TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - Putin Says Deep State Stole 2020 Election from Trump

Episode Date: January 24, 2025

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presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump and that had the Republican been declared the victor, the Ukraine conflict might have been avoided. Quoting President Putin, I cannot disagree with him that if he had been president, if his victory hadn't been stolen in 2020, perhaps the crisis in Ukraine that arose in 2022 wouldn't have happened. Putin said this in an interview published by Russian One TV journalist Pavel Zarubin on Telegram on Friday. We actually have a bit of that interview. Watch this. If he had been the president, if the victory wasn't stolen from him in 2020, maybe the Ukrainian crisis that arose in 2022 would have never appeared.

Your thoughts, Rick? Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. I agree. I've been waiting all week to see how Putin was going to respond to Mr. Trump's statement earlier in the week. It was a veiled threat. Mr. Trump said, I don't want to hurt the Russians. Right. But? But they're going to end this war or I'm going to put sanctions on Russia, which is a threat. Right. And so I wondered how will Putin respond? Is he going to respond with a light type of response saying, I'll tell you where you can stick your sanctions? Right. Was he going to fire missiles?

But he did the classic Putin response. Right. He proved that he's an old KGB agent. Doc, the Russian intelligence agencies sat down with their best propaganda experts. And they worked for days on the response. Yes. And the response was, we're going to agree with Donald Trump and we're going to say the election was stolen. And so instead of

Putin saying, look, you're full of hot air, you know, you didn't prevent the war. This war would still have started had you been there. He didn't say that. No, he agreed with Trump and said, you're right. You're right, Don. Had you been the president, I never would have invaded Ukraine. Yes.

And the only reason you're not the president then is they stole the election. It was rigged. Now Donald Trump has to see where he's got. Oh, yes. The reporters are going to ask Donald Trump, do you agree with Putin that the election was stolen? Yeah, and that makes, in their mind, makes Donald Trump look bad. But by agreeing with Putin, see, he's a stooge of Russia. More than that, Doc, what they want Donald Trump to say

is, yes, the election was stolen. Yes. That's the trick that Mr. Putin has here. He's trying to get Donald Trump to say the election was stolen. And he's laid a trap get Donald Trump to say the election was stolen. And he's laid a trap for Donald Trump. It's a brilliant move. It's like tossing a live grenade into the room. What are you going to do with it?

Are you going to run out or pick it up? What are you going to do? So it's a brilliant tactic. And he literally made headlines around the world saying, basically, the deep states stole the 2020 election. You know it and we know it. Yes. And that's what they're saying. The Kremlin knows that the election was stolen. And so when they go to the negotiating table, this puts Donald Trump and Putin on the same side of the table, doesn't it?

Yes. Yeah. He just, he checkmated Donald Trump. We hear so much about how Donald Trump likes to play 3D chess, but Putin just went 4D on him. He did. He did. So we'll see how him. He did. We'll see how Mr. Trump responds. His advisors will come

with a suggestion to him. This is going to go back and forth until they come to a place of resolving the war. Now, what might complicate that, Rick,

would be, um, things blowing up in Russia, BBC, Ukraine claims drone strike on Russian oil refinery. There were apparently hundreds of Ukrainian drones sent into Russia today. Uh, the biggest strikes were on a, uh,

oil refinery and then also on a microchip manufacturing plant. Yes, and these drones, you see part of the fire there at the oil refinery. The oil refinery was hit by at least 10 drones. Now, as Rick said, there were hundreds of drones that made it even as far as Moscow, Rick. I don't know if you were aware of that. No, I didn't know that. So you're seeing some scenes from the oil refinery that was struck, some additional video that we've collected here.

So this is the result of the drone attack by supposedly Ukraine, but we all know that Ukraine can't drive a drone without Western help. So once again, this is a direct attack on Russian soil from Western-backed Ukrainians. Who in the West is helping them? Is it Great Britain? Is it France, Germany, NATO? Yes. All together?

Yes. Is it the United States? it France, Germany, NATO? Yes. All together? Yes. Is it the United States? Probably. Without Trump's knowledge? Well, they're probably using our satellites. Without his knowledge or with his tacit approval? He'd have to know, Rick. Well, they also hit a microchip factory.

Yes. And the production was halted today. That's the building that was hit. And I think we, do we have, yeah, there it is after the strike. Right. Okay. So this is the Kermeniyel microchip plant in Russia's western Bryansk region. And, of course, production was halted there following one of the largest overnight Ukrainian drone strikes in the country since the start of the war.

Six drones struck this facility on the night of January 24th, damaging part of the production facilities and the finished product warehouse. And as Rick said, this was one of their microchip factories that was struck. This was a broad attack, Rick, by drones. Yes. And as the Moscow Times article, which you have to take a grain of salt, but other outlets were reporting this too, this was one of the broadest drone strikes that has occurred since 2022. That's true. And the Russians said they shot down something like 140 to 150 drones. Right. Yesterday, you know, the news was that France and Great Britain want to send 50,000

NATO peacekeepers to Ukraine. Mr. Zelensky in Davos at the World Economic Forum, as always, begs for more. So he told the World Economic Forum globalists he wants 200,000 NATO peacekeepers. He's not satisfied with 50,000. Zelensky always sets the terms. I'll tell you what you're going to give me. Right. Just the arrogancy of it.

Well, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said Tuesday that if a ceasefire deal were enacted with Russia, at least 200,000 European peacekeepers would need to be on the ground in Ukraine to defend Ukraine against a possible attack by Russia. Zelensky, speaking a day after Donald Trump's return to the U.S. presidency, and was speaking at Davos, as Rick said, said Europe must take care of itself. He said 200,000 peacekeepers from European countries would be the minimum. Otherwise, it's nothing. Ukraine's best defense during a ceasefire deal, Zelensky said, would be its membership into NATO. While most European countries support Ukraine's entry into the alliance, Germany and the U.S. oppose it. Hungary and Slovakia, which are pro-Russia governments, listen to that from VOA,

also oppose Ukraine's entry into NATO. So Zelensky says, here's two things that we need for Ukraine. We need 200,000 European slash NATO troops in Ukraine, plus Ukraine needs to be in NATO. Why did Russia go into the eastern provinces in the first place, Rick? Because Ukraine wanted to join NATO and they wanted NATO troops inside the country. So these are non-starters his solution to the war is what started the war right he knows that of course it does he knows that he's he's trying to start the the uh settlement negotiations uh at the beginning at the very top yes of what

they wanted in the first place. Yonhap in Seoul, South Korea, reporting North Korea is suspected of preparing to send additional North Korean troops to Russia. The Guardian reporting NATO chief urges step up in support for Ukraine. This is Mark Ruta. He was speaking at World Economic Forum in Davos. The head of the NATO military alliance has called for a step up in support for Ukraine to put Kiev in the strongest position to achieve a sustainable peace deal with Russia. In other words, Doc?

We're winding down the war. No, but before we wind down the war, we're going to wind up the war. Right. That's what he's saying. We've got to wind it up. To secure what we have. When I say wind it up, we've got to build it up bigger before we have a peace settlement. Again, strength at the negotiating table. Right. That's what we're doing.

Who's bleeding the most? Which side is bleeding the most? The side that's bleeding the most is the side that's weakest at the negotiations. He's saying we've got to ramp up NATO support of Ukraine and hurt Russia as much as we can before the peace talks begin. And notice how the tone has now shifted from NATO to European countries. It's still NATO. Yeah, I know it is.

But notice how they're massaging the message now. Except they know Donald Trump is not going to send American troops. That's right. That's why they're saying that. And see, Trump may sign off on this and say, okay, I'm okay with it. Yeah. It's your fight. But Putin is not going to accept it.

Right. Under any terms. And besides that, Lavrov has said the only one we're going to negotiate with is the U.S. anyway. Right. They're not recognizing the EU. They're not recognizing France or Great Britain. Because they know nothing's going to get done unless the U.S. decides it. And they don't recognize Zelensky because they said, hey, his term expired a year ago.

We're not going to negotiate. How can you settle a war with somebody who is not even legally in the office? He's a usurper if he signed a peace treaty is it's illegitimate right that's the point the russians are making we're not going to negotiate with somebody who is an illegitimate president of the country so it's going to be the u.s and russia or nothing else and putin is not going to accept nato troops in in ukraine if he did doc his his political support would collapse in russia right the russian people would say what what did we just do for three years yes we gave up our sons to fight and now you agreed to the very thing that started the war?

So there's no way that he can accept one. He cannot accept one NATO or European soldier in Ukraine. And if they tried to send them in, you're going to have Russian missiles coming down on them and killing them. I just can't imagine Putin and Lavrov and Medvedev sitting back in a Kremlin saying, well, there's nothing we can do. The planes are landing in Kiev and thousands of troops are offloading. They're not going to sit there and watch that. They're going to say fire the missiles yes uh we've got a uh short video clip from al arabia news uh attending the world economic forum this is mark mark rutta nato chief

talking about stepping up uh support saying that nato europe must go into a crisis mode right crisis as we have lost we're losing the war we're in trouble here he is how will NATO support Ukraine going forward so we are really in crisis mode here so first first money, much more to be spent, faster ones, not on 2%. Have to get to the 2% in the next couple of months. We cannot wait any longer. And then we have collectively to move up and we will decide on the exact number later this year, but it will be considerably more than that too. And then on industry production, we are really in a bad place here.

And first of all, that we really have to step up and not scale back the support for Ukraine. We have to change the trajectory of the war which is ongoing. And so far as we know the front line is moving in the wrong direction. And if we get a bad deal it would only mean that we will see the president of Russia high fiving with the leaders of North Korea, Iran and China. And we cannot accept that. That would be geopolitically a big mistake. So it has to be sustainable. And for it to be sustainable, we have to make sure that Putin will never, ever, ever again try to get a square kilometer of Ukraine in the future.

In the future. So you said they're going to change this year. They're going to change the trajectory of the war. Meaning the war is going in the wrong direction as far as NATO is concerned. Yes. Well, how do you change the direction of the war other than...

You have to start winning now. So how are you going to do that? Europe, how are you going to do that? It means they have to strike inside Russia. Right. So at some point, where does President Trump say to Ruta and Macron and Starmer and all the other guys, you're on your own. Right. We're not in this fight. We're out of it.

