TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - Russia Blames UK and France for Missile Attack

Episode Date: March 28, 2025

Russia accused the UK and France of helping Ukraine destroy a major gas facility in Sudzha, calling it a ceasefire violation and warning of retaliation. Putin, aboard a new hypersonic missile submarine, vowed to “finish off” Ukraine and proposed UN control over Kyiv to install a new government. Meanwhile, the U.S. deployed stealth bombers to the Indian Ocean, JD Vance visited Greenland, a deadly Myanmar quake killed 150+, Utah banned fluoride, and inflation rose to 2.8%.Rick Wiles, Doc Burkhart. Airdate 3/28/25Join the leading community for Conservative Christians! https://www.FaithandValues.comYou can partner with us by visiting TruNews.com, calling 1-800-576-2116, or by mail at PO Box 399 Vero Beach, FL 32961.Get high-quality emergency preparedness food today from American Reserves!https://www.AmericanReserves.com             It’s the Final Day! The day Jesus Christ bursts into our dimension of time, space, and matter. Now available in eBook and audio formats! Order Final Day from Amazon today!https://www.amazon.com/Final-Day-Characteristics-Second-Coming/dp/0578260816/Apple users, you can download the audio version on Apple Books!https://books.apple.com/us/audiobook/final-day-10-characteristics-of-the-second-coming/id1687129858Purchase the 4-part DVD set or start streaming Sacrificing Liberty today.https://www.sacrificingliberty.com/watchThe Fauci Elf is a hilarious gift guaranteed to make your friends laugh! Order yours today!https://tru.news/faucielf

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Don't take the risk. Try my favorite America-loving brand, American Reserves, for your emergency food supply needs. Ukraine attacked a vital Russian energy facility today despite a ceasefire on such attacks. The gas infrastructure facility is located in the Russian town of Sudsa it was a Basically completely destroyed Russia said it has the right to retaliate But more importantly and this is what we're going to cover here today

The Kremlin said they found British and French fingerprints in the attack. So this is a true news for Friday, March 28 2025. Let's begin our analysis and commentary of today's world news with this Reuters headline. Russia says Ukraine virtually destroys gas infrastructure in Sudza. And then we'll go to the Russia Today article. Kiev again violated US-backed energy ceasefire. Yes, Russia Today is reporting the Ukrainian military has attacked Russia's energy infrastructure in three separate regions, again violating a US-mediated moratorium on such attacks.

That's coming from the Defense Ministry in Moscow. These incidents, recorded over the past 24 hours, took place in Belgorod, Kursk, and Saratov regions of Russia, the Friday statement said. And on Thursday, Ukrainian artillery struck an element of the Russian power grid in Belgorod region, disrupting a power supply station near the international border the report said and you see the remnants of that attack there on the screen. So doc President Trump played a major role in this ceasefire. The ceasefire covers energy infrastructure. Yes.

Electric utility plants, gas plants, oil refiners and so forth. So the Ukrainians continue to attack the Russian energy sites. The Russians have not retaliated yet. Why this is important is the big plan that President Trump is seeking to put together would have the United States owning Ukraine's energy infrastructure. Yes. So, if Ukraine attacks Russian energy infrastructure and Russia retaliates, Mr. Trump sees that as a loss for America. Yes.

Because they're going to have to rebuild the structures that are destroyed by the Russians. Even though the Russians were glad to agree to a ceasefire. It's Ukraine that is violating the ceasefire. So the story gets a little bit hairier as we go. The next one is also an RT. What was the Russian gas pipeline facility destroyed by Kiev today? All right. So Ukraine has destroyed a key border energy facility in the Kursk region, according to

the Russian Defense Ministry. The Sudsa gas metering station was part of a major pipeline that had delivered fuel to EU customers, EU customers, Rick, for decades. According to the report by the Russian military, Ukrainian forces used US-made high mars, multiple launch rocket systems to strike the Sudza gas pipeline facility on Friday causing a blaze. The Defense Ministry in Moscow claimed that the metering station is no longer operational. Now the Sudza station was part of an energy route connecting gas fields from

Western Siberia with Uzharad, a city on the Ukrainian border with Hungary, feeding the fuel to gas pipelines in the EU. Last year, over 15 billion cubic meters of Russian gas was delivered to Ukraine despite the two nations engaging in an armed conflict. Kiev has received hundreds of millions of dollars in transit fees annually under the scheme. So while they're at war with each other, Russia has been paying Ukraine to keep the contract in force. Yes. However, Kiev refused to renew the contract with Russia that expired at the end of last year, claiming it wanted to deny Moscow the opportunity to sell gas to the EU. So Ukraine is punishing the EU which is backing Ukraine in the war. Yes. It's strange. So it mentions that the facility was struck with Heimars. Well, Heimars are American-made, American-supplied missiles.

And that further complicates the situation because you had US-made weapons systems attacking a Russian infrastructure site. So either the United States had to provide assistance to the Ukrainian military to strike the Russians or someone else did. Somebody else was able to assist them. And I'm going to go with the somebody else because the next story Russia today, UK and

France involved in Kiev's latest attack on Russian energy infrastructure, says Moscow. So the article goes on to say France and the UK actively aided Kiev in a strike on the Suzup pipeline infrastructure in Russia's Kursk region on Friday. The Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova has told a journalist earlier the Russian defense ministry said that a metering facility was de facto destroyed in the Ukrainian High Mars attack. We have reasons to believe that targeting and navigation were facilitated through French satellites and British specialists input target coordinates and launch the missiles, Zakharova said commenting on the strike. The command came from London, she said,

branding the attack part of a Ukrainian terror campaign targeting Russian energy infrastructure. The spokeswoman added that such actions demonstrate that Kiev is impossible to negotiate with. And although Ukraine's Vladimir Zelensky publicly supported the temporary suspension of strikes on energy infrastructure agreed by Moscow and Washington, he said he did nothing to observe it. According to Zakharova. So the Russians are saying the command to strike Russia today came from London. Once again, we go back to this

position that we've had for three years, that the war in Ukraine is run from Russia, from London. Whether it's the King himself or the British deep state, London's fingerprints are all over this Ukraine-Russia war. And as President Trump is seeking to wind it down, the Brits are trying to keep it wound tight. And are they at risk? At some point, is Putin going to grow weary of it and just say, you know, I've had enough?

and just say, you know, I've had enough, and London and Paris are going to be turned into ashtrays. I don't know. I don't know how far this goes. Because they're continuing to goad Putin. They're continuing to encourage Zelensky to attack. Doc, I still think the Brits will provide the assistance to hit the Kursk Strait Bridge. They've wanted this thing to come down for years. And so if that bridge comes down, I can't imagine the Russians taking it lightly.

Yeah, there'd be another bridge coming down. Yeah, London Bridge. So. Well, the reason I'm telling you this is it is to let you know that despite President Trump's efforts to wind down the war, London and Paris are trying to wind it up. So we are still in the danger zone. This is World War Three. And we could at any day see a catastrophic turn in this war.

catastrophic turn in this war. If Mr. Putin lets go and sends some of his hypersonic missiles flying into Europe, it's a new day. And what does NATO do then? What does the United States do? Because you would have two NATO nations attacked by Russia. So would the United States come to the defense of the two nations? But Rick, the U.S. has to know that the EU is behind this. I mean, you know, I can't imagine the U.S. being behind it. Can you? Unless the deep state is working against President Trump. Right.

That's a possibility, Doc. working against President Trump. Right. That's a possibility, Doc, that we have rogue units in the Pentagon and the CIA that are assisting Ukraine in attacking Russia. Right. Because these Heimer missile systems, they're not just casual rocket systems that you just, you know, target from the

ground. They require satellite coordination. That's right. So someone gave the Ukrainians the ability to target this oil transit facility with great accuracy and on Russian territory. Yes. So remember last week, Mr. Trump, I mean, Mr. Putin responded to an incident and what he did is he wore a combat uniform. Yes.

Let's look at what he did today. Marine Link, Russia launches a nuclear powered submarine from Arctic Naval Base. That just sounds pretty innocuous there, but it's not just a nuclear powered submarine. There are lots of nuclear powered submarines. This one carries hypersonic missiles. That's what's different about this one. President Putin on Thursday launched a nuclear powered submarine equipped with hypersonic Zircon missiles,

capable of traveling at several times the speed of sound. Russian news agency referring to a video link from the Arctic port of Mermance said Putin launched the vessel named PERM after a city in the Urals with the order I hereby authorize. We have portioned that video here right here right now from Russia today. The nuclear submarine cruiser Persia perm is on shore ready to be launched permission to begin movement. I give permission. So that's the official launch of the first

nuclear submarine by Russia to have hypersonic missiles. The main thing to see there is what the Russians wanted you to see. That's right. President Putin was there to launch that submarine. Yes, and they made sure to let everyone know that we had the Zircon missiles on board this vessel. President Putin also boarded the submarine for inspection. You see him getting ready to go on board there.

This is actually called the Archangel. He nicknamed it Perm, but it's official name is Archangel, which I thought was pretty foreboding there. Dr. Hill, the Zircon missiles have a range of 560 miles, and their speed makes it almost impossible to defend against them. Yes, they're at ranges under a thousand miles their first strike weapon. So now the president inspected the submarine and he also later on met with some of the crew members, sat down with them, talked to them for a while. But you also see this article in the Daily Mail.

This is also related to our story here on the submarine. Putin vows to finish off Ukraine and mocks Britain for its economy as he boards nuclear submarine in Arctic. Okay, so once again, Doc, you put the two things together. First they're saying that Britain gave the order to attack the Russian gas facility today. Right. Then you see Mr. Putin, Kristen, a new nuclear-powered submarine that uses hypersonic missiles. Then he says that he could finish off Ukraine and in the same sentence he

mocks the British economy. Yes. This is all done in one stroke. He's sending multiple messages with one photo opportunity. Right. And so on board the vessel, he was speaking to the sailors and the submariners on board. Putin smugly declared, not long ago, I said we'd grind Ukraine down. Now it looks like we'll finish them off.

