TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - Trudeau: Trump Covets Canada’s Rare Earth Minerals

Episode Date: February 10, 2025

Outgoing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had a hot mic moment recently. Mr. Trudeau was overheard saying that President Donald Trump is serious about annexing Canada, and that Mr. Trump desires to control Canada’s rare earth minerals. Meanwhile, President Trump told reporters he will slap a stiff 25% tariff on steel and aluminum imports to America.Rick Wiles, Doc Burkhart. Airdate 02/10/2025Join 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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Remember, American Reserves means food security. Outgoing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had a hot mic moment recently mr trudeau was overheard saying that president trump is serious about annexing canada and that mr trump desires to control canada's rare earth minerals meanwhile president trump told reporters that he will slap a stiff 25 percent tariff on steel and aluminum imports to America, including from Canada. This is true news for Monday, February 10, 2025. Let's begin our analysis and commentary about today's headlines. With this NBC News report, Trump announces blanket tariffs on steel and aluminum, reciprocal tariffs on other countries. He made comments to reporters on board Air Force One.

Let's watch. I'll be announcing probably Tuesday or Wednesday at a news conference, reciprocal tariffs. And very simply, it's if they charge us, we charge them. That's all. When is it going to impact Syria? Almost immediately, but I'll be announcing the details of it, highly detailed, and it'll be great for everybody, including the other countries. But if they are charging us 130 percent and we're charging them nothing, it's not going to stay that way. This is on every country? Every country will be reciprocal. And just on the steel question, just so I understand you correctly...

We'll also be announcing steel tariffs on Monday. On this? Tomorrow? Monday, yeah, tomorrow. What countries will those go on? Everybody. Steel. Including Canada and Mexico? Yeah. Any steel coming into the United States is going to have a 25% tariff. What about aluminum, sir?

Aluminum, too. 10%? No, 25%. 25% for aluminum? 25%. For both. I'm starting today's True News with these tariff articles, which aren't really extremely interesting to the general public. Right. extremely interesting to the general public. But I'm setting the stage for a story that I'm going to give you in just a moment

about what Justin Trudeau said. So the tariffs are part of Mr. Trump's strategy to get to his end goal, which is annexing canada um now bloomberg said tariff were likely to put canada into recession economists say that's part of the strategy right it's the economic squeeze we're going to return later in the program to this article about a recession. Financial Times. U.S. metal prices soar to big premiums ahead of Donald Trump's tariffs. And they are up today, big time.

And again, we will return to this one later, Doc, because this is setting off a wave of inflation you know i'm going to stand by my analysis that i gave i guess two years ago when when the inflation wave started and i said this is the beginning of a it could be a 10 to 15 year cycle, like we had in the mid 70s, started around 75 under Gerald Ford. It ended in the early 90s under George Herbert Walker Bush. It went through multiple presidencies. All the presidents got blamed and none of them caused it. Lyndon Johnson caused it. Right. But everybody else got blamed. He caused it with the Vietnam War, with his Great Society War on Poverty, Spending, and so forth.

But it set off— Propaganda wars. Yes. It set off a massive wave of inflation. Let's go on, Doc. All right. So this is from CBC Canada. And here's the headline that they're looking at in Canada right now. Trump's threat to annex Canada is real and motivated by access to critical minerals. That's coming from outgoing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaking to a crowd. We have a video. Now part of the video is just audio only, but CBC Canada was, they shut their camera off, but they kept their mic on to record what Justin Trudeau said

here recently regarding what the real plan is for President Donald Trump and Canada. Let's watch. So as much as I know, the media would love to stick around for the Q&A. They're not going to be able to do that. The doors were closed, but the mic was still on. The CBC News camera didn't capture all of Trudeau's remarks about annexation, but the Toronto Star captured more, and he made it clear he didn't believe the tariffs were about trade or drugs or migrants. I suggest that not only does the Trump administration know how many critical minerals we have, but that may be even why they keep talking about absorbing us and making us the

51st state, he told The Room. They're very aware of our resources, of what we have, and they very much want to be able to benefit from those. Business mogul Arlene Dickinson was in the room with Trudeau as a member of his advisory council and she says his remarks align with her own thinking. I think my belief is very strongly and has been I've articulated this many times and in my posts and my discussions with people that I do believe the objective of Donald Trump is to take over our resources. Trudeau has reportedly made similar comments privately to premiers, raising questions about how long the government has viewed this as Trump's endgame. There can be questions to the prime minister and to other ministers who are involved.

When did you know this was a serious thing? Did you know he wasn't joking that first time? Like, what's really been going on behind the scenes here? What I'd like to see Canada become our 51st state. The U.S. president has been open about wanting to use economic force to annex Canada. He's threatened close ally Denmark with war if it doesn't hand over Greenland. I don't think that sovereignty is a concept that troubles Donald Trump a whole lot. He thinks this is an artificially drawn border.

And so I think just this kind of blows the doors off of everything and really kind of opens up like really strange conversations about how we will protect our sovereignty. Canada made a show of activity at the border trying to prove it's serious about drugs and migrants to address Trump's stated concerns. He needed to be able to say there was a threat to the United States. That comes in the form of fentanyl and border protection. And so it is a distraction. It is something that needs to be dealt with, but it's a distraction from what he really then talks about, which is access to our resources and access to having Canada be part of the United States. We saw the Canadian government invite media to two events at different parts of the border to showcase its helicopter patrols.

So Trudeau's strategy seems to be to give the U.S. what it says it wants on drugs, on border security, while at the same time being aware that they may just be pretexts. And Trump's annexation threats are getting a reaction in the U.S. too. That's right. The talk of annexing Canada and the threats to Denmark and Panama may have been a bit of a surprise at first from a president who after all promised to end foreign wars. But many of Trump supporters appear to be embracing it. In fact, quite a bit of merchandise is now being sold on Amazon promoting annexation. And we have yet to see any senior member of Trump's party contradict him or ask him to stop. Okay, Doc, two things about Mr. Trudeau that we need to pay attention

to. First, he told his fellow Canadians, Mr. Trump's talk of annexing Canada is not a joke. This is real. It's real. He's not just playing games. He's not just trolling Justin Trudeau. Because when he first said it, the very first time in Mar-a-Lago, my first reaction was, oh, he just trolled Justin Trudeau. Right. You know, he's just getting under his skin.

But that's not the case. Now, the second thing that Mr. Trudeau said was that Donald Trump wants Canada's minerals and resources. So you have the head of state of America's northern neighbor saying, the United States is very serious about absorbing our country and taking our resources. I told you a week or two ago, I felt like the Lord was telling me that this is probably the year to avoid commentary and just focus on analysis. I don't think my opinion matters.

Do anything that you need to know is what I think is happening. What I think about what is happening is not important. That's my personal commentary. But my analysis is, I think, can be helpful. The third thing I want to say is that this is, again, when Mr. Maybe he really is thinking about annexing Canada as a state. And my first thought was he's resurrecting George W. Bush's North American Union, which was uniting everything

from Alaska, which is U.S., to Canada and Mexico. But that was to create a new entity. What Mr. Bush wanted to do, although he never really – you're not going to find any speeches where George W. Bush said it. But he favored the policy. He favored the policy. He favored. He met with Vicente Fox and the prime minister of Canada at that time. The first one was Martin and Harper. They were promoting it.

They were meeting and discussing this idea. But the idea of the North American Union was three countries merging to create a new entity. A new entity called the North American Union. What Mr. Trump is talking about is not the North American Union. No, he's talking about... He's talking about supersizing the United States of America. Yes. Mr. Trump is not a globalist.

He is an American nationalist. Yes. Okay? And if he could extend the borders of the United States of America around the globe, he'd be delighted. Yes. He's not interested in joining forces with other nations to create some other type of entity. No, you come join our team.

Exactly. And that is really a radical departure over the past, what would you say, three administrations at least. We've had globalism since really, Doc, since George Herbert Walker Bush. That's true. But if you look at the policies of the Bush administration, they used war to prop up all the different things that we have going. Oil and everything else that's going on. That was a 100-year war.

And then Obama and Biden came along. Their policy as far as military and things like that had to do with putting out propaganda and policies, not so much as acquiring assets or anything. But now Donald Trump, he's flipped that completely on its head. Now, if you really start thinking about this, every decision that Donald Trump makes internationally, diplomatically, has to do with what do we get out of it. Panama, Panama Canal.

Greenland, Arctic routes, resources. Canada, resources. Gaza, real estate. Everything has a asset value. And so... He's a real estate man. Yes. Everything's transactional.

Right. Mr. Trump thinks in transactional terms. What I'm saying is you need to take this very seriously. That Mr. Trump fully intends to acquire Canada against their will. If I were a Canadian leader, I'd be very concerned. I'd be very alarmed right now. And I'm sure that in parts of Canada, there are many Canadians that would love to be a state in the USA. But that's going to create

a civil war inside Canada. I don't know how he's going to go about it because he's going after canada greenland panama gaza ukraine we're going to get to ukraine a little bit i i've never seen anything like this on this scale ctv news in canada Trump's invasion plans threaten his invasion threats violate international law. You think? Well, what does that matter? Tell Alexander the Great you're violating international law.

Did he care? No, he just marched his elephants through the Alps. So, well, the Canadian ambassador to France said this. I'm just saying that in order to respect international law, you don't threaten your neighbors by invasion. That's coming from Stéphane Dion, speaking Monday at Canada's embassy in Paris, one day after President Trump said he would impose 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports, including imports from Canada. Dion said Canada and European countries are working on a cohesive strategy to address Mr. Trump's threats. Canada and Mexico are the first ones, but Europeans know that they may be targeted as

well, he said. We're anticipating that. They are working with us about how can we have a cohesive way to convince the U.S. administration that trade wars are painful for everyone and not something that you should do between friends. Well, trade wars aren't necessarily painful for everyone. They're only painful for the losers in trade wars, Rick. And right now, Canada, Mexico, and potentially Europe, they're on the beating end of the stick.

True, but I will tell you who else is going to be on the beating end of the stick, and it will be the American consumer. Because it's going to... Everything is going to go up in prices. Everything. Anything made with steel, anything made with aluminum. How many things does that include?

Think everything you do every day. Desk, file cabinets, cars. Everything, everything. And again, I'm going to talk about this a little bit later, but in the long run, Mr. Trump's strategy will be a big win for America in the long run because it will force corporations to build things in the USA

like we used to. Right. We used to export, not import. But we allowed the globalists in our country to export our jobs, our factories around the world, and then have us buy the stuff back. Yes. Okay. So Mr. Trump is reversing it.

