Media Caves to Trump, Bill Gates as Health Coach, and Finding Identity in Christ Ep-2327

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Three Stories version of the Todd Hermer Show.
Story number one, why the Mockingbird media keeps settling suits
with President Trump? Story number two, Bill Gates, I.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Can't even have a straight face.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Bill Gates, Health unfitness influencer. And story number three, what
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Speaker 3 (00:51):
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Speaker 1 (01:14):
Today is the day the Lord has made, and these
are the times through which God has decided we shall
live here's a big question. Why does the mockingbird media
continue to settle suits with President Trump? I mean, they've
got lawyers, They've got tons of lawyers, they've got shareholder
money they could spend, and we're told that these things
stand to destroy journalism as we know it. So why

(01:38):
do they continue to punt? I mean, we can reach
into example after example of the Mockingbird media continuing to
air insane voices about President Trump that they never came
close to airing in regard to the figurehead Biden. They
never questioned the money the Biden family had. They never
really questioned Hunter and why he was continuing to remain free.

(02:00):
They never questioned the deals Biden made were obviously on
behalf of his son. But they'll let people go on
their air like on this and CNN and compare President
Trump's museum agenda to literal fascism after the style of
Benito Mussoliniists.

Speaker 4 (02:18):
Are interested in deploying museums as extensions of propaganda. Remember
in Italy under Mussolini, that's how the museum was projected
to further the notion of Romantica, the romanness we have
in this country. The attempt to extend the tradition of Americana,

(02:39):
a narrow version of what it means to be an American.

Speaker 5 (02:42):
Is it called the Jewish Museum. It's called the Holocaust Museum.
Why because the Holocaust was central to the twentieth century
in defining genocide and its ability to eradicate and eviscerate
entire populations. This is what happened in a Maria, and
what's happening now is that a president extends that fascist

(03:04):
impos impost to use the museum as a footstool for
his personally chosen artifacts of history, as opposed to the independent,
rigorous assessment of what we have in this nation.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
Okay, here's some rigorous assessments. And it took the rapid
response team at the President's at the president's team to
respond to this took him about five minutes. This is
something from the Smithsonian Institute. It's an infographic produced by
the Smithsonian in twenty twenty to educate people on how
the ways of white people and their traditions, attitudes, and
ways of life have been normalized. And what do you

(03:37):
have rugged individualism, family structure, emphasis on scientific method, history,
Protestant work, ethic religion, status, power, time being a time
for meetings. Big A time for meetings is whiteness. Future orientation, aesthetics, holiday, justice, competition, communication,
All of this is whiteness. May I just posit a thought.

(04:00):
Any society that did not value showing up on time
for things.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
Lost every word they ever fought.

Speaker 1 (04:07):
Because if it wasn't your value to show upon time
to fight the war, yell left your other people wanting.
This is what President Trump's talking about here. So why
does the mockingbird media continue to settle with them because
of things like that? Because of behind the scenes. It
has to do with the behind the scenes decisions that
they'd rather pay off. And another media company just did this.

(04:28):
Here's another example. This is from CBS Scotty Mack talking
about the DC crime data. Really really interesting that he
hid some information on the arrest of an illegal immigrant.

Speaker 6 (04:40):
A number of National Guard troops on the streets and
in the neighborhoods of Washington, DC is poised to more
than double the Republican governors. At least a half dozen
states have deployed hundreds more, with West Virginia Governor Patrick
Morrissey saying he wants to help restore cleanliness and safety
in the nation's capital.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
This doesn't make sense.

Speaker 6 (05:00):
You know what doesn't make sense. DC Mayor Muriel Bowser's
is the site of troops policing US citizens on US soil.
Is Unamerican and unwarranted. With violent crime down twenty six
percent this year, the numbers.

Speaker 7 (05:13):
On the ground and the district don't support a thousand
people from other states coming to Washington, d C.

Speaker 6 (05:21):
President Trump touted the second week, it is takeover of
DC police and deployment of hundreds of federal agents.

Speaker 4 (05:27):
People that haven't gone out to dinner in.

Speaker 1 (05:29):
Washington, d C.

