, do you have anything you wanted to add, Doc, to verse 21? Oh, let's move forward here. Yeah. Verse 22. light in the law of God after the inward man. The inward man is speaking of the regenerate spiritual nature of the believer. Right. The transformed being that's been made alive, that's been brought into alignment with God's will through the work of the Holy Spirit in your life. And your regenerate nature is in contrast to your flesh,

which continues to resist God's truth. If you don't think that there't your flesh doesn't want to resist God's truth, you just start well, I'm not no, I'm not encouraging you to do that. I'm just gonna say if you start meditating, you start thinking about an old sin, you watch how fast it rises up inside of you. Yeah. It's still there. It's still there. It's still there. It would like to do it again. That's why you don't think about those things. Put those thoughts away. Whatever you did in the past, don't think about it. Don't bring it up in your mind. Don't remember it. Don't rehearse it. Just let it go. Paul says,

I delight in God's law. This delight is Paul's genuine joy in the righteousness and holiness of God's law. So I delight in it. This is my joy. This is what makes me happy. This is everything in my life. And Rick, do we really have a joy in his word? Do we really have it?

Now Paul says, I find delight. Do we find the word of God to be a burden or do we find it to be a delight? For me, I find it to be a delight. If it was up to me, and I'd be studying the Word of God and teaching it all day long. That's me too. Me too. No, to me, it's a lot more fun than digging ditches. I delight in the Word. Why? Because every time I study the Word, I change. I'm renewed. I'm transformed by the Word every

single time. Even if it's a passage that I've studied a hundred or even a thousand times, there's a depth to the Word of God, to the words that He spoke and chose to have written down for us, that for the believer should generate a sense of delight, a sense of joy, even the hard passages which dig down into those hidden places in the cracks and crevices of the stony hearts of ours. I still delight in it because those cracks and crevices need to be exposed. Amen. Doc, I've got to share something with you

what the Lord said to me this morning in prayer. He says funny things to me. He does. He says some funny things. But he gets his point across. He makes me laugh, but he gets his point across to me. I was talking to him. Hey, look, I'm being transparent. I can,

I can be transparent with my morning man of class. You're different than the true news audience. Cause there's a lot of people in the true news audience that doesn't delight in the word. They delight in news. So I can, I can be open. You know, I, I've lost the desire to report and analyze news. It's become a burden to me. And it takes me away from doing this.

This is what I love. This is not work. This is not work. This is delight. You mean you get up at 4 o'clock in the morning, you call this? Yeah, I do. This is awesome.

But news has become, it's taken the joy out of me. I don't like doing it anymore. And what I said to the Lord this morning, Father, because look, I'm waiting, I believe it's coming. I got to do this in God's timing. When He releases me from analyzing news anymore, an hour a day, it's not the hour that I have to do it, it's the five hours that you have to prepare for it. That's what bothers me. Okay. And I said to the Lord, I was talking about this, you know, and I said, Father, you know, in the beginning, news, reporting news wasn't a problem.

But I said, it's become weight to my feet. I feel like I'm held down by it. And he said, Well, son, There's a reason they call news anchors Start laughing They're not news boys are they He's funny he's funny and And he said yeah, he said, Rick, there's a reason they call him news anchors.

Okay, Lord set me free of this anchor. My delight is teaching your word. All right, that's what I desire. That's what I wanna do. I wanna spend the rest of my life teaching the word, desire. That's what I want to do. I want to spend the rest of my life teaching the Word, writing about the Word, speaking the Word. That's it. I don't want to do anything else. And how much did Paul delight in the Word? He delighted so much that he said, you know what, my friends, the Romans, they need some Bible study here. I'm going to write them a letter. I'm in jail,

but I'm more concerned about the spiritual welfare of my friends in Rome than my personal welfare in this jail cell right now. Yes. And what was the one thing he could give them? Not money, not financial advice, not news, not make Rome great again, but the word of God. That's how much he delighted in the word of God. And yet he didn't know that he was writing the Word of God.

So this delight reflects the inward man's natural response to divine truth. It's not superficial admiration. It's a deep, profound joy in the moral purity and the righteousness of God's commandments. Just read the Psalms, what King David said about the Word. Psalm 119. Thy word. Yeah, when we're going to finish this, read Psalm 119 and just look at what David said about the Word of God. This is a man who violated the Word. And yet he delighted in it because God gave him mercy and grace.