We're out. I mean, he's doing the same thing in Gaza. He's disengaging himself from Gaza by saying, hey, it's their fight. It's Israel's fight. By the way, and I don't have his name. I saw it in a Jewish online newspaper today that the Zionist groups in America are very alarmed about a key position, a person appointed to a key position

in the Pentagon, like an undersecretary, very high level position. And the gentleman said, the U.S. has no national interest in the Middle East. There's nothing there for us. And basically what he said was there's more risk than benefit for the U.S. being in the Middle East. There's more downside than upside. And

I don't have his name. I'll bring it in on Monday. But the fact that Mr. Trump put him at a very high level in the pentagon that's it that's an indication that mr trump is going to move u.s foreign policy away from being solidly pro-israel and he's also i think what you're going to see there is a U.S.-aligned Middle East NATO. Yes. And I think now that Donald Trump's back in office, you're seeing that new life getting back into the Abraham Accords, which will provide the treaty background that we need in order to enter into that Middle East NATO.

They were building a Middle East NATO when he was in office the first time. And then that idea fell apart. The gentleman you're thinking about is Michael Domeno. He is Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East. That's him. He says they're, in fact, pro-Israel Republicans, it says here, are alarmed over his comments. So, but anyway, back to Ukraine here and everything. It's interesting, though.

Yeah. Pro-Palestinian Republicans are happy over his comments. And those are few and far between. That's right. But I know one of them. Newsweek. Yes. Episode number 12.

A video shows China's army practicing invasion tactics. Chinese PLA on Thursday released a video showing its army practicing invasion tactics with helicopters. We'll watch it. It's about a minute and a half long. Let's watch. We'll be right back. Thank you. Субтитры создавал DimaTorzok There's no mystery about the message the Chinese are sending. They're preparing for war. They're preparing to invade. But they're only responding to what we've been saying for nearly 10 years now,

that we're going to fight China sometime in the late 2020s, early 2030s. So they're getting ready for it. We see article and story after story as if they've got this on the calendar already. Yes. And, you know, most media is, they're interpreting that video as, oh, they're showing us how they're going to invade Taiwan. Are you kidding me? No, they're showing you about an invasion of the United States of America. Yes. Telegraph, the U.S. Air Force has an almost uncomplicated plan to erase China's Taiwan invasion fleet.

The U.S. Air Force is moving to arm its Boeing F-15E EX fighter bombers with the Pentagon's latest ship-killing munition, the long-range anti-ship missile. It's obvious, said the Telegraph, that the Air Force is what the Air Force is worried about, the rapidly expanding and modernizing Chinese fleet, which is gearing up to fight its way across the 100-mile Taiwan Strait and land troops on Taiwanese beaches. And the article goes on to say that if the Americans are going to intervene to save Taiwan, they must do it in the early days of invasion while Chinese ships are still crisscrossing

the strait to deliver people, vehicles, and supplies. Once a large invasion force is entrenched on the island, the outcome may be a foregone conclusion, and a dangerous new era for the free countries of the world would have begun. So the Air Force is scrambling to hang its best anti-ship missiles on more types of warplane so that America can darken the sky over the Taiwan Strait with enough munitions to drown a Chinese invasion during its most vulnerable hours. So they're already gearing up for, once again, for that war that's going to take place sometime in the 2020s, 2030s, Rick, late 2020s, early 2030s.

That's the big war. That's the big game. That's going to be the Super Bowl of world wars. Will there be a pregame? Probably. Which could be Taiwan. Both sides clash and then pull back.

They test each other's metal. Let's see how each other fights. They fight over Taiwan. Then both sides pull back. That battle over Taiwan could be 2027, 28, and then both sides pull back and regroup, rearm, re-strategize for the big war in the early 2030s. That's a possibility. Next story, CBS News. UFO moving at hundreds of miles an hour underwater, says a Republican congressman.

We're talking about Congressman Tim Burchett. And look at the photo that CBS News put up of Tim Burchett. This made him look like a wild-eyed crazy man. So, Republican Rep Tim Burchett said in an interview Wednesday that an admiral, whom he did not identify, had told him of an unidentified craft moving at incredible speeds in the sea. Quoting the article from CBS News, they tell me something's moving at hundreds of miles an hour underwater. As large, listen to this, as a football field underwater. And this is him speaking to former Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz. If you don't know it, Matt Gaetz now hosts a show on One American News. This was a documented case, and I have an admiral telling me this stuff.

Now, Mr. Burchett, he's known for claims that the U.S. is hiding its existence of UFOs and other alien activity, said anything is possible given the vastness of God's great universe. The article also said, however, he told Americans – now, this is the part that gets me, Rick. Listen to this. However, he told Americans not to worry about the suspected extraterrestrial's extraordinary advances. I'm not worried about them harming me, he said. I mean, with that capabilities, they would have barbecued us a long time ago. Hmm. You know, why does everybody assume as a UFO?

Yes. It's a space alien ship in the sea. How about the possibility that China or Russia has an advanced underwater submarine, the size of a football field that moves hundreds of miles an hour? A hypersonic submarine. That's what I'm thinking. Why not? So I know that there's advanced technologies out there. They're being hid, no matter if it's extraterrestrial or something that we've developed.

And they can't explain these sightings that have been going on now for, what, 80 years? And so we're being bamboozled. First time I've heard about an underwater vehicle moving hundreds of miles an hour, and it's the size of a football field. Right. To me, that is an underwater base, a carrier. It's a carrier. It's a carrier. And perhaps what's inside of it are

hundreds of submarines. So, World War III is on. It's already started. We're in it right now. The big stuff comes out at the end, not at the beginning.

It comes out at the end of the war. Congressman Breschett, you know, he's a good guy, a good congressman. But he is a believer, Doc. He really believes in UFOs. And I watched a video earlier today after you sent that article over to me. And it was an interview with him, I think, last summer. Right. And he was saying, hey, the UFOs, they're in the Bible.

And Ezekiel, Ezekiel saw UFOs. They went back to the old Ezekiel's wheel. Yeah. Okay. Oh, went to... Ezekiel's will. Yeah. Okay? And what Ezekiel saw, you know, Ezekiel's will, that that was a UFO. No. It was a heavenly... It wasn't a UFO. It wasn't a flying saucer.

No. It wasn't aliens. There were cherubims. Yes. All right? What he saw was from heaven. And you cheapen the gospel. And the word of God, when you say that something that rightfully should be assigned to heaven.

Yes. Is a UFO or some vehicle, you know, driven by space aliens. I don't know why Christians go that direction. A lot of them do, Rick. I know they do. I used to have them on the show years ago. That's why I cut them off. I got tired of that stuff.

But, you know, the origins of that definitely aren't in Christianity at all. No. It came back from the Eric Von Donican days. I know because I read the book Ezekiel's Wheel back when I was a teenager before I was even saved. Ezekiel's Wheel because that was when I was into flying

saucers and UFOs and stuff. I had that book. I remember reading that book and I thought, man, the Bible confirms flying saucers and everything. I woke up later on. But the fact of the matter, a lot of believers get bamboozled by these things because they don't want to believe the Word of God. That's right.

That's right. Hey, I want to go over to AI. Yesterday, Sam Altman unveiled a new AI tool. Agent, they call it. An agent called Operator. Yes. OpenAI is taking its chat GPT chat bot to the next level. This is according to CNBC.

Adding a feature to automate tasks like planning vacations, filling out forms, making restaurant reservations, and ordering groceries. The tool announced Thursday is called Operator. It's described as an agent that can go to the web to perform tasks for you, trained to interact with the buttons, menus, and text fields that people use daily. We've got a video. I don't know if it's five minutes long. Are we going to watch the whole thing?

Well, the presentation that Sam Altman did was two and a half hours long. And so our team took some selected cuts out of the whole thing to show, but we don't have to watch it all. But we'll get an introduction in the first couple minutes. Okay. if it's really good, I'll watch it. It's Friday. Okay. Weekend's coming. I'll sit here for five minutes and watch it. This is Sam Altman explaining this new feature in artificial intelligence through ChatGPT called Operator. Let's watch. Good morning. We've got something exciting for you today.

We're going to launch our first agent. AI agents are AI systems that can do work for you independently. You give them a task and they go off and do it. We think this is going to be a big trend in AI and really impact the work people can do, how productive they can be, how creative they can be, what they can accomplish. We're starting today with Operator. Operator is a system that can use a web browser, in this case a web browser in the cloud, to accomplish tasks that you give it. And

we'll show you a demo in just a second, but it's really quite cool what it can do. Just like you would use a web browser, you can get pixels in, you can look at a screen and control, and Operator can do that and then control the keyboard and the mouse and do all sorts of things. Okay, so I'm going to start with something fairly simple. I'm going to use OpenTable and say, book me a table for two at Beretta tonight at 7pm. Okay, and so you specifically chose OpenTable? Yeah, in this case, I'm asking operator to use OpenTable to book a table for two at Beretta. Beretta is a restaurant in San Francisco. It's great. You should try it out. And at 7 p.m. And I'm using OpenTable in this case, but I could have easily said just do Beretta and would have probably gone to search engine,

figured out how to make a reservation as well. But let's see what it does. So can you explain what's happening in this? Yeah, great. So I'm going to expand this a little bit. So as soon as I type in the query, operator instantiated a completely remote browser. This browser is running in the cloud somewhere. And as you can see, it's summarized chain of thought here as well, which is it's gone to the URL, searched for Beretta, and something cool really happened, which is for some reason, OpenTable thought we were in Virginia, and it auto-corrected itself to San Francisco. This is using, so like ChatGPT in Operator, you can also give custom instructions. So I'm going to show you. Yeah, I love groceries. So I've been using Operator to shop all my groceries. I love to cook quite a bit.

And I have been using Operator exclusively for groceries. I have a shopping list here, which is this one. Let's see what it is. Eggs, spinach, mushrooms, chicken thighs, chili crunch. So this is a picture that you're uploading. That's exactly right. And I'm going to use Instacart, which is, again, what we use generally. Can you buy this for me, please?

And I'll also specify the store I like, which is, well, let's see if he figures out I missed it. Let's see. Okay. So in this case, again, operator quickly actually recognized using GPT-4O's vision capabilities to understand that the image said egg, spinach, mushroom, chicken thighs, and it actually knew Gus's market. And I'm like, yes, that sounds great.