And what he's doing is re-industrializing America. But there will be a lot of pain in that process when it's over we'll be a stronger country but to get there you're going to pay a price and that price is going to be higher prices and fewer choices um empty shelves i'll take stores retailers that Empty shelves. I'll take stores, retailers that will be in trouble. Costco. Walmart, Sam's. That buy a lot of stuff from outside of the country.

Yes. You go to Costco and look at where the food comes from. How much of it comes from the American farmers? The cherries come from Chile. The avocados come from Mexico. You can go down the list, okay? Those are the fresh groceries available in Costco and Sam's Club. They're international. If this continues, either those items disappear from the store shelves or

they escalate in prices, one or the other, until the American system can replicate. We used to grow cherries here in America. We used to grow apples and peaches. We still do, but not at the level that we used to. And so it's going to take years to replenish that type of supply, a national supply. So there will be a price to pay. This is one of these days this this is a monday this is like a week's worth of news here today yes and it's all mind-boggling it's at a level that i i it's breathtaking to me doc let. Let's go to number eight.

Forbes magazine. Elon Musk baselessly claims USAID was money laundering for left-wing organizations. The biggest Doge hoaxes spread on X. Well, you know, Forbes magazine used to be owned by Steve Forbes. Right. A conservative Republican free enterprise cut taxes, cut government spending

Republican. But Mr. Forbes doesn't own it anymore. He sold it to the Chinese years ago. You never think about it when you see Forbes magazine. Do you just think? Yes. It's the Forbes family. That's a conservative Republican business family.

Wall Street. It's Wall Street. All right. Not greedy, but, you know, the kind of the old New England. Yes, there you go. That New England Republican. Pure puritan ethic yes calvin coolidge you know but forrest magazine got sold to the chinese so here's their headline saying don't believe elon musk he's spreading money laundering conspiracy theories well let me tell you what stuff i saw over the weekend i i was astounded

by what was coming out it's it is mind-boggling we could stay here for a couple hours just talking about what was revealed over the weekend we're just going to touch a few of the big things so the first one and this is a tweet from elon musk doge discovers discovered that fema sent 59 million dollars last week to luxury hotels in new york city to house illegal immigrants that's one week. Just last week too. And yet you have Americans in South Carolina and North Carolina and Georgia who are still without housing from the hurricanes and the floods. They were kicked out of hotels at Christmas time.

And in one week, FEMA at Christmas time. And in one week, FEMA found a way to send $59 million to luxury hotels to pay the hotel bills for illegal immigrants. But you don't see FEMA sending $59 million to American citizens in South Carolina and North Carolina. No. And sending this money violated the law, according to Elon Musk, and is in gross insubordination to the president's executive order. That money is meant for American disaster relief

and instead is being spent on high-end hotels for illegals. A clawback demand will be made today to recoup those funds. You're going to see this now, too. Who in FEMA authorized the payment of fifty nine million dollars against the president's executive order that's what he's saying FEMA was told not to do it yet someone in FEMA did it yes who was it that person needs to be removed You can't allow that to continue. It's defying the President of the United States.

But you're getting back to that mentality that we had in 2017 and 18, which is it's your duty to defy him. Yes. Not anymore. There's a new sheriff in town. And we'll go back to, this is December 2024, New York City paying $220 million to Pakistan-owned hotel. Once again, they paid that $220 million to basically rent the hotel for illegal aliens. First of all, the government of Pakistan owns the hotel in New York City. That's right. Not a Pakistan investor.

The government owns it. That's right. And our government gave the government of Pakistan $220 million for rent. Yes. We rented all the rooms to house illegal immigrants. And that just happened. This was in December. Now, New York Times.

Judge freezes elements of Trump's plan to shut down USAID. A federal judge on Friday ordered the Trump administration to halt some elements of its attempt to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development. Judge Carl Nichols of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, a 2019 Trump appointee, issued a restraining order pausing the imminent administrative leave of 2,200 agency employees and a plan to withdraw nearly all of the agency's overseas workers within 30 days. He also ordered the temporary reinstatement of 500 agency employees already on administrative leave. Where does a federal judge get the authority

to do this? They make it up, Rick. I know. There's nothing in the Constitution that says that the federal judge can do this. He doesn't have that power. And when you get right down to it, a federal judge is accountable to who? Ultimately, the President of the United States. It's part of the executive branch.

No. The federal judge is part of the executive branch. No. The federal judge is part of the judicial branch. But the federal system is under the purview of the President. Yeah, that's true. Technically, you could say that because only the Supreme Court is the only constitutional branch. So the federal judges are there to rule in the constitutionality of laws. I don't mind the Supreme Court doing that.

That's their job. But it's things like this that gum up the works. We should abolish the federal courts. While they're there, I just expressed my commentary. The solution is to abolish the federal court system. I just expressed my commentary.

The solution is to abolish the federal court system. There's no constitutional requirement to keep it. Abolish it and implement a new system and let President Trump appoint all the new judges. And the problem is solved. But this judge was appointed by him. Right. Something happens when you drink the water out of the Potomac, Rick. So the judge does not.

He said, we're going to. I'm pulling brakes. I'm not going to allow Donald Trump to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development. Well, the judge may want to get in an Uber and go over to the USAID office and take a look because that's what was happening on Friday. Again, in my entire lifetime, I have never, ever seen an agency dismantled. In real time. In real time. I have never, ever seen this. They went out and put black tape out on the street sign. You know what it makes me think of in the Bible?

Pharaoh chiseling Moses' name off everything. I don't want to see his name everywhere. Do you know that's in the Bible? Pharaoh had Moses' name taken off public buildings. That's right. So there it is. They shut it down. So the judge can rule anything he wants, but there's not going to be anything there.

It's astounding uh npr federal judge blocks doge from accessing sensitive u.s treasury department material now this gets even more serious because this federal judge ruled on saturday morning that elon mus Department of Government Efficiency could not access Treasury Department records. U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer issued a preliminary injunction after 19 Democratic attorneys general sued president trump the case filed in new york city alleges that trump administration allowed musk team access to the treasury department's central payment system in violation of federal law the payment system handles tax refunds social security benefits veterans benefits and, and more, and sending out trillions of dollars every year while containing an expansive network of American personnel and financial data. Well, Doc, one of the things they found out, and I didn't, again, so much coming at us.

Yes, it was a busy day today. It was, I saw a tweet from elon musk i won't believe that he said 100 billion dollars was sent out it seems to me like he said within a month it just seems like an enormous amount a hundred billion dollars that had that maybe it was over a year but there the money was sent to people to people with no social security numbers yes i saw that over the week was that over a year i'm not sure but i saw that same thing you're talking about how anyone hundred billion dollars sent to people, or was it a hundred million?

I'm sorry, I don't have it in front of me. I just remembered it. Again, there's so much coming out, I could barely keep up with it. What is it? He said, yesterday I was told that there are currently over a hundred billion dollars a year of entitlements payments to individuals with no social security number or even a temporary id number 100 billion dollars a year to people with no social security numbers that is money laundering entitlement payments this is money laundering

how do you know it's even going to a human you're right what are they financing and it just gets covered up in in the accounting as social security payments yes well no wonder social security is not solvent they've been robbing the social security bank for years yes but there's they're laundering the money and sending it to we don't know if they're humans or if they're agencies or organizations. We don't know who's getting the money. There's no tracking. There's no social security number. There's no way to say this is who got the money.

So you've got a federal judge saying, whoa, that's enough. Get Elon Musk out of the Department of the Treasury. But not only did the judge say Elon Musk could not look at the numbers, he said the Treasury Secretary couldn't look at them either. Are you serious? The Secretary of the United States Treasury is barred from accessing the computers of the Treasury Department? This is total insanity. In my mind, the Secretary has every right to ignore that judge. That ruling is so insane i mean what if he what if the treasury secretary told the judge you

have no right to open up the the legal files in the courthouse that's a good point okay you're not allowed to go into the archives for the courthouse you can't look at anything right the judge would say you can't. You don't have any jurisdiction over me. I have to do this to do my job. So the Treasury Secretary, thank God, I'm not a big fan of Mr. Bessent. He's a gay guy married to a guy. But he's going along with what the president's trying to do in getting

control of the spending right my only um and again it's it's my commentary i think there are two two mistakes that that President Trump has made so far. Number one, he started before he got his cabinet approved by the Senate. I think they're going to start slowing everything down now. Well, they already are. Yes. That's the only way they can fight against him. But it's the Republicans that are doing it.

The Republicans are in control of the Senate. So the Republicans are the ones that will put the brakes on the nominations. Number two, he should not have allowed Elon Musk to shut down agencies.

What they should have done was say, we are conducting an audit. And then do the audit. And then agency by agency release the findings. The findings would be so shocking that there wouldn't be any opposition to shutting them down. This is more like we're just running in, grabbing the agency, shutting it down, and then telling you what we found. Well, the explanation I've heard on this is that prior to the raid on USAID that Elon and his team, they were trying to determine what would be the best strategy to go after all these different departments and everything. And their model showed them that the hub of everything was flowing around through USAID. And you notice now that their tone has changed.

We're going to audit the Pentagon. We're going to audit the Fed. We're going to audit the Fed. That's what I'm saying. They should have said we're auditing. But the explanation over the weekend that I heard coming from those that were pro-Elon is that they had to attack the U.S. aid because if they didn't do it that way, there would have been no way to get back in later. That was the explanation. Whether it's true or not, I don't know. Why would it be that you couldn't back in if President Trump's in charge?

Because of these very judges right here. Well, I'll tell you here in a moment where I think we're going. Here's a tweet from Vice President J.D. Vance. Yes, he says, If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal. If a judge tried to command the Attorney General on how to use her discretion as a prosecutor, that's also illegal. Judges aren't allowed to control the executive's legitimate power. And that is true.

That simply is true. The judge has overstepped his authority and is trying to be the executive. If you want to be the executive, run for president. Right. If you don't, just be a judge. And we have a judicial branch. It's called the Supreme Court. That's right.

That's the check and balance that was embedded in the Constitution from the very beginning. All this other stuff. Well, Elon Musk shot back and he said, let's impeach the judge. Yes. I don't think the Republicans have the backbone to do this. They don't. They had their backbones removed. This is Elon Musk

on X as he said, a corrupt judge protecting corruption. This is about Engelmeyer in particular. He needs to be impeached now. But like you said, Rick, whether the Republicans

have the wherewithal to do that, I doubt it. Doc, the legal action was filed by the various attorneys general. They did it in the state of New York. And of course, the leader was the attorney general

of the state of New York, Alita James. And we've got a short video of her vowing to fight President Trump again and again. We did not expect this result, but we are prepared to respond to this result. And my office has been preparing for several months because we've been here before.