Speaker 4 (05:30):
In two years are going out to dinner.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
And they're quoting here.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
They're quoting Meryl Browser, a woman who herself asked to
have the National Guard put under her control so she
could do what President Trump is doing. In that same report,
they hid information about an illegal immigrant, Christian Enrique Caryotaurus,
was detained by officers as the altercation was filmed outside
of Bluestone Lane on fourteenth in Ar Street. So they
can go to this in this other clip. According to

(05:58):
Dan rosenwaig Ziff Report of The Washington Post, who took
a video posted on the social media platform x, the
delivery driver was identified with a different name spelling. Christian
Enrique Carus Toros, a Venezuelan native who entered the US
in twenty twenty three. According to Assistant Secretary of Department
Homeland Security Secretary Tricia McLoughlin, he entered here illegally a
Gloflin centaurus, had a final order of removal from immigration

(06:21):
judge and multiple warrants in Maryland after failing to appear
in court.

Speaker 2 (06:24):
On traffic offenses. See, they are.

Speaker 1 (06:26):
Behind the scenes making decisions to run things like this
to hide the fact that the DC police commander is
under investigation for rigging crime statistics. And now the chief
of the DC Police union, a union sacro sank to
the media and the left a union head is saying,
yes they do. They do manipulate crime statistics. They force

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us to do it. So why does the mocknbird media
continue to run things like this knowing that President Trump
is a guy who's going to sue them over things
like this when they libel him and they end up settling.
There's a big reason for this. It has to do
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CNN's Brian Stelter, who had to take some time.

Speaker 2 (08:13):
Away because his show was failing.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
Brian Selter came back not with the show but as
a commentator, and he wrote this on Twitter just in.
Paramounts has reached an agreement in principle to resolve the
lawsuit filed by President Trump and Representative Jackson in the
Northern District of Texas and a threatened defamation action concerning
a separate sixty minutes report. Paramount says, under the terms
of the settlement, which were proposed by the mediator, paramount

(08:38):
will pay sixteen million dollars in total, which includes plaintiffs fees, costs,
and except for fees. Except for fees and costs will
be allocated to the future Presidential Library, just like the
ABC deal.

Speaker 3 (08:50):
Now.

Speaker 1 (08:51):
Stelter has warned that this creates a chill in the
media environment. It's going to top people from saying things
out loud. Here's a little bit of an inside look
at this. The judge set a trial date for September
twenty twenty six, guaranteeing at least another year of distraction
and wide ranging discovery. Remember that phrase, wide ranging discovery,
allowing mister Trump's lawyers to investigate the inner workings of

(09:13):
CBS News. The red Stones, the family that owns CBS effectively,
The red Stones, also worried that mister Trump's lawyers could
sherry pick raw footage and internal communication and do more
damage to CBS News's reputation than any settlement would. Miss
Redstone said CBS person had told her that in October
twenty twenty three, when Scott Pelley of sixty Minutes interviewed

(09:35):
President Joseph R. Biden Junior, the President had seemed drowsy
and seemed to be had to be prodded to answer.
She entirely worried that CBS might be accused of editing
the interview to conceal mister Biden's failings. They concealed his failings.
The figure had had to be prodded to answer. Can

(09:57):
you picture this, mister presid Did you hear the question?
Mister president? Did you hear the question? The reason they
are settling these lawsuits is it's not just the raw
footage they would get. They would get email correspondence they
would get behind the scenes direct messages on social media,
they could track the money. Who is paying them to

(10:21):
do this? Or is it simply just their ideological hatred
of anything populous or conservative? The media continues to settle
because of that phrase wide ranging discovery.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
This is one of the reasons.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
Why I hope that people and organizations will sue the
media for their role in promoting ineffective and harmful medicines
or let's say, you know, a certain shot, because in
a wide ranging discovery, I think you'd find out that
pharmer companies have been saying in the background, we're going
to need you to not run reports like this.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
We're going to need you to bury.

Speaker 1 (10:59):
Things like that.

Speaker 2 (11:00):
Did they put stuff like that?