Cool. Again, just like OpenTable, it instantiated a browser, and it's going to go ahead and start doing tests. I'm going to expand the view and let's see what it does. So in both of these cases, you've said what you wanted to use. If you just say buy me these groceries and don't specify Instacart, what happens? It will do a search, use a search engine much like we do, and it'll find Instacart or Gus's Directly website or whatever else is on the search engine. Go through that, ask your questions if it needs clarifications and go from there. You know what? I want a little bit more eggs. I think we eat a lot of eggs. Okay. So what I can do at this point, and I'm going to just click this button called take control. So this remote,

as we were talking about, like operator fires up this remote browser to do it. We almost think of it as surface area where operator can work and then I can work. For example, in this case, I took over control from operator, which is also key to how we think about user and user controls. At any point in time, a user should be able to take control and give operator instructions or tell a little bit more, guide a little bit more, et cetera. Like passing the laptop back and forth, just like you did with Ray. Totally, totally. Exactly right. Just like, you know.

In this case, I'm going to make this do, and then I'm just going to tell operator. This is again very much like if you and I were working, I'd be like, hey, I did this. Can you fix this? And I'm going to tell operator, I added another egg. Good to place order now. Can operators see what you're doing during takeover mode? Great point. So when you take over, it's very much just like a session with your local browser.

It's completely private. Operator cannot see. And this is one of the part of the reasons why I have to tell operator. You don't really have to. It can look at the last screenshot and try to guess it. But it's really good. It's sort of like if you and I were working together, I went off and did something and I come back like, Ray, I completely messed it up.

Can you fix this? Can I have to tell you that? So in this case, I'm going to tell Operator, hey, go ahead. And now I'm passing back the control to Operator. It's a completely private session when you take over control. This is also the, you'll notice that I'm logged into Instacart here. I did it before the demo and, or it has been logged in for a while now and it's again very much like your local browser when you log into instacart until the cookies are cleared you stay logged in and we have really good controls you can go in settings and control and remove at any point in time all right hand it to our team uh our team members we had two team members that watched it all the way through

that was two and a half hours of that. But even though they may not be- That was four man hours of labor. Even though they may not have been the most dynamic presenters, what they are presenting is dynamic because it has the opportunity to radically change the way that we function on the internet and the way we function with one another. Would you use Operator? I could see myself using Operator. It's a great tool. And so, you know, especially with the groceries, you know, things like that.

I mean. I like AI. I'm going to like it up until it takes over the world. Right. And when it starts making decisions. Right. For me that I'm not. But right now, at the stage that AI is at, it's an extremely helpful tool. I use AI every day. I mean, it's been one year.

Yes. I can't imagine not having AI now. Right. It would be like going to no internet. Yeah, I use it on a daily basis too. And it's part of our lives now. I want to say something, folks. If you're vehemently anti-AI, you're going to lose on this, just like the people who were anti-5G. When we first went to Mobile World Congress in 2017 and I came back and told everyone about 5G, and it wasn't that I was promoting it. I was just saying, hey, this is what's coming. And so many people said, you know, I'll die before I allow 5G.

Okay, look at your phone. Look at the corner, upper corner of your phone. Tell me what's on your phone. It says 5G, doesn't it? And you haven't killed yourself. And nothing evil has happened. So let's not get too worked up about AI yet. Not yet.

It has the potential to get out of control. But right now, it is a very valuable tool. And what they're showing you is a simple thing. It's a personal assistant. Right. Yeah, if you frame it in that aspect of things, and I treat it like a personal assistant. But, Doc, yesterday I heard, and I mentioned this driving in,

I was listening to an interview, and I heard a guy say, this is the year of meta people. Meta people? Meta. Did you say many people? No, he said meta. M-E-T-A. Meta people.

Never heard that phrase before. Meta people. What did they mean by meta people? That many people will have virtual assistance starting this year. Okay, so I'll go back one year. Mobile World Congress, February 2024, Barcelona, Spain. I was in the audience, maybe 900 executives there. I don't know who the speaker was.

He was talking about AI. And he said within two years, all companies will have two classes of employees, human and non-human. And I just froze. I was like, what did you just say? And so I'm listening intently to what he was saying. He said, within two years. And that's 24. So by 26, by the end of 2026, one year from now, all companies will have human employees and non-human employees. Meta people. Meta people. So your human resources department will be managing human employees and non-human employees.

And your human resources department might actually be a meta person itself. Yes, your HR director may be a bot. You better learn how to live in an AI world because this thing is moving quickly. That day, when I got a break and I had about an hour between sessions I wanted to attend, I went to the lounge and sat down and I'm pondering. This is last year at Mobile World. And so I started thinking, wow, if this is true in two years. I was trying to think of the opportunities that were available. I thought, there's going to be

virtual employee staffing agencies. Just like you have a temp agency, you know? A temporary agency or a headhunters group that recruits personnel. And I was

thinking about this and I went online and I just started searching virtual assistant temporary agency. Wouldn't you know it, IBM was already doing it. No kidding. That was a year ago. That was a year ago. You could rent a virtual employee from IBM. So somebody already beat me to the idea. And you know, we've gone through the HR process with people, finding good people for the right job. You have sometimes you have to go through 25, 30 candidates to find the right person. What if you can construct the right employee for the job? Build one.

How many times have I become so frustrated dealing with humans that I've said, just get me a robot. Go find me a robot. Just give me a robot that will come in and do the work and not gripe and complain or not show up for three days. I mean, the American workforce is horrible today. It's terrible. And all employers are frustrated. All employers, every employer I talk to is frustrated with the work ethic of the American workplace right now.

Unfortunately, here in our organization, we flushed out all that stuff. We had basically an enema a couple years ago, and we got all that stuff out. And now we have humans at work. But we went through a period here where we were recruiting and hiring and going, what is going on here with these people? All right? And then when I talked to the other employees, other employers, they're saying the same thing. Right. You know, the little cafe next door that just went out of business.

Right. What was his biggest problem? He couldn't find anybody to come to work. Right. I'd go over there and the guy's working by himself, the owner. What's wrong, William? People didn't show up today. Okay.

I don't have anybody. This is the American. So where employers are at is like, hey, you got an AI bot that will do this work and work 24 hours a day and just keep it going and makes no mistakes? Doesn't take coffee breaks, doesn't go to the bathroom. No vacation, no benefits, no insurance. Okay, it just does the work. Your call. Because this is personal for you. Do you want to share about your wife, Mia, and her job?

Oh, yeah. I don't want to put you on the spot where— No. This is something that you're probably going to see in a lot of healthcare industry over the next few months. The hospital system that my wife works for here, about five, six months ago, they launched a new software, an AI-enhanced software, to take care of medical records, right? Because medical records, of course, the medical industry, that's all they do is generate medical records. And my wife works in that sector right there.

What she does is she takes like charts and things like that that the doctors and nurses produce and basically takes that data and puts it into the system so that you have a digitized version of it. Well, over the past six months, this hospital system that has locations all over the country and overseas launches new AI-enhanced software. And what has happened now is that this new software has not only caught up with the current workload, it has already caught up with all the stuff that was backed up from COVID. From COVID days. Yes, that they had been working through. When they weren't keeping current with this day-to-day records, her team was having to go back through and get the old COVID records.

So human data processors were working every day, and they were backlogged from COVID days. Backlogged for years. So when the hospital went to AI, what happened? When the hospital went to AI, it took a while for it to catch up. But about the beginning of December, it had caught up with everything. It had gone back and grabbed records from the time that the nuns ran the hospital here in Faroe Beach. I don't even know when that was. That was early 1900s. It went back to the 1900s?

Yes, yes. And so it recorded everything, every document, every medical record that was generated by the local hospital here. How long did it take you to do that? Well, like I said, they launched the software about six months ago. First of December, it caught up with everything. But it went back to the early 1900s? They went and found every document that they had. They had microfished everything.

And so now they just fed it in. So now they're caught up. There's nothing. I mean, going back to the beginning of the hospital, 120 some years ago. So now they're in a conundrum. Her particular department, they're encouraging people, take all the PTO you want. Go on vacation. Take a vacation to Europe. Do whatever you want to do. Use up your time. Because? Because they're getting ready to lay off a whole bunch of people. Because there's no work for them. That's right.

Because AI does it. That's right. So how many people in the department? They have 12 people. They had 12 people in the departments, down to eight now. And I'll be honest, there are still days where my wife has virtually nothing to do now. Because everyone's trying to grab as much work as they can to stay employed, those that remain. So did four people retire, quit? Yes. Just say, I see the handwriting on the wall. I'm out of here.

They did. And there's two more that are on the way out. If you go to another place, it's going to be the same thing. That's right. So even if you transfer, let's say, down here to Martin County or St. Lucie County or anywhere else, even in a different hospital system, because now her hospital system has licensed this software to hospital systems all over the country. They created it, and now they're licensing it to New York's hospital systems. Do you know which company is the biggest company in the world in hospital records, medical

records? I'm not a fan. Google. Really? Yeah. They're taking over the medical records industry. I seem to remember an article on that several years ago. But this apparently is proprietary software that they're using for a particular hospital system that has integrated artificial intelligence. In other words, the only time there's ever a bubble or burp in the system is if AI can't

figure out what has been written on a particular document, and then it refers it to a human being. So what it means is that in the next several years, many corporations are going to lay off a substantial portion of the workforce. Yes. If they can do this with data within the medical industry, think of every industry that has any kind of data, insurance, accounting, I don't know, baseball stats, whatever it might be, whatever is data-driven,

you won't need a human being anymore. I was listening to radio driving in the other day, and I heard an ad for an AI stock trading platform. Right. Why do you need a broker? Yes. AI does it better than a broker. Yes. You just load the money in your account and let AI manage your account.

How about an AI real estate broker? You can have that in everything, Doc. Yes. I mean, do you really? Another one I heard listening on the radio is for sales. I forget the name of the company, but what the service was, let our AI software analyze all of the calls coming into your organization. We will analyze all of your calls and tell you where the mistakes are at, where your strength, where your weakness is, where you're losing money, where customers are becoming frustrated. We'll give you a report every day. But that's AI.