Why did God give him mercy and grace? Because God knew David's heart, God, that David truly delighted in the Word of God. So this delight is a sincere, deep joy in God's holiness. Yes. It's just being in love with the Lord. You don't love His word more than Him. The word is him. I guess one way to illustrate that in the natural is that if you've ever received a

letter from someone that you love dearly, they've written you a letter, whether it's your wife or it's your husband, a boyfriend, girlfriend, you know, you get the letter in the mail and you see their name on it and you're just waiting. You can't wait to open that letter up and start reading it. And because you're expecting a good word, it's good information, you're expecting love in the letter. And so you can't wait to open that letter up and to read it. And that's the attitude we should have toward the Word of God. It's God's love letter to us. Yes. I mean, it's His love letter. He said, you know, I love you so much.

I redeemed you, and just keep reminding you, I'm gonna leave my word with you. And the Spirit. I'm gonna leave my word with you. And the spirit. So the inward man delights in God's law, the fleshly man continues to resist. And that tension, as we've been saying here today, that tension is universal for every Christian, that there is a battle between spiritual aspirations

and sinful tendencies. But Paul is expressing his love for God's word. So this is the struggle was not unique to Paul. There's a battle between delight in God's law and resistance from the flesh. And so what does Satan do? He tempts you to sin. He tempts you to fall from the high place that you're in spiritually to bring you down, then he dumps condemnation on you, guilt, shame, and what does that do? Sadly, it keeps people from praying and reading the word because they have shame and guilt on them.

Yes. That's the purpose of Satan's temptation to keep you away from the word of God, which would bring you closer to God. It's a reason he tempts you so that he can put guilt and shame on you because he knows that people tend to Punish themselves internally and

They feel unworthy to go to God in prayer. They feel unworthy to go to church. They feel unworthy to participate in in the Lord's Supper because they sin They don't read the word anymore. So he's brought separation between the believer and this and God. But once you recognize the pattern, okay, I get it, Satan, I know what you're up to, not going to work this time. You got me in the past, you don't get me now. Not going to fall for it. me in the past, you don't get me now. Not going to fall for it. You say, watch this. So if you do commit a sin, you know, hey, Satan, I hate watch this. Watch how fast I run to my father.

Amen. Watch how fast I go into repentance. And watch how fast he forgives me. You keep doing that, Satan will back off because he doesn't want to waste time with you. Got to look for a Christian that doesn't know what you know. So the law of God is a guide to believers. It reflects divine righteousness. It provides a moral compass for our inward man. It inspires, it directs the believers' aspirations. It aligns us with God's will. That's the reason Satan is opposing you. That fleshly nature is Satan putting pressure on your flesh for the purpose of preventing you from delighting in God's Word. Because

his Word is going to direct you, it's going to guide you, it's going to bring you. It's gonna guide you. It's gonna bring you into alignment with God. Right. Satan always wants you to be cross ways with God. Yes. The solution, the resolution of this inner conflict is in Christ. Because he enables us to live in alignment with God's will.

We can't do it ourselves. Right. Jesus fulfilled the law, but he empowers believers to experience their inward delight in God's truth and righteousness. So I find encouragement in Paul's transparency about his struggle. You may have thought after he mailed that letter, Wow, was that so transparent? Because Paul, people for 2,000 years are going to need to read it. Because Paul's letter to the

Romans is reassuring us that we're all facing tensions between spirit and flesh that this is a normal part of the Christian experience not a sign of failure. It shows us that even Apostle Paul wrestled with this internal battle and that offers hope to us because the ultimate victory is found in Jesus Christ. Amen. So every believer can have hope in the final redemption through Christ's work. You were saved. You're being saved. you shall be saved. The Holy Spirit is with you. He was with you in the past, he's with you now, he'll be with you in the

future. The Holy Spirit has sealed you unto that day. Satan can't unseal you. You're sealed. And the Holy Spirit is there to make sure you remain sealed. That's right. Verse 23. But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin, which is in my members. Here we go again, we're back to another internal conflict with Paul.

When he's talking about another law, Saul, how did he say it? But I see another law in my members. This is the principle, the power of sin that operates in our physical body. And this power of sin that operates in our physical body. And this power of sin remains active throughout our life on earth, as long as you are in a physical body.