Speaker 1 (11:01):
And writing sure? Because no one ever is held to account.
They're not afraid of being held to account because no
one ever is. So the mockingbird media continues to clown
itself and continues to destroy any belief in journalism. This
is from MSNBC, which is rebanding itself to ms NOW,
and what that means is ms NOW is recognition that

(11:22):
the MSNBC brand is so utterly destroyed that it cannot
possibly ever come back.

Speaker 2 (11:27):
Otherwise, they try to at least have.

Speaker 1 (11:29):
It recognizably tied to MSNBC, such as MSNB now, but
they don't. They want it just to be now from MSNBC.
Joy Reid went on a racist rant talking about white
people stealing what.

Speaker 7 (11:44):
Joy Reid Donald Trump, He said himself he could never
get a Kennedy Center honor unworthy, but he can get
one now. He can steal one because he owns a
Kennedy Center. They can't fix the history they did. Their
ancestors made this country into a slave a slave hell.
But they can clean it up now because they got

(12:06):
the Smithsonian. They can get rid of all the slavery stuff.
They got, prager you that can lie about the history
to the children. They can't originally invent anything more than
they ever were able to invent good music. We black
folk gave y'all country music, hip hop, R and B, jazz,
rock and roll. They couldn't even invent that, But they
have to call a white.

Speaker 1 (12:24):
Man the king got it, so they invented this black
people did how. The African musical scale has either five
notes pentatonic or seven notes heptatonic within an octave. European
musical structure has twelve What is the structure of rock

(12:47):
roll music? It's based upon the European courts structure. How
do white people steal that?

Speaker 2 (12:53):
That's the European scale.

Speaker 1 (12:54):
And it was definishly difficult for me to go prove
this the chromatic scale of European music. It was devilishly difficult.
It took me almost six seconds to do both searches
on Google and their AI answered this. So Joy reads
when she says things like this, Maybe she's not counting

(13:15):
on people like me knowing this from memory, because my
dear friend is a great music theorist and taught me
these things. But she also avoids something else here, and
that is this the beauty of what happened the European
scale combined with African sensibilities. Yes, it helped create things
like jazz, which helped create things like country and rock, absolutely,

(13:37):
but it couldn't have happened without the chromatic scale. It
was a joining together of things of beauty that God
planted in all of us. Joy Reid is so bent, ideologically,
so driven by hatred, that she's willing to pretend that
African Americans are the only people who had anything to do.

Speaker 2 (13:56):
With modern music. If you were to go.

Speaker 1 (13:58):
Behind the scenes as you would in a lot suit,
which is why these people continue to settle with President Trump,
imagine what other hatred you would find and what other
intents you'd find. I think you'd find them saying right
out loud, we need to twist his story to hurt Trump.
More Story number two, Bill Gates colon Health and Fitness Influencer.

(14:23):
Would it surprise you if Bill Gates has decided that
he is an influencer on health and fitness and nutrition
and tasty, tasty foods. There's something in what's called endorsement
advertising that is called lifestyle alignment. So in endorsement advertising,
you need to be someone who is believable in terms

(14:45):
of what you promote.

Speaker 2 (14:47):
So years ago, there.

Speaker 1 (14:49):
Was this there's this ad that went around a Ben
Shapiro promoting Creates. And I used to make fun of
this because Ben is not a guy that I turned
to as a fitness influencer, because he is not fit,
skinny dude, all that.

Speaker 2 (15:02):
And so I used to laugh at these ads.

Speaker 1 (15:04):
And we're just looking up these ads and actually, you
know what, Ben's done some work on this. I actually
looked at some things and said, Hey, you know what,
Ben's kind of legit working on this, so maybe he's
become now someone who's lifestyle aligned to this brand of
creataty promotes great for Ben, and maybe that advertiser had
something to do with that. So hey, I can't I
can't fault Ben. Look a good Ben. In lifestyle alignment,

(15:26):
you want to be able to be believable. So for instance,
I use the product we promote here. I'll talk about
one here in a second. But does Bill Gates strike
you as a guy he who would turn to for
advice on what to put in your body?

Speaker 3 (15:42):
Now?