How many companies can pay someone to analyze their calls like that on a daily basis? Very few companies. 24 hours a day. 24 hours a day. So the CEO walks in in the morning, the director of marketing hands him a report and says, this is what happened in the past 24 hours. Right. Now you can correct and make your organization more efficient. The gentleman that I heard last year at Mobile World said that within two years, by the end of 2026, he said all companies, obviously it's not down to the very smallest company,

but he said all big companies will have two classes of employees, human and non-human, meaning part of the workforce will be AI bots. But, Doc, they will name them. They will treat them. Say, what are you talking about? They'll be members of the team. They will be avatars that you will talk to on screen.

You'll have a human-like avatar that you're talking to. You'll give it a name, and that man or woman will be communicating with you. So, you know, that's why, I mean, I joked, I said, if I'm going to have an AI bot assistant,

I'm going to have mine designed to be a chimpanzee. I mean, I'm going to have something that's going to make me laugh, all right? In the morning, I'm going to give instructions to a chimp, you know? Can you imagine having, think about being I'm going to give instructions to a chimp, you know? Can you imagine having, think about being a CEO and you're talking to a chimp. Hey, Bonzo, give me my schedule for today. But this will be common this year. This year, by the end of this year, you're going to be surprised how many companies are using AI meta people on staff. I can think right now inside

our organization, the needs that I have, just for myself. Our organization, we are thinly staffed, very thin. I'll be honest with you. I got rid of all the troublemakers and i'm and the people i have now are wonderful and i'm afraid to hire another human i haven't hired anybody because i'm afraid of i don't want to get another jerk in here again isn't that terrible it takes a while to find out. Jerks are expensive. They destroy the atmosphere of an organization. They waste your time and your money. Okay?

So I've been like, hey, everything's just wonderful right now, but we don't have enough people. But you know what? If I could get me some AI bots to do things, I'll do it. To run the things just to help me with the work that I need to do every day. Remember that song, Ordinary People? Now it would be Artificial People. Artificial. People. Artificial People. Doc, a lot of the stuff we do in news research and everything, why am I doing it? I use AI

on news articles. I say, give me additional insight on this. I don't understand the concepts. And I'll go and say, explain this to me. And it'll give me an explanation. Yeah, I understand that now. It's helped me a lot. I'm saying searching. Oh, sure. Yeah. If you had an agent. If I could eliminate the hours that I spend to build out true news, then I would do it. It would be extremely valuable to me. It would free me up to be writing books, to be doing things that I want to do. Folks, learn about AI. Last year when I came home from Mobile World, the Lord spoke to me in my sleep.

It wasn't a dream. He spoke to me in my sleep, and he said, study generative AI. I heard that as an instruction. Generative AI. Now, when you heard that, did you even know what generative AI was? I heard it at Mobile World, but I didn't know what it was. Okay. I heard it in various sessions.

But generative AI basically is artificial intelligence that can generate creativity, create images, videos, music, art. Yes. I don't know if you've seen the videos made by AI. That's generative AI. It is astounding to see what it's producing. It'll write songs. It'll create podcasts with AI voices.

I've seen that. So it really is, we're on the cusp of some radical transformation taking place here. So the people who are going to have jobs are going to be the people who know how to harness AI, how to use AI. That's what you want to learn

if you want to stay employed. Right. You better learn it really fast. You better become the person in your organization that knows how to master AI because jobs are going to disappear and don't think you're too old to learn

this stuff I mean you can learn this and you'll have the advantage on other people it's part of preparedness the world is moving in this direction Rick we need to be prepared it is and I want to thank everybody who donated for us

to go to Mobile World Congress in early March. Thank you. We met our budget. Thank you very much. And looking forward to being there. Man, we have a lot here. And we've already reached almost our one hour.

Look at this, Doc. I'm going to bypass. Let's see. Where am I going to jump down to? Go to Donald Trump? Yes. Lee, let's go to 21. So President Trump in Los Angeles today to take a tour of the wildfire zones. Governor Newsom, and I don't know if he,

has Mr. Trump landed in LA yet? I don't think he has yet. Mr. Newsom was going to crash, shouldn't say crash the landing site, but he was going to invite himself to the tarmac. He hasn't been invited by President Trump to meet him at the airport. Governor Newsom said, I'll be there, which I'm curious to see how Mr. Trump's going to handle that. Fox 11 here says, I'm grateful, though, that he took our invitation to heart and that he'll be here tomorrow. That's today. That's my understanding. I look forward to being there on the tarmac to thank the president, welcome him, and we're making sure that all the resources he needs for a successful briefing are provided to him. I don't bother, Gavin. Either Mr. Trump is going to tell the Secret Service,

do not let that man get near me, or they're going to land at another airport. And he kind of made his thoughts about Gavin Newsom and California Clear last night in the second part of an interview that he did with Sean Hannity. He's not going to send the money until there are changes. Oh, yeah, big changes. And so I don't know if you want to share this, Andy. Yeah, this is a Sean Hannity show. I don't think we should give California anything until they let water flow down into there.

Just from the north to the south. This is a political thing. I don't know what it is. You know, they talk about the Delta smelt. It's a little tiny fish like this. They say it's an endangered species. Well, how is it endangered? No wonder it's endangered.

It's not getting any water. If you have a fish and you're stopping the water, isn't that going to hurt the fish? You took the water away from the fish. That's funny. Now, today, when he landed in North Carolina, he said, he was asked a question, are there going to be strings attached to any federal systems? He said, oh, yes. Once again, you know, emphasizing that, you know, some of the details before.

But he also said they're going to have to change their voter ID laws before we send any money to California. He said that North Carolina on the tarmac. Oh, they're going to rescind the Democrat voter laws. That's the condition of federal aid. They're going to rescind the Democrat voter laws. That's the condition of federal aid. They're going to put sanctions on states. I tell you. You're seeing new things happening. The good news, as of here today, Friday,

the good news for California is it's going to rain this weekend. Yes. The bad news for California is... There's no trees to hold the ground. There's no tree to... Yes ground. There's no tree. Yes, there are going to be mudslides. Yes. If it's heavy rain, right now it looks like it's going to be moderate rainfall, but it will do a lot to put out the fires.

President Trump, First Lady Melania, to tour the area, says the New York Post. So they landed first in North Carolina to see the areas devastated by hurricanes. They were accompanied by Franklin Graham. He saw some of the area, and then he did a presser with some folks. Oh, this is North Carolina. Yes. So he was there first in North Carolina. And we got two separate soundbites where he talks specifically about the future of FEMA. Abolishing FEMA. He said today they're going to abolish FEMA. So we'll do the first clip. This is from Fox News here.

Let's watch this, and then we'll have a second clip. They want to give you rules that you've never heard about. They want to bring people that aren't as good as the people you already have. And FEMA's turned out to be a disaster. And you could go back a long way. You could go back to Louisiana. You could go back to some of the things that took place in Texas. It turns out to be the state that ends up doing the work. It just complicates it. I think we're going to recommend that FEMA go away. Now, if there's any question about what he believes, we have another clip here, which he just says it's going. So watch this. I'll also be signing an executive order to begin the process of fundamentally

reforming and overhauling FEMA or maybe getting rid of FEMA. I think, frankly, FEMA is not good. I think when you have a problem like this, I think you want to go and whether it's a Democrat or Republican governor, you want to use your state to fix it and not waste time calling FEMA. And then FEMA gets here and they don't know the area. They've never been to the area. And they want to give you rules that you've never heard about. They want to bring people that aren't as good as the people you already have. And FEMA's turned out to be a disaster. And you could go back a long way. You could go back to Louisiana. You could go back to some of the things that took place in Texas.

It turns out to be the state that ends up doing the work. It just complicates it. I think we're going to recommend that FEMA go away. And we pay directly. We pay a percentage to the state. But the state should fix it. You know what he's doing, Doc? He's actually going back to a proposal by Richard Nixon. Nixon was an advocate of something called block grants. I remember that, sure.

You do? Yeah. Block grants was that Nixon was saying essentially the same same thing the federal government just gets in a way federal government under the nixon plan would just take money and say here is a block of money uh designated for this purpose right gives it to the state state then spends it for that purpose only and this is what mr Trump is talking about. That the federal government would have money set aside for disasters. A state would get a block of money to deal with the disaster. The federal government is out of it. Yeah. But should the federal government have just an unlimited

supply of money to give to states? Ideally, the federal government should have very little money and the states have the money. Now, President Calvin Coolidge, when he was president, there was a massive devastating flood in his home state of Vermont. It killed thousands of people, destroyed a big section of Vermont. But he was an advocate of not even giving the state additional money. They helped rebuild roads, basic infrastructure,

but they said beyond that, we should not be – the federal government should not be rebuilding houses. The federal government should not be rebuilding families and everything. We should do whatever we can to assist, but not, you know, they're talking about 100% compensation to folks out in California. That used to be the American mindset. The federal government isn't responsible to build your life. And Vermont was his home state.

Yes. That was where Coolidge was from. That's right. And so he was advocating we need to cut off federal funds to Vermont. That was kind of unpopular in his time, but they ended up doing that. Exactly. And it turned out to be the right decision. But I'm liking this approach.

I really am. I don't like FEMA anyway. They've got the clergy crisis teams. You talked about that. It's an agency for disasters disasters and the agency itself is a disaster wall street journal swaths of the u.s government grind to a halt after the trump shock therapy that says it all right there that's right washington is in shock new york post trump cuts off security detail for Fauci. Hot dog.

He said Fauci can pay for his own protective service personnel. Yes, and we have a clip of that as well. But you can't have a security detail for the rest of your life because you work for government. We'll see what happens. Would you feel partially responsible if something were to happen to say Dr. Fauci or John Bolton? No. Yeah, we'll see what happens. No, no. You know, they all made a lot of money. They can hire their own security to all the people you're talking about. They can go out.

I can give them some good numbers of very good security people. They can hire their own security. They all made a lot of money. Fauci made a lot of money. They all made a lot of money. Fauci made a lot of money. They all did. So if they felt that strongly, I think that certainly I would not take responsibility. Fauci could tap. I'm sorry.

They asked him, would you feel guilty if something happened to him? No. I wouldn't feel guilty at all. No. Why should we? Fauci could tap into that million dollars Israel gave him. That's right. He got a big giant check, remember?