We faced this challenge before. And we use the rule of law to fight back. And we are prepared to fight back once again. Because as the Attorney General of this great state, it is my job to protect and defend the rights of New Yorkers and the rule of law. And I will not shrink from that responsibility. I can tell you she's being deceptive right there. How do you know body language? Watching her eyes.

I was noticing that. What did you see? Those were deception tells. She's not trying to hide them either. If she's breathing, she's deceiving. That's right. But there's an ulterior motive. It's not for the people. Is it in the blinking of the eyes?

Yes. NBC News. Legal experts warn of constitutional crisis. And that's the word of the words of the day. You hear it everywhere today. Constitutional crisis as J.D. Vance and Elon Musk question judges authority over Trump. I'm just going to go through quickly various politicians saying constitutional crisis, constitutional crisis, constitutional crisis.

Here is Ilhan Omar on CBS's Face the Nation. Are the courts the main line of defense here? Yeah, I mean, what we are witnessing is a constitutional crisis. We are seeing an executive branch that has decided that they are no longer going to abide by the Constitution in honoring Congress's role in the creation of the agencies, in their role in deciding where money is allocated. And so the only recourse we have since our congressional leadership, the speaker, will not stop the executive is through the judiciary. And this is, you know, when you think about the checks and balances that we have, the courts are the only recourse we have

at the moment. And we have seen, and when we talk about the illegality of what the executive is doing, we have seen every single executive order that has been challenged in the courts was found to be illegal. She's back to lawfare. Yes. That's where we're at. We're going back to lawfare. Lawsuits, legal actions, injunctions, just everything you can do with the courts to slow it down. It's not going to work this time. It's not going to work. In a few minutes here, I'll tell you why I believe that.

Senator Chris Murphy says Trump has created a constitutional crisis. Constitutional crisis, grossly unconstitutional, pretty alarming language. Yeah, listen, I think this is the most serious constitutional crisis the country has faced, certainly since Watergate. The president is attempting to seize control of power and for corrupt purposes. The president wants to be able to decide how and where money is spent so that he can reward his political friends. He can punish his political enemies. That is the evisceration of democracy. You stand that next to the wholesale endorsement of political violence with the pardons given to every single January 6th rioter, including

the most violent who beat police officers over the head with baseball bats. And you can see what he's trying to do here. He is trying to crush his opposition by making them afraid of losing federal funding, by making them afraid of physical violence. And so yes, this is a red alert moment when this entire country has to understand that our democracy is at risk. And for what? The billionaire takeover of government. I'm sure we'll talk about this, but Elon Musk is inside our federal agencies. Over at MSNBC, Jen Psaki was talking to New Jersey Democrat Senator Booker, and he had the same talking point,

constitutional crisis. AMY GOODMAN. But he tweeted last night, or retweeted a message last night, suggesting he should defy court orders. The Democrats, you have been very vocal, but the Democrats are in the minority in the Senate. You mentioned the Republicans have been quiet like crickets. What happens if he defies it? DAVID BOOKEVIC.

Well, then we really do have a constitutional crisis. It's where our separations of powers, our checks and balances, that he starts more and more, we're seeing this, wanting to be autocratic or dictatorial. We see this in other countries. When a executive power starts to overreach their authority, and he is, by the way, doing things that are spelled out as Congress's duties, and then when the courts stop him, how we've settled things from the Reagan administration to the Obama administration, to defy court orders brings about a constitutional crisis. And so what Elon Musk is saying there is that we should not be a nation of three branches of government with checks and balances. We should be an authoritarian dictatorship.

And that should scare everyone because that's when democracies begin to unravel. We must check him. We must hold him up. We must stop them. And we must use every means necessary in a nonviolent way to do what is necessary to stop him from turning our democracy into what

we are seeing in other governments like Russia's. The threat to democracy, which we are not, we are not a democracy, we are a republic, the threat to the constitution comes from this invisible political octopus that has controlled this country for decades and we're now seeing how they've done it. Yes. That's the key thing. What we're seeing in the past three weeks is how they were doing it.

They've pulled the doors open and we've seen the machinery. Right. So what President Trump is doing with rounding up the violent, illegal immigrants, what he's doing there to ship them back is correct. What he's doing to expose the corruption in the agencies like USAID is absolutely correct. Telling federal workers, you've been sitting home for five years, it's time to go to work.

I'm okay, let's get it done. Everything that he's doing is correct. The opposition, and it's not just the Democrats, there's a sizable portion of the Republican Party in Washington that are horrified at Donald Trump being back in power, but they're too cowardly to say it. I'm talking about the Mitch McConnells and so forth. But they all work together, quietly, behind closed doors.

They work together. They're formulating a plan of how to put handcuffs on Donald Trump again how are they going to lock him down maybe they can't physically put him in a prison but how are they going to handcuff him politically that he

can't do anything so doc I I predicted this last fall and I'm going to stand by it we America we're going into martial law I still believe it

I believe it more than I did when I said it months ago back before the election we are going into martial law the Democrats and the whatever you want to call the opposition, because it's not just Democrats, they're going to force him to do it. They're going to force him to do it. Right.

This never-ending lawfare to prevent him from carrying out his agenda. They're going to force him to declare martial law. There are numerous presidential directives signed. I know since the days of John F. Kennedy, probably going back to Harry Truman, giving the president martial law powers during a national emergency. The ability to control everything in the country. I believe that's where we're going. And I believe he will suspend the judges, suspend the Congress, suspend it all.

I believe the news media will come under his control. I believe he's going to exert the most extreme political power we've ever seen in the country since the founding of the country because he will be convinced that there is no way to battle this again, this invisible political octopus that's choking the life out of this country. The blob. The blob. Yes.

Yeah, we'll just call it the blob. That there's no way to fight them other than crush them. And he's got the people on his side. Yes. The public is on his side. The public wants him to clean it up. The public's looking at this stuff saying, it's worse than we thought. Yes. It's worse than we thought.

I saw somewhere on Twitter, somebody was a Democrat or somebody was saying, Trump promised to lower the price of eggs he's been in office that's they're in their line he's been in office three three weeks and eggs are going up and somebody wrote and said i'll gladly pay ten dollars a dozen to watch donald trump tear down this regime and that's the mindset that people have right now if you think i'm going to gripe about the price of eggs when we have a president literally tearing down the deep state yes we are not going to complain about eggs we want him to tear this thing down and notice that all these uh folks on

the left they never have any issue with the corruption and the graft that's been taking place. Only the access to it. No, Doc, they are the corrupt. I know they are. They are the corruption and the graft. It's them. That's it. They're outraged that they've been caught. I mean, it should be $100 million for this, that. No, that's their system. I understand. But that, you see the problem. Their entire system is being exposed and uprooted.

They go out of business if the money stops. Where are they going to get their money? Because average people don't support them. Right. Typical American doesn't support them. Where are they going to get their money? They've been stealing from us for decades. Stealing by going into the treasury and laundering the money into their organizations. And I think one of the things that frustrates me to no end in all of this is there were programs and policies on the books that have been there for decades, that had been shut

down decades ago, but were still receiving funds. Where did the money go? Yes. Great question. Where is the money? Black Ops. I want my money back. Black Ops.

I want my money back. The money flows into Black Operations. You wonder, where do these agencies get this money to do all these nefarious things? This is how. Right. You want to run me down on paying taxes and everything? I want my money back. I want it back.

Oh, we have a – there are grounds for a class action suit. Doc, we ought to be seizing the real estate and the bank accounts of the people involved in these crimes. Are we going to go there? I hope we do. Let's have a massive class action lawsuit and sue against the people who have been stealing the money. Let's take their bank accounts, their real estate, everything that they have. Let's do to them what they did to Rudy Giuliani. Yes. Even taking the man's watches. Strip them bare because they've been stealing for decades.

Give you another example here. Secretary the Veteran Administration Secretary Doug Collins, who I really like. This guy is a Boy Scout, straight as an arrow. But look what he posted on X. Ran across a $178,000 contract the VA had with Politico. Why did the VA have a contract with Politico? For monthly subscriptions. Yes.

This is the money laundering so politico can they can shout in forbes magazine we never received government money no it's it's just subscription that's the way it was structured yes you it's called structuring now the justice department treasury department will go after american citizens for quote structuring payments yes but that's structuring because if the va is spending 170 000 and health and human services is spending 200 000 and you go down yes guess what before you And NIH and this, that, and the other one. Before you know it, millions of dollars in, quote, subscriptions going to Politico. Gee, it would be nice here at True News if we were in on that game. I wish somebody had told me how you play this game. I could have sent invoices for hundreds of thousands of dollars.

I could have came up with a phony subscription plan, $10,000, and you get my newsletter. That's all Politico was doing, $10,000 subscription. And they were raking in millions of dollars from government agencies. And everybody in Washington knew what it was all about. They knew what this was about. It was financing left-wing news organizations. So they just lost that 170. Well, Politico got bought out by the Germans.

Elon Musk responds to Secretary Collins. He goes, wow, I recommend looking at all media and software subscriptions for either full cancellation or reduction. Another one from Elon. NGOs are an oxymoron. Yes. It's obviously an oxymoron to be a government-funded, non-governmental organization. Think about it.

These NGOs, non-governmental organizations... Financed by the government. But they were created to be financed by the government oh let's call them non-governmental organizations nobody will catch on to what we're doing until now okay i want to go back to what I said about we're headed to martial law. I came across a video clip from a well-known and respected black pastor in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Steve Caudill is the senior pastor of Greater Second Missionary Baptist Church in Chattanooga. He's only the fourth pastor in the history of the church. I mean, this is a well-known, established missionary Baptist church in Chattanooga. Right. This isn't Stokely Carmichael.

How many of you remember? I hadn't heard in a long time. That came out of the back of my mind. No, he's got a bachelor's of science in business, master's in theology, doctor of ministry, highly educated man. I want you to hear what he told his congregation yesterday, Sunday.

Let's watch. And in this nation, I'm worried that we are on the verge of bloodshed. This is a an attempt to take us back to a day that we do not want to go and we will not go. Therefore there will be conflict. I pray that the peace of God will win out and overcome the madness that is attempting to take over this nation. And I will say to you beloved no one likes violence but sometimes violence is necessary. When Elon Musk forces his way into the United States Treasury and threatens to steal your personal information and your Social Security check, there is a possibility of violence. Sometimes the devil will act so ugly that you have no other choice but to get violent and fight.

Well, someone might say, now, Reverend, you know you shouldn't be talking about violence. This isn't the Christian thing to do. Well, I will say, why not talk this way? Because Jesus did. Jesus said in this key verse, didn't he? The kingdom of heaven suffers what violence and the who the violent take it by force the kingdom of god is a war zone it is a battlefield you did know this right i would disagree with his interpretation of jesus's words yes i would too he was talking about spiritual violence. And besides that, when he quoted that verse there, the kingdom of heaven is suffering violence and the violent take it by force. The opposition to the kingdom of heaven, they take it by force. That's what it's saying. But nowhere did Jesus say, hey, you need to rise up against the government and fight them.