Speaker 1 (15:42):
I don't body shame, I really don't. The other day
I met say, a longtime listener of our radio programs
and now viewers of the podcast, and I just we're
sitting in a in a social group and I just
made mention of wanting to go on a hike. And
dear friend of mine I hike with sometimes, he and
I are equally committed to fitness, and this brother, you know,

(16:03):
I was asking about going on this hike or going
on a hike sometime. I said that would not be
the hike to start with. That's a pretty pretty pretty
difficult hike. And I feel sad because my friend felt
like I was body shaming him not doing that.

Speaker 2 (16:16):
But Bill Gates, Yeah, I'll body shame them all day.

Speaker 1 (16:20):
And the reason I want body shame Bill Gates all
day is he has all the money in the world
that he doesn't need to look that way. He doesn't
need to be this sick. He doesn't need to be
skinny fat. Skinny fat means that you're hiding all this
fat inside your body.

Speaker 2 (16:31):
That he has.

Speaker 1 (16:32):
Skinny arms, which you see that guts.

Speaker 2 (16:33):
And I will body.

Speaker 1 (16:34):
Shame him to the ends of the earth for a
very specific reason, because Bill Gates body shames us for
a living. He body shames what we eat, he body
shames the outcome of it, and he body shames us
to the degree of working with big companies to force
us to inject code into our bodies. So yeah, all

(16:55):
body sham Bill Gates. He recently did a video trying
to promote something in the way of nutrition. You will
not believe this, And if you do believe it, then hey,
you know what, I might as well sell you a
line of ladies' leggings that I wear because it would
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Speaker 2 (18:28):
So here's Bill.

Speaker 1 (18:28):
Gates Fitness, Health, nutrition and yummy yummy food influence.

Speaker 8 (18:34):
Favors made advance in the chemistry.

Speaker 4 (18:38):
It's ultra different in terms of the environmental footprint.

Speaker 8 (18:42):
Spot it says good.

Speaker 1 (18:43):
I think the music adds to this. I think it
adds to the believability. Is very much lifestyle aligned and
doesn't this look yummy with Bill in his pink sweater
and skinny fat as he is probably thirty nine percent
maybe forty five percent body fats.

Speaker 4 (18:56):
Those real animal facts.

Speaker 9 (18:58):
At Saver, we've been really excited to explore a new
technical approach to making food.

Speaker 2 (19:03):
That's what I want.

Speaker 1 (19:04):
I want a technical approach because that technical approach works
so well in the injections. That's what I want. That
looks like a yummy, yummy.

Speaker 9 (19:11):
Plastic does not require vast amounts of land or animal suffering.
It doesn't, you know, produce greenhouse gas.

Speaker 1 (19:18):
Okay, just so we're all aware of this Please remember
that when you are harvesting grain, you are killing a
huge number of animals.

Speaker 2 (19:25):
Mice, rats, moles, voles, bulks.

Speaker 9 (19:28):
It's a totally non agricultural method for producing food. The
fats the saber makes are made by a thermochemical process.

Speaker 10 (19:37):
Is very special and it speaks very well our technology
because it's hard to replicate anymore. But it has a
very complex composition when it counts a fay acids, I
wouldn't have.

Speaker 4 (19:48):
Been able to tell you that.

Speaker 1 (19:53):
I wouldn't have been able to tell you that I'm
a skinny, fat man who shouldn't be giving anybody nutritial
or this God himself designed us to eat plants and
animals as he created.

Speaker 11 (20:10):
Yes, in the garden, we didn't need animals. After the fall,
we had to Bill Gates. You're not a fitness influencer
and you are not smarter than God Almighty. Sorry to
tell you story number three. What does it mean to
have a Christian identity?

Speaker 2 (20:27):
You probably heard the phrase.

Speaker 1 (20:30):
Christian worldview or kingdom view, and if you're not Christian,
maybe you haven't yet, but you have now. And so
let me give just a quick example of what it
is to have a kingdom view. So kingdom view of
the world is that you are viewing your daily existence
as something of a visit, that we are visitors to
the earth in this state.

Speaker 2 (20:51):
We don't live here.