That's right. By the way, he also revoked Fauci's security clearance last week, too. So, why he still had one? Another New York Post, Trump's ICE raids turn up pedophiles, gangbangers, suspected terrorists. 538 migrants arrested yesterday yes new york post got a video here the actual scenes of illegal immigrant criminals we're arriving back in mexico there they are walking across the border into mexico that guy right there said i wouldn't recommend going to america there's a lot of migra up there so you don't want to uh get caught and be sent back and so

it's happening it is actually happening the great deportation is underway providence journal fbi agents raid a building in providence rhode island, Rhode Island, where they raided the office of a judge. Yes. And the judge resigned. Yes. He himself was an illegal immigrant at one time. Yes. For 15 years before he became a citizen and then ended up becoming a judge.

Yes. Previously, he was an immigration lawyer, became a judge. The guy you see there in the suit in tie is Joseph Molina Flynn. And he had an immigration office in Providence, Rhode Island. And FBI agents raided the office of this former immigration attorney turned judge going to his office there and hauling stuff out. And there's a network of these immigration offices like this all around the country, Rick. Oh, this I guarantee you this sent a fear through people today oh yes those lawyers and judges and government workers who have been helping illegal immigrants they're all seeing that video today right so that's evidence walking out the door there it's really happening when it comes to immigration everyone

so i saw a video today this is a tragic sad this is. This is what Gavin Newsom and Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats of California, that's what they did to California. That's a train moving through California. Had to slow down because of the homeless camp along the railroad track. Why would you build your homeless camp next to the track? It looks like India. Yes, it looked like India. That's what the Democrats have done to us. Newsom wants to take it nationwide.

He wants to be elected president and take that nationwide. Well, it's not going to happen wall street journal how trump's assault on dei will ripple across corporate america uh corporations are they don't know what to do their lawyers everybody's having meetings. You know, they have to implement Trump's policy, and yet they have their own corporate policies. And Trump has told them yesterday, we may investigate you for your DEI. For your past DEI. You could be investigated on the grounds that you were discriminating against people to implement a pro-DEI policy. So there's two reactions to Trump's DEI policy.

One is we're going to keep on doing stupid stuff and having a DEI department. The other is we like making money. We're getting rid of our DEI department. So on the one end of the spectrum, Costco, this is number 39 for control, Costco takes stand against Donald Trump by continuing their DEI policies. They're going to double down on this. The board of directors had a vote. Yes. They're doubling down.

They are staying with DEI. They're going to defy donald trump folks i you know i don't ordinarily promote boycotts but this is one and i know you like costco well i do like costco would you go to costco now no i'll i have to go to bj's now okay but i like bj's too why give them money when there's right up in your face saying we're going to do it and what are you going to do about it? BJ's has a dollar and a half hot dogs too. That's right. Now, on the other end of the spectrum, and this is number 40 for control, look at this. Target.

Of all companies. Target is rolling back its DEI initiatives. Have they rolled back their transgenderI initiatives. Now, Rick. Have they rolled back their transgender restrooms? I don't know. That was the first question I asked as well. And so because that was policy. But they're rolling back their DEI department.

Fox News reporting the ATF is hiding their DEI director. Changed her title. Yes. This is the very thing that the Trump directive warned agencies not to do. And said in the executive order. There will be consequences. There will be consequences. So this woman, Lisa Boykin, was the chief diversity officer.

And this week, her title was changed to senior executive at the atf somebody at the atf is going to get fired next week yes that's going to happen secretary of state marco rubio i gotta get used to saying that secretary of state marco rubio has banned u.s passports with X gender markers. Doc, this is like an outbreak of common sense. It's like an outbreak. Yes. It said the now new policy is sex, not gender, shall be used.

You're either male or female. There's no X anymore. CNBC, Target. Well, we did that one. Target rolls back. LifeSite News, President Trump pardons pro-life prisoners. This is big. This included the grandma who was sentenced to federal prison for praying at an abortion clinic. Sentenced to federal prison. Yes. Today is March for Life

Day, and J.D. Vance spoke at the March for Life rally today. And so, yeah, I don't know if you wanted to do this Telegraph article or not. Oh, yes. So Britain will not recognize Trump's new name for Gulf of Mexico. They're going to still call it the Gulf of Mexico and not the Gulf of America. I'll tell you what's going to happen. Doc. I'll tell you what's going to happen. I'll tell you what's going to happen. Trump is going to start, President Trump's going to start referring to Great Britain as England. Oh, no. I have another. Even more? What? He's going to instead of calling it

Great Britain, he'll call it Little Britain. Little Britain? Yeah. Little Britain. But if he went to England, if he just took it back and said, we don't recognize Great Britain or un-Great Britain, but if he just started calling it England and ordered the State Department to change all

maps to England, and what if he said the U.S. government is no longer going to call the Falkland Islands Falkland and go back to the original name? You don't think he wouldn't do it? Yes, he would. Yes, he would. These people don't know who they're messing with.

They really don't get it. They think this is 2017. Doc, they think it's like it was eight years ago. No, this is a whole different ballgame. This is a different look at his eyes in that inauguration picture. Look at the face. The face

is like, you want to mess with me? You're going to regret it. Like Britain saying, we're not going to rename the Gulf of Mexico. Okay, you watch what he does. He's not playing games. One more.

New York Post congressman pushes for amendment to allow Trump to run for a third term. But not Obama, Clinton, and Bush. So how does that work? It goes into effect now. Right. So it says a congressman is pushing for a law change that would allow President Trump to run for a third term but would prevent other living presidents, including Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, even George Bush, George W. Bush, from returning to the White House. Representative Andy Ogles of Tennessee proposed an amendment Thursday that would allow presidents three terms

in office as long as they did not serve two consecutive four-year stints. That would allow a third term for Donald Trump, whose two were interrupted by Joe Biden, but not for Obama, Clinton, or George W. Bush, who each served two consecutive terms. That's kind of up. So Biden could potentially do it too.

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But if he says this out loud, says that part he has he has gold yes all right you can be certain he's got gold so just look at these signs and you know don't don't get caught up in the euphoria that we have with the politics uh you've got one of the world's biggest and i think smartest bankers in the world he really is well you know you don't agree with these politics but jamie diamond knows banking and he's sending a signal to everybody that pays attention to him i just told you there's going to be a stock market correction that's what he's saying yes there's going to be a correction it's a little bit over inflated which means we're going to open up the valve and let some air out yes okay so if your if your investment portfolio is all in stocks then you're going to be a little bit deflated

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Good morning, everybody. Welcome to Morning Manna. We are glad to have you here with us on this Friday. It's Faith Friday, and on Fridays in 2025, we are talking about faith, and as usual, we're having the Lord's Supper, Holy Communion, as we do every Friday on Morning Manna. So we invite you to become part of the family. Join us in the Lord's Supper. Have bread and your choice of grape juice or red wine later in today's service um it's going to be a little bit shorter a lesson today uh the the topic obviously the theme is faith uh but um i got a message for you all right and i believe it's i prayed about it this morning as uh um the topic is what i'm certain the Holy Spirit said.

This is what I want you to teach on today and next Friday. It's a two-part lesson. Okay. So let's pray. Father, thank you so much. Thank you, Father, for this awesome, beautiful day. Father, we thank you for being so good to us being so kind and generous thank you for saving our souls father thank you for giving us eternal life through your son jesus

christ thank you for sending your spirit to dwell in us and comfort us and lead us thank you father for the angels who minister unto us every day, Father. You are a good Father, and we bless you, and we praise you. We ask for the Holy Spirit to lead and guide and direct this Morning Man of Bible Study so that all of us would become better and stronger disciples for our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. In his name, name Jesus we pray amen amen so doc um let me get my notes here my I titled this two kinds of faith the Abraham faith and the Thomas faith. And what we're going to study today and next week

are the differences between the faith of each man. And we're going to talk about which faith pleases God, which faith moves God's hands to act on your behalf? Which faith produces miracles? So today we're going to focus on Thomas' faith. Next week, we will spend next Friday talking about Abraham's faith. Because it's Abraham's faith that we are to emulate. It is his faith we are to follow.

He is the father of our faith. He's the role model. Thomas isn't a role model for faith. But we're going to talk about him today Doc I'm going to have you read from the gospel according to St. John the 20th chapter verses 24 through 29

alright I turned right to it how about that so the gospel of John and we're in chapter 20, in verses 24 through which one, Rick? 29. Okay, all right, very good. So if you got your Bibles, read along with me, please. Gospel of John chapter 20, verse 24. But Thomas, one of the 12, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came. The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the Lord. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails,

and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe. And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them. Then came Jesus. The door is being shut and stood in the midst and said, Peace be unto you. Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, behold my hands, and reach hither thy hand and thrust it into my side, and be not faithless, but believing. And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God.

Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed, blessed are they that have not seen me and yet have believed. Thomas' faith. Yes, so this is Thomas' faith. Because you have seen me,

you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and have believed that's abraham faith both are faith both men believe god but there's it's a different kind of faith. And it's the Abraham faith that God desires. It's the Abraham faith that pleases him. So Thomas, the twin, his name Didymus,

he was absent during the first appearance of Jesus to the disciples. And, you know, to his, you know, in respect to him, I'm not here to rag on Thomas. He was an apostle i understand uh his doubt you know there was there was none of us can understand the emotional toll on the on the disciples following the crucifixion they these men were i, these are young men. They're in their 30s. Their leader was executed by the Roman government. He's been branded a revolutionary, a criminal.

They were associated with him. They're thinking, we're next. They're going to round us up and nail us on a cross too. So there's tremendous emotional turmoil in Thomas' mind and heart.

And he's grieving. He loved Jesus. He loved him. And Jesus, in his mind is dead yes there's a difference Thomas did not have unbelief

his reluctance to believe was not unbelief. When Jesus talks about unbelief, he's talking about a hardness of the heart that refuses to believe, refuses to enter into the invisible world of faith. Thomas wasn't there. He wasn't in unbelief.

He just wasn't in belief. See, unbelief is a determined state of mind to say, I'm not going to believe that. He wasn't there. he just couldn't believe and i think i think a lot of it had to do with he was so emotionally distraught yes he he he didn't want to believe in something that was too good to be true. Right. He'd seen Jesus die. Yeah. He was traumatized.

