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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Three Stories version of The Todd Herman Show.
Story number one, what is the cure for trumped arrangement Syndrome?
Story number two, common sense on snap is literally Hitler,
And story number three a divine loop. The longest and
shortest books in the Bible. We'll talk about this with
the help of God Almighty.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
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Speaker 1 (00:52):
Today is the day the Lord has made in. These
are the times through which God has decided we shall live.
What do you think is the cure for trump arrangement syndrome?
There are people who've been cured. Sometimes secures our life experience.
Sometimes there are people who are quote red pilled because
they watch a series of lies in their own industry.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
This has happened in healthcare.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
There's been people who've been doctors and nurses and they
watch the abuse of that system under Fauci, and it
led them to think, Wow, if they lie about that,
what else would they lie about? So what When I
used to work within media, when she saw the mockingbird media,
lying about what was going on in her city of Seattle,
lying about mostly peaceful, lying about Antifa, lying about this.
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She asked herself a question, if the lie about this,
what else would they lie about? And that set her
sort of averse to her industry. After that she had
her mind opened. But wow, they've been lying about President Trump.
She recently went to the White House and got to meet.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
With President Trump.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
So what is the overall cure for Trump arrangement syndrome?
Because it used to be a laughline, and as you know,
it's real. There's a psychotherapist named Jonathan Albert, and he's
been noticing something about his.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Patients are obsessed with Trump. They're fixated, They're hyper fixated
on Trump, and they talk about some of the features
of this disorder. They can't sleep, they feel traumatized by
mister Trump. They feel restless. I had one patient who
said she couldn't enjoy a vacation because anytime she saw
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Trump and the news or on her device, she felt triggered.
So this is a profound pathology, and I would even
go so far as to call it the defining pathology
of our time.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
I have friends, I have family, members who've been affected
by this in my judgment, and so what is the cure?
Because not everybody's going to turn around and take a
good hard look at their industry and say, wow, my
industry of healthcare is really government and healthcare become one,
which is actually the textbook for fascism, textbook definition of
fascism all one thing. Not everyone's going to allow themselves.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
To see that.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
But there are ways that people are being brought about
to this, and sometimes it has to be catastrophic. I
hate to say that, but sometimes catastrophe has to hit.
Don't let this be the case with your retirement funds.
Please don't let it be the case. Please do not
ignore the signals coming from AI. Please do not ignore
that we're going to see massive disruption and employment fields.
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We're already seeing this. We're seeing high end coders getting fired,
high end test engineers. We're seeing lawyers get downsized. We're
seeing contract lawyers get downsized. We're watching the creative worlds
like I Operate him being threatened. Matt Waalsh has said
that he wants all AI band because it's going to
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destroy the creative fields. It's not yet hit sort of,
you know, air conditioning and.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Tech jobs like that.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
But Elon Musk has surgeon robots ready to go. So
if world class surgeons can be displaced by AI, what can't. Meanwhile,
we have companies like in Vidia. In Vidia, that one
company is valued at almost three times what the entire
energy sector is valued at. By the way, how well
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Evolved risk cannot guaranteed past perms, doesn't guarantee future results.
Truck twenty five's three three eight. I was just thinking,
maybe that's a way some people will awaken from Trump
arrangement syndrome. People in Silicon Valley saying, wow, Trump is
really making strong investments in AI. He is, and that
may be someone like me coming back and going, hey,
I'm getting a little bit of a touch of the.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Trump's arrangement syndrome.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
The President Trump might not meet us well with a
I don't think President Trump understands AI and what it's
going to do. He does understand lawfare. And one of
the cures for Trumps arrangement syndrome is unfortunately, sometimes it's
catastrophe when people find out, Wait, how is this allowed
to happen? How could this possibly have occurred? You know,
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this corrupt Judge Bosberg. So his latest thing is Bosberg
has come out and said that illegal immigrants can have
commercial driver's licenses.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
So let's track this.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
They're in the country illegally and as criminals, they can
be licensed to drive some of the most dangerous vehicles
in the world. So what this means is one hundred
and ninety thousand non citizen CDL holders will continue to drive.
We know there's states, or rather separate countries like California.