Speaker 1 (20:53):
Christians are the exiled elect so as we're here, we're visitors,
knowing that our true home is going to be with
Jesus Christ and his kingdom and the new Heaven and
new Earth. So we take a little bit different view
of things. So, for instance, the classic circumstance that people
will see and describe and sometimes used to question the

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Christian faith will go along these lines. So there's a
car crash, and this car crash takes the lives of
two adults, two good parents, and a little baby six
months old who hasn't sins because he can't And how
does it just God let that go by?

Speaker 2 (21:32):
How is there any justice in this?

Speaker 1 (21:34):
So a worldview look at this and go, you're right.
I mean that baby has only six months and is
gone and we'll never have a chance at life.

Speaker 2 (21:43):
And that's a worldview.

Speaker 1 (21:45):
A kingdom view in this scenario is, well, what was
the spiritual state of the people. Did the adults know
the Lord Jesus? If they did, then we would assume
that the baby knew the Lord Jesus, and at this
age of six months, God's justice is perfect, his love
is perfect. A six month old baby hasn't sinned. And
there is no indication that a six month old baby,

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having never sinned, because how could he, he couldn't conceive
of sin, wouldn't in fact be brought into the Kingdom
of heaven. That's a kingdom view. A kingdom view also
is associated with let's say a what evangelicals and evangelicals
speak oddly. If I ever come to you and say,
let's dialogue, I want you to pick up a heavy
object and slam me like five times in the face

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so that I can't stand that phrase, let's dialogue.

Speaker 2 (22:31):
How about just let's talk.

Speaker 1 (22:33):
But we talk about seasons in life, and part of
this is biblical. For every time in life, there's a
season for things in life. There's the seasons of plenty,
there's seasons of little, there's a time to die, there's
a time to laugh, et cetera. So in a tough season,
people with faith in Christ can look at this and say,
let's compare this tough season, and maybe that season's been

(22:53):
four years and it can be very, very difficult, But
compare it to.

Speaker 2 (22:58):
Four trillion years.

Speaker 1 (23:00):
So the reward for which we weigh to heaven allows
the current trials for which we go through in service
of building the Kingdom of God to be something we
look forward to looking back at as mere blinks of
an eye. But that's a kingdom view, or an internal
view versus a world of view. But what does it
mean to have a Christian identity? We live in a

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world of identity crisis, some of it created on purpose.
When your identity is the single smallest factor about you, man,
that's risky, that shrill. It's like this, building a business
based upon selling I don't know, five hour energy.

Speaker 2 (23:41):
What do you do. We're a retail store. What do
you sell? Five hour energy? That's it? Yeah, that's it.
So you don't sell.

Speaker 1 (23:50):
Diet coke nope, coffee nope, gas nope. So you're counting
on people coming in bringing you enough business to sustain
yourself and your family's income based upon selling five hour energy. Yeah,
that doesn't seem.

Speaker 2 (24:06):
Like a very good plan.

Speaker 1 (24:08):
Likewise, if your identity is black, tell me about yourself
while I'm black or while I'm white, that seems pretty
risky because it's a pretty slim portion of who you are,
and in that way, it seems.

Speaker 2 (24:23):
Pretty breakable and pretty shrill.

Speaker 1 (24:24):
Tell me about yourself, Well, I'm a gay man, okay,
so your same sex attracted. That seems like a pretty
small basis to run your whole personality. And it seems
like a pretty tenuous base. I mean, if you think
of our identities.

Speaker 2 (24:41):
As a structure.

Speaker 1 (24:42):
Okay, so a structure that is firm. You want it
to be as unshakable as possible. You want it to
be as real as possible. You want it to be
as predictable as possible, as as stout as possible. A structure, right,
you don't want it to lean over. You don't want
it to move with the wind. If you're things is
based upon or the shriller, the skinnier, the smaller, the

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more likely it is.

Speaker 2 (25:05):
To tip over.