He also, as Rick said, mocked the state of the British economy and the armed forces there after Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron revealed that they would deploy an Anglo- French reassurance force to Ukraine following a ceasefire deal. He had some comments on that. He said Britain is jumping on us, behaving aggressively, but their economy is, I think, in the ninth or 10th place in the world. Hence the armed forces. What is it? 170,000 or 180,000?

That's all the armed forces of the UK. So now we have video of him christening the new ship, or ordering the christening rather. And so you see that happening here in this video and the soldiers and sailors they're involved with that and so it's official it's being launched and as i mentioned before president putin sat down with the uh submariners on board the uh the new ship here and i'll read the captions as he addresses them the new ship here and I'll read the captions as he addresses them.

For such complex machines, submarines, that's a very nice construction and everything at the most modern level. Today one more of these was ready. You saw was let into the water and it is basically the same and it also has a Zircon missile which is especially nice because a Zircon is important for ships with strategic importance. How much does Zircon weigh? 1200? 1000? A little bigger yes but still taking into account the power of this weapon

accuracy and speed of approaching the target it can be attributed to such systems which perform strategic task role of the Navy in general is known to Russia. It has been a powerful maritime power for centuries. We will do everything for that to maintain the status. We will build new top marine and submarine ships. We will improve their characteristics. They must meet the requirements of today and should, of course, be combat capable and efficient in the nearest, in the full sense of the world, historical perspective, because it is a weapon which must serve the country well many decades.

It forms the basis of our strategic security. We will do everything for that, same as everything we will do for that, to train professionals like you. Unique people. Sorry for that expression, but nonetheless, it requires a special character, readiness to perform any task. The purpose of us showing you these videos from Russia today is because Mr. Putin was sending a message to London and Paris today. Absolutely.

He's letting us know things could change drastically at any moment. He also floated the idea of a UN-led government in Ukraine. Yes, so this is breaking today, reported by the BBC. Vladimir Putin has suggested that Ukraine should temporarily be placed under UN control to elect what he called a more competent government. Speaking to the crew of the submarine that we just saw there in the foreign north Russian city of Murmansk, President Putin said a temporary administration under the auspices of the United Nations could be discussed with the United States, with European countries, and of

course with our partners and friends. This would be in order to hold democratic elections, to bring to power a capable government trusted by the people, and then to begin with it talks on a peace agreement and sign legitimate documents he added. Now of course in addition to that he made comments who you have right now in charge of Ukraine is not a legitimate government. That is the Russians argument. The man that calls himself Vladimir Zelensky who is occupying the role of president and dictator in Ukraine, basically cancelled elections and has stayed in power. Anybody else we would condemn, but not Ukraine. Russia is just bringing out the

point, the guy is not legitimate. We want a legitimate government there before we agree to anything. The West would respond and say, well, the Ukrainian constitution, which the West wrote after the revolution in 2014, the constitution allows the president to declare martial law in a time of war and stay in power. That's how the West would respond.

No, he's very legitimate. He's very constitutional. This is a constitutional martial law. So, but the Russians are trying to get rid of Zelensky. They're trying to push him out and they're suggesting, hey, instead of the European Union coming in here, or NATO, how about the United Nations, UN blue helmets? And so they're putting this out.

They're floating the idea. Now, the UN shot it down. The UN Secretary General shot down the idea very quickly. But when I did see Mr. Putin promoting it, I thought maybe there is some merit to this talk of Chinese troops coming in, because the Chinese would come in as UN blue helmets. Right. All right, let's move to, we'll keep our focus here for a moment on World War Three London Telegraph.

The US deployed stealth bombers to Chagos Island and this is to send a warning to Iran. Yes, so the United States has deployed stealth bombers to the Diego Garcia military base, which is out in the middle of the Indian Ocean, in a warning to Iran and its rebel proxies. At least three B-2 Spirit bombers have already arrived at the strategic U.S.-UK outpost, according to satellite imagery. Another four jets are believed to be on their way according to unconfirmed open source intelligence reports. The island puts Iran and Yemen in

range of US planes and so you begin to see that we're placing assets in strategic positions here. May perhaps ramping up to a strike on Iran here in the very near future, we shall see. Diego Garcia is a tiny little island out in the middle of the Indian Ocean, but it's an island that we have shared with the UK as far as a military base for several decades now. And they showed pictures of the airfield, and there definitely were B-2 self-bombers on the airstrip there, with more likely to arrive.

I hope President Trump doesn't cave in to the neocon, Zionist pressure to attack Iran but it's possible he does sometimes indicate that he he's going to do it but I think they're playing good cop bad cop with Iran they're gaslighting the Iranians making them wonder would they do it? Would they attack us? You know, they're often, they got the negotiator here saying, let's sit down and talk. But then they got B-2 bombers.

So there's a little bit of gaslighting in it, but I hope we don't go down that road. Vice President Vance is in Greenland today. Yes. Now, before I show you current today, I want to show you a video that he released a couple days ago when he was talking about going to Greenland today. So in this video, he's expressing the reason he was making the trip to Greenland today on Friday. Let's watch. Hey guys, it's Shady Vance, the vice president.

And you know, there was so much excitement around Usha's visit to Greenland this Friday that I decided that I didn't want her to have all that fun by herself. And so I'm going to join her. I'm going to visit some of our guardians in the Space Force on the Northwest Coast of Greenland and also just check out what's going on with the security there of Greenland. As you know, it's really important. A lot of other countries have threatened Greenland, have threatened to use its territories and its waterways to threaten the United States, to threaten Canada, and of course to threaten the people of Greenland.

So we're going to check out how things are going there. And I say that speaking for President Trump, we want to reinvigorate the security of the people of Greenland because we think it's important to protecting the security of the entire world. Unfortunately, leaders in both America and in Denmark, I think, ignored Greenland for far too long. That's been bad for Greenland. It's also been bad for the security of the entire world. We think we can take things in a different direction. So I'm going to go check it out. What he didn't say was the real reason he went with his wife today because she

was supposed to go alone. Yeah she was gonna go see a dog slide race or something up there. Is that nobody wanted to meet with her. Yes. She was being snubbed and they had a public relations disaster brewing, so the vice president said, I don't want my wife to get all the publicity, I'll go with her. So he did go. Now before we get to, again, to today's report, I've got a short report issued by France 24. So this is the way the Europeans are viewing the attempt by Donald Trump to seize control of Greenland. They have a different perspective and obviously it's not pro-America. This is France 24. The highlight of Usher Vance's trip to Greenland was meant to be a dog sled race.

But now her husband JD is leading the delegation and they'll be confined to the Petufik military base where there's not much sightseeing to be done. Having criticised the visit, the Danish government welcomed the change of plan. But if you ask people on the island, they'd rather the Americans weren't coming at all. I'm not very happy about them coming here. They just show up spontaneously without asking. It's too much. Greenland is not for sale. US President Donald Trump continues to insist on annexing their land.

We need Greenland for national security and international security. So we'll, I think we'll go as far as we have to go. Nearly all Greenlanders oppose becoming part of the United States and the threats aren't helping. Trump has scared most Greenlanders away from this idea about a closer relationship to the United States because they don't trust him, because they see how he treats Denmark, how he treats Canada and so on and so forth. And do you really want a friend like that? Greenland has massive untapped mineral and oil reserves and is strategically located

between North America and Europe. A 1951 agreement allows the US to move around and build bases on the island, given Denmark is notified. The 1951 agreement allows the US to move around and build bases on the island, given Denmark is notified. Bases like Petufik are critical to America's ballistic missile early warning system. Obviously, it's not pro-Trump, pro-America. I would love to see Greenland join the USA. I would be wonderful. They would be welcomed there.

The American people would welcome them. But they have to do it voluntarily. The people Greenland have to say yes We want to join the USA. I Don't like I Don't like mr. Trump's heavy-handed Method where he's saying well We'll do what we have to do as far as we have to go. Let's see. Well, that sounds like military Action like you're going to conquer the island. It's embarrassing to me as an American.

I'll just be honest with you, I'm embarrassed by it. I'd love to against Greenland. It wouldn't take a lot to conquer it. I mean, how many troops have you worked? We already have a military base there. Right. Interestingly, Mr. Trump got some support from Vladimir Putin. Yes, he sure did.

This is also from France 24. Putin says, not surprised by President Trump's Greenland bid due to longstanding U.S. mineral interest. So Russia's President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that President Donald Trump's push for control over Greenland wasn't surprising given longtime US interest in the mineral rich territory. Speaking at a policy forum in the Arctic port of Murmansk and we reported earlier, President Putin noted that the US first considered plans to win control over Greenland back in the 19th century.

Putin would know. He knows history. And then offered to buy it from Denmark after World War II. It can look surprising only at first glance. And it would be wrong to believe that this is some sort of extravagant talk by the current US administration. It's obvious that the United States will continue to systematically advance its geostrategic military, political, and economic interests in the Arctic.