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That don't even demand that these guys have their names
on their driver's licenses. They can have a driver's licenses
that say names with held. So there's a great Twitter
account I love following. It's called Amuse. And they just
did the perfect thing. They took a picture of Bosberg,
they took a quote from his ruling, and they ran
it next to one of the videos of one of
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the times that one illegal immigrants killed a bunch of
people on an American highway.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
Look, this is exclusive at dash cam video that is
now the subject of several law enforcements and a massive
semi shows the moment free cars plowed into a number
of vehicles on the westbound ten pre which just doesn't
even get.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Near to stopping. Thank god, there's a semi.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Truck in front of the many times the driver of
this big rig is a twenty one year old man
who is now under arrest on suspicion of driving under
the influence of drugs. Totally semis were involved in also
four passenger vehicles, one of them.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Exploding in flames.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
Three people were killed and four others were taken to
local hospitals. This horrific crash happened at just east of
the fifteenth Freeway and shut down all west bound lanes
for more than twelve hours.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
If you've ever watched this crash, the only reason that
there warrants maybe five to ten other cars involved in
this is because semi met semi. Then the semi bounced
off and went off the side of the road. Flames everywhere.
So one of the cures for Trump arrangement syndrome, sadly
is sometimes there's catastrophe where people have to step back
and go, how did this happen? How could this possibly
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be the case that people involved in this who learned
that this person never should have been on the roads,
or we can show them. Democrats have made a career
out of Kitty shields and he and shields. They've made
a career out of pretending to be the empathetic ones.
They've made a career of this. And you have fake
Christian churches or they have. The US bishops put out
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this politicized statement the other day where they sad faced
this video together because they're concerned about some things that
might be happening. You know how black and brown people
are just being disappeared from the streets just arbitrarily disappeared,
and people are just arbitrarily using their citizenry, remember that,
just having it taken from them.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
I mean, those things aren't happening. But this is what
the US bishops said.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
So they're pitching this empathy where the empathetic ones. It's
pretty simple. A compilation of videos like this, A compilation
of videos where people who shouldn't have been in our
country took lives, either through this, through assaults or where
they're taking jobs. We've had entire towns now end up
being one third illegal immigrants in some cases, or at
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least immigrants of questionable legal status, meaning of course that
the people who ran Joe Biden allowed them to skip all.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Sorts of steps.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Maybe it's a compilation of things like this. People truly understand.
That's my cousin, that's my brother, that's my hometown. Now,
what we can't do as Christians is fall into hatred
because this is you know, that phrase, thirst trap. Stupid phrase,
But there are things called hate traps. This is a
hate trap, or it could end up having our hearts
hate the illegal immigrants. We do that, we lose the
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biggest war, so we might win the battle. We get
a bunch of people angry about this, but we lose
the eternal war. This is that we're to love our enemy.
We're to love our neighbors as ourselves.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
We're to love our enemies and to pray for them.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
So don't give into the hate trap. But force people
to face this reality now or this there's states that
should and could right now be saying we're not going
to have any trucks on our highways where the commercial
driver's license holders are legal immigrants, or they haven't passed
a test, or they can't speak English. States have taken
a run at this. Now technically it's federal.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
But hey, go to the lawsuits.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Make California sioue Idaho, make Idaho, make California Sioux Texas,
to force illegal immigrants onto the roadways of Texas. Make
that be the image people see. This can be one
of the cures for trumped arrangement syndrome. One of the
other cures is when people find out they've been utterly
lied to. In the world of so called transgender medicine,
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there's been a number of doctors.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Who went to these retreats.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
They went to go see people like John Olsen can
be speak and they went to these events and they came.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Out going, Wow, this is the answer.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
There's all these kids who are confused about their bodies,
and this is the answer. We've got the magic pills,
and we've got the magic injections, and I'll go back
to my clinics and I'll do this. And there's been
plenty of people have done that. They've made huge money,
they've invested their lives in this. Now they can't step
out of that. They can't be red pilled back into reality.
But some doctors came back and they did the research.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
They looked.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
They said, wait a minute, there is no such thing
as a person with a male brain and a female body.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
That's never happened. Wait a minute. The results of these
things are very very bad. I can't do this. And
they've come out and said I can't do this. They
were cured.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
So in the case of Trump arrangement syndrome, there are
people who need to be cured. By understanding, you have
been so lied to about President Trump. What you think
is the raality of Trump is not the raality. He's
either the worst dictator in the world because he couldn't
seem to just demand that the government reopen or demand
that the DOJ just do everything he says, it's not happening,
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And you've also been lied to about the seriousness of
the legal charges against them. Watch this from none other
than CNN.
Speaker 6 (11:36):
Why the base is matt as some of the leaders
in Washington is not because they're not left enough. It's because,
you know, Chuck Schumer came out with no strategy, no forewarning,
and just said we're going to fold on a cr
I mean, I think you could have done a better
job of explaining what the strategy was and what we're
going to do, but there wasn't anything like that. I
think Democrats are learning, and I'm going to agree with
you that Democrats cannot only be the party of resistance.