Speaker 1 (25:07):
So, for instance, if you say to someone, hey, who
are you? Well, you know what, I'm a lesbian. Oh okay, well,
then that defines your entire existence. Are you a daughter?
Do you create art? Do you have a business? Do
you have any interest in fiction or nonfiction books? Is
there netfixers you like? Are the particular myths structures you

(25:27):
enjoy what was your family unit like growing up. If
you expand that, not only does the identity become less shrill,
it also gives us more opportunities to connect. There's things
that we might have in common because I'm not same
sex attracted and most people aren't. But man, I've got
brothers and sisters, and I have a background, and I've
got myths in our family, and i have things that
I like in fiction and nonfiction and music, et cetera.

Speaker 2 (25:50):
So we build a stronger base.

Speaker 1 (25:52):
But that's an identity in the temporal reign. What does
it mean to have a Christian identity? Well, we can
look at this in multiple ways, but I wanted to
take two men.

Speaker 2 (26:03):
Side by side because it's a bit of a.

Speaker 1 (26:05):
Good news bad news scenario. One guy has an identity
you know about. Bruce Willis is a guy most people
have heard of. He has an established identity. If you
were to ask somebody, hey, who's Bruce Willis, they might say, oh,
you mean the actor? Oh yeah, no, No, Bruce Willis is
really famous.

Speaker 2 (26:21):
He was in that.

Speaker 1 (26:21):
Christmas movie Diehard, which is in fact not a Christmas movie.
That people like to treat it that way. You probably
haven't heard of a guy named Jim Blum. Now, Jim
Blum could have an identity. It could be this, I'm
a convict or, I'm an ex con That could be
his identity, and there are people who identify that way.
People who've been institutionalized for a long period of time

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grow to see themselves as I'm a convict, I'm a prisoner.
I happen to like the fact that certain prison structures
do not use the phrase prisoner, they use inmate, etc.
Because it seems more temporary to me. Because words matter
when you're identities. I don't want to put in the
minds of people that you are a prisoner, you're a convicts,

(27:05):
you're an inmate.

Speaker 2 (27:06):
Don't go so far as to say guests, because guest
means you can leave.

Speaker 1 (27:10):
They're not guests. Jim Blum served twenty years behind bars.
I wager that he has a new identity because he
helped create a group called My Father's House. He spoke
on Chris Stephanic's show about this change and who he
is and his time in prison. This is Jim Blum
Christophonics show is available on Twitter. And he's a good

(27:33):
firm Christian Catholic.

Speaker 8 (27:35):
I will tell you the last facility I was in,
there were fifteen hundred men in that facility, and there
were about fifty other men in the prison that I
would see in the visiting room regularly, and the other
fourteen hundred and fifty never got a visit. Nobody never
got a letter, never made a telephone call, had no
contact with anybody. And when they get out, there's nobody
waiting at the gate, and there's nobody that's going to

(27:56):
help them. And so my father's house to be this place. Yeah,
So I mean right, it's John fourteen to two in
my father's house and many rooms.

Speaker 3 (28:05):
I'm beautiful if it were not.

Speaker 8 (28:06):
So what I have told you that I go to
prepare a place for you, and that's what we're doing.
We're preparing a place for these men. It's a physical place,
a building with a room for this guy. But more
than that, it's a spiritual place. It's an emotional place.
It's a place made out of relationships where the man
can experience community for the first time in a healthy way.

Speaker 1 (28:27):
So Jim Blum could say I'm an ex convict, what
he appears to be saying is I'm a servant of Jesus,
I'm a servants. I'm following the Lord's words, and he
mentioned John chapter fourteen versus twesday three. My father's house
is many rooms. If that were not so, what I've
told you that I'm going there to prepare a place
for you. And if I go and prepare a place

(28:47):
for you, I will come back and take you to
be with me that you may also be where I am.
Part of a Christian identity is understanding where you are
ultimately going to exist forever, tied to a kingdom worldview.
So we are eternal beings. We do not end. We
exist forever. That's part of our identity. Now that takes

(29:10):
that base, and that makes it a pretty solid base.
It's no longer temporal. You are who you're going to
be forever, and you can be changed. If you accept
a Christian worldview, you accept some other things. If you
accept a Christian identity, you accept that you need to