To get your social security check. Well, first of all, Elon Musk and Donald Trump, they're not cutting off anybody's Social Security check unless you are a non-entity that doesn't have a Social Security number. That's right. You don't need a check, do you? Okay.

So, you know, grandma sitting in the church isn't going to lose her Social Security check. That's just fear-mongering. And I don't know where he got that idea, whether he really believes it. Oh, it's one of the Democrat talking points from last week. Well, Elon Musk is in there. He's going to have access to everybody's Social Security checks and all that information.

Well, the main thing I wanted our audience to see is that you have pastors telling congregations get ready to fight. Yes. Coming from pulpits. Yes, get ready to fight. Folks, we're going into martial law. There's going to be violent resistance to Mr. Trump's agenda. So, I told you weeks ago,

when everybody had the Trump euphoria, I said, this isn't going to last long. Everybody was like, oh, Rick, it's wonderful. We don't have to do anything now. Everything's solved. Donald Trump's in power. How long has it been now? Three weeks?

Going on the fourth week? Yes. And you have a pastor talking about civil war. What do you think they're going to be talking about by summer? Because he's not going to slow down. Yes. It's going to be every day like this. Every day.

Every single day. And if he must do it, Donald Trump is going to declare a national state of emergency. He's going to invoke martial law powers. Right. Okay. That's where I said it last year.

It's coming faster than I expected, but it's coming. While I'm thinking about it, American Reserves, I was just informed this at the beginning of the program, has a special that's starting today. It is buy one protein bucket, you know, meat, beans, whatever,

and get the second one 50% off. One protein bucket, the second one is 50% off. And this is in effect until Februarybruary 17 next sunday next sunday so it's the protein buckets by one the second one is 50 off americanreserves.com um now while the dear pastor was talking about picking up your sword. That's Jesus taught. This is what I found. This is one of those days where I'm like, okay, I'm looking at two different videos. I'm going, now this is odd.

Here's a well-respected Chattanooga pastor saying, pick up your sword and fight for your Social Security check. And then this other video is Elon Musk telling Jordan Peterson, I really respect the doctrines of Christianity. Let's watch. Forgiveness is important. I think it's essential because if you don't forgive, then, you know, as the, I forget who said it, but an eye for an eye makes everyone blind. If you're going to seek vengeance and you have this never-ending cycle of vengeance I'm actually a big believer in the principles of Christianity

I think they're very good. He didn't say he's a believer in Jesus, he said he's a believer in the principles of Christianity. I think they're very good. They didn't say he's a believer in Jesus. He said he's a believer in the principles of Christianity. But that's somebody that's in the right direction. Right. And forgiveness is a good thing. And the pastor's going in the wrong direction. Isn't this odd? Isn't it odd? It's a weird world we're living in, Rick. Very strange. Okay, the one that really blew me away was living in rick very strange okay the one that really blew me away was the half billion dollars to a um basically a fake news organization yes okay once again i had to go to turkey to get the article you can't find anything here there's nothing except things like forbes saying don't believe

the conspiracy theories here's a turkish news agency wiki leaks reveals u.s $472.6 million to promote covert censorship, media control through a NGO, non-governmental organization that existed on government money. This is the big mind blower for me. I was just shocked and stunned. I couldn't stop reading this over the weekend as more came out. It's called Internews. Have you ever heard of the Internews agency? No.

Doc, it started, what, the 1980s, 90s? Yes. It started as a way to help fund anti-Soviet press outlets. Well, look, there's their global headquarters in arcata california half billion dollars from usaid that's their global headquarters do you believe it and not for a second it's an abandoned building it's empty doc you want to talk about corruption? This is corruption.

But it was a leftist, globalist, Soros-linked organization that was spending your tax money to control organizations like True News and others because they were behind the scenes labeling us as misinformation, disinformation, conspiracy. Oh, Doc, I hope enough comes out that I can sue. I want to sue these people. I want to get back years and years of restitution for what they did to us. I really do. I hope Elon Musk opens up the Twitter files and shows how the government and these organizations were working with Twitter before he owned it to suppress true News and other people, other organizations.

But let's go into this. This is what WikiLeaks said, revealed that the U.S. transferred nearly a half billion dollars through Internews Network, a global media organization suspected of promoting covert censorship and media control now their address which we we just showed you um that's 876 7th street arcata california zip code 95521 we know the address folks the irs and the Internews government contracts list this address as the current registered address, although it was abandoned in 2024. Now, here's where this gets shocking and disgusting internews claims to have worked with 4 291 media outlets producing 4 799 hours of broadcast in one year reaching 778 million people globally it trained over 9,000 reporters in one year and supported social media censorship initiatives. Yes.

Now, USA Spending, which has been revealing a lot of this information along with WikiLeaks, USA Spending data shows that 87% of the funding, equivalent to $415 million, came from USAID in the last 17 years, while an additional $57 million was awarded by the U.S. State Department in that same period. So this was just the boondoggle media organization, Rick, that was pushing out propaganda globally. Almost entirely with U.S. federal money. Now, before last week, do you ever heard of it? Never heard of it in my life. We've been around for a while,

too. It's been 25 years and I've never heard of Internews. But they were able to exist and get half a million dollars of funding. I'm stunned at how deeply embedded they are in the news media. Yes, they're everywhere.

Yeah, let's dig down into this. Well, Internews is led by Jean Bergolt, who reports suggests earns a little over $400,000 a year. Bergolt, a vocal advocate for global advertising exclusion list, has pushed for censoring what she deems disinformation okay stop right there you know what that means she is an advocate for global advertising exclusion list yes that's blacklisting yes you do not boycotting black it's telling companies do not buy ads on these organizations platforms or websites or do not allow them to access your services. Yes. Or buy advertising.

Because we've been turned down over the years. We've been turned down to buy advertising. Yes. You say, what do you mean? We want to buy social media ads. We want to give you money. Yes. And they say no.

We've tried to buy social media ads in the past, and we're told, no, that's okay. We're not interested. Now we know why. Right. And these decisions were made subjectively by Internews. Critics argued this amounts to subjective censorship as her definitions of good or bad content remain contentious. Social media users labeled the U.S. government supporting the organization as a literal state propaganda network. That's exactly what it was.

It had ties to George Soros' Open Society Foundation. Back in 1994, during the siege of Sarajevo, Internews partnered with Soros to establish the Balkan Media Network, connecting independent media organizations in the former Yugoslavia. WikiLeaks' revelation included key figures linked to Internews, such as Richard Kessler, a Democratic donor, Simone Otis Cox, wife of NVIDIA billionaire Trench Cox. In 2023, Gene Bergot launched a $10 million fund at the Clinton Global Initiative, supported by Hillary Clinton. And critics highlight Internew's opaque operations, including, listen to this, folks.

This should tell you all you need to know about Internews. They have six subsidiaries, one based in the Cayman Islands, a major offshore financial center, and its main building address listed as that abandoned building in california so they were funneling all i would say that their headquarters is cayman islands yes where the money is there was a 7.6 magnitude earthquake off the coast of caymans today and they had tsunami warnings for the caribbean including puerto rico they were canceled later 7.6 is big yes and cayman islands it's flat that's like living on a pancake you you don't have a mountain to run to it's just like living on a lily pad in the ocean on number 29 usad aid funded massive news platform extending censorship

industrial complex uh to billions worldwide this is uh this is the uh zero hedge article and it's it's going into the same uh details that we've been talking about i'm going to give you an example i found this online this is a from new zealand an organization called stop press group m new zealand launches back to news program to support responsible journalism okay sounds good so i read down through this it's just this is what, October 3rd, 2023. Yes. It's a New Zealand news article. The group MNZ, New Zealand.

It's a media group. They launched a back to news program. And it got a local newspaper article. Isn't that wonderful? Yes. It'd be great for news outlets to get back to news. Until you read way down in the article, and it says, Group M New Zealand is introducing Back to News, an industry-first program aimed at enabling brands to support quality journalism by reallocating media budgets to credible news publishers.

Group M is working with Internews, the world's largest media support nonprofit. But it's not. It's a government-funded operation. They don't have any money of their own. Cut off the federal government. Internews is out of business. That's right. Back to News is underpinned by Internews' Ads for News initiative, founded in collaboration with the

World Economic Forum and the World Association of News Publishers. Ads for News helps brands and agencies reach engaged news audiences on more than 12,000 trusted news websites. In more than 50 countries.

See, we're not trusted. They list us as not trusted. So we don't get any ad money because we're not on that list. It's a club, Doc. It's a club. You're not in it.

You know, when I saw this article earlier and I was trying to figure out what Internews was doing here, were they placing ads on behalf of brands across news outlets? Is that what I'm hearing? I think that's, yes. They were operating as an agency? As an agency. They were doing all kinds of work. Where's that money? Who knows? It was government money. If there's ads, people were paying for the ads, right? It was government money. It was all financed with government money. U.S. government money. money see i have a right to sue if if true news was harmed by these people because i'm a citizen my money was used and our organization was suppressed i'm really serious

about this i want to find out how did they harm us i've been waiting on this day that the stuff comes out we went through hell for years by these various outfits that were trying to crush us. And we survived. Why did we survive? Because Jesus Christ sustains us. Now, I went to Internews' website. There's their main page. We'll go through a couple pages. We're down there. We're in the trenches. We're at war zones and stuff like that. Those are the countries they're

operating in. 50 plus countries around the world. And the Green Dots are some of the regional headquarters around the world. I wonder why Canada doesn't allow them in. Then we have their history.

You see, it started in 1982? Yes. Doc, how did we not know about these people? It was a well-known secret among the elite. Right. Now, if you look at that September 1982 listing there, this is the one that fascinated me. They started out, Internews creates the first space bridge, a two-way satellite link-up between Soviet youth in Moscow and Americans. Our production error culminates with capital-to-capital linking the U.S. Congress via

satellite with deputies in the Supreme Soviet on ABC News and throughout the Soviet Union. The series earns Inter News and Emmy Awards. They started out with that, this exchange of propaganda, which that's exactly what it was. So it was always propaganda. Right. But afterwards, they shifted their focus. Instead of doing the two major powers, they decide to spread the love out

to a whole bunch of other organizations. Including our country. Yes. Here's the Wikipedia page for Internews. Now, look at the funding per year. 2001, they had 17 million, almost 17.4 million. 14.2 came from the U.S. government.