You know, one of the saddest thing you ever, I think you can see is somebody in their older senior years falling into sin. And you think how in the world you're 80 years old and you're still doing things that you were doing when you were 20. You never got victory over it. So sad. And this is people sitting in the church.

Yes. Yes. At least those outside the church have an excuse. Right. Okay, and not, you know, not saying that it was okay. I'm just saying that you would think the exposure to the presence of God and the Word of God over an extended period of time would make changes in a person's life and bring them as they get older to a more glorified state of righteousness. But I think the principle remains the same. It is by faith. We have to not only be aware of the presence of God and have an understanding of His Word, but we have to accept it by faith.

Faith is that substance. Faith is counted to us as righteousness. And so, we have that understanding. We have this fleshly side here, this nature, this principle Paul calls it. King James calls it law, it's a principle, that this flesh has a tendency to sin. It wants to be a glutton. It wants to envy. It wants to covet. It wants to lust. It's nature of this flesh to do those things. It exalts self instead of exalting God. Paul recognizes that as long as we remain in this flesh, this flesh as it currently sits, there's going to be that struggle between what's happened mentally, the choice I've made to follow Christ, obey Christ, to love the word,

and my fleshly nature. Now, we are not trapped with this forever. to obey Christ, to love the Word, and my fleshly nature. Now, we are not trapped with this forever. That's the good news. Paul talks about that later here as we close out chapter 7. We're not trapped with this forever. As believers, we have the hope and the promise that one day this body will be transformed. It will no longer have the tendency and the nature to sin,

and will be totally within, however you want to call it, the atmosphere of eternity that allows us to worship God without our flesh being condemned in the process. Yes. It just, to me, I understand why Paul is joyful. We're not stuck with this forever. Yes, and he said, in bringing me into captivity to the law of sin. He's describing sin as bringing the Christian believer into captivity.

Now that doesn't sound right, does it? This captivity is not a passive state. It's an active ongoing force that's always trying to prevent the believer from walking in full righteousness, in full obedience to God. That's what he's talking about. He's not saying he was a slave, a prisoner of sin, and he couldn't do anything right. He was saying, this thing's got a grip on me. right. He would say, this thing's got a grip on me. There's a chain, I'm trying to go, I'm walking in the right direction, but this thing's pulling on me. It's the tension, the spiritual tension between desires to serve and obey God between desires to serve and obey God and your flesh's desire to satisfy its lust.

So again, Paul's describing something that's not unique to him, it applies to every believer. He's returning to the theme that has been throughout chapter seven. That this ongoing battle is going to be there every day of your life. But God gives us grace. To overcome this internal struggle. When you are wrestling with these desires,

when you grease yourself up with grace, you've got to apply it to yourself. God makes it available. There's no lids on the tubs. He's got tubs of grace scattered everywhere. Reach down, get yourself two big handfuls and smear it all over you. He's not going to do it for you. You have to do it. It's available. You just run in, Daddy, I need grace. Hey, get yourself some. Jump in. Jump in, get it. Just jump in the tub and roll around in it. Go on. Get yourself some. It makes him laugh. Get that grace. That's

what it's there for. Why you need it, daughter? Why you need it, son? Why the devil's tempting you? Okay, get some grace on you. Make you slippery. He knows what the devil's doing. That's why you provided to grace. Religion will make you feel guilty. Grace will make you feel free. Grace allows you to live in alignment with your heart's spiritual desires. Grace empowers you to resist sin, to obey God. That's why you got to have it. Again, it's available. It's abundant, but you got to scoop it up and put it on you. So again, the ultimate solution to this conflict is Jesus Christ.

That's where Paul's going with this message. Yes. Jesus Christ is the one who delivers us from the power of sin and enables us to live according to the desires of the renewed inward man. Because through the work of Christ on the cross, we are freed from sin's captivity, even though it's constantly trying to put you in captivity. See, that's the paradox of this thing. The cross freed us from the captivity, and yet as long as we're in our fleshly body,

it's always trying to bring us back into captivity. Yes. If you can get this down inside you and understand it. In other words, the judge freed you from prison, but the warden is always trying to catch you and put you back in. You're constantly telling the warden, the judge set me free. And the warden is going, I don't care. I'm putting you back into prison.