And I think that's probably the best way to describe Thomas. He was traumatized. Yes. And now they're telling him he's alive. I think he wanted to believe, but he was afraid that he was being duped. He was being led to believe something that just couldn't be true how could a man that was whipped and scourged and beaten nailed to a cross spear thrust into his how could he be alive how could that be he wanted him to be alive but he he didn't want to be tricked and it wasn't that he was thinking the apostles,

the other, the other disciples were deliberately deceiving him. He was just thinking, maybe they saw a ghost. Maybe they, well, I don't know what they saw. He wasn't believing that they were trying to deceive him.

He was just thinking, whatever they saw, I'm not sure what it was. Right. So for him, the eyewitness testimony of the other disciples, the other 10 disciples, wasn't enough for Thomas. It wasn't enough to convince him. He needed something more, some physical evidence. You know, really, that's all we have today, Rick. All we have is the eyewitness testimony of the apostles and believers of the first century. That's all we have, too. That's what we have. That's why they're apostles. We don't have physical evidence.

I have great doubts about the Shroud of Turin because I just don't see God providing physical evidence. You know, if he did, he would have provided it in the scriptures and said, look, you can go touch this thing and see this thing. But it wasn't enough for Thomas. My view on the Shroud of Turin is, I guess, the opposite, Doc. I mean, for me, it's like, well, it could be real, but that doesn't affect my faith. It could be this Shroud, but that would be cool if it was, but whether it turns out to be a fake, that doesn't affect my faith in Christ's resurrection. True.

And even if it is genuine, I think that creates some problems too. And so, because people put their faith in the physical element of Christ. Then it becomes a relic. Yes. Now I got to go touch it. You know, you got to go do all that stuff. Yes. So Thomas's doubt was not just a casual denial. It wasn't kind of, oh, well, I'm not so sure about that.

It was a profound fear of being deceived in in a the most significant matter in his life i mean he couldn't he couldn't risk being deceived it would be in other words for thomas it was like i'm already traumatized that my lord was killed if i believe he's alive and then i find out that that's not true then he's been killed twice right yeah Right. Yeah. And I think that's what was driving his reluctance to believe. So what do we do? This is what I'm trying to mine out of this lesson today. What are the things that in our natural lives, what are the things that hinder us from believing like a child jesus said we have to enter the kingdom like a child

you can tell children they'll believe that they grow up and they're like i don't believe that most people the older they get the more cynical they become but jesus said you got to enter the kingdom like a child right with an innocent mind that believes so thomas didn't want jesus to die a second time in his mind and heart that would be too much for him he was afraid he was afraid of the pain that he would experience if he found out that the other disciples had been fooled. Now, the other disciples said, they repeatedly told Thomas, we have seen the Lord. And in the Greek, that's an imperfect tense, which implies continuous, repeated declarations. Yes.

So everybody was speaking out, Thomas, we've seen the Lord. We've seen the Lord. He heard it from this person and that person. We've seen the Lord. We've seen the Lord. But he was struggling their testimony was not enough for him he in his mind he said I gotta have physical proof I'm not going down this road. This is a conspiracy theory. This is way too wild for me to believe.

Well, I mean, in the natural realm, if you think about it, it is. Yes. I watched a guy tortured to death and killed. I saw them take him down from the cross. And I know they put him in the grave. And now you're telling me he's up and walking around?

He might have been thinking that the other disciples were having a mass delusion. They were traumatized too. they you know they were having a a shared delusion so thomas's doubt it was both a weakness and a natural reaction to his heartbreak. It's explainable.

It's understandable, the natural reaction to his sorrow. But there was also a spiritual weakness there there was a desire for extraordinary evidence to substantiate an extraordinary claim because the other disciples were making us the most extraordinary claim you can make yes so I, I really think, Doc, that Thomas was thinking, my brothers are hallucinating. They've lost their minds. The killing of Jesus has been so horrible that they're out of their minds. And I think Thomas was thinking,

I got to stay grounded. I got to be the adult here in the room. These guys have lost it. They're going to go out here and run around in the streets saying he's alive. He's alive. So I think in Thomas's mind, he's thinking, I got to stay calm and cool. I can't get caught up into this, this hallucination.

Now, Thomas did not say, if I I will believe right he second one what what he really said his actual words unless I see I will not believe that's that's a that's an obstinate position. That's a closed mind. I will give you the terms. If I don't get this, I will never believe. Yes. I don't care what you tell me. If I don't get my terms I will never believe excuse me

I'm getting a call from Russia and I don't know anybody in Russia oh might be Putin or Kirill. It could be. It could be. I don't know. That's unusual. Okay. Hey, this is like what happened to Putin the other day. He was in a meeting and he got an important international call. Probably Medvedev. Medvedev wants to do an interview, I think. But this is a really important thing to understand

thomas was saying unless unless proof is given to me on my terms I will never believe. And not just seeing either. He had to touch the Lord. He had to put his... He had two demands. See and touch. He wasn't even going to trust his eyes. He had to touch the print of the nails in his hands. He had to

put his hand in the side. That's the only way you're going to be able to convince me that's right um so what was thomas justified in that kind of uh demands because he he's he's literally saying, guys, I am never going to believe Jesus was resurrected unless you can fulfill my demands. And if you can't, then I guess this is where we part our ways. That literally is what he's saying, because I'm not going to go

there unless i see i will not believe i will not that's a that's a stubborn attitude there's there's self-will in that statement. I will not believe. He does say that, doesn't he? I will. I will not believe. Unless I get my way, I will not believe. I never noticed that before. It's a very important observation about Thomas' attitude. This wasn't where Thomas was going, come on, guys, you got to give me some proof.

No, he looked him in the eyes and said, I'm going to tell you something, guys. Unless I see, I will not believe anything you people say to me wow have you ever said have you ever said to god unless i see the proof i will not believe. Have you ever had that attitude on any matter in your life? God, if you don't show me the proof, the proof that I demand, I will not believe you. I'll tell you a phrase you should never say unless you're talking about politicians the promises from politicians then you can say it

I'll believe it when I see it if you're talking about politicians' promises, yeah, you can say it. You're justified. You're justified. But in matters of faith, don't ever say, I'll believe it when I see it. You're doing the same thing Thomas said. I will believe it until I see it yes your attitude should be

I'll see it when I believe it you see the belief the faith comes first then the evidence comes Hebrews 11 1 says faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Yes. So Thomas demanded not only to see Jesus, but to touch him.

Now, what is significant about this? He didn't say, hey, guys, take me to him. Where is he? I want to see him. Are you serious? Take me now. I want to see him. Are you serious? Take me now. I want to see him. I hadn't thought about that.

Yes, yes. The other disciples didn't touch Jesus. They just saw him. Yes. But Thomas is saying, hey, I want to see him and I want to see him and i want to touch him his his response should have been and this would have made him on par equal with the other disciples because they had already saw him

it's not like the other disciples believed in the resurrection without seeing Jesus. They saw him. They believed because they saw him. But Thomas has got this attitude. Jesus needs, he needs to come here. I'm not going out there looking for him he needs to come here and show me himself and then I'll touch him wow I had not thought about that before Rick

he should have been running out the door guys take me where he's at I want to see him I want to see him just like you saw him he didn't he didn't respond like that he responds well unless i see i will not believe and he has to come to me he should have been running down the street saying, which way, where do I go? Where's the last place you saw him? Wow, I had not thought about that before, Rick. He's the only disciple who demanded

not only sensory proof, but the proof by touching. Yeah. He's got, he's the only one who said, not only do I must see, but I actually have to put my hands on him.

The other disciples didn't put their hands on him. Now, it is, I think it's noteworthy, Doc, that he said, unless I put my hand in the scars, in his wound. The wounds of Christ were significant to Thomas. To him, the wounds were the direct evidence of Jesus's crucifixion and identity. Right. I saw them crucify him. i saw them put nails in his hands i saw them put a spear in his side yes and i want to see the wounds to know that the one that's I mean there is you can say for Thomas he heard Jesus

say beware there will be many false Christ he might have been thinking I'm not going to fall for a false Christ a lot of things that could have been going on in Thomas's mind again I'm not ragging on Thomas a lot of things that could have been going on in Thomas's mind.

Again, I'm not ragging on Thomas. He's an apostle. His love for Jesus made him hesitant to embrace what he thought was impossible. He loved Jesus, and because he loved Jesus, he was reluctant to accept an idea that his mind said, that's impossible. so his grief isolated him from the other disciples why wasn't he with them why wasn't he with the other disciples who saw Christ

he was somewhere alone grieving Why wasn't he with the other disciples who saw Christ? He was somewhere alone grieving. He was in terrible emotional pain. On the other note his reaction shows that Thomas did not fully understand what Jesus said about his resurrection after three days he should have he should have been saying hot dog he said he was going to do it he's here he said he was going to do it no he's not he didn't comprehend it so you know today uh there are a lot of people that reject faith in jesus christ because they just say hey i i can't believe in some guy that died 2 000 years ago and you're telling me he came back to life you want me to do my whole life around

that you know where's the evidence of that where's the evidence and and so what did Jesus say about that, Doc? His response to Thomas. You know, he said... The first words he said to him were, Peace be unto you. Yes. As if to say, Thomas, don't fear. Don't fear. And the same thing he said to the disciples

eight days earlier he said peace be unto you don't be scared fear not and then he he consented to Thomas' demand

go ahead put your finger here and look at my He consented to Thomas's demand. Yes. Go ahead. Put your finger here and look at my hands and put your hand here and place it in my side. Do not be faithless, but believing. There you go. Do not be faithless, but believing. So Jesus didn't scold him. Jesus loved Thomas. And so he.

Jesus. Acquiesced to Thomas's demand for proof. He didn't reject him because of it. Yes. This is why I'm talking about. title is Two Kinds of Faith. There's a Thomas faith and there's an Abraham faith, but they're both faith. Thomas was not an unbeliever. He did not reject Jesus.

He just demanded more evidence than Abraham. But it's Abraham that pleased God. Jesus worked with Thomas because he loved him. Jesus didn't say, okay, Thomas, you failed the test, you're out. No, he said,

go ahead, go ahead, touch my hands, touch my side. It's okay, Thomas. But he's not pleased with that faith. It's childlike faith that pleases God. He'll work with you on the other side.

If you don't have childlike faith, he'll still work with you. It's like the man said, I believe but help my unbelief. Yes. See, that's kind of Thomas level faith. I believe, but you better help my unbelief. It almost sounds contradictory, doesn't it?