Yes. Same thing, 2002. Income, 19.1. Government funding, 15 million. Hey, scroll down. Let's go all the way down to the most recent years. You see the numbers are getting bigger and bigger. Look at this.

They never get smaller. Look at this. 2023, their budget was almost $124 million, and $94 million of it came from the U.S. government, from your tax dollars. Where did the other money come from? Well, Bill Gates. Yes. Bill Gates, AOL, Time Warner, Beagle Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. They covered the small gap.

But the U.S. government paid for all of it. Basically 90% of it. Now here's what I found interesting today. I went to their board of directors. Nothing's there. We are not able to find that exact URL. What happened? They took it down. They took down everything. You can't see their board of directors but i have i found it on my own so let's take a look the first one is david hoffman he's the

founder yes his page is up on wikipedia that's the guy that founded it in something like 1982. He's called the Ted Turner of Nonprofits. So he's the man behind. He's on the board of directors. He's been on the board of directors since the beginning. The next one. But if you go on LinkedIn to try to find him.

There's his LinkedIn page. Page not found. And this has been a recent event. Yeah, like in the past couple of days. These people are stripping everything off their websites. Oh, yes. You know what they're concerned about? I mean, look at what happened to the pharmaceutical guy.

Yes. guy yes so they're stripping their information off of uh websites that have the board of director members because they're afraid now of what kind of reaction people are going to uh respond so the next one is um the current president ceo gene bergalt again there's nothing on the website, but I did find this. Internews launches new $10 million fund supporting independent media at the 2023 Clinton Global Initiative. And that's her standing there. And that's actually a screenshot from the site before they took this down, too. Yes, that's right. We were able to get that one. Well, who is Gene Burkow?

Do you know what website I found that one at? World Economic Forum. World Economic Forum. Klaus Schwab's WEF. And she's tightly connected with the World Economic Forum. Yes. Next one is uh chris boskin and she's at the university of california in berkeley uh simone otis cox that's her at at human uh rights watch

and didn't you say she's the one who's married to the to the navidia yes founder um let's see our next one is uh anja manuel and she is uh she's as deep state as you can get um co-founder principal along with condoleezza rice yes former national security advisor steven hadley former secretary of defense robert gates they formed rice hadley gates manual llc a consulting firm and what were the consulting how to how to get money from the U.S. government. And then there's Christiana Falcone. And there is her World Economic Forum page. Again, you can find it at the Internews website.

Then we have a former Internews board member and former national security advisor Susan Rice. She's no longer on the board, but she was. Well, remember Susan Rice. Oh, one more. Let's see. No, he's not a member of the board or anything. Oh, no. Yeah, the next one.

Yeah, so the next one, I went back to the World Economic Forum, their most recent meeting, and this is Berg Brende. He's the new World Economic Forum president. Oh, this is who took over from Klaus Schwab? Yes. Oh, I didn't know. Yes. Thanks for letting me know because I was wondering. Oh, I see, WEF president.

So he was telling the World Economic Forum, the old world order has collapsed. Yes. They recognize it. They know it. Let's watch. We are meeting at one of the most uncertain geopolitical and geoeconomic moments in generations. Today, we are at an inflection point.

The long-standing international order that existed for the last three decades has receded. We are no between orders. And the next order has not yet taken shape. At this critical moment, we must ensure that the jungle of geopolitics does not grow back. Because we just came out of the hottest year on record. The number and intensity of conflicts around the world have risen sharply. And the possibility of another global health crisis is ever looming. We can only address these challenges and we can only unlock new economic opportunities together.

Because he's got these crises on his calendar. Yes. Okay. I'm 20 minutes over. I'm going to go through this quickly. Maybe some of the most important things will come back tomorrow. President Trump

cut off Joe Biden's access to intelligence material. Basically said, hey, he's got dementia, he has no business holding classified documents. And it's a legitimate argument. Right.

If the guy's just wandering off, he might just wander off with a folder. So he's been cut off. But then a lot of other people, Antony Blinken, former Secretary of State uh he's the one that that uh this is number 48 uh and and leticia james and alvin bragg of new york all lost their security clearances jake sullivan one of them too jake su, the former National Security Advisor. He cannot go into a secure federal building. Not only have they lost access to the documents, they can't go inside secure federal buildings. Yes. They're banned.

And Andrew Wiseman, the prosecutor in the Robert Mueller investigation. You had Eric Chiaramella. He was the whistleblower on the Trump phone call with Zelensky that started the whole impeachment process. His security clearance has been stripped away as well. And so there is a major house cleaning by Donald Trump and these political enemies. Biden's Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco,

who was overseeing the January 6th investigations. It just goes on and on and on. He just wiped them all out. But he wasn't done. He even got down to the Kennedy Center. He fired the board of directors of the Kennedy Center for performing arts and installed himself as the new chairman. Donald Trump is now the chairman. It's good to be king.

Of the Kennedy Center. This is number 49. I've got a brief report from NBC Channel 4, WRC TV in Washington. Major changes are coming to the world of performing arts in the district. As President Donald Trump announced, he's gutting the existing board of trustees at the Kennedy Center and appointing himself chairman. He also indicated he'd be changing programming at the center. News 4's Dominic Moody joins us live now near the Kennedy Center in Northwest D.C. with the very latest on this. Dominic. Yeah, Mauricio, this all started last night following the president's social media post stating his intentions to do away with the

Kennedy Center's leadership. Let's go in and take a look at what he had to say. Check this out. This is his statement that he put out on the social media posts indicating his plans. President Trump says, quote, We are going to make the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. great again. I have decided to immediately terminate multiple individuals from the board of trustees, including the chairman. Now, in response, the Kennedy Center said in part the Kennedy Center is aware of the post made recently by the POTUS on social media. We have received no official communications from the White House regarding changes to our board of trustees. We are aware of members of our board receiving termination notices from the administration. The center says its governance was established by Congress in 1958. The chair

of board of trustees is appointed by the center's board members. The center says there is nothing in their statute that would prevent a new administration from replacing board members. However, this would be the first time such an action has been taken with the Kennedy Center's board. And it's illegal. They can replace the board and it's not statutory that the board members choose the chairman it's just tradition right so mr trump's team they've already researched it but i was just surprised that he's reaching down even to the Kennedy Center. Right. And he said in his post there that it was about the drag shows that were going on.

Well, how about. Oh, this is big. President Trump dismisses boards for military service academies. This is the Board of Visitors. Yes. Just a visit. No, that's just their title. Okay.

What they do is they're like the advisory board for the various military academies. Okay. And they're the ones that will recommend candidates. Oh, I see. You know, things like that to, you know, if let's say you had a son or daughter who wanted to go to West Point or something like that. I thought it was the committee running the welcome office. No, no, it wasn't the ushers or anything like that. No, these were, if you will, the – in fact, it's more than an advisory board. These are kind of like governing boards for the military academies.

Well, what the Trump administration is doing, they're figuring out where are we getting all these woke generals at? Well, they're coming out of the academies. So we're going to change that too. We're going to appoint people that are pro-military, that are pro-let's kill people. That's what the military should do instead of promoting DEI. But to do that across all the academies, Rick, air force navy coast guard this really is a cultural revolution yes it's a cultural counter-revolution because the the far left agenda was that was the cultural revolution so this is the counter-revolution that taking place. President Trump was on flight talking, oh, this is when

the pilot of Air Force One announced, we are flying over the Gulf of Mexico. This is on their way to the Super Bowl. Let's watch. Air Force One is currently in international waters. The first time in history flying over the recently renamed Gulf of America. Please enjoy the flight, and we are now about to head westbound to Super Bowl 59. Wow, he did that well. He's got a good voice. Make America great again, right? That's what we care about. Okay, here we go. So this is a famous pen now.

If his opponents and the politicians in Washington, obviously, they're paying attention to this. What level of support does he have in the heartland of America? If you have any question about it, just watch the reception he received last night when he walked into the Super Bowl. Here it is. Oh, say can you see By the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed At the twilight's last gleaming Broad stripes and bright stars

Through the perilous fight O'er the ramparts we watched They didn't keep the cameras on very long, did they? No, but it was enough to invoke a reaction from the crowd. But when the cameras switched over to Taylor Swift boom she was shocked watch watch the grimace look on her face when the crowd booed her There's a big change, Doc. Yeah. A change. The winds are blowing in another direction, and the politicians know it.

They have to be treacherous and crafty to figure out how to bring him down because they fear the people and they know that the people are solidly behind him right now, that they believe he is uncovering the corruption, he's dismantling the corruption, and the people want it done. And so the people who hate Donald Trump and seriously want to stop him, they have to carefully ponder how are they going to do that without provoking a civil war. Because you've got a pastor talking about, hey, they're coming for my Social Security check. We've got to fight. We've got to fight. People are already talking about it.

We're three weeks, four weeks into the administration, and people are talking about civil war. I'm going to wrap up here, but I, Lee, I'm going to jump down to, I want to go back to 63. And we've looked at some of these headlines. I'm going to go through them very quickly. Tariff war likely to put Canada into recession. The tariffs that Mr. Trump are imposing, which I fully support what he's doing, but I'm just being realistic. Prices are going to go up. Everybody will, all the countries involved will feel the impact.

Okay. If you're in Canada, you're going to have recession because industries are not going to be able to sell products to the United States. In America, we're going to feel the impact of inflation because the products, if we buy them, they're going to be 25% higher. Right. So everything is going to have a major jump. I mean, 25%.

And it's going to take a while for our industry base to be able to make that adjustment. Oh, years. Next one, Financial Times, U.S. metals. Prices soar to big premiums, obviously, what is taking place with the tariffs. Investors know everything's going to cost more. And so they're investing in U.S. metals, U.S. steel, U.S. aluminum. Express, Great Britain. Rachel Reeves, now that's the chancellor. Right, like Secretary of the Treasury. Yeah, like the Treasury Secretary of Great Britain. Rachel Reeves, now that's the Chancellor.

Right, like Secretary of the Treasury. Yeah, like the Treasury Secretary of Great Britain. Issued dire recession warning as slow motion car crash accelerating. That's a pretty serious headline for Great Britain. So we've got Canada. You've got Great Britain.

Bring it back to the United States, CNN. Jobs report shows a hiring slowdown as companies are acting like they're in a recession. Yes. You know what I feel like, Doc? Ronald Reagan's first term,

he got hit with recession. They called it, the Democrats said they blamed it on Reaganomics. Right. But remember, Ronald Reagan came in after Jimmy Carter. Yes. Jimmy Carter's presidency was a disaster. But he came in on the heels of Gerald Ford. Which was a disaster.