(29:31):
shed an identity. There's an identity that can be a
pre Christian identity. That pre Christian identity means I do me,
you do you. It means I'm responsible for myself and
all my decisions. It means that I need to run
the world or my world, my affairs based upon my
wisdom to things I observe. I might ask some friends,

(29:52):
but there's no basis from which I can make decisions.
Being a Christian with a Christian identity means we are
servants of a king, and he is the wisest king,
and that wise king has given us rules and directions
on how to run our lives and how we relate
with one another, and how we relate with him. A

(30:15):
Christian identity means there are things that others can do
and I cannot. Others may be able to go and
cheat and steal and feel okay about it. I cannot.
If I cheat, the Holy Spirit convicts me, and I
feel remorse. And when you do that, you feel this
remorse and you go and ask for repentance. God gives
us to you. And also inherent in that is this

(30:37):
message to not sin again. So part of being a
Christian identity as well is understanding the people around you
that you are not disconnected from them. That God made
all of us.

Speaker 2 (30:47):
It is image.

Speaker 1 (30:47):
He loves all of us, whether or not they're members
of the body of Christ.

Speaker 2 (30:50):
This is again, this is.

Speaker 1 (30:51):
Jim Blum talking some more about his experience and why
he has created My Father's House.

Speaker 8 (30:56):
I was in a jail cell at one point with
a young man who was facing trial, and they were
offering him a plea bargain for probation, and he didn't
want to take it, and I said, why would you
not take this plea bargain? Why would you? Why do
you want to go to prison? And he said, all
my friends are in prison. That's where everybody I know
is Wow, there's nobody I know out on the streets.
It was crazy, and it's a whole different way of thinking.

(31:18):
Everybody wants to be successful, but they don't know how
to get there, and so they don't know what to do,
and so they're not really seeking rehabilitation because they don't know.
They don't know what that means, and they don't know
what it looks like.

Speaker 1 (31:31):
So you could take Jim Blum's identity that could have
been ex con and you'd see this identity.

Speaker 2 (31:37):
Now, who is he?

Speaker 1 (31:37):
He's a guy who's making room.

Speaker 2 (31:39):
For God's children.

Speaker 1 (31:41):
He's making sure that sometimes the people who think of
as a lease of these people getting out of prison
in fact have a home. In James Chapter two, verses
fourteen or fourteen through twenty six, we read about faith
and deeds. Sometimes people view this as a works based salvation,
and sometimes it's structured that way in people's minds.

Speaker 2 (31:59):
What good is it? My brothers and sisters?

Speaker 1 (32:01):
As someone claims to have faith but also has no deeds,
can such faith save them? Suppose a brother a sister
is without clothes and daily food. If one of you
says to them, go in peace, keep warm and well fed,
but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it?
In the same way, faith by itself is not accomplished
by action is dead. But someone will say, you have faith,

(32:22):
I have deeds. Show me your faith without deeds, and
I will show you my faith in by my deeds.
You believe there is one God and even good. Even
the demons believe that, and they shudder, You, foolish person.
Do you want evidence that faith without deeds is un
is useless?

Speaker 5 (32:39):
Was not?

Speaker 1 (32:39):
Our father Abraham considered righteous for what he did when
he offered his son Isaac on the altar. You see
that his faith and his actions were working together, and
his face was made complete by what he did, and
the scripture was fulfilled. That says Abraham believed God, and
it was credited to him as righteousness, and he was
called God's friend. You see that a person is considered
righteous by what they do do then not by faith alone.

(33:02):
In the same way, was not even Rahab the prostitute,
considered righteous for what she did when she gave lodging
to the spies and sent them off in a different direction.

Speaker 2 (33:11):
As the body.

Speaker 1 (33:12):
Without spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.
You can read this as works based salvation and part
of a Christian is discerned in this. I read this
as James saying the true belief in Christ, the true
acceptance of Jesus. Becoming truly someone of the Christian identity
means you've accepted not just the salvation you get as

(33:34):
a free gift from the Lord Jesus because we cannot
earn it, and its belief in Christ's acceptance is Christ
that saves us. The fruits of that are the works
that we are compelled to do. Because as a Christian
with a Christian identity, we seek to please Father God.
We seek to become more like Jesus. We can't change ourselves,
but the Holy Spirit can. A Christian identity means that

(33:57):
we know we're in need of sanctification, to be cleansed
of our sins, to be cleansing the blood of Christ,
a cleansing we cannot do on our own.