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We cannot like we resisted so hard between twenty seventeen
and twenty twenty four, we impeached the guy like if
we've prosecuted him, convicted him on thirty four felony accounts,
and guess what, he still got elected. So I don't
know how much harder we can resist?
Speaker 7 (12:11):
Right? Are you admitting that that the case against Trump
in New York was part of the organized Democratic party resisting?
Speaker 6 (12:16):
It was a Democratic prosecutor and at the time, okay,
at the time I thought it was unwise. I went
on Fox News and said.
Speaker 7 (12:23):
This at the time, there were a lot. Just to
be clear, this wasn't. Just to be clear, everybody who
now touts the thirty four felonies take it from Liz.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
This was not a real case.
Speaker 7 (12:30):
This was a plot to up end the presidential campaign,
which back I think you said.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
And it is its tasted admission of this. Sometimes secure
for Trump to arrangement synd them is to have people
confronted with things they knew were true, they knew for
a fact were true, and then they find out they
weren't true at all.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
This happened recently on Bill Marris's program.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
He brought out a bit player from from a comedian show,
a sitcom back in the day, King of Queens. This
guy played Spencer on King of Queens and mar brought
him on and asked him about a scandal in the
UK to do with kids being girls being drawn into
becoming slaves of a sexual nature as it were. He'd
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never heard of it, He'd never once heard of that scandal.
And to watch this man realize something, this Garganti was
going on around him. He didn't quite get red pilled,
but you could see this discomfort. Sometimes the light shining
in the darkness doesn't need to be God. Sometimes it
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can be an act of catastrophe that wakens people. How
could this happen? Sometimes can be us. Sometimes people can
be loved into this, such as we can love our
Trump hating family members even as they turned the hatement
of Trump or hatred of Trump towards us.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Let God's light shine. That can cure it. Story number two.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Common sense on SNAP is literally Hitler. No, I mean
common sense on SNAP is now it's literally orange Hitler.
That is, if you turn to the people of the
political and if it's not Hitler, at least it demands
scare quotes, which is always a way to leaning into
you know, it's sort of hitler. So the people at
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Political ran a pretty common sense headline. I mean, it's
just a fact Trump administration will require SNAP participants to
reapply for benefits. Makes sense, right, I mean we've heard
about a little bit of this or that problem, and
this a that's maybe some money disappearing, and maybe just
some small examples of that. So people are gonna have
to reapply. I'm after all, we've been flooding the country
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with immigrants, both legal and illegal, and they're getting snap
benefits and they're not supposed to get snap benefits of them.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
So we're just gonna have you reapply. And in big.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Organizations, big spaces, fraud is easily hidden. Like let me
give you an example that's not related to government, but
it's an easy one. As embarrassing as this is for
a daughter, probably my wife and I still get a
kick out of kind of emotionally blackmailing or into doing
East Rigg hunts, you know, when we're celebrating the rebirth
of Christ and we take that little kind of pseudosecular
thing and we bring the eggs out. She's in her twenties,
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and I think she does this to play caddis, just
like I playcated my mom. Secretly, I loved it. We
actually did this for her birthday the other day, so
we're still betting a big birthday.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
For her big day, we decided to hide.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Some money around the house and we hid it in
My big hiding spot was on the dog's collar, and
so the rule was anything in the front room, and
the dog was in the front room, so of course
we kind of gave hints, et cetera. She found the money,
her boyfriend helped her praise God.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Fun day.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Now, what if we'd said, instead, we live on some
property in North Idaho. What if we'd said that the property, like,
the money's hidden on the property. I mean, I guess
I could have attached it to a deer or a bobcat,
so it's kind of the same thing an animal, or
maybe put it at the top of a tall tree
or down in the creek bed under a rock. I mean,
it would have not taken her more than maybe a
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year to find it because of all that space, that's
easy to hide stuff.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
So it is with the federal government.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Now.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
In that case, we wanted to find the money. It
was our money, and we in fact wrote down where
things were because there's been a year where we did
this with Easter eggs, the plastic eggs, and we had
some cool stuff hidden it, including some money, and we
forgot what was hidden, and like we were moving out
four years later, my daughter said, oh my gosh, the egg.
So we wrote it down because it's our money. We
don't want to lose it. Well, the federal government's designed
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to lose things, so this headline. Trump administration will require
SNAP participants to reapply.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
For the benefits.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Here's what doctor Oz said, and then I'll get to
the rest of the headline from the Politico because the
rest of the headline tells the story about the Politico.
This is what doctor Oz said about frauds that health
and Human services.