And Gerald Ford was after Nixon. And so there was an escalating cascade of economic problems. But this feels like, for me, this feels like the early Reagan days when Reagan was soaring in the polls. Everybody was excited about Ronald Reagan in the White House. But then the recession hit and the Democrats said Reagan wants to take milk from school children. He wants to throw their school lunches in the trash can. I mean, the Democrats in the news media, they were telling the American people,

Reagan's going to starve your children at school. And it got ugly. It got very depressing really fast. Next one, McDonald's. McDonald's U.S. sales drop as customers spend less folks when you see this in the wall street journal that's today right when mcdonald's can't sell a cheeseburger because people don't have the money for a cheeseburger then you know that the middle class is hurting. Right. Now, they were buoyed by their international sales. But not American sales.

But not American. Well, I don't live internationally. I live in America. That's right. And what I'm trying to tell you is we are going into a—it's stagflation. It's stagnation and inflation. That's what we had 1975 to 1990, stagagflation that's the period that we're in right now next one this is a peter schiff um london's gold storage a symptom of global economic anxiety

and i don't have time uh to to go into what p is saying. But he's just saying, folks, pay attention to what's going on with gold. There's something underway. A lot of people are taking their gold out of the London Exchange. Yes. For some reason, people are moving their gold out of the London exchange. They're getting it out. They're bringing it to the United States. But there's a shakiness in Europe.

And remember, you know what we heard at that private dinner, right? Months ago. Remember what the person told us? Yes. The person that worked for the family office said, a lot of wealthy people know that the banks in Europe are very shaky. And I said, well, what are they doing? They said, moving their money into gold. so the point I'm making is that there is something happening in the economy

the Democrats are going to do their best to blame President Trump for it they're going to hang this thing on him and say see what you did you broke the system you went crazy and you broke the system even though they've been living in you went crazy and you broke the system so i am a a strong believer that the inflation cycle is back like we saw in the 70s and the 80s and all the way up to 1990 and for all know, this time it could be worse than it was then. I lived through it. I was a young man.

I was just starting a family. And it was difficult. Ronald Reagan said that inflation is a violent mugger. That's how he described inflation. A violent mugger. That's how he described inflation, a violent mugger. As frightening as an armed robber, as deadly as a hitman.

Because it steals from people. It just takes their income, takes their wealth. So, those who were wise in the 70s and 80s, Doc, when, and I didn't, I wasn't in that class then, of being wise. I was anything but wise.

But when I graduated from high school, which was 1971, gold was $40 an ounce. Wow. Wow. $40 an ounce. And now it's pushing three grand? Yes. Now, the gold did not

go up in value. The dollar went down in value. See, you have to understand it that way. It's not that gold went up. People say, I'll pay more for it. No. You had to pay more for it. You were forced to pay more for it because the value of the dollar went down. But the people back in the 70s and the 80s who knew the value

that knew what inflation was, they were buying gold when it was 40, 50, 60 dollars an ounce. And they had a hedge against inflation it's you don't buy gold to to make wealth you you buy gold to protect your wealth against inflation and we are in a new inflationary cycle i want to encourage you to go to gold co and this folks this is really a serious time to talk to them

i i hope everybody's over the trump euphoria i i knew it was going to fade pretty quickly there was only so many weeks that the the enemies were going to be quiet yes they're they're ready to fight now we're about to go into a new cycle of instability and who knows what what kind of chaos is coming to the society so i i would recommend that you talk to the folks at goldco and just ask some questions about how to invest in precious metals phone number is there 844-960-GOLD our website is truenews4gold.com the qr code is on the screen and you can get a 10 instant match in bonus silver if you qualify if you qualify they'll give you 10 free silver on your purchase so it's a pretty good deal

they also have the 2025 gold and silver kit that they'll send to you free the main thing i want you to call them for is just to ask them questions right just call them be armed with information get information ask them questions educate yourself about precious metals 844-960-GOLD i got so much more i want to talk to you about but we're way way way over time um i got updates on uh the ukraine war some stuff is happening there mr trump wants ukraine's precious metals that's all i'm going to tell you right now he's willing to settle the war as long as he gets the precious metals in Ukraine. We'll talk about it tomorrow.

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Welcome to Morning Manna, and I'm in our new studio. This is the studio I will be using from now on for Morning Manna. Also for the new podcast that's coming up, Remnant Ready. So Remnant Ready is not ready, but the studio is ready for Morning Manna. And this is where I'll be meeting you every day. It's literally in my office. This is a, our team built a studio for me in my office and it looks great and it has a lot of functionality. Um, I wish you could see the screen that I'm using. This is fantastic. Anyhow, we are ready to go. So, Doc, I'm going to start with Romans 4 today.

Okay. Yeah. I figured you would. Yeah, I know we had a couple verses left over from Romans 3, but that was last Thursday. And to me, that's like eating the last part of your sandwich that you had last week. Yeah, just sitting in the refrigerator all week. It's all soggy. I don't

want it. I want to go to the new one, the fresh one, Romans 4. So let's do verses 1 through 8. We'll pray. Gracious Father, our wonderful Father in heaven, Father, we praise you and glorify you and bless you. Father, we are gathered here,

brothers and sisters from many nations. We've come together in virtual reality online in a Bible study to study your word. And we invite your Holy Spirit to take charge of this Bible study and instruct all of us, enlighten us, illuminate us, teach us about the great faith that you have given us through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen. Amen. And so we are in Roman chapter four today, and I'm going to be reading the first eight verses,

give you a chance to get turned to there. I'd just like to remind you, this is the living word. It should always treat it with preciousness and with an anticipation. Read it by faith, folks. Read it by faith. This is God's love letter to you I he wrote had this written just specifically for you and so I want to encourage you that as we read today that you read by faith faith comes by hearing the Bible

says and hearing by the Word of God Romans chapter 4 verses 1 through 8 what shall we say then that Abraham our father as pertaining to the flesh hath found for if abraham were justified by works he hath whereup to glory but not before god for what sayeth the scriptures abraham believed god and it was counted unto him for righteousness. Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of death. But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. Even as David also described the blessedness of a man unto whom God imputed righteousness without work, saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sins are covered.

Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin. Great passage today, Rick. Amen. Praise God. Verse 1, Romans 4.1. What shall we say then that Abraham, our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found? Modern English. What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh? Abraham is universally recognized by both Jews and Christians

as the father of faith. And so his story serves as the primary case for Paul's argument that justification comes through faith, not works. As we know, Abraham holds the central place in Jewish thought as the patriarch whose relationship with God established the nation of Israel. How interesting that Abraham himself was not Jewish. Yes, he was a Gentile. And yet they recognize him as the father of Israel.

So Paul is using this revered figure to demonstrate that righteousness is credited by faith, not by your personal merit. By starting with Abraham, Paul draws a direct connection between Old Testament faith and New Testament justification. Absolutely, yes. So Paul asks a rhetorical question. He's challenging the Jewish assumption

that Abraham's righteousness was the result of his obedience or his observance of rituals. And so by posing this question, Paul is engaging the readers of his letter to Rome. And he's setting the stage to dismantle legalistic interpretations of the law. So this question, what then shall we say? He's setting up the discussion

of whether Abraham was justified by works or by faith. So was justified by works or by faith. So Paul is contrasting the concept of human effort, he's contrasting it with the divine act of grace. Genesis 15, 6 is central Abraham

believed God and it was counted to him for righteousness so this is an Old Testament principle Old Testament concept this isn't something new that all is springing on everybody right now.

This is something that should have been taught the whole time all across Jewish history, but something had happened along the way. Religion. Yes. Religion got in the way.

The Talmud replaced the Torah. Studying the opinions of the rabbis was more important than studying the word of God. It's a slippery slope that people in both Judaism and Christianity can fall into. Yes. But you're right, Doc. It was always part of the scripture. And what we're seeing again is Jesus Christ and the apostles did not introduce some radical new religion.

Jesus didn't abolish the law. He fulfilled the law. Throughout Jesus's earthly ministry, he was always showing the Jews, look, I'm quoting the prophets. I'm not telling you something new. I'm telling you what has always been. You've lost sight of what is true.

And so Paul's doing the same thing. He's pointing out to the Roman Jewish Christians, Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness. It doesn't say Abraham obeyed God, which he did. He obeyed God because he believed God. But his righteousness came from his belief. Abraham's faith, not his works was the basis for his justification Abraham was justified before circumcision yes so justification by faith removes any grounds for boasting that you are super spiritual that you

adhere to all the rules and regulations of religion if you don't have faith then you're just a religious person who's following a lot of rules. Because righteousness is not a human accomplishment. It is a gift of God's grace. You know, from time to time, Doc, I talk to people, and probably if we're honest, we all have these moments somewhere during our walk with God where you, maybe the enemy, maybe Satan is saying to you,

are you sure you're saved? What are you going to do? It happens every Tuesday for me, Greg. What's that? It happens every Tuesday for me. Greg. What's that? Happens every Tuesday for me. Every Tuesday. Are you really saved? I mean, he's always causing you to doubt.

Yes, he is. That's what he does. To doubt God's word. That's what he did with Eve. To doubt God's word. To confuse it. To doubt it. Yes. Because if doubt God's word, to confuse it, to doubt it. Yes.

Because if you believe the word, you are demonstrating trust in what God said. So from time to time, some people, it isn't, some Christians, it's not time to time. They live in this state. But others, all of us from time to time have these moments where you're wondering, am I really saved? Satan is like whispering, what are you going to do when you die and you find out you weren't saved? What are you going to do then? Look, here's the way to deal with this I don't want anybody in this class to ever wonder if you are saved

your salvation is entirely based on your belief and trust in what Jesus Christ did for you at Calvary on the cross. Yes. Same way that Abraham was justified. You're in the same category as Abraham. Faith. It doesn't matter how many mistakes you've made in life. It doesn't matter about the moments you've been weak in your faith. It doesn't matter how many mistakes you've made in life. It doesn't matter about the moments you've been weak in your faith. If you have placed your faith in what Jesus Christ did for you on the cross

at Calvary, that he lived a sinless life, that he took upon himself, your sins and the sins of all mankind. He took upon your past sins, your sins today, your sins tomorrow. He took them upon himself, and God took out wrath on Jesus. God's wrath against your sin was taken out on Jesus Christ. He died.

He was buried. He descended to the place of the dead. He raised himself from the dead. He walked on earth and was seen by many. He ascended to his father. He took his seat at the right hand of his father. He's praying for you right now, interceding for you. And he's coming back in glory in the same body he left.

And he's coming back for you. If you believe that, you are saved. You're saved. Your salvation is based on believing that gospel. So don't ever doubt and worry and think, I made some mistakes. I got weak. I didn't do so well.