Speaking Thursday, President Putin noted that Russia is worried about NATO's activities in the Arctic and will respond by strengthening its military capability in the polar regions, such as launch of submarines with hypersonic missiles. Speaking on Thursday, he said, we are certainly concerned about NATO members describing the far north as the region of possible conflicts, he said, noting that Russia's neighbors, Finland and Sweden, have joined the alliance. Russia has never threatened anyone in the Arctic,

but we will closely follow the developments and mount an appropriate response by increasing our military capability and modernizing military infrastructure. Well, you know, when I read this today, and I, you know, I noticed a Vladimir Putin's knowledge of American history. And it challenged me because of that I'm not even sure if I know

the history of of the US and Greenland and so I think you know I had to do my research and And I found out that the first president who tried to acquire Greenland Was Andrew Johnson? Right who became president after the Lincoln assassination. So this started in like 1866. Yes, sir. And I think there was another attempt in the 1880s, again 1910. And then right after World War II. Right after World War Two. And also, there are people, experts who are saying the U.S.

could and this, you know, this would fit Donald Trump's real estate background. I've seen some experts who have said the U.S. could legitimately challenge Denmark's ownership. legitimately challenged Denmark's ownership because they were prominent Americans on the island before the Danish. Although the Nordic explorers were there back in the Middle Ages. Right. However, Denmark, officially, was fairly late to the game. Admiral Perry was there. Yes.

And other American explorers. So there is a record that shows Americans on the island and that there had not been any kind of survey done. So there are some legitimate claims that could be made. But again, I hope Mr. Trump doesn't try to do heavy-handed techniques on this. Now Vice President Vance and his wife did arrive there today. CBS News. And we've got some video here.

This is the Vice President and his wife coming off the heli- is this, I think this is maybe when they were departing right I believe so when they were departing I think would departing you know I think this is when they were departing the United States this morning I think I think they flew into US military base and then and then boarded the plane there and flew to yes that's what they're doing they're now boarding the the military aircraft that's going to take them to to Greenland. But they did arrive and they did make it there and of course they went to the US Air Base there and Vice President Vance and the second lady met with troops there and we have video of that as well.

Hey guys, how we doing? Please at ease, at ease. Good lord, sit down and eat. Sit down and eat. Don't let the vice president stop you guys from eating your ch tail here. How we doing? It's cold as shit here. No, it ain't cold here. Well, thank you all for everything you do and thanks for having us. So please sit down, guys. Please, please. I want you to eat your food. Usha and I are thrilled to be here.

It's a really beautiful flight, actually. You fly over some pretty cool spots. I've never been to Greenland. Apparently, I'm the first Vice President to ever visit Greenland, so that's a pretty cool thing. But we're looking forward to hanging out and getting to know you guys and understanding what you do. So what do we have? So Mike, we're going to talk to the command and some of the guardians about what exactly the base does and all the important ways it contributes to national security. We're going to get a briefing, of course,

about what you guys do every day. And then we're going to talk just about, as you've heard, we have some interest in Greenland from the Trump administration. So we're going to get a briefing of course about you know what you guys do every day and then we're going to talk just about as you've heard we have some interest in Greenland from the Trump administration so we're going to talk a little bit about that with our friends in the media but I just want to say thank you all thanks for having us and thanks for being here thanks for doing what you do. The colonel told me that this is a one-year unaccompanied duty station when we were flying in we were wondering whether you guys were allowed to build you're allowed to bring your families here so I know it's a lot of sacrifice to spend a year away from your families but the mission is really important the Trump administration the president is really interested in Arctic

security as you all know that's a big issue and it's only gonna get bigger over the coming decades so thanks for doing what you do now also accompanying them was and you saw there in the video, Mike Waltz, the National Security Advisor, also Energy Secretary Chris Wright, he was back there behind him, and also, and wasn't in the video here, Senator Mike Lee of Utah was on this trip too.

And so it's definitely, you know, they wanted to make their presence known with several members of the Trump administration showing up here on this particular trip. I think where this is going to go, Doc, is Mr. Trump is going to make an offer to the King of Denmark that the King can't reject. Refuse. An offer he can't refuse, right? Yes. That's what I think is going to happen.

The Don father, yes. Yeah. He's going to get an offer. It's going to be lucrative. And the king is going to have to say, what are we getting from owning that island? Nothing. And the United States has just promised us x many gazillion

dollars. Well maybe it'll be a deal similar to Ukraine. Maybe it'll be, you know, we'll take care of the infrastructure and the energy and the mineral and split it with Denmark. They'll split the revenue with Denmark. Because Denmark's not mining the minerals that are there. And they don't have the resources to develop it or anything. And they don't have the military resources to defend it.

Right. And that's the key thing that Donald Trump is pushing. Is that he sees this as the future. This is going to be the area of possible future conflicts over who controls that. And if we're in partnership with Russia, that's not going to be the area of possible future conflicts over who controls that. And if we're in partnership with Russia, that's not gonna be the issue. What Donald Trump is thinking ahead about, in my opinion, is China.

Yes, and we'll switch our attention to China now. So, Doc, every head of state, president, prime minister, king, whatever, the most important thing, well minister king whatever the most important thing Well, one of the most important things he or she must know is that their bodyguards Are trustworthy. Yes. So a story broke in Taiwan. Yes Taiwanese president security guards discovered to be Chinese spies. Yes

Taiwanese president security guards discovered to be Chinese spies. Yes. Oh How do you think that made the Taiwanese president Phil when he did hey, you know the guys that are protecting your life The Chinese spies Wow So four Taiwanese soldiers have been sentenced to prison for leaking confidential information to China. Three soldiers in charge of security for the presidential office, and another in the defense ministry's information and telecommunications command were convicted for violating national security law.

That's coming from the Taipei District Court on Wednesday. This follows after Lai Cheng-Ti, Taiwan's newest president, announcing in March his plans to reinstate military judges to hear Chinese espionage cases and other offenses involving Taiwanese service members. They passed confidential internal military information to Chinese intelligence agents for several months. This is from 2022 to 2024, for which they were paid between Taiwanese dollars, 260,000 and 660,000, the military court said. Now, it's not known what type of information was leaked.

The defendants had worked for extremely sensitive and important units, but violated their duties to accept bribes and stole secrets by photographing the information. Prosecutors said the soldiers had used their mobile phones to photograph military information." It's interesting that they used a military court to sentence these folks, Rick. Something we could actually see happen here in the United States as well. Well, they were members of the Taiwanese military. A terrible tragedy early today in Miramar, an Asian country that neighbors Thailand and Vietnam. A horrific earthquake, magnitude 7.7.

Yeah, and some estimates it may have been closer to 8.0. Really? So, yes. Wow. And if you see the headline there, of course, that's reporting by the Straits Times there. It says over 153 killed as powerful quake strikes Miramar, and that sowed panic in Bangkok and Hanoi. And that number of 153, that's just the confirmed number. There are a lot of people that are missing.

And so a powerful earthquake rocked Miramar and neighboring Thailand and Vietnam, and toppling buildings and key bridges, rupturing roads. At least 153 people were killed and more than 700 injured in Miramar. We want the international community to give humanitarian aid as soon as possible. Zalmintun said at the hospital, the rare plea from the junta raises the prospect that damage and casualties may be on a large scale with Miramar's medical system and infrastructure ravaged by four years of civil war." This goes on to say that a U.S. government predictive analysis based on the strength and depth of the earthquake estimated there could be between 10,000 and 100,000 deaths and severe economic loss.

And the report, the analysis said, quote, overall the population in this region resides in structures that are highly vulnerable to earthquake shaking, though resistant structures exist. High casualties and extensive damage are probable and the disaster is likely widespread. We're gonna show you seven or eight videos here to give you an understanding.

Watch this, this is the first one I saw early this morning. And that was a tower that was under construction and there were at least 50 construction workers inside that building, not counting the ones on the ground around the building, but at least 50 workers were in the building as the building collapsed. And you see the smoke going out from blocks around the collapse of the tower there, shades of 9-11, seeing images like this.

And so I guess the next video with the crane is the same building? No, it's a different building. This is a different building? The building, you see the crane collapsing, but one other feature about this is, see the water coming off the building? That is a pool up on the high rise there,

and the pool is shaking and water is coming out. You can see the building's moving in this particular video right here. That's a scary thought. Bridge here entering the city. You see the shaking of the light poles there on the bridge. This is a view from inside a high-rise apartment looking across at one of the pools that are overflowing. Another shot of that tower that collapsed from a different angle around the city. This is a close-up of

that tower Rick. Imagine you're down at the base of this. Incredible. And I don't know what's more incredible the tower coming down or the guy holding his phone taking the video and capturing the image here. And so another video here that we have, you see people seeking shelter following after the earthquake here. And that looks like an airport yes so but so much damage here another shot of that tower from another angle there that you've seen so now there are recovery efforts that of course are underway and you see

some of the damage here look at at this. The size of the trench that was left along the fault line here. Doc that's the way it was in Haiti. I was in Haiti after the earthquake and you could follow that trench across the island and some of the local people told me they said the way it zigzagged through Haiti they said you would think it was looking for somebody really because it hit very important structures almost as if in judgment yes that's what they were saying. They said it was like it was pursuing certain people. One more video here. Imagine you're going through this. You're in bed. It's a normal day and all of a sudden your entire house starts shaking. Look at this. This would be absolutely frightening to wake up to this. Where do you go?

Where do you hide? It's just incredible, the scenes are coming out. I'm sure there's gonna be even more video coming out here over the next few days. And as Rick said earlier, the death toll estimates are anywhere from 10,000 and maybe 100,000 people. So we have you ever been have you ever been in a strong earthquake? I've been in a slight earthquake in in Hawaii.

And so that was about a 2.3. I was in a five something in San Jose, Costa Rica, and I was I was in a five something in San Jose Costa Rica and I was I was in a hotel sleeping it was like 5 a.m. And I felt the bed moving and I woke up and I realized all right the hotels moving and You know takes you a couple seconds to figure out what's going on Yes, and then I just you know just jumped out of bed and got dressed as quickly as I could. I was ready to bolt down the stairs and get out of the building, but it stopped. Right.

And they told me, I think it was a 5.5, but that was the strongest one I felt, where I actually felt the hotel moving back and forth and my bed was moving. Yes. And Rick, for every number on the Richter scale you go from like from two to three, three to four that means it's 10 times stronger than you know and so a 3.0 is 10 times stronger than a 2.0. So you went through a 5.5 imagine it being a hundred times worse than that. That would be a 7.5.

And you can imagine how frightening that would be. Be praying for the people of Miramar. They're gonna be going through decades of recovery from this and they're gonna need prayers and they're gonna need a lot of care from the international community. That's right Peter Navarro

Mr. Trump's Trade I guess trades are that's what you call him he was on CNBC and he was talking about the tariffs on automobiles and the You know, they were questioning him, isn't this going to punish the American consumers? I wanted to hear his answer. It's about four and a half minutes long, but it's an important answer and he lays it out with clarity. Listen, here's Peter Navarro. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said he'll move quicker to trade with other countries

because the U.S. is no longer a reliable partner. Join us now with more on the president's tariff agenda. Peter Navarro is president. Trump's, you're not president. Always good to see you, Joe. Always good to see you. Good to see you. Senior trade and manufacturing advisor.

I've got just a philosophical question, Peter, about how this works because we all want, you know, when you say make America great again, we were a manufacturing powerhouse and the Midwest was great. You know, I'm from Cincinnati and you think Michigan, you think all these places and you saw what globalization did. We'd all like to change that and turn back the clock and have great high-paying jobs for all of our citizens there. But this is going to take time, Peter. Do you think there is actually going to be a multi-year period where many of our big companies have depressed profits and depressed profit margins while the president

is trying to sort of correct what happened in the past, this dislocation, because it seems to be that he's asking companies to sort of go along with him for the greater good of all of our workers. The answer is absolutely not, Joe. The key stat here is the low capacity utilization in the US auto industry. It's down in the 60s. And what that says, Joe, is that there's just plenty of room to run.

There's plenty of room to ramp up quickly the kind of production we need. Certainly there'll be greenfield investment. There'll also be brownfield investment. As you know, throughout the Midwest, there's shuttered factories that can be easily reopened. But if you ask me a philosophical question, let me cite history for what we're trying to do here

so people understand. And it goes back to the arsenal democracy that won World War II. The auto industry was a key part of it. It made the jeeps, the tanks, the trucks. Certainly it was the soldiers that won the war, but they couldn't have done it without that might. And Joe, we've turned this country from a strong auto manufacturing nation, the greatest in the world, into simply an assembly shop for nation, the greatest in the world.

It is simply an assembly shop for parts from the rest of the world. And a lot of the parts that come from the rest of the world are the high wage, high profit parts. Let me give you some stats here, just a couple of stats. We buy 16 million cars a year here. We import half of those and the half we import has very little American content and the rest of the half, the rest of the half, only half of that half is American content. So only about a quarter of the American cars we

buy is made in America. Now the problem Joe, and this is the other stat I want to give you, only 19% of the engines that are in the cars Americans buy are made in America. Japan and Germany alone account for 50% of the engines and transmissions and when you add Korea and Hungary it's over 60% and what that tells you is from a national security point of view we simply don't have an auto industry that's capable of manufacturing manufacturing we certainly can assemble send us those foreign parts now why is that happening Joe it's happening because foreign countries cheat us foreign countries by industrial policy want those parts. Joe, the money that companies

make and the wages that workers make are primarily in the power train of internal combustion engines. What's that? That's the engines and transmissions and the drivetrain. And if you look at where different companies buy, like Mercedes comes to South Carolina, that's great, but every single one of their engines and transmissions is from Germany or Hungary. If you go like Ford, a lot of its engines now come from Mexico. Stellantis, which remember that's partly Fiat, a lot of their engines come from Italy and also Mexico. So what President Trump wants to do is bring that back. He makes some really good points.

Peter Navarro is very, very sharp. He is. I like him. Like I said, he was, I thought, the outstanding member of the first Trump administration, and he presents it in member of the first Trump administration. And he presents it in a way that you can understand. And when you hear this, like only 25% of the cars that we buy in America each year are made in America. Right. And half the components in the cars made in America are foreign parts. So what is made here is basically we're just assembling foreign parts.

Right. And that qualifies to be made in America. Well, the tariffs apply to the parts. That's right. Now the other interesting point he made was, don't listen to the people who are saying that it's going to take years for the American automakers to gear up. They're not running their factories at full capacity now.

And you have plants that are idle. They're in mothballs. These things can be fired up very quickly. So he's making a strong case that in a reasonable amount of time, cars and trucks will be made in the USA again. Right. And I'm just going to tell you right now, car companies are going to sell cars. Yes. Car companies are going to sell cars. They'll do whatever they have to do to sell a car. And what this is also going to impact the used car market too Rick because you know used cars of course need repairs. Most of I was shocked to find this out 75% of replacement parts for used cars are

foreign-made. 75%. They're going to go up in price. Yes. So now you're going to have to make a choice. Do I fix the car that I have? It's going to be more expensive or do I buy a car, a new car? So those are going to be tough questions for consumers. And get to write off the car loan interest. That's right. So it's going to be interesting to see how all this plays out. I like the innovative approach to it and I wish though that they would be a little bit more upfront with the there's gonna be some short-term pain for long-term gain. They really they really haven't expressed that yet and the public can handle it if they're told correctly. Right.

And they need to be told that long before the midterms, a long time before the midterms because it's going to take a while for all these factories and everything to ramp up. I mean, we're looking anywhere from a year to 18 months, even in a best case scenario. And then we're pushing right up against the midterms So this is part of the Gold Co financial report that we're doing several days each week now and This next story is CNBC Core inflation in February hits 2.8 percent higher than expected. Yes. What has Rick been telling you? Don't listen to the politicians, the news media and flawed economists who are promising you inflation is going away.

It is here and it will be here for 10 to 15 years. We are in an inflationary cycle. That is that's my viewpoint and I'm adjusting my lifestyle accordingly. This is a time of inflation. And so it says the Federal Reserve key inflation measure rose more than expected in February while consumer spending posted a smaller than projected increase. So what does that tell you? Consumers spent less. Why did they spend less because things are costing more right and people are trying to hold on to their money right now So

The answer all right, there's there's several things that you should do Number one you should get out of debt Absolutely make this a determination You're going to stop charging Credit cards you're going to start stop borrowing money. You're going to pay off existing debt, and you're going to stay debt-free Number two, find a side hustle. Find a way to increase your income. Find something that will bring in a little bit of extra money.

Right and one way to do that and this is just a money tip from Doc Burkhart. One way to do that if you can't have a part-time job or a side hustle but you own a home, anything you do to improve your home that is going to increase your net value. And so make sure the grass is cut, make sure the trees are trimmed, make sure there's a good coat of paint on the house. You know just minor things even just a couple hours a week, improving your home, your property helps to increase its value. That's like having a side hustle. That's like having a part-time job because that gives you value, that gives you equity

that you can rely on and build on. But of course, like Rick said too, another asset to always keep in mind is precious metals. That's right. Such as gold and silver. So make a decision for a long-term strategy that you're going to build a portfolio of precious metals and then partner with a reputable company like Gold Co. Don't jump around from one company to another. Just make a you know, develop a partnership with them. They become your company and get in touch with Gold Co. 844-960-GOLD

or go to truenews4gold.com. There's also the QR code on the screen and ask them questions about precious metals. They'll educate you. There's no charge for the information. It's free. And learn how you can move your retirement account into precious metal stock. The markets are closed right now, about ready to close. Where are they?

They was down about 700 points sometime around lunchtime. Well, it closed down 700, 712 today. And so, and the S&P was down a little over 100 and NASDAQ was down nearly 500 points today. So that's a bigger hit on the NASDAQ today. Okay, so the market was down because of the core inflation report. Right.

And if your retirement program was totally invested in stocks, you took a hit today. But where's gold today? Can you take a look and see where we at on gold? Gold is at 31.14 today. And what's it up? It's up by $24 today.

So market went down, gold went up. Yes. Give GoldCo a call. What else do I need to say? Market down, gold up. GoldCo 844-960 Gold. I've got a few, but we're almost... Yeah, we're right there at the end of time. I think I'll...

One more I'm going to show you. Lee, let's go to number 36. No, excuse me, number 35. Let's go to 35. I'll do 35 and 36. 35. Softbank. This is a Japanese company the very first mobile World Congress I attended that man was on stage in the opening session and I heard him the future of robotics, the global brain.

He was talking about when AI would surpass human intelligence. So as you see, this is Nikkei news agency today in Tokyo, SoftBank Group plans $1 trillion AI robot industrial parks in the United States. Right, and this is significant because when he appeared with President Trump here, about two months ago now, I think it is, he committed to $500 billion. And so he's even up, remember when Donald Trump, I think he started at 250 and bumped it up to 500. But now it's to a trillion.

That's right. And so. But there's something in it I want you to see. So let's go through this article. So Softbank Group is planning to create industrial parks across the US featuring artificial intelligence equipped factories. The Japanese tech investor who potentially promised a trillion dollars in investments in the US government, significantly more than the 500 billion that Masayoshi Sun

announced back in January. Sun is currently believed to be visiting the US and may soon move forward with this mega project. The business model that SoftBank group envisions is to establish industrial parks in collaboration with partner manufacturers who will move into the parks and set up facilities such as unmanned factories. Okay, wait a minute. You're gonna have unmanned factories means there are wait a minute. You're going to have unmanned factories means

there are no human workers. That's right. So how does this help the American people? That's a great question. It goes on to say SoftBank Group also aims to deliver autonomous AI driven robots to the client manufacturers including humanoid robots that can walk autonomously. Once again, robots, not people, robots. So how does this help the American worker? It's going to put people out of work. That's exactly right. If these are factories that are going to manufacture something, it means jobs are going to robots that used to be held by humans

right and how does how does the American people benefit by this transition to robotic a robotic workforce so a lot of these things that are being announced when you get into the details you you go, wait a minute, there's something here that's not right. In the long run, this is gonna hurt us. There's gonna be a lot of people out of work because of AI-driven robots. A factory run on artificial intelligence where the work is done by robots, humanoid robots.

And right now humans will build the factories, but that's not gonna last for long, Rick. Right. And they'll eventually be- Robot construction workers. Yes. Now the next one, also today, no actually two weeks ago, from Nikkei in Tokyo, SoftBank, OpenAI,

to run AI agents at former sharp LCD plant. So when we came back from Barcelona, we told you hey the big story in Barcelona is agentive AI. AI agents, agentive. That's when it's talking about AI agents. That's a gent of AI. So Softbank has taken over a factory owned by Sharp Electronics. And they're going to produce AI agents. Yes. This is where they're going to be, this little baby factory. Yes. This little gent of AIs are going to be this little baby factory. Yes. This is a little way.

A gent of AIs are going to be born in this building. If you understand what I'm saying, SoftBank plans to use a former sharp LCD panel plant in Japan as a data center to operate artificial intelligence agents that will be jointly developed with the US chat GPT creator OpenAI. They will soon sign a contract to acquire the facilities and part of the land at Sharp's Defunct TV liquid crystal plant in Sakai, Osaka. Construction will begin in 2025, operations in 2026. AI agents are autonomous programs that can make decisions and carry out necessary tasks

based on user parameters. They hold promise as an advanced form of AI chat bots with companies like Google racing to develop them. So this the race is on now. Where are you going to get your AI agents? There are going to be this is so sounds so weird. There are going to be corporations, manufacturing, There are going to be corporations manufacturing virtual agents. Yes. Think about it. The agents aren't real, but there's going to be a factory that's going to be manufacturing

agents that aren't real. You get it? And eventually the agents will make other agents. Yes. And run the robots, robots at the factories. But probably better than humans. So we're doing our best to stay on top of all this for you. Let's just see where it's going.

Well, that's it for today. Thank you again for watching and supporting us. I will say we're at the end. We're just another week left here in March, and we could use a big boost in our finances this week. Please, prayerfully consider what the Lord would have you do. I was giving you, during that financial report, various suggestions.

Get out of debt. Find a side hustle. Pay off your bills You know invest in precious metals well the fourth suggestion is become a Consistent generous giver to God I Promise you I'm telling you I'm promising you God will respond he will get involved in your finances and As this economy changes you can't afford to go on your own

You've got to have God involved in your finances things are changing at a level and speed nobody has ever seen and you need Almighty God directing you and overseeing your finances and giving you strategies for years in advance so that years from now you look back and go that was God I'm in this position because of God he led me on paths I didn't even perceive and understand. Get God involved in your finances. And the way that you get Him involved in your finances is that you get involved in His projects. And His projects are winning souls, teaching the Word of God, ministries that are going

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and we're talking about the patriarchs, and there's a lot to learn in this. You don't wanna miss this one. And also, Holy Communion at the end of today's lesson. Love you very much. We'll see you on Monday. God bless you. American Reserve serves as the ideal safeguard. As a father and husband, providing for and protecting my family is my highest priority. With strength in every pack, American Reserves combines variety and durability for any family.

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That's the faith hall of fame. And so today, we're going to be looking at verses 17 through 21. And then at the end of today's lesson, we will have the Lord's Supper. So we encourage you to have bread and your choice of grape juice or red wine available at the end of today's lesson. And all of us will come together in a worldwide virtual communion service and we will be one in Christ together brothers and sisters

in many nations eating the the the the the flesh of Jesus and drinking his blood in remembrance of what he did for us on the cross. And that's why it's Faith Friday. Our faith is in what he did for us on the cross. So let's pray and then Doc will read Hebrews 11 verses 17 to 21. Almighty God, our heavenly father. Father, we give you glory and honor and

praise for this wonderful beautiful day. It doesn't matter what the devil is doing to us. You're doing something special for us. It will break through. It will arrive. Are you always working on our behalf? And so we give you praise and glory and honor. Father, we have gathered here, your brothers, your sons and daughters, we are brothers and sisters in Christ. And so we have gathered from many nations in this virtual Bible study

to be taught by your Holy Spirit. And so we invite the Holy Spirit to take charge of this Bible lesson and lead us, illuminate us, teach us, and build our faith in Christ. In the name of Jesus Christ, we pray. Amen. Amen. And as Rick said, we are in Hebrews chapter 11. So if you've got your Bibles, please turn there. Hebrews chapter 11, we if you've got your Bibles, please turn there. Hebrews chapter 11, we're gonna be looking at verses 17 through 21 today. We've been talking about Abraham

and how he had been seeking a heavenly city and a better country, is the way verse 16 called it. But now we pick up with Abraham once again here in verse 17 and it says, by faith Abraham when he was tried offered up Isaac and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son of whom it was said that in Isaac shall thy seed be called, accounting that God was able to raise him up even from the dead, from whence also he received him in a figure. By faith, Isaac blessed Jacob,

and Esau concerning things to come. And verse 21, by faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph and worshiped leaning upon the top of his staff. God bless the reading of his word today. Verse 17 is a great verse. Amen. By faith Abraham when he was tried, offered up Isaac, and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son." These verses that we're studying today probably are the most spectacular example of faith and action of anything in the Bible. This is about Abraham offering his son Isaac as the ultimate demonstration of faith in God's promise. So you know the story, God commanded Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac

to test Abraham's trust. But that command challenged the very promise God made to Abraham. What you see here is faith amidst contradictions. God gave Abraham a command that contradicted the promise. That's why Abraham's faith is so spectacular. I don't know how the man reasoned in his mind and worked his way through it, but I am looking forward to shaking Abraham's obedience reveals a faith that transcends human logic. And what we're learning in these verses is to trust God's Word even when His instructions seem impossible. God gave Abraham an instruction that contradicted the promise.

That's why this story is so stunning. God, as you know, commanded Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac. The intensity of this story stems from the fact that Isaac was the sole heir of God's covenant promise. Yes. And it's interesting that that phrase is used in this verse. His only begotten son. His only begotten son. And Genesis 22, 2 said, you know, where God speaks to Abraham,

and he says, Take thy son, thy only son. Now, he had another son. Right. But Isaac was the child of faith. The son of promise. That's right. And it's interesting that verse 17 here says, his only begotten son, because that word only begotten,

the only other time you see that applied is to Christ. Yes. And so in a way, Isaac was a prefigure of Christ. It doesn't mean that he was Christ in the flesh. It just means he was a picture of Christ. Yes, he's a shadow. He carried his own wood. Jesus did too.

But it's interesting that it says, his only begotten son. Isaac was the child of faith, his only son of faith. So, Doc, first, God gave Abraham a promise, then he gave him the child of promise, Isaac. Sarah was 90 years old, Abraham was 100. So Isaac's born, God gives him an instruction that contradicted the promise. The promise was, you will have descendants more than the stars in the sky. From Isaac.

From Isaac. in the sky from Isaac from Isaac from Isaac will grow a people so numerous that they're more you'll have more descendants in the chat than the stars in the sky and through Isaac all the nations of the earth will be blessed. And now God says, take your son up on the mountain, build an altar and sacrifice him to me. The instruction contradicts the promise. Yet Abraham remained steadfast and faithful. His human mind could not comprehend the contradiction. But his faith was so strong in God, he said, whatever the Lord is doing, it is his will. And the promise will remain. I don't know how this is gonna happen.

But he said, he told me that I'm going to have descendants more numerous than the stars through Isaac. Yes. In Isaac's life, we're gonna have them. Yes. In Isaac's shoes. I don't know how this is going to happen. Yes. Yeah. So, this test of Abraham's faith is unparalleled in human history. Nobody's ever been asked to do something like this since that time, one and only. So Abraham took Isaac up the mountain, binded him, and raised his knife, and stopped only by divine intervention, which means at that moment, Isaac was

as good as a sacrifice sheep. At that moment, in another second, he was going to be sacrificed. So God saw in Abraham's heart and his intentions, you're going to obey me. There's a perfect tense, hath offered. That means it was a completed act in Abraham's heart. He offered his son. In his heart, he offered his son. Yes. It was a done deal. And that's when God said, okay, stop.

You've proven to me you will obey. Abraham's behavior was a total surrender. He trusted God beyond natural affection. The natural affection for his son. affection, the natural affection for his son. And think about this too, Rick. He, he taught Isaac enough and instructed Isaac enough that Isaac was willing to be sacrificed. Yes.

Yes. And yet Isaac knew he was the child of promise. Yes. Yes. And yet Isaac knew he was the child of promise. Yes. So as a boy he's like, I don't understand this, but my dad said I'm a child of promise. Yeah, and all the, you know, the Bible story books, everything we grew up with as kids and stuff and Sunday school literature has Abraham and then a little boy Isaac. Isaac is a little boy, like he's seven, eight, or nine years old, but he was probably in his teens or maybe even a young man by this time. So he wasn't like a little kid. He was either a teenager or an adult, young adult. And so he's grown up with this. He's grown up with the stories that you're out of view, Isaac,

shall nations be, shall come forth. And so he's heard these stories too. So Doc, if you were 13, 14 years old, and your dad took you out behind the barn, tied you up and had a big knife and said, I'm gonna, I'm gonna sacrifice. I'd be I'd have some quick, I'd have some questions. Would you have complied? I would have some questions.

Right. Yeah. Now, dad, are you sure you heard from God? So Doc mentioned earlier Abraham's only begotten son by Sareph. He's the fulfillment of God's promise. In Isaac shall thy seed be called. That ties the covenant future to this one life, Isaac. In Isaac shall thy seed be called. Amen. thy seed be called. So Abraham's faith in offering Isaac defies the loss of his soul link to God's plan. Abraham knew Isaac is the link, the only link to the fulfillment of God's promise. That's right. No, Isaac, how can the promise be fulfilled? And yet, God cannot lie.

So the lesson in here for us is to recognize the cost of faith, to surrender even what seems essential to God's purpose. There's a lesson in surrender. I will tell you this without going into detail. Now time to give you the details. But God is dealing with me right now as the leader of this ministry to put this ministry on the altar. He's given me some instructions. He's given me some instructions, but it means putting 26 years of ministry on the altar in to lift the knife. I'll talk about it later.

I'm not ready to talk about it yet, but it's a challenge. And I'm realizing, Doc, that what the Lord is speaking to me literally is that this is based – my faith is being challenged in the sense of Abraham's faith. Are you willing to take 26 years of work and lay it on the altar and trust that I will resurrect the sacrifice? I'll explain it later when I have liberty. But I'm gaining spiritual strength by this Faith Friday lesson. It's speaking to me. It's encouraging me. It's strengthening me. So, Abraham accounts that God can raise Isaac from the dead. There's where Abraham, that's how he reconciled all this. Okay, God gave me a promise, then he gave me a command.

The command contradicts the promise. What's the answer? What's the solution? Okay. He's going to raise my son from the dead. He reasoned it out. Yes. In fact, in Genesis, when they left the base of the mountain, Abraham said to the other men, stay here. We will be back. said to the other men, stay here. We will be back. That's right. We're coming back. Yeah. He said we meaning Isaac and me, we're coming back.

We got something to do up on the mountain, but we will be back. That's faith talking. He had already concluded he was fully persuaded. All right, I'm going to obey God up there on that mountain. And I believe God will resurrect my son from the dead. And my son and I are coming back down this mountain. He'd already made up his mind. He was fully persuaded. Why? Because he believed in God's promise. So in his mind he reconciled the promise and the command. And his belief in resurrection enabled Abraham to obey. So doc, we now know that as early as Abraham, the doctrine of the resurrection was known. Yes. Where did he come up with the idea? He got it directly from God. Or had it been passed down maybe from Methuselah? Maybe so, yes. That's a thought. What I'm saying is, has resurrection been known among God's people since the Garden of Eden?

Mm. Did God reveal to prophets like Methuselah? I got a plan. I'll just let you in on this part. There's going to be a sacrifice and the sacrificed man is going to come back to life. Somewhere they had this understanding of resurrection. So his faith extended beyond Isaac's life. God's ability to fulfill promises even through death. Abraham, he was fully persuaded. God gave me a promise that promise is going to be fulfilled.

I don't understand this thing about slaying my son, but that means my son's going to come back to life because he has to be back to life in order for God's promises to be fulfilled. And once he reached that conclusion, he was good to go. It's like, okay, son, it's time to get up there. We don't know how long it took Abraham to work that out in his mind. I don't think, Doc, he just took off the very first day that God said, sacrifice your son. I think there was time. I think he had to work it out in his mind that he had this profound trust in God's sovereignty over life and death.

Amen. So what's it do for us? It tells us to trust God's ability to overcome impossible odds. As I open today's lesson, and I don't know if I did this before we began the recording, so those who are listening on various podcast platforms, you may not know what I'm talking about, but I had mentioned that one of our morning manna classmates, a brother in Christ, received a spectacular victory on Wednesday. The conclusion of seven years of hellish warfare.

And not only did it come to an end, God put a cherry on top of it with a promise that it would never happen again. He doesn't have to worry about this ever happening to him again. It's been sealed. It's done. This is the faith that God wants us to have is to trust Him to overcome impossible odds in our life. Never say it's impossible. It can't be done. It can't be done by humans, but it can with God.

Nothing is impossible. With God, all things are possible. So faith harmonizes contradictions. Faith unites God's promise and his commands through trust in him. His sovereignty governs the trial. It affirms his right to test us and to provide Doc mentioned earlier the phrase, only begotten son. Abraham's faith foreshadows the sacrifice of Christ. You now have a link between

Old Testament faith and New Testament redemption. Yes. Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son was a prophetic shadow of what God not only was willing to do but did because of his love. And what did God, he sacrificed his son Jesus so that Abraham, the promise he made to Abraham would be fulfilled. Listen to what I just said. God sacrificed his son Jesus Christ on the cross so that he could fulfill the promise he made to Abraham. Amen. What do I mean by that? Through Abraham, all the nations of the earth shall be blessed.

Through Abraham, his heirs will be more numerous than the stars. We're talking about Christians, believers in Christ. It's the gospel that's blessing the nations of the earth, not Judaism, not Zionism. It's the gospel of Christ. gospel of Christ. So obedience to God's will require surrendering even the most cherished things of our life. I surrender all. How many, you sing that song. I surrender all.

Well, do you surrender all? I surrender all. Well, do you surrender all? You just sing the hymn or do you surrender all? My aunt used to say, I surrender some. I surrender some. Did she really? Oh, she would say that. And she said, just remember,

the song isn't I surrender some. Trying to teach me that you have to surrender all. But she would sing it out. I surrender some. That's not how it goes, Ray. That's right. So when we sing, I surrender all, there may be a day the Lord shows up in your life

and says, I heard you singing that song. Well, I've got some surrendering I want you to do. He's doing it to me right now. I'm in a phase where he's challenging me to surrender. Surrender 26 years of my life. Give it up, Rick. I've got something new for you. I've got something better. Do you trust me? Would you put your ministry on the altar

and lift the knife and believe that it will be resurrected? that it will be resurrected. So Abraham's example inspires believers to act in faith, even when God's plan seems unclear or contradictory to his promises. I'm going to move on to verse 18. I could, we spent a half hour of verse 17. Yes. Verse 18, of whom it was said that in Isaac shall thy seed be called. We've covered a lot of this.

That God's promise to Abraham in Genesis 21 verse 12 made Isaac the linchpin of Abraham's covenant hope. No Isaac, no promise. It's just that simple. If there's no Isaac, there can't be the fulfillment of God's promise. Isaac must live. He was a miracle child. It was impossible for Sarah and me to have a baby at our old age.

He's a miracle child. If he dies, none of this matters. It's Abraham's faith is that he trusted God despite the command that threatened the promise. Wow. I'm totally Dr. Moore you really dive deep into these verses. You have a deeper, fuller appreciation of what Abraham did. We are to trust God's Word even when obedience seems to defy his plan for our life. Yes. His word will never contradict his word. So get that out of your head. He's not, his word will never contradict his word.

But we are to trust his word, which we have in the Bible. Even when obedience to the word defies what we think is his plan for our life. Amen. There's a brother in the Lord, I don't think he's with us in the morning, man, I haven't seen his name in Hong Kong. His name is Tony. And I haven't talked to him for a number of years.

Yeah, I miss Tony. A lot is going on in Hong Kong since the communists took over and I have a feeling he's laying low. But Tony was an architect and much of the skyline of Hong Kong was designed by him. I'm talking about the skyscrapers, the apartment buildings, the office buildings. He designed them. He had one of the biggest, most prosperous architectural firms in Hong Kong. And it was very wealthy, very successful. And the Lord told him to give his company to his employees.

Not sell it, give it to them The Lord told him to stop riding to work in a limousine with a chauffeur And he said Lord how am I supposed to get around and the Lord said the city has buses This man obeyed God He gave his company to his employees Never charged him a dime, gave it to them, walked away. God told him, I have a plan for you. You're going to start churches in places that He gave up everything. It didn't make sense. But the Lord has blessed him. Amen. His story is one of the most amazing stories of faith and obedience I've ever heard in my life. the most amazing stories of faith and obedience I've ever heard in my life. You know, I hear people say, oh, I would give up everything for Jesus if he told me.

Yeah, but have you? Tony is somebody that actually did it, and that's why I have such great respect for him. So, in Isaac shall thy seed be called. And that designates Isaac as the sole heir of the covenant. Isaac's role excluded Ishmael and the sons of Keturah. Right. Anybody know who Keturah was? Keturah is probably the most unknown, significant person in the Bible.

Yes. Why is it that we don't know about Keturah? Keturah, Abraham, that old rascal, you know, he was 100 years old when he produced Isaac. Well, later Sarah died. And Abraham remarried. At age 135. 135 years old, he got married again. And not only got married again.

Now that's faith, that's faith. Not only did he get married again. And not only got married again. Now that's faith. That's faith. Not only did he get married, but he produced six sons to Keturah. Yes. But they weren't sons of promise. No, that means Keturah was about one-third his age. Yeah. She had to be in her 40s or, you know, she couldn't be much more than 50. She was childbearing. That old rascal.

He's like, Hey, I did it. When I was 100, I did it. I can do it again. You do it six more times. So Koutoura's sons didn't have the promise. Now Keturah's sons most likely became the Arabs. But they're Abraham's children, folks. Be careful what you say. By the way, the Bible says they were blessed. It also says that Ishmael was blessed too.

That's right. And because I've heard so many people teach, well, Ishmael is cursed, or the sons of Keturah are cursed. Oh, no, they're not. The Bible never says that at all. No, no, they're not. They're Abraham's sons. No, and they produced. They say those stupid things because they want us to

just hate Muslims. Yeah. But see, the church ought to be saying, they ought to be saying to the Arabs, you're the children of Abraham. Yes, you're blessed. I'll tell you what, you talk to the, you know, the royal tribal leaders in the Arab countries and they'll look around and say, yeah, we're blessed. We've got billions of dollars. We're blessed. But this is our way, the church ought to be talking to them in a way that invites them to come into the church. You're privileged, you're the descendants of Abraham. No, instead we're taught to hate it. Hate.

Yes. We're taught to hate and you can't love somebody that you hate. And so who has taught the modern American church to hate Arabs? Zionists. Absolutely. That's why you got to get this stuff out of the church. It's contradictory to the gospel.

We should love Arabs. And I'll tell you when once you're around Arabs, you will find them the most delightful people you've ever met. Absolutely. The most hospitable people that you've ever met. Puts anybody, puts a southern grandma to shame. They'll open up their home to you.

They'll say, come share my food. Here, stay the night. Here, I'll make a place where you can have my bed. Yes. I mean, that's the way they are. I mean, I remember the one dinner that we had in Aqaba at Laura's house. And the, the Arab man next to me had food he was trying to put in my mouth. Yes.

And I'm like, I don't know what to do. I didn't know what to do. And Laura leaned over and said, eat it. He's, he's declaring you to be family. This is an act of affection and love. He's saying to everybody in this room, I consider this man to be family. Anyhow, we've got to reorient our thinking. We need to be evangelizing with the love of Christ

the descendants of Abraham, even though they are not the descendants of Isaac, they are still the descendants of Abraham. So God's promise to Abraham completely hinged on Isaac's life. Again, we're talking about this contradiction between the promise and the instruction. So Abraham had this paradox, God's command to sacrifice Isaac clashed with God's promise of posterity. But faith required Abraham to obey, to trust God, to reconcile the promise with the command, to resolve the contradiction. So the test proved Abraham's belief that God's word remains true, even in an impossibility.

That faith transcends human logic because it rests in God's power. So faith embraces God's will even when it seems to undo his promise. Right. And that promise applies to us too, because in verse 18 where it says, that in Isaac shall thy seed be called. He wasn't just talking about Isaac's children, he was talking about us. Because Christ is the seed and we're in Christ. Paul explains that in Galatians. He says, hey, you know, when we're talking about seed, everybody thinks we're talking about plural, but no, Paul says no, it's singular. Christ is that seed. So you could say, if you want to expand on this, you could say that in Isaac shall Christ be called. Yes, the blessed seed. We're part of that

seed. We're that seed. Yes, the blessed seed. Amen. And just for the record, you know, I know there's nobody on this in this class that would think this way, but just for the record, legal disclaimer. God will never tell another human to sacrifice his son or daughter. That was a one-time event. It will never happen again because Christ was sacrificed once. God did it. Yeah. God did it once and for all. There will never be another sacrifice.

Christ was sacrificed. Amen. Um, see if I can get down to another verse here. Watch the time we got to do communion yet. First said, 19. Accounting that God was able to raise him up even from the dead from whence also he received him in a figure. Hallelujah. World English Bible says, concluding that God is able to raise up even from the dead, figuratively speaking, he also did receive him back from the dead. Figuratively speaking, he also did receive him back from the dead. So verse 19 reveals Abraham's faith in God's power to resurrect Isaac, and that resolved the

paradox in his mind. That's the solution that Abraham came up with. Okay, the promise and the instruction, they're contradictory. There's got to be a solution. What's the solution? Ah, resurrection. Once Abraham came to that place of believing resurrection, he was okay with carrying out the command. Yes, he was fully persuaded. Fully.

Fully persuaded. Isaac's return in a figure. What does that mean, Doc? Do you have any idea? Well, the way I look at it, two ways you can look at it is that, you know, there's a foretelling of the resurrection of Christ, and it was received back in a figure with the sacrifice of the ram, as well. The ram represented Christ, as well. The ram represented Christ as well. Abraham, we got to get the picture sometimes because we apply our thinking to it. Abraham, he's got the knife in his hand and it's over Isaac, and he's going, God, you know, I'm gonna do it. I'm really gonna do it. No, he was fully convinced. He was so convinced that God had to step in and say,

no, Abraham, I've got another plan. He was fully persuaded. So in Abraham's mind, Isaac was as good as dead when they walked up the mountain. Not when he was on the altar, but when they walked up the mountain, Isaac was as good as dead. Yeah, the moment he took that first step up the mountain, he had already resolved on doing it. In Abraham's mind, Isaac was dead. If there is a time to turn around, it was at the base of the mountain. Right. But he also knew Isaac and Abraham were coming down the mountain. That's right. He knew that Isaac was dead, but he also knew that Isaac was going to live.

He was fully persuaded of both. So there is no reference to resurrection in the Bible prior to Abraham. Somewhere Abraham, again, either the promise of resurrection was handed down orally from the days of Methuselah, Noah, or it was given to Abraham by God, because there's nothing in the Bible about resurrection. So this belief in resurrection preceded the time of Christ. Abraham had nothing to go on other than a faith

that God can resurrect the dead. Yes. And don't you find it interesting that in Jesus' day, the Sadducees, they did not believe in angels or the resurrection or the spirit or the afterlife. And the reasoning is we only believe the first books of Moses, the first five books of Moses. And yet resurrection is taught in Genesis. Yes. In Abraham. Resurrection is taught there.

But the Pharisees did believe. That's right. So where did they get it? They got it from Abraham. Yes. They concluded, well then God has the ability to resurrect the dead. And God has the ability to resurrect the dead. One thing I want you to see is that God's previous miracle in the life of Isaac, meaning his birth, the only thing that did was fuel Abraham's belief there would be future miracles. In other words, his birth was a supernatural precedent. Abraham concluded, hey, if God can pull off that one, he can do anything Right because yeah with Isaac's birth. I mean Abraham his loins were as good as dead Say and the Bible says Sarah's womb was dead and yet there was life

So Abraham's reasoning hey Sarah and I were We were dead in terms of producing children and yet life came. And so there is, God can bring life from the dead. And for us, it is to reassure us that when we die, we will live. When our body dies, we will live. When our body dies, we will live. And there will be a day that we come back and get a glorified body. So Abraham's faith is a model for us to trust God beyond visible evidence. Because Abraham received a son back in a figure.

That symbolized a resurrection from the dead. In a figure, means Isaac's return would mirror a real resurrection. Yes. Excuse me. To sacrifice his son made Isaac's deliverance the reward of faith. Abraham went down the mountain with his son. That was the reward. He passed the test and his son was still with him. Let me see if I can get to the two more verses. Okay. Verse 20, by faith, Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.

Now we get to Isaac blessing his son. So verse 20, Hebrews 11 now changes the sons of Isaac to trust in God's promises. So Isaac's blessings extended beyond the present. He had faith in the promise that God had made to his father. So his father's faith carried over into Isaac. And he realized he was a child of promise. And his faith guided Isaac to pronounce prophetic destinies. Yes. He prophesied over his sons. Isaac's blessing foretold Jacob's covenant dominance and Esau's temporal fate. Yes, but they were both blessed.

But they both blessed. But the promise would pass through Jacob. Yes, the younger, not the elder. So God has a choice and a plan. And even though it was Jacob basically stole the blessing from Esau, yet God saw that this is one of the tough things for me to reconcile. But even though Jacob stole the blessing, God said, through Jacob shall the blessing continue. It doesn't seem fair, does it?

No. But in God's mind it is. And without going into details and naming names, we have seen in the past ten years or so, we have seen major ministries where the designated elder son who was supposed to inherit a large ministry, it was taken from him by a younger brother. Yeah, several major ministries. It's happened several times. I don't understand these things, and yet, God blessed Jacob.

Esau gave up his birthright for a bowl soup. There's a lesson. So Jacob inherited the promises made to his father, and Esau received earthly blessings, but they were limited. The phrase concerning things to come, it talks about the future fulfillment. Yes. You know, the promise that nations will bow down to Jacob. Yes. That God would give him the dew of heaven, the fatness of the earth, the abundance of grain and new wine.

You know, all these things. That was the blessing. In other words, that he became the child of promise. Even though legally it should have been Esau. But God said, I've got a different idea on this. One more verse, verse 21. By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph and worshiped, leaning upon the top of his staff." So, Jacob's faith in blessing Joseph's sons. Well, I mean, what we're seeing here is, we're seeing Jacob's faith highlighted in this verse, that he blessed Joseph's sons.

He was worshipping God to the very end of his life. trusting God's promises for his descendants and their inheritance. So look, the lesson here for us is that your faith will shine through times of physical weakness because your faith will affirm God's plan. Because your faith will affirm God's plan And we see this with With with Jacob in his dying moments Yes, and basically in his dying moments so folks can understanding this basically He adopted Joseph's sons and made them his sons and he was going to put a blessing on these two sons.

But this is before he laid from in Manasseh. Right. And before he put his hands on them, he was reaching out like this, and then he crossed his hands to give the blessing he was gonna give with with this hand went on this son over here. He crossed his hands. And it ended up that that was a fulfillment, once again, of one of God's promises there.

And that blessing extended, we find it all the way in the book of Revelation, when the tribes of Israel are listed. So it's really interesting that God, you know, where it appears that one should receive, God says, no, I've got a different idea. I've got a different plan. Doc, you and I have had this discussion privately at times. I've seen over my lifetime major ministries, large churches and so forth, where the founder, the pastor, the man that created the ministry for God, that passes away and you think that

it's going to go to the son. Right. And it doesn't. And sometimes there's a big gap of time and somebody else is running the ministry and then later the grandson shows up. Yes. And the anointing comes on the grandson and the grandson takes over and leads. I've seen this and I've pondered this.

It's like a generational skip. And the fourth turning kind of reveals that sometimes, doesn't it? Yes. That there's a generation that sometimes gets skipped, gets left out and goes to the next generation. Yes. That there's a generation that sometimes gets skipped, gets left out, and goes to the next generation. Yes. It's hard to understand and explain. You just trust this is God's plan. That's right. Look, and again, I don't want to name ministries. It's not my place to do that, but I have seen ministries. There's one in my mind right now, a very famous ministry, and I will tell you that

20 years ago, at least 20 years ago, Doc, the Holy Spirit spoke to me one night. I was sitting in my living room. I was watching television and this ministry was on and the founder was speaking and his son was there and his grandson. His grandson was only like probably 20 years old. Yes, I know who you're talking about. And the Lord spoke to me and said, the son will not inherit this ministry. The anointing is on the grandson. And I'm like, wow. And I really, you know, I mean, it's just something the Lord revealed to me. It's not for me to go and say that to anybody. But as the 20 years have gone by, the son dropped out. And the grandson has yet to take leadership, but he's in training. I kind of keep my eye on him. He's in training.

He's pastoring his own church. But I know that there's a day he's going to step into the role of his grandfather and lead. How do I know? I just believe the Lord revealed it to me 20 years ago. I don't understand those things. That the Lord said, I'm not going, it wasn't that the Lord was upset with the Son, he just, the Son's not chosen. He's not chosen by God. God had a different plan for the Son. That's all it means.

God had a different plan for the Son, but He's going to bring the grandson in at the appropriate time to lead the ministry. The Son's job was to prepare the air. Yes. That's a tough one. I'm thinking right now of another major ministry. Same thing. Yeah, I'm thinking one, one, two, three, yeah, three or four that I can think of. Same scenario. There's another one right now that I knew years ago the son is not going to run that ministry the grandson will do it and right now the grandson is leading it I just knew it wasn't anything wrong with the son it just wasn't God's plan anything wrong with the sun, it just wasn't God's plan.

This is where you trust the Lord. Anything else you wanna add, Doc, on these verses? I know we're... No, I think this... We were sharing things today I bet a lot of people have never heard before, and open up some new possibilities in your own life. Listen, no matter what your situation or circumstances out there, God has a plan and purpose for you. What's your Isaac? What is your Isaac today? What is it

that God has given you as a promise that he says, how much do you really believe? Would you be willing to lay down the promise I've given to you? Would you be willing to do that? Would you be willing to put it on the altar? And it's a tough question to ask. The first thing you had to figure out, what's your Isaac? What is the Isaac in your life? What's the promise in your life? And then the next thing you have to ask, am I willing? Am I willing to lay the

promise down and allow it to be killed? If believing that God would provide a resurrection on the other side? That's tough. He puts the knife in your hand, he's got the wood for the fire. So asking, how much do you love me? How much do you trust me? Can I resurrect the dead? That's his specialty. Amen. Resurrection is not hard to him. Resurrection is not hard to him. Do you think when Jesus was dead for three days, was he grunting and groaning and trying

to work up enough strength to come out of the grave? Oh, if I tried a little harder here. Here we go. One more time. Took him three days. Took him three whole days, Doc. If I wasn't wrapped up in the shroud, it'd be a lot easier.

Yeah, I can't move my arms. Got my face wrapped up, can't see anything. But folks, you can't have victory until you've had death. You can't have a resurrection till you've had death. Something's gotta die. Something's gotta die. You Something's got to die. You're right. He was preaching. Harmony said he was preaching in paradise.

You're right. He wasn't laying around trying to get out of a shroud. He was he was preaching. He wasn't sleeping on the job. He was working. Yep. That's when Satan realized. Well, we did something really bad.

We made a major mistake. We crucified the Son of God. Why didn't we take this resurrection stuff seriously? Abraham believed it and we didn't. That's what the devil was thinking. Amen. Okay, let's go to the Lord's table and we're going to participate in the Lord's Supper remembering His sacrifice on the cross and His resurrection. Hallelujah. And He said, if you eat my flesh and drink my blood, I will raise you up on the last day. Hallelujah. Do you believe that? If you eat my flesh and drink my blood, I will raise you up on the last day. That's your promise. You're going to be resurrected on the last day. Praise God. Doc, I'm going to say is another thing. A few years ago, for my own spiritual

spiritual blessing. I was attending a local Anglican church on Sunday mornings, and I was just being blessed. The bishop who was there at the time, he's retired, and he was just a blessing to watch his ministry. And one thing that I noticed, because they had communion every week. All right, in the Anglican church they have communion every Sunday. And, Doc, one day I was sitting there and I'm looking around and I was thinking, I have never been in a church with so many people between the ages of 90 and 100. Now there were young families there. I'm not saying that everybody was old. That's not what I'm saying.

But I had never seen a congregation with so many people between 90 and 100. And I would watch them, these 98, 99, 100-year-old Anglicans walk up to the front to receive the Lord's Supper. Watch them get down on their knees, 99 years old, get down on their knees to receive the Lord's Supper and and the revelation came to me God is blessing this congregation because they take seriously the Lord's Supper he's blessed them with old age he's kept their bodies healthy they've lived to be in the 90s. Some of them, there was one man there who was over 100. And Doc, I was standing there talking to him and I was like, I want to say he was 103. And I would have guessed he was 70. He was alert and spry and energetic and sound mind and healthy. I thought, you're 103.

You look like you're 70 years old. But I believe God was blessing them because of their honor of the Lord's Supper. Amen. Okay, that's all I wanted to say. All right. Well, we are going to participate in the Lord's Supper, and on the other side of the Lord's Supper is the same promise that was given to Abraham, and that is resurrection. Resurrection is on the other side of the Lord's Supper. And as we enter into the Lord's Supper, we always want to enter in with clear hearts, clear consciences about entering in. Don't take this lightly, folks. It's more than

bread and grape juice. This is us, as serious as Abraham was about Isaac, we should take seriously the Lord's table. And so if we keep that level of seriousness in our hearts and our minds, to keep our hearts pure, our hands clean, our consciences clear of any contradiction, then we can faithfully enter into the Lord's temple. So Rick, would you pray for us briefly here about that very issue? Let us enter in this with clean hearts today.

One word, Doc. So Abraham sacrificed his only begotten son, but believed that he would be resurrected. Almighty God sacrificed his only begotten son because he knew he would be resurrected, and so will we. And so will we. But God knew his son would be resurrected. He would see to it and that all who eat his flesh and drink his blood in faith will be resurrected too on the last day. Amen.

Now let's pray. Father, Almighty God, thank you Father for providing this wonderful meal, this communion with our Savior, where we memorialize the sacrifice that you did with your only begotten Son when you allowed Him to be nailed to a cross and to die. Yet you knew that you would resurrect your Son, that he would live, and that all who have their faith in him would live also. So Father, check our hearts. Show us anything where we are amiss.

We repent, we ask for forgiveness, we ask that you cleanse us. Remember our sins no more, so that we come to this table with clean hands, clean hearts, clean minds, clean lips, and receive the flesh and the blood of our Savior Jesus Christ. In His name we pray, amen. Amen. Now if you have the elements of the Lord's Table. Let's prepare those right now. We're going to prayer blessing over the bread and either grape juice or red wine as we partake of the Lord's Table today.

And as I mentioned before, we always need to approach the Lord's Table with seriousness, not with a sense of casualness at all, or the sense, well, we do it every week. No, this is a holy moment. And we always need to approach it with that attitude. Holiness is a foreign concept to a lot of churches today. But we take holiness seriously here.

That we serve a holy God and he requires a holy people. And this is a holy moment here. So I'm gonna pray a blessing over the elements of the Lord's table. Pray with me, please. 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, saying,

Take, eat. This is my body which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me." Glory to God. Hallelujah. The body of our Lord Jesus Christ, which was given for you, preserved your body and soul to everlasting life. This is the bread of heaven. Take and eat in remembrance that Christ died for you. 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 was shed for you. Preserve your body and soul to everlasting life. Drink the cup of salvation in remembrance that Christ's blood was shed for you, preserve your body and soul to everlasting life. Drink the cup of salvation in remembrance

that Christ's blood was shed for you and be thankful. 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 lamb. This sacrament is the gift of God for the people of God. Feed on him by faith with thanksgiving that Christ died for you. Praise God, hallelujah. Glory of God. Feed on him by faith with thanksgiving that Christ died for you.

Praise God. Hallelujah. Glory to God. What a great ending to a great week here on Morning Manna. We've been learning a lot this week in Morning Manna. I hope today was a great lesson for you about faith and a deeper understanding of faith. Why are we teaching about faith? Because we need a faith filled people to take on the challenge of the mission that God has given this ministry and you're part of that. If you're participating in morning manna or participating in any way and in support and prayer and everything that's involved in this ministry, your partner's with us, your family with us, you're together with us on this.

And we want you to have faith in your life. Why? Well, that's a blessing to this ministry. If you're operating in faith, then that's going to be a blessing to us as well. And so, we want's gonna be a blessing to us as well. And so we want you to be blessed. We want you to operate in an atmosphere of faith continually. So you're receiving blessings continually and that way you can bless this ministry as well.

Amen? Amen. All right, Rick, any final words before we sign off for this week? No, just be at rest over the weekend, turn off the world, turn on God's voice, listen to Him. Amen. On Monday, we'll pick back up in Romans chapter 9, continue our discussion of the relationship between Israel and the gospel.

So that continues on Monday. Please keep the people Miramar in your prayers today. Very tragic situation with the earthquake there that occurred through our overnight hours and some very, they're thinking now tens of thousands have died, Rick. And it's a tragic situation there. And so, but let's keep that nation in prayer today. And earthquakes are the result of sin. It's the curse on the earth because of man's sin. The creation is groaning.

Yes. It's the birth pains. The birth pains to what? His return. The earth itself knows Jesus is on his way. Yes. Jesus is on his way. Praise God. Hallelujah. Well on that note, we'll bid you a farewell for this week. Spend some time with the Lord over the weekend and join us again Monday morning, bright and early, 8 a.m. here on Morning Manna. God bless you.