Speaker 8 (16:47):
When the President offered me this job, he told me
to protect our most vulnerable by rooting out fraud, waste,
and abuse. I'm sharing these stories you understand the stakes
of our enforcement. So here's the situation.
Speaker 9 (16:58):
Six states believe that they should be allowed to pay
for illegal immigrants on the state level on their own
to receive free health care. Now, free health care insurance
attracts illegal immigrants, and it makes them unwilling to leave,
even if we offer them cash. Equally importantly, I worry
that federal tax payer money will be siphoned towards these
states and hurt the forty four states will disagree with
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attracting illegal immigrants with free insurance. In fact, Congress is
shut down right now because Democratic senators don't like the
one big, beautiful bill which corrals this kind of fraud
in Medicaate. We decided to investigate ourselves, not only trust
these six states. We down already one point three billion
dollars has been inappropriately taken from federal taxpayers in.
Speaker 10 (17:41):
Just the past few months. We just clawed back three
hundred million, which signals that the six States say already know,
they acknowledge that this is their embarrassing reality. We need
to protect their most vulnerable and send a clear message
that other countries should take care of theirs.
Speaker 9 (17:55):
Opening the government would be a step in the right direction.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
And of course, the government opens and we have that.
So the politico see, they had to italicize some stuff
on their headline. The headline was Trump administration requires SNAP
participants to reapply for benefits. So I'll give you the
italicized portion of this in just a quick second. I
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Politico knows the base. Their base is not you and me.
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They're not a publication that exists to please you and me.
They get to the headlines. They've got circulation, but they've
got access and to continue to have that access. They
know they need to play the game the right way,
so they take an angry picture of brook Rawlins that
they run behind the headline. Below the headline, Trump administration
requires SNAP participants to reapply for SNAP benefits, and then
we get this. The move is part of USDA Chiefs
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Brook Rawlins effort to overhaul the nation's largest anti hunger
program and get.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Rid of quote fraud.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
They could have done a full quote line instead, it's
the scare quotes, and I would say this SNAP is
not anti hunger, it's anti health. Story number three A
Divine Loop, the longest and shortest books in the Bible.
Taking the divine loop from the idea of the infinite
loop and even more so from Apple's HQ. In the valley,
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they've got something. It develops something in development called the
virtuous loop, and they sort of have this loop around
their campus. Is sometimes referred to as a virtuous loop.
Virtuous loop is just product cycling, that's what it is.
And there's this divine loop. Then they exist all throughout
the Bible. The meta example is the Bible starts in
a garden, and the Bible ends in a garden, and
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there's all sorts of examples this. There's the mini Jesus
is or the precursors of Jesus, and then Jesus comes
and it fulfills a lot of these things. There's there's
lots of moments like this. And I saw a post
from Kenham, great evangelist preacher.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
The longest chapter in.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
The Bible is all about the beauty, authority, and perfection
of God's word. Your word is a lamp, and then
my feet's and a light on my path. And we'll
get back to that. He's taking that from Psalm one
nineteen and it goes through the number of the verses there.
Then there is the shortest book in the Bible, and
it's interesting, and what can we learn from comparing these?
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So let's take a look at this and see what
we can learn and what can observe in terms of
a divine loop.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
And we'll do that in a second.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
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one oh nine versus one oh five to one twelve,
he took a snapshot of the longest chapter in the
entire Bible, and we're looking at divine a divine loop.
Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light
under my path. I've taken an oath and confirmed it
that I will follow your righteous laws. I've suffered much.
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Preserve my life, Lord, according to your word. Accept Lord,
the willing praise of my mouth, and teach me your ways.
Though I constantly take my life in my hands, I
will not forget your law. Though it could have set
a snare for me, but I've not strayed from your precepts.
Your statutes are my heritage forever. You're the joy of
my heart. My heart is set on keeping your decrees
to the very end. It's a very long chapter, so
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it take a long time for us to read. But
let's go from the bottom up. My heart is set
on keeping your decrees to the very end. Someone who's
expressing absolute love for the law, your heritage. Your statutes
are my heritage. They're the joy of my heart. Someone
who isn't just keeping them, but finds joy in his
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heart by keeping them. Though it could have set a
snare for me, but I have not strayed from your precepts.
And of course, when you're talking about the psalms, and think
of King David. There were all sorts of snares that
were set from him. For him, I constantly take my
life in my hands, and I will not forget your law.
And let this go right back up to the top.
Your word is a lamp for my feet and a
light on my path. And David says, I've taken an
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oath and confirmed it that i will follow your righteous laws.