It's all covered by Christ. When you die, if God would meet you at the front gate and say, why should I allow you in? You should confidently look at him and say because i believed in jesus yes that's it that's why that's all you got to say i believed in the name of jesus and i was baptized i believe everything you ever said. What else can I do? I'm a sinner. I'm a deplorable sinner.

And I believed in your son. That's why I'm entitled to come in. You mean God allows sinners to enter into, yes yes when they are redeemed in Christ every single person who entered into into heaven after death was a sinner who was saved by faith in God now one person got there because of their good works. If they did, then this, all of this, why are we studying all this? So he said, what then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh? This phrase, according to the flesh, is understood to mean Abraham's natural efforts,

his human achievements to be righteous. Once again, we're emphasizing that righteousness does not come from personal merit or outward religious rituals. So Paul's argument to the Romans rests on this principle that Abraham's righteousness was credited to him through faith, not works. And again, it all hinges on Genesis 15, verse 6. Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness. So there's no grounds for religious boasting. If righteousness is a gift of grace from God, there's no room for personal pride. That's from the Pope down to the lowest person on earth who believes God.

Nobody can boast. So, again, we got it this theme justification isn't entirely an act of grace you got to get that down in your in your soul you got to understand this it eliminates so many problems of of doubt about your, about your standing with God. Sometimes in our walk, we pull back from God and we don't interact with him. We don't have, we reduce our intimate relationship with him because we feel unworthy. We're not happy. We're not content about ourselves.

And so we pull back. And so that can turn into weeks and months. It can go a year or two in your life and what is it what's causing it to happen somehow you got it into your head that your behavior determines your your salvation. Somehow Satan got you to thinking that you're not worthy to be in the presence of God. And none of us are worthy to be in his presence. I mean, that's just the truth. None of us are.

This is what's so marvelous. He brings us into his presence when we aren't entitled. How do we get there? Through faith. Faith. My sins are forgiven. My sins are forgiven. They are washed away by the blood of Christ.

They don't exist. Because my sins don't exist, in God's eyes, I am able to go boldly into his throne room. Amen. Amen. See, if you don't believe that, you either crawl in like a little mouse, or you won't even attempt to go in. Satan does not want you to know who you are

in Christ. He wants you to know who you are in him. When you used to belong to him, he's always trying to get you to think like you still belong to him. he's always trying to get you to think like you still belong to him. No,

I I'm in Christ. I found my real father. Satan's an imposter. He, he kidnapped me at birth, told me he was my father. He was a liar. My father is almighty God.

And I renounced the works of the devil. Amen. Have you ever renounced the works of the devil? It's liberating. Say it out loud. I renounce the works of the devil they have no part in my life Satan hates to hear those words he gets an inferiority complex people were announcing him people that used to follow him and now they're renouncing him

how's it go I renounce Satan I renounce all his works I renounce all his what is it all his allurements I believe in

God the father almighty creator of heaven and earth. So it's not enough just to renounce the works of Satan and his works and his allurements, but also to confess God, the Father Almighty, too. traditional denominations have words for the baptismal candidates to recite before they're baptized. And renouncing the works of the devil is part of it. Paul is showing that Abraham's faith-based justification means that righteousness is available to all, not just to Jews. Abraham wasn't a Jew. God declared him righteous. Abraham was a Gentile.

There was no such thing as Jews and Gentiles. There were no Jews. There were no Israelites. There were no Israelites. Everybody was a Gentile. Everybody, including Abraham. That just goes over the head of a lot of Christian Zionists. They can't even comprehend it.

Faith, not an ethnic or racial or religious identity, defines who is justified. Faith in Christ transcends cultural boundaries. The faith principle applies universally to everyone who places their trust in Jesus Christ. So this doctrine of justification by faith starting with abraham paul is showing that there is a continuity of god's redemptive plan from abraham to christ to you we are justified by our faith in the Son of God.

And so we as believers, we are encouraged to emulate Abraham's trust in God's word. Because faith brings the assurance of righteousness and a right relationship with God. So what about obedience? Well, genuine faith produces a life of obedience and trust it's not my obedience that gives me faith it's my faith that gives me obedience there you go there is obedience. If there's no obedience, there really isn't any faith. Why do I obey God? Because I believe what he said.

I have trust in his word. Jesus said, if you love me, keep my commandments. Verse 2, for if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory, but not before God. Let's see, let's say that in modern English. For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God. That's easier to understand. It's probably why Romans is always difficult for me because I always read it in King James.

I get tripped up by King James. I love it, but I get tripped up by it, Doc. Somebody should publish the Hillbilly Bible. Just tell me the way it is, all right? There's a marketing opportunity there, right? We didn't say thou and art in the mountains so so Paul is setting up a scenario where Abraham if if Abraham were justified by works, he would have reason to boast. But this idea is dismissed because such boasting is not valid before God.

It's a rhetorical approach that Paul is fond of using. So even if your works could impress other people, they don't meet God's standards. Just think about it. If your life's works were acclaimed by the entire world as the greatest that any man or woman has ever accomplished in human history god would look at them and go so what doesn't impress me all right you're still a sinner Think about that There's no way To gain God's approval Through your works

It's faith Without faith It is impossible to please God Why is that? Why is that, Doc? Why is faith the thing that pleases god because that's where god operates god operates in an atmosphere of faith he looks at emptiness and nothingness and says light be he has enough faith in his in his word to know that once he says it, it happens. It says waters divide.

He has no doubt about it. He doesn't question it. He's not going to wonder, well, I hope it divides this time. No, God is faith. I mean, you can't separate God from faith. Just imagine, whatever you say comes to pass. I'm just meditating on that, Doc. I'm just letting that marinate in my mind.

Whatever he says comes to pass and then he said so much he was he became his own word and i you can't even say he became it he always has been In the beginning was the Word, the Word was God. So Paul is redirecting all glory to God's grace. Works are valuable as an evidence of a transformed life, the life of a person who has faith in God. Those works are valuable evidence, but they are the fruit of faith rather than the cause of justification. Are works necessary? Yes, because they're the evidence that you're saved.

If your life has no good works, you got to do some serious soul searching about your standing with God good works simply follow people who are saved they can't help it they just do good works so Paul's argument that Abraham's faith

that Abraham's standing before God was let me say this again Paul's argument is showing us that Abraham's standing before God was determined by faith long before

Abraham performed any religious rituals yes performed any religious rituals. Yes. The phrase before God, that's highlighting that no human works, regardless of how commendable, can achieve righteousness in God's sight.

Human accomplishments may carry weight in the eyes of other people, but they fall short of the perfection required by a holy, sovereign God. Abraham's justification occurred before he was circumcised, which demonstrates that his faith, not the ritual, was the foundation of his righteousness. Yes. Today, many people believe that they are right before God because of a ritual that they fulfilled.

And there's no faith involved. I think we're going to be surprised when Christ comes back to see who's there and who's not there. I think we're going to be surprised by some people that we never thought would be there. And we're going to be surprised not to see people we thought would be there. Because it's all based on faith. Genuine faith Involves complete Reliance on God's promises

That's what we're teaching here That's what Paul's Convey True faith Is complete Reliance on what God has promised. It's not some mystical substance or idea or something that I got to find faith. Faith is completely trusting what God said.

That is settled. You don't wonder about it. If God said it, that's it. He said it. It's true. I'm gonna go to verse 3 for what saith the scripture Abraham believed God and it was counted

unto him for righteousness well that one's an easy King James to understand yes but he goes back and says it's written what saith the scriptures what does the bible say and that should be our first response to any question about faith what does the bible say not what it appears to be not what you feel uh you know not what someone else has told you, but what, what sayeth the scripture? That's, that's it. That's the bottom

line. Any other, you know, book, any other person, any other feeling, goosebump, doesn't matter. What says the scripture? And he makes it very clear. Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness. It was faith that justified Abraham before he did anything. You know, the thousands of people who watch Morning Man each weekday, and it is, it's in the thousands throughout the day, about 350 during the live stream but by the time you get to the end of the day it's in the thousands you're not coming here five days a week for an hour because you just want to know something more than your brother-in-law

you're you're coming to this class because you desire to believe God and you have to know what he said before you can believe him. If you stay in this class for a year or two and you've never changed your level of belief, then you're missing the point of this class. The reason Doc and I are teaching this class five days a week for one hour each day is to increase your trust and faith in God, that believing him just is easy.

Will you just say, that's what he said. End of discussion. I'm not going to think about it anymore. He said this. Yes. When he says, by his stripes, ye are healed, you are healed. You're healed that very moment. Yes.

Doesn't matter what your body looks like. Tell your body doesn't matter what your body looks like tell your body to change do you believe his word do you believe his word I mean think about it Abraham Abraham believed God's promise

said get up leave Haran go to the land I'm going to show you. By faith, he got up and went. He obeyed God. By faith, he believed God. And left his family, left everything that he had a hope for in the future. I don't know, his daddy might have wanted him to be a doctor or something like that who knows but he left all that and went to the place he'd never seen he'd never maybe never even heard stories about before

yet God said go that was it that there was no buts no what ifs no but god you know what about this no he obeyed i think abraham was probably planning to be a sheep veterinarian he'd already had this all figured out he was going to have multiple offices tents where he would travel. No, he gave it up. He gave it up and he obeyed God. Whatever your situation, you find the scripture that applies to your situation and speak by faith, speak the scripture to your situation. You tell that situation, this is what God's word says, I command you to change.

I command you to change. And if you're around folks that are telling you you can't do that, you need to get away from those people. That's right. You don't need that negativity in your life. You need to find some new friends. That's right, because they're not your friend. Right. They're Job's friends. They're not yours. So faith is wholehearted, complete, innocent, childlike faith in God's promises.

See, Jesus took it farther and said, you got to believe like a child. Enter the kingdom like a child. Enter the kingdom like a child. A child doesn't think about whether his father or mother are going to feed him that day. A little girl doesn't wonder whether she's going to have clothing. Mom and dad are going to take care of it. They don't even think about these things. So you have to have the same care of it. They don't even think about these things. So you have to have the same type of faith. It's trust, complete, total, innocent, childlike faith in what God said.

And it requires a deep personal reliance on God's ability and his willingness to fulfill his promises. He loves to fulfill his promises. He's not stingy. He is not stingy. Your father is not stingy. He's generous. He loves to fulfill. Look, you might be saying, well, how come?

Maybe you don't have faith. Maybe you're approaching him without faith. Use faith and see what happens in your situation. Account it as righteousness this this is an accounting term god moves something on his books you go from a debt to hey everything's paid you're over in the righteous column how did that happen by faith i mean there is this accounting god's books balance every day his books are balanced.