And this tension goes on throughout your life. Once you see this, that this is normal, you're not abnormal, you're not a failure, there's not something wrong with you. It's like somebody else is living a lot better than you and you're the loser. No, that's, we're all, if apostle Paul was struggling with sin, then don't you think the rest of us are? The message of Romans is that God is aware of this struggle, and he loves us, and he's providing grace to us to have the victory over sin.

to have the victory over sin. And when you take your last breath, he's going to greet you and say, well done. What was well done? You resisted sin. You persevered through every day of your life to serve me, to obey me. Well done. Aren't we all concerned that we're falling short? God's looking and going, no, you're standing tall.

I'm watching it all. You're doing great. And Paul even expresses that in verse 24. I mean, that's what he's saying in verse 24. He said, oh wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death? Amen. who shall deliver me from the body of this death. Amen. And so what he's expressing is the same thing we all express. Why is it, why can't I overcome this sin and the flesh? Why can't I shed this?

Why can't I get rid of it? He understood that too. He said, we're bound to this until death. When death comes, then we're free from this body of death, if you will. This body gets transformed and glorified. But he expresses that too. He knows exactly where we're at. The Lord knows and Paul knew. Yes, but he says, what a wretched man I am. He's expressing deep frustration, despair, self-realization of his weaknesses. And if that's all we go to, if it's just a self-realization and then we're just,

oh no, I'm just trapped here, really we have no hope, do we? No, we don't. But this takes us to the Sermon on the Mount. Yes. The Beatitudes, the first one. Blessed are the poor in spirit. What Paul is saying, what a wretched man I am. He's saying I'm bankrupt. I am spiritually bankrupt. I have no way to pay my debts. I have no way to get out of sin. I have no way.

I'm a wretched man. Who will deliver me from the body of this death. He's setting us up for the answer. So the believer comes to a place of awareness that despite the regeneration of their spirit, their flesh hasn't been regenerated. Right. It's still dirty rotten flesh. Your spirit was regenerated. It was born again.

But your flesh wasn't born again. Your flesh is born again in the resurrection. Gotta get them lined up, see, spirit's born again when you believe in Christ and you're baptized, but you're living in a fallen body. Then when Christ comes back, the resurrection, your body gets reborn. Now your reborn spirit is living in a reborn body. Now your reborn spirit is living in a reborn body. Amen. Now we drive it home. It's all fixed.

Everything's in alignment. But until you are a reborn spirit living in a fallen body. And so this is not a cry of hopelessness. This is Paul's recognition of his need. And it's a universal cry of every believer who's struggling against sin in this life. Paul is saying I need a savior. I need somebody to deliver me from my body. My body is of death. He said body of this death. He's talking about his mortal sinful body that still is under the dominion of sin and death. If it wasn't, we wouldn't die and go to the grave. Your body is still under the dominion of death. Praise God, the resurrected Christ comes and gets your dead body out

of the grave. Amen. He says, hey, let's fix this thing up. Let's get this old body reborn. Now your reborn spirit is in a reborn body. And now you can live with the Father forever. That's our hope. That's what we should be desiring more than anything else. That day when our spirit is in alignment with a new body, that allows us to live forever in the presence of God, our maker. You know, I'm looking at my notes.

It's basically, I mean, I'm repeating myself because the theme is the same throughout chapter seven. I mean, I'm repeating myself because the same, the theme is the same throughout chapter seven. Paul is expressing this state that we're in. But he ends with this cry for deliverance. This, he presents Christ as the only one who can deliver us from the body of death Because the work the redemptive work of Christ on the cross Is the means as the only means by which we are freed

From the power of sin and we're empowered to live in this life for the glory of God grace is the theme throughout chapter 7 Paul tells us the problem, but he gives us the answer. Our victory over sin requires divine grace. We're not capable of doing it without divine grace. And this grace is made available through the work of Jesus Christ on the cross, through the Holy Spirit dwelling inside of us to overcome the influence of sin. Grace enables you to live in accordance with your inward desires, which is to please God, despite the resistance of your flesh.

Verse 25, I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind, I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh, the law of sin. He's still admitting. My body is serving sin, but my mind is serving God. But my mind is serving God. Paul's thanksgiving is directed through Jesus Christ. He's recognizing that deliverance from sin and the victory over the law of sin can only come through faith in Christ.

Yes. come through faith in Christ. Yes. That's why when you talk to people, we ask them if they're a Christian and they say, yeah, well, how do you know? How do you know? They need to say that they have faith in the resurrected Christ. Yes. I mean, Satan believes in Jesus.