It's interesting, the longest book in the Bible lamps oaths,
learning life in his hands, wicked people setting snares, someone
set on keeping the decrees. Well, there was a guy
named Nicodemus, and he was absolutely set on keeping the decrees.
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Nicodemus was a pharisee. Nicodemus was a guy who had
learned the law. He was one of the lawgivers, but
one of.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
The law keepers. He was one of the great educators,
one of the great teachers throughout the Bible.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Throughout the region, Nicodemus was well known. But because there
were treacherous people who would lay a trap for Nicodemus
where he too publicly go have a conversation with a
young rabbi named Jesus. He did it in the darkness.
They met secretly because Nicodemus would be taking his life
into his hands. Why was nicos Demus doing this Because
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Nicodemus had made a note to himself that God's law
would be his joy.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
God's decrees would be the way he lived his life.
It was his heritage.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
And Jesus has own signs of being the Messiah, signs
and wonders. He is fulfilling some prophecies. So Nicodemus did
what he did in private because of the snares that
would have been set for him. So Jesus teaches Nicodemus,
a younger man teaching an older man, And this is
from John three. Now there was a pharisee, a man
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named Nicodemus, who was a member of the Jewish ruling council.
He came to Jesus at night and said, Rabbi, we
know that you're a teacher who's come from God, for
no one could perform the signs you're doing if God
were not with him. Jesus replied, very truly, I tell you,
no one can see the Kingdom of God unless they're
born again. See the Kingdom of God. Let's go right
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back up to Psalm one nineteen, verses one zero five
through one one twelve.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
You're a light.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Your word is a lamp for my feet and a
light on my path. Your word is a lamp for
my feet, a light on my path. And Jesus just said,
very truly, I tell you, no one can see the
Kingdom of God unless they're born again. There's the lamp,
he's the light. He's showing him the kingdom of heaven.
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How can someone be born later?
Speaker 3 (26:28):
This is verse four.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
How can someone be born when they're old? Nicodemus as
surely they cannot enter a second time into the mother's
womb to be born. Jesus answered, very truly, I tell you,
no one can enter the Kingdom of God unless they're
born of water and spirit. Flesh gives birth to flesh,
but the spirit gives birth to the spirit. You should
not be surprised at my saying you must be born again.
The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear it sound,
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but you cannot tell where it comes from or it's going.
So it is with everyone born of the spirit.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
How can this be?
Speaker 2 (26:58):
So?
Speaker 1 (26:58):
The younger man is teaching the older man, and the
older man has already had the lamp set before him.
He's taken an oath to follow the law and imagine
the conflict with him because Jesus is talking about something
he's not heard. This is not in the law, and
so there's this element of faith. He's seen the signs.
I would have had the meeting. He's seen the wonders,
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or I wouldn't have been setting up on that rooftop
at night. He knows there's these wicked people who have
this snare laid out for him. He couldn't be seen
in public having this conversation. This had to be in
Nicodemus's heart, this confusion. Later in verse sixteen, probably the
most famous and well, let's say, conveniently quoted book in
the Bible, because no one ever quotes the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
We read this.
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For God to love the world, that he gave his
one and only son, that whoever believes in him shall
not perish, but have eternal life. For God to not
send his son into the world to condemn the world,
but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in
him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands
condemned already because they have not believed in the name
of God's one and only son.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
This is the verdict.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Remember, the lamp light has come into the world.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
But people love.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. Everyone
who does evil hates the light and will not come
into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed.
But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light
so that it may be seen plainly. What they have
done has been done in the sight of God. Light
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lamps being exposed, going against one's fears, one's earthly fears.
Now we come to understand that later Nicodemus and a
guy named Joseph of Marthea, they probably secretly converted to Christianity.
They probably secretly understood that Jesus was the Messiah. They
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helped provide for his burial and his tomb, which was
an unused tomb which was prophetic.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
So we see this virtuous.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Loop, this divine loop. Way back in Psalms, we hear
about a lamp from my feet, a light under my path,
And we hear this from the words of a man
who had taken an.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
Oath to the law, who loved the law.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
It took Nicko Deemus some time and some reflection, and
as far as we know, he never did come out
publicly and confess Jesus. Maybe he did it among a
small group of fellow Pharisees. Maybe he and Joseph of
a Marathea did it together. Maybe they started a small order.
Maybe one would hope the light's before us.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
It's a lamp.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
It stands before us, and in today's society, it's not
without risk, because there's lots of snares waiting Christians, particularly.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
In today's society. This is the Todd Hermann Show.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Please go, be well, be strong, be kind, and please
make every effort to walk in the light of Christ.