So Thomas was reluctant to believe without physical proof. But real faith, true faith is not dependent on physical proof. True faith is in possession without the physical possession right and jesus makes that clear in verse 29 that it even if you could touch me even if you if you can see me if you could touch me that's not the essence of faith he said blessed are those who have not seen and believed. They have not seen and believed. It's the faith itself that's the evidence, not the physical evidence. Faith is the evidence.

Faith is the evidence, Hebrews tells us. Not the physical manifestation in the world around us, but the actual belief is the evidence. Yes. So in defense of Thomas, his doubt was not rebellion. It was a desire for proof. It was not a rejection of faith but a pursuit of evidence see the Pharisees were guilty of unbelief rejecting faith Thomas was not one of them he simply demanded proof so that he could believe

it's not the highest level of faith and what we see here is Jesus out of his kindness his goodness he said okay Thomas I'll work with you but I'll give you what you asked for but blessed are those who don't ask for it so which kind of faith do you want Jesus will give you the Thomas faith if that's where you're at he'll respond

if you have Thomas faith Jesus will meet you there and say okay I'll work with you on this but this isn't the faith that pleases me you're doubting you have to have proof you have to have evidence but this isn't the faith that pleases me. You're doubting. You have to have proof. You have to have evidence.

But when he did touch Jesus, he exclaimed, my Lord, my God. His doubting was over at that moment that was the moment where there was complete surrender and and now a confession of belief. And after that, Thomas went throughout the world. He went to India. According to the legend, he went to India saying, my Lord, my God. See, Thomas, his sermons, when he went to India, his sermons were, let me tell you, folks, they told me that Jesus was resurrected.

And I said, I'm not going to believe it until I can see him and touch him. And Jesus walked in and said, Thomas, touch me. And then i believed and then jesus said blessed are those who don't see and believe and then thomas is telling the people don't be like me just believe just believe so he had a different time you know he used that and i'm just you know i have no proof no evidence that he gave this kind of sermons but i'm just thinking this is part of his testimony. Right. He's going to be speaking out of his life experience.

Tell us, Thomas, what did you see when Jesus was resurrected? Well, I didn't believe it at first. Okay. jesus was resurrected well i i didn't believe it at first okay i'm sure there were a lot of people that were listening to him saying okay what made you believe so uh thomas thomas uh ended up being martyred the legend legend says that he was on a high hill mountain in India, praying on a large rock. And somebody came up behind him and thrust a spear into his back. and that city where he died to this day is the heart of Christianity in India. More Christians in that city today than any other place in India.

So his ministry continues on 2, years later that's right so what are we learning here Jesus didn't rebuke Thomas harshly for his lack of faith it was an unbelief it was lack of faith but he met Thomas where he was at and provided what Thomas needed to have true faith. So I guess the message I'm trying to get across to you here is even when you have imperfect faith, Jesus will still work with it. He'll say, okay, I can work with that it's better than nothing I'll get involved here with you I'll help your unbelief but where he's taking you

is that you will have belief faith without the evidence necessary so did you just get to the point where when you pray when you ask for something you believe you have it now even though there's no physical evidence faith is what the substance of things hoped for see it's the substance thomas said i i gotta have the substance i i can't have any of this invisible substance i want physical substance but hebrews says faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things believed. You have evidence.

You have it in your spirit, in your mind, before it shows up. So when we pray for healing, you believe that the prayer was answered. Yes. It was answered when you prayed yes whether you still have the physical ailments or not doesn't matter you stand on the confession i prayed in faith that jesus would heal me i believe that he healed me. And. These symptoms will go away. Because he's healed me.

Yes. So. Jesus is always. Trying to strengthen our faith. He's always giving us faith challenges. He'll put things in our lives to build our faith. You know, I look back when I was a new Christian, man, I had all kinds of problems. But, Doc, I realize my father had put me in boot camp and

he was teaching me literally it was like you know the old thing about throwing somebody in the river teach him how to swim right that's basically what he did to me hey rick i'm just going to toss you in there and you're going to figure this out and i had to i had to learn faith i had to learn to swim by faith well my father was doing it. I'll give you an example. So, as a very young Christian, I'd had a business and the company that I had a distributorship and the national company went out of business. I was doing great, but the national company went out of business.

Don't you hate it when that happens? Oh man. Like, and I was stuck holding, holding the bag. All right. People were, you know, demanding money from me, you know, wanting refunds.

The company wasn't sending any refunds anymore. People were coming to me and saying, give us our money. No way. You got to go to the national. Anyhow, it was a mess, okay? And there were people who owed me money and i was trying to collect that money so it was it was a challenging time for me as a very young man in my 20s

it was the first business i owned and man it it was a wild ride okay it went it went up and it went down um but i remember this one incident doc when very young in my 20s and jesus is he was teaching me faith put me in a situation where i had to believe for money to live every week and what happened was a I went to the Lord and I said father then here are the people that owe me money I'm praying I'm asking in Jesus name that you speak to these people and there was one man in particular that owed me money and I prayed I said God please speak to this man's heart that he would repay me the money he owes me and because I didn't want to I didn't want to I didn't want to be calling people and demanding money it wasn't that's not never been my style I don't like it okay and uh and i felt that day i felt peace i remember

feeling my prayers answered yes my prayer's been answered that man's going to send me the money and so doc i stood on that for days and days and it turned into a couple weeks. And I'm like, Lord, I know that the Holy Spirit told me that day when I prayed that man would send me the money. But weeks have gone by. Lord, where's the money? And I just, you know, it was getting harder to stand on my faith because physical reality was shouting at me, face the facts, Rick. He's not going to pay you.

You imagine that you heard God. You imagine that God said, I have told that man to pay you. That's all in your head. Well, I don't remember how many weeks went by. I get a phone call from that man. Now, mind you, I have never called this man. I've never called him and said, hey, you owe me money and you don't send me money. I'm going to send the mafia over to break your knee.

I never, you know, I never put any pressure on him at all. Didn't even call him but one day that man called me he didn't know i had prayed and he didn't know i desperately need the money he called me and said hey rick you know, I've owed you this money for, I don't know, over a year or so. He said, apologize. He said, the reason I'm calling you is I paid you. And I said, whatever his name was, John. I said, I didn't get to check. He goes, yeah, I know.

That's why I'm calling you. I said, well, what's going on? He goes, well, about, I don't know, two or three'm calling you i said well what's going on he goes well about i don't know two or three weeks ago he said the thought came into my mind i owe rick this money and i'm just going to pay pay him off now today and i knew that's the day i prayed okay that's the day i prayed god answered my prayer i said well I didn't get the money. He goes, yeah, I know. He says, the mailman just came to my house and brought a plastic bag with my letter in it and my check inside the plastic bag.

And it was all charcoal. And he said to me, for some reason, your letter caught on fire during delivery. Doc, have you ever had a letter with a check in it catch on fire? Not catch on fire. I've had them returned where they're dripping wet and things like that. This one was charcoal. That's that this one was charcoal that's amazing it was charcoal i mean he said he said it was just flakes of paper in the bag he said rick i i've sent another one out and and i i'm sending it you know whatever expedited mail was back then he said i i'm sorry

because i had i have no idea why my letter caught on fire in the post office the point i'm trying to tell you is i had that i had my prayer answered the moment I prayed. Yes. The enemy got involved and tried to stop it from manifesting. You have to understand that there's spiritual warfare. And you have to stand on your confession of faith, even though you don't physically have the evidence. I knew in my spirit that God said to me,

I have spoken to that man and he's going to pay you. And when we went by without the money, the devil was saying, hey, your God didn't work. No, the devil set fire to the envelope. Why would he do that? Because he didn't want my faith to develop. He didn't want me to receive the blessings. He wanted to keep me in great trouble so if if your mind if your faith is

well i'll believe it when the check arrives then you've got thomas faith but if you have abraham faith it's like hey done deal it's coming i'm just going to go down and stand at the bank and wait on the check to arrive. All right. So that's the difference between the two. Thomas would have to see it, have to physically touch it. Abraham would be, it's already in my account i'm just waiting to see it appear in the physical world it's in this spiritually it's in it's

spiritually it's already there i'm just waiting you know he says look at it i'm just waiting for it to appear in the physical world thomas's attitude is it's it to appear in the physical world. Thomas's attitude is it's got to appear in the physical world until I believe it happened in the spiritual world. So next week, we will talk about Abraham's faith. Because that's the model of faith that we want to have. Doc, anything else you want to say about Thomas? Yeah. The scripture doesn't say he actually touched Jesus. It says there, and Jesus says to him, because you've seen and believed.

So that's always been intriguing to me. I believe he did touch him, but the scripture doesn't say he did. But Jesus told him to. He said, touch me. Touch me. And then Jesus says, because you have seen. And so anyway, that's always stood out to me since I was a kid. So, but anyway, so this faith that we're talking about, Rick, how does it apply to folks that

have a need today? How can they pray now based on what we've learned about Thomas? You have what you asked for in the name of Jesus, when what you're asking for is according to his will. What does that mean? Okay, if you say, you can't pray, Lord, I want to have wings and I want to jump off this building and fly. I'm going to ask in faith in the name of Jesus and I'm going to get wings. That's not according to God's will. And I can show you in the Bible where Satan said that to Jesus and he said, hey, get out of here.

I'm not jumping off that building. See, it's not according to the will. But anything that is according to God's will, you can ask for it in the name of Jesus, and with faith, believe that you have received it the moment you ask for it. This is why I've been talking about the first two weeks of faith friday is it god's will to heal you you have to come to the place where you believe yes it's his will yes why because the word says so

the word says so that's why that's why you And if you have that word, then you can pray with confidence, knowing that what you have asked for in the name of Jesus, believing, has been done unto you. And it will show up. You and I don't determine when it shows up. That's the sovereign act of God. And in areas of healing, sometimes it's instantaneous. It's miraculous.

Sometimes it's gradual. Sometimes he, I've had the Lord send me to a doctor. I've prayed, Lord, I got this problem. Please heal me. And he's actually told me to go to a doctor and a doctor said, do this, this and this. I got my answer the moment I prayed. I've had other times I've had pains and problems

and I prayed and days later I realized well that's gone away I didn't even feel it I didn't even know it I don't even know when it went away but you believe that you have it when you pray

because it's according to his will and so again the Thomas Yes. Because it's according to his will. And so, again, the Thomas faith says, I will not believe it until the tumor goes away. That's the Thomas faith. If you have a tumor, I will not believe until the tumor disappears. The Abraham faith says, that tumor is gone now. I don't care what's hanging on my body. I don't care what my eyes see.