Yes. When I say he believes, he recognizes there's a Jesus. There are people that because they recognize that there's a Jesus, they think that makes them a Christian. Do you have faith in what he did on the cross? Have you put your faith in his finished work on the cross to save you from your sins? The redemptive work of Christ is central to every person's life. Christ is the mediator, he's the savior.

Without him, there is no victory, there's no eternal life. Amen. Anything else, Doc, before we close it? No, other than it's up to this point here in Romans. It started off with the introduction, the first few chapters, Paul setting the stage for the discussion, and then chapters four through seven here, we've been focusing on some pretty heavy doctrinal foundations, which really is intriguing considering this was a letter written in the first century. Okay, and we're talking, there are principles and instructions within these chapters four through seven that still challenge seminary students to this day.

So it just shows you the power of these words that Paul wrote nearly 2,000 years ago, that they still are echoing over time here and still, you know, like you said, Rick, the other day, these chapters tend to be a bit of a struggle, like working through a warranty. But without these foundational principles that we've had in these few chapters here, it gives us a solid foundation of knowing how we're justified in Christ and the first stage of sanctification. Now, as we get into chapter eight here, Paul directly applies another layer to this, and that is the Holy Spirit.

So up to this point, he's laid the doctrine down where we are positionally with the Father, where we are positionally with the Father, where we are positionally with Jesus Christ. And that comes to the conclusion of chapter seven. Now, as we get into chapter eight, Paul adds one more ingredient, and that's the Holy Spirit. Because it's not enough to know this or to have a head knowledge of it,

it's got to become real life. How is it, if we're still bound in this flesh is still bound by a principle of sin, then how do we overcome it? Paul gives an answer in chapter 8 and you don't want to miss where we go from here. If you've made it this far, you've done great. And I'm glad. I like talking about the Holy Spirit. And chapter 8, that's the Holy Spirit chapter in Romans. I'm glad you mentioned sanctification because to me, Doc, these chapters in Roman because to me, Doc, these chapters in Roman

validates the doctrine that sanctification is an ongoing process. It's not a one-time process. It's ongoing throughout the believer's life, right? What Paul's telling us here is there's going to be struggle with sin. And that is not a sign of failure but it's a normal part of the sanctification journey So the the battle between spirit and flesh continues until the day you leave this world Right, but you have confidence that the finished work of Jesus on the cross and the present

work of the Holy Spirit in your life today gives you victory and the ultimate sanctification will be completed when Christ returns and says, well done. Amen. Amen. All right. That's I got to go pick up my anchor. All right, folks. Well, don't forget that tomorrow is Faith Friday, okay? So come expecting to receive some a good dose of teaching on faith tomorrow and Rick will have a lesson prepared for that. We'll also be

participating in the Lord's Supper tomorrow and so you need a bread and either red wine or grape juice to join us for the Lord's Supper. We invite you if you're a confessing believer of Jesus Christ, you've been baptized, martyred, and obedient according to the scripture, then we encourage you to participate in the Lord's Supper and to prepare for it. And hopefully here in the near future we'll have some updates for you on communion and everything and something good that you will enjoy and you'll really like. And so we'll have announcement about that soon. Can't let you know all of it yet, but we're

working on a special project for the Lord's Supper for our morning man of class. So, and one more thing, if you're available tonight, restart our prayer meetings again for the microchurches, again tonight, 8 p.m. Eastern time. If you can't join us live, you can always watch the replay and everything at a later time. But I encourage you to come and join us where we pray.

We pray for what the Lord is doing as far as leadership and as far as creation of microchurches. And so we invite you tonight. That's going to be over on the Remnant Ready channel tonight at 8 p.m. on Faith and Values. So if you can, join us there. And if not, catch us on the replay. So any other announcements we need to take care of, Rick, before we sign off for today? I just want to answer Angela's question.

Yes, we began chapter eight on Monday. Yes. Okay. So. We begin chapter 8 on Monday. Yes. Okay. So, you can study up, read chapter 8, and be ready on Monday, and we'll start the second half of the book of Romans. So I'll give you a preview here on Romans. Romans 8 talks about the Holy Spirit. Romans 9 talks about the relationship with the Jews, what's changed with the Jews, if anything.

And then chapter 10 gets into more practical living into walking in the Spirit. So that's what we have to look forward to over the next three chapters here. Okay, love you. See you later today. We'll see you tomorrow on Faith Friday here on Morning Manna.

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