Speaker 2 (34:07):
It requires the blood of Christ. It requires the.

Speaker 1 (34:10):
Sanctification, and we are in a progress of progressive sanctification.
Because we will never be exactly like Jesus, we can
work towards it. Part of a Christian identity is accepting
that that we will be changed from within by the
Holy Spirit that we want that. I want to compare
Jim Blum to Bruce willis a man with an identity

(34:32):
you certainly recognized. We'll get to that in a quick second.
I wanted to tell you something about what Angel Studios
is doing. They've created a series called Testament, and it's
so close to what we're talking about. It's our society,
but the Book of Acts brought into our timeline. So
you're building the church. Jesus tolds you to build in
a censorship society, in a society that hates truth, in

(34:53):
a society with cities like this, censorship control surveillance. They
fill A and John and James and Paul. Eventually they
even write Mary into this build the church under circumstances
like that. In this series called Testament. You can stream
this right now. Go to Angel dot com slash Todd

(35:13):
stream Testaments Brave Christian Filmmaking. You'll also get two free
tickets to every Angel Studio theatrical release, and you get
to vote on the stories that they distribute and promote
and continue to change Hollywood. This is also a chance
for you to take your own spiritual temperature. Will you
stand for Jesus when the world stands against you? It's
Angel dot com slash Todd Jeff Seventy year old Bruce

(35:35):
Willis has an identity you probably recognize. Bruce Willis was
a famous actor. Still is still's famous, is no longer
an actor, and it might be that he doesn't even
remember he ever was a famous actor.

Speaker 2 (35:50):
This is Bruce Willis.

Speaker 1 (35:52):
Holding family members hands. He's got this degenerative neurological condition,
so I guess he can still dance. This is the
old Bruce Willis, young man who doesn't even remember these
days when he was considered it some time to be

(36:14):
one of the sexiest men alive some of the most
famous movies ever. So he's degenerated or his brain has
to a point that he doesn't remember those days, So
what's happened to that identity? Will it matter in the afterlife?
Part of being a Christian? Is this what matters in
the afterlife? Bruce Willis is rich by the world's means

(36:38):
he's successful, or by the world's measures he's successful. His
family can live in comfort based upon his talent, the
talent that I say God gave him. That Bruce Willis, apparently,
according to Beliefnut, was raised Lutheran, but his sense said
that he doesn't really care for religion, certainly not structured religion,
to which I'd.

Speaker 2 (36:58):
Asked, Bruce Willis. Did God care for structured religion? Did Jesus?

Speaker 1 (37:04):
Because Jesus told his disciples to build his church and
it had structure, because God knows we need structure. Belief
Net says that Bruce Willis is an atheist. He's not
going to end when he dies. Bruce Willis will exist forever.
What will his identity be? Well, I imagine in hell,

(37:24):
the demons will remind him constantly that, Hey, remember when
you were famous, Remember when you had everything you wanted,
Remember when you ruled the world and wouldn't needed stinking thing.
Remember when you could go out and buy an airplane
or a couple of cars, or a couple of houses. Man,
that must have been fun for eternity. You can't buy anything, Fraternity.

(37:47):
We're just going to remind you of that part of
being a Christian is to be sad for people like
Bruce Willis and to pray for people like Bruce Willis.
Part of a Christian identity is also this there but
the grace of God go on. It's not that we
consider ourselves better people because we are Christian, that we
know the Lord Jesus. It's that we recognize the fact

(38:11):
that through God's grace he showed us our weakness, and
in our weakness he allowed us to accept His strength,
which is ultimately at the core of the Christian identity.

Speaker 2 (38:23):
This is the Todd Herman Shaw.

Speaker 1 (38:25):
Please go be well, be strong, be kind, and please
make every effort to walk in the light of Christ.

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