It doesn't matter. It's gone. That's the Abraham faith. Yes. So that's what we're going to talk about next week, the Abraham faith. Doc, let's have the Lord's Supper. Amen.

And by faith, we enter into the Lord's Supper today because Jesus told us to consider this until he returns because it reminds us of the sacrifice that he gave for us, that he rose from the dead, but also the promise by faith that he's coming back. See, there's no evidence of that. We have to believe it because he said it. So, and as usual, before we enter into the lord's supper uh just a reminder to you the uh if you're a confessing believer of jesus christ and you're

you've been baptized in water according to the scriptures in the name of the father son the holy spirit then we encourage you to participate in the lord's supper don't neglect this don't put it off go ahead and participate don Don't say, well, I'll just observe. I encourage you, participate in this. It's very important. A lot of churches neglect this feast at the Lord's table for a variety of reasons, but we have a good reason to celebrate it on a regular basis. Jesus said, do it often. Do it often. And before we enter into the Lord's table, let's pray that the Lord will search our hearts. And if there's anything standing between you and the Lord that you'd confess it, repent of it before we enter the Lord's table. I don't

want anyone to suffer in their physical body because they entered into the Lord's table without faith today. Heavenly Father, in Jesus' name, we pray that you would forgive us, Lord, of those sins of omission and commission, Lord, those sins of omission where we have neglected to do what you have told us to do, Lord, the sins of commission, Lord, where we have gone out of our way to sin. Lord, we ask in Jesus' name that you would forgive us, that we recognize the blood of Jesus is what redeems us and what saves us.

And Lord, we repent of anything that would stand between us and the Father that would prevent our fellowship in the kingdom of God. So, Lord, we ask for your forgiveness, and we ask for your application of your blood in our lives. In Jesus' name we pray, amen and amen. If you have the elements of communion, we're going to pray a blessing over it here in just a moment.

Normally we use bread and either grape juice or red wine. And I always encourage everyone, make preparation for this. Don't let it just be something you throw together at the last minute. But prepare for it. Know that you're going to be doing this

and everything. And it makes it a bit more special when you know you've prepared for it. When you have guests coming over to your home, you just don't, you know, and you know they've been coming for a while, you don't just throw something together at the last minute. No, you prepare a table and you prepare a meal. And so keep that in mind each week as you prepare, make special preparation for this.

Doc, if I may, I want to, I want to read a scripture from John also from John. This is chapter six, talking about the bread and the wine. Jesus said, do not murmur among yourselves. No one can come to me unless the father who has sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day. It is written in the prophets, they shall all be taught by God. Therefore, everyone who has heard and has learned of the Father comes to me.

Not that anyone has seen the Father. Physical eyes. Not that anyone has seen the Father, except he who is from God. He has seen the Father. Truly father truly truly i say to you whoever believes in me has eternal life i am the bread of life your fathers ate manna in the wilderness and they died this is the bread which comes down from, that one may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever.

The bread which I shall give for the life of the world is my flesh. What we're about to partake of we're not eating a wafer or a piece of bread we are eating the bread of life yes it's not this that gives me eternal life it's the it is the it is faith in the living christ he is the bread of life and he went on to say truly truly i say unto you unless you eat the flesh of the son of man and drink his blood you have no life in you whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life and i will raise him up on the last day for my flesh is food indeed and my blood is drink indeed whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him as the Living Father sent me and I live because of the father so whoever feeds on me will also live because of me.

This is the bread which came down from heaven. Not as your fathers ate manna and died. He who eats this bread will live forever. We're doing this by faith. Yes. This means nothing if there's no faith. Right. You are eating this bread and drinking this wine or grape juice with faith that you will have eternal life. If you have the Thomas faith, you say, well, I'll have to.

I won't believe it until the day i die if you have the abraham faith you'll say i have it because christ said it it's his word yes and the reason that paul said that some people sleep they've died because they've eaten this unworthily meaning what they did not understand they didn't eat it and drink it by faith yes it was just a ritual we're having communion today now this is by faith right i'm eating this and drinking this because jesus, whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood, I will raise him up on the last day. Right. So I see several comments on chat that these are symbols.

I will challenge you on that in saying they're not symbols. When Jesus said, this is my body, by faith we believe that this is his body. When he said, this is my blood, by faith we believe that this is his blood. These aren't symbols. This is his body,

and this is his blood. Where does Jesus say symbol? Where does he say eat this symbol? It is a memorial. A memorial and a symbol are two different things. Yes. I am eating his flesh and drinking his blood in a memorial of his sacrifice. But this is not a symbol. When I put this in my mouth and drink this,

I don't know how this happens. It's over my pay grade. Yes, but it does. He said, this is my body. That's all I need. I believe his word. I believe his word. He said, this is my body.

This is my blood. End of discussion. By faith. So, but that, see, that has always been the traditional doctrine of the church. Yes. Until the last hundred years of American evangelicalism. All right.

One quick comment here before we get into the prayer for the blessing on this. Debbie had said, when Jesus said, take and eat, this is my body. He hadn't died yet. By faith, he was going to die. He saw, he already saw the cross,

but he also already saw his resurrection. That's why he was able to do this. And, and to say, this is my body. This is my blood because by faith, I'm going to the cross but by faith i'm not staying in the grave either right and so they said do this in memorial to me do do what do this eat

my flesh drink my blood all right well we're going to pray the lord's blessing over the uh elements of communion and uh ask the lord to uh honor prayer today. And I want to encourage you, you know, this is more than a symbol, more than, you know, just some ritual that we go to, but it is his body and blood. And so I want you today on this Faith Friday to enter into the Lord's Supper with an attitude of faith in his body and blood. Almighty God, in your tender mercy, you gave your only begotten son, Jesus Christ, to suffer death upon the cross for our redemption. He offered himself and made once for all time a perfect and sufficient sacrifice for the sins of the whole world. He instituted this remembrance of his passion and death,

which he commanded us to continue until he comes again. And so, Father, we ask you to bless and sanctify with your word and Holy Spirit these gifts of bread and wine that we may partake of his most blessed body and blood. Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed once for all upon the cross therefore let us keep the feast hallelujah on the night that he was betrayed our lord jesus took bread and when he had given thanks he broke it and gave it to his disciples and said these words, Take, eat, this is my body which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me. The body of our Lord Jesus Christ was given for you to preserve your body and soul to everlasting life.

This is the bread of heaven. Take and eat in remembrance that Christ died for you preserve your body and soul to everlasting life this is the bread of heaven take and eat in remembrance that christ died for you then after supper jesus took the cup and when he had given thanks he gave it to them saying drink this all of you for this is my blood of the new covenant which is shed for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins whenever you drink it do this in remembrance of me glory to god hallelujah thank you lord the blood of our lord jesus christ which is shed for you preserve your body and soul to everlasting life drink the cup of salvation and remembrance that christ's blood was shed for you and be thankful thank you lord behold the lamb of god behold him who takes away the sins of the world and blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the land

the sacrament is the gift of god for the people of God. Feed on him by faith with thanksgiving. Bless God. We worship you, Father. Amen. Amen. We worship you, Father. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord.

I felt the Holy Spirit there today, Rick. I did, too. I did, too. And the soul train went by. I named it the soul train. You need to have like a button in your office there. Every time the train goes by, you're just pushing it. It goes, woo, woo.

That's what we're going to do. I want to remind you, everyone, if you have a need, stand on the word of God where it says in Philippians 419, my God shall supply all my needs. Stand on the word of God, where it says in Philippians 4.19, My God shall supply all my needs. What? According to his riches and glory in Christ Jesus. Not based upon your riches or even your lack, but based upon his riches and his ability to meet your need.

Whatever your need is, by faith believe that God can meet that need because his word says he is the supplier. Stand on that. Stand on that all this weekend. Whatever your need is, just go around, my God shall supply. My God shall supply. People may think you're crazy. That's okay. My God shall supply. My God shall supply. People may think you're crazy. That's okay. My God shall supply. That's his promise, not mine, not Rick's, but his promise that he shall supply whatever your need is. I want to hear stories about needs being met by faith. You just went

to the Lord's table by faith. Now let's put legs to that faith and let's believe God will meet our needs in Jesus' name. Amen? Amen. Amen. All right, Rick, any final words? Some of you are going to be radically different by the end of this year than you are right now.

Yes. Because faith is rising up in you. Praise God. Yes. Because faith is rising up in you. Praise God. You can feel it bubbling up. You know. It's coming. It's coming. All right. Well, on Monday, we return back to our study

in the book of Romans. We'll continue in chapter two. So if you get the opportunity over the weekend to read and meditate on the word of God, that's the passage that we'll be working on through next week. I if you get the opportunity over the weekend to read and meditate on the Word of God, that's the passage that we'll be working on through next week. I want to get through chapter 2 and maybe into chapter 3 this coming week.

So if you don't mind, go ahead and read ahead a little bit. Pray. Meditate. Ask the Lord to reveal the deep cisterns of the Word to you this weekend. Find time to worship the Lord and just to lift up his holy name. By the way, we had a great time last night in the microchurch prayer meeting.

For those that were with us, if you didn't get a chance to listen to it, you can. The recording is up on the Remnant Ready community channel. You can listen to it. We had a great time. Worship, prayer, and if you're interested in microchurches, you really should listen to the recording last night because Rick shared some very important information

as we're moving forward that was only available to those who were on the prayer meeting. So I encourage you, if you have an interest in that, to go and listen to the recording that's posted on the Remnant Ready community channel. Any other final words?

We gave everyone last night a sneak peek of the new studio for Remnant Ready. That's right. So praise the Lord. Any final words before we sign off for today, Rick? I just want to reiterate that Doc and I are not teaching the doctrine of substantiation. We don't have the ability to change a wafer or bread and grape juice or wine into human flesh or blood. That's not what we're teaching. We're teaching that by faith.

Yes. By faith, it is the flesh and blood of Jesus. How he does it, I don't know. I don't even need, I don't need to know. I just need to believe. Goodbye, everybody.

Stay later. Have a great weekend. We'll see you Monday on Morning Manor.