You want to be in the righteous column. And the way that you get there and stay there is by faith. I'm going to go down to anything else you want to say about this verse, Doc, before I move on? No, just once again paul's uh injecting accounting terms in to the conversation here uh you know it was counted uh verse four a reward debt uh it's interesting that he uses these accounting terms here as he did back in chapter three so uh that's going to inspire me to do a sermon. God's a CPA, isn't he? That's right.

There will be an accounting. A reckoning. Yes. That's the old term. Got to reckon the books. Got to bring them into perfect alignment. Romans 4, 4. Now to him that worketh is the reward, not reckon of grace, but of debt. Modern English,

now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as debt. So when righteousness is achieved through works, the resulting reward is owed as a legal obligation, not a gracious gift. So the relationship is transactional, like earning wages rather than receiving grace. You don't want to be in that kind of transaction with God. You never want to have a debt. Debt implies entitlement. But grace is freely given.

It's unearned. And these concepts are mutually exclusive. You cannot simultaneously earn righteousness and receive it as a gift. As a matter of fact, Paul says that if you do that, you actually end up going backwards. You actually incur a debt if your reliance is on the righteousness in the flesh. You're actually moving, you're creating a debt. That's a hard concept to come across with. Yes.

Again, it's a warning to these people dabbling in Zionism. Wanting a third temple and the reinstitution of animal sacrifice. You're really playing with fire when you go in that stuff. And aren't those works of the flesh, righteousness, attempts at righteousness? Oh, God would love us a lot more if we had a temple. God would love us a lot more if we were doing sacrifices again. And what concerns me, Rick,

is how hypnotized Christians are over this stuff too. That's what I mean. Because what he said is that God's not enough. Jesus' sacrifice on the cross isn't enough. That the Jews still have to have a way of killing goats and sheeps and cows

to achieve righteousness. When Paul makes it clear here, this is before animal sacrifices. This is before the law. This is before anything came along. It was by faith, always. Abraham didn't have to

sacrifice a sheep to be justified. Yes. So grace emphasizes God's sovereignty in salvation. It's his initiative, not ours. Salvation is not earned.

It is a divine gift, freely bestowed. No strings attached. And justification by grace depends entirely on God's will and authority. Not human works, human entitlement. And grace is available to all who believe. Now that opens the door to a debate, which is not for today. But for those who are, I would say, hyper-Calvinist and very strict on predestination,

they would have you to believe that grace is not available to all who believe. Because I guess they would say the only ones who can believe are the ones God has called to believe. That's a big, that's a monumental argument that's been raging for centuries. Is the gospel available to everybody,

or is it available to everybody whom God has chosen to hear it? You want to wage anything on that, Doc? You want to just skip it and move on? My answer to your question is yes. In my mind, there's no contradiction. Because from God's perspective, he sees all, knows all. He sees the end before the beginning ever began. But from our perspective, you know, from the way we view things.

Doc, you just froze on me there. It would be. I mean, but the thing is that obviously the scripture teaches both. It teaches both. It teaches both. You can't say that God just chooses because that's not the whole argument. The other side is it makes it very clear that we can choose not to follow God, that we can actually abandon our faith, that we can become apostate. Well, the only way you can become apostate is to have once believed. So did God know that you were going to become apostate is to have once believed so did god know that you were going to become apostate in his omniscience maybe but in his grace he still extends that to you

so it's right you know from from us for our perspective uh we have we we must make a choice for the Lord each and every day we have to confess Christ each and every day yesterday I'm writing a new book the second one of the year so the first one I wrote in late December early January that book is being formatted.

That's the book Mega War. So now I'm writing a book about living in your promised land. And so I spent a weekend writing that book. But anyhow, Doc, I took a little, at one point, I needed to take a little break away from it, and I kind of ventured over into, I was looking at the differences in various Baptist churches. How I got there was I got onto a website that had a list of creeds and confessions of faith. And so when I got to the Baptist category,

I noticed various creeds and confessions of faith, even though the Baptists wouldn't call them creeds, but still, it's a creed. We'll just say confession of faith. But what I noticed was, and I knew this before, but I was spending some time yesterday studying it. There are two main groups of Baptists, regardless of denominations, there are two groups.

One is called General Baptist and another is called Particular Baptist. The Particular Baptists are people who believe that God's particular about who he saves. Yes. The General Baptists say God wants everybody saved. Both are Baptists. The Particular Baptists would be strict Calvinists. Yes. the particular Baptist would be strict Calvinists yes the general Baptist are saying hey we're out here to preach the gospel to every

creature so when you're looking at a church to visit or attend you might want to find out where do they stand on that topic because it will tell you a lot about what they believe.

Right. Anyhow, our topic today is being justified by faith. Yes. By faith. Abraham, he chose faith. Did God choose Abraham because of

his faith? I mean, or did Abraham have no choice about it? You know, that's the argument some would make. Obviously, Abraham had a choice. He believed God. The only other choice is not to believe. He had a choice. He had a choice to obey God or disobey God when God called him to leave his

hometown. Right. Every step of the way, God, Abraham had a choice. There was free will. But then you could argue, but God already knew

the choices Abraham made, which is true. But Abraham still had to make those choices. Verse five. But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. Modern English, but to him who doesn't work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly,

his faith is accounted as righteousness. We're staying on the same theme. Paul's not, he's not getting off this horse at all. He's just riding this horse. Works cannot earn justification. Only believe in God's promises grants righteousness. Line after line in chapter four is the same theme. He's just saying it in different words.

Faith is credited as righteousness without the need for human actions. Right. Faith depends on God's power to justify rather than human power to do work. Faith involves trusting God's character, his promises, his grace. Faith is available to everyone. The message resonates throughout the fourth chapter of Romans.

So in this verse, Paul's saying that God justifies the ungodly. The statement that God justifies the ungodly reveals the extraordinary and undeserved nature of grace. Amen. That salvation is not reserved for the righteous, but offered to sinners. So faith is accounted as righteousness, meaning God graciously credits the believer with righteousness that they do not inherently possess. Justification is a legal declaration by God, not the result of your virtue, your morality, your goodness. It's a legal declaration by the judge of mankind you're justified it puts the stamp on your folder justified

it can't go to a higher judge he is the supreme judge right you can't appear where where's he going to go after this when the supreme judge of the universe stamps justified it's done it's sealed you're justified so this verse is talking about the act of justifying sinners that this highlights god's sovereign authority to declare the unworthy righteous. It's his right to do it. Yes. If he wants to do it, he'll do it. It's his right.

No religion can come up with a justification, an argument that he's not entitled to do it. He's entitled to do it because he's God. Right. So he says, I'm going to make sinners righteous. Now, you know, if you had

a courtroom, you know Satan's screaming. You can't do that. And the judge is saying, I just did. Because that's what's taking place. You're going to God when you're a sinner, and you're asking for mercy, and you express belief in his son, and God makes a judicial ruling, sins forgiven, defendant justified, case dismissed. And Satan is screaming, you can't do that. He's a sinner. he's a sinner she's a sinner and god's saying i already did it the court has already decreed that man that woman is innocent and justified and jesus i mean the

devil's yelling but you know what they did doesn Doesn't matter. They expressed belief in my son. That's all I needed to hear. And the court has extended mercy to them. Get out of here, devil. This case is dismissed. You lost another one, counselor. Do you know how many court cases Satan loses every day oh he's relentless to get people cast into prison he's he's a merciless prosecutor but you go before a merciful

judge and the way to trigger the judge's mercy is to say Jesus Hallelujah Jesus and the judge looks over and says what did you just say? I said, Jesus.

Well, that's my son's name. Yes, I know. I believe in him. You believe? Yes. I have faith in him. Well, in that case, what are you doing here in the courtroom?

Justified. Praise God. Is it that simple? Yes. It's that simple. It's that simple. Salvation is that simple. Jesus did the hard work.

He died on the cross. We don't have to do that stuff. All we have to say is that we believe he died on the cross for us. We have to say that we believe he rose from the dead for us.

It's this. Just say it. Believe it. That's why it's called the good news. It's like, hey, this is so amazing.'s called the good news it's like hey this is so amazing this is the greatest news you've ever heard in your life right once you get this down what's that you were living in bad news before yes once you get this down inside of you of how easy salvation is, you do want to run around and tell everybody, hey, I got some great news for you.

You don't have to be a sinner anymore. You don't have to spend eternity in hell. This is awesome. All you have to do is say Jesus. All you have to do is believe in the Son of God. So justification is through faith. But true faith produces a changed life. If there's no changed life, there's no evidence of justification I mean that's just as

simple as that if you're still the same rotten stinking no good sinner you were before you said you got saved and you didn't get saved that's right it will be a change yes in the way you think the way you talk in the way you act there will be a change not perfection but there will be a change let's see if I get down here verse 6 how much time I guess I should you know what I'll pick this up tomorrow I'll start at verse 6 tomorrow

yeah so starting verse 6 now Paul makes the case hey not only Abraham operated in this but King David operated like this too. And we'll be talking about that tomorrow. Amen.

All right, folks. Well, we appreciate you joining us today. We had about 350 people joining us live here on Morning Manna. And, of course, many others will either listen or watch this Bible study lesson later on today and for those we say thank you for joining us and taking time to be patient with us and watch and listening grow in the Lord and we invite you to be here every day 8 a.m. Eastern Time on faith and values calm for the live Bible study and you can also listen to previous editions of morning man as well

if you want to catch up on previous studies we have those available also we are now doing a full synopsis of the lesson every day including all the scriptures that we mentioned and so that way you can take this and you can study it again privately or share it with others if you want to so that way you can take this and you can study it again privately or share it with others if you want to so this gives you some tools to work with to continue to grow in your faith Rick any final words before we sign off

for today how did everybody like it the first day in the new studio everybody I like it it's been a lot more comfortable for me doc well Rick what are we going to do if they don't like it it's been a lot more comfortable for me doc well what are we going to do if they don't like it well i'm going to stay here because this is this has been this has been much more comfortable i really appreciate i, I appreciate our team that built this for me. This is great. This fits.

It just is comfortable. I'm not, my camera's not floating up and down. You know, it's a lot of things that the way I was doing it before, you know. I've come a long way from ducks. Do you miss the ducks? Okay, so. You know, we ought to have a background with ducks and everything too just just so we can say we started this what um so those of you who are new that's a little bit history about morning man it started in july of 2023 with me just sitting on my porch surrounded

by ducks in the yard um and doc at his uh house and this is how we got started. And it has grown into a large online Bible study and continues to grow. And I'm very, very happy, very pleased with it. So I think I'm going to go jump in the water, Doc. I'll catch you later. Okay. All right.

Well, Rick, bless you. Have a great day, folks. Stay tuned later on today for the Godcast. God bless you. We love you. And thank you for joining us for Morning Man. We'll see you Tuesday morning, 8